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britneyshakespeare · 7 years ago

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friend: i don't know if i could watch the vampire diaries from what you tell me. it just seems like caroline forbes is too perfect of a character and that sounds kinda boring.

me, a bisexual woman who came to the vampire diaries for the men and stayed for the women, who loves caroline forbes w all her heart, who has never, and would never, speak an ill word of Caroline Elizabeth Forbes-Salvatore in her entire pathetic life, who mainly sat through 8 seasons of a show she felt overall lukewarm towards–too many conflicting feelings as the seasons progressed–for Candice Rene King née Accola's performance as one of my favorite fictional characters of all time: [scoffs] now what could i possibly have said that would give you the impression that she's fucking perfect??

#elena's the perfect boring one #that is until the writers somehow manage to fuck up an already hollow mary sue character and make her Worse post-s4 #but that's a long complicated rant of its own #i dont blame nina dobrev at all she's a great actress and definitely proved to be so #but for playing elena she only had so much she could work w yknow?#caroline is i think the most dimensional female character #katherine is probably the second closest but even then #bonnie perhaps COULD have been if she ever got fucking arcs of her own #rather than just be a mistreated plot device all the time #for the most part the best-written characters (protagonists and antagonists alike) were all male #not that im gonna give julie plec too much credit for caroline forbes i think it was more a happy accident #bc caroline showed flaws that could have been worked w and that she could have grown from right from the get go #elena's little miss perfect and bonnie's just the good magical best friend but we immediately saw the insecurities AND sympathies of care #and that's what i think gave her the potential to grow so much and be so satisfying to unfold over the years #i love stefan too but 1) we didnt really see him CHANGE that much over the years he was already a centuries-old vampire w defined habits #and strengths and weaknesses that we learned pretty early on #and 2) uhhh again i love him but basically everything i love about stefan i loved first in angel from buffy and ats so there's that #yeah #i figured i bitch a lot about tvd on this blog so i wanted to make a post about something i actually loved in it #for once #tvd #the vampire diaries #caroline forbes #forwood #steroline #chat

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