#c:tvdu

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something that's like a huge pet peeve for me about tvdu is how they have characters like Jo or Keelin who are established adult women with careers and lives and yet neither of them seem to have like... friends or anything going on socially. like Jo is a doctor and a really good one at that. she was a combat medic. but her bachelorette party only revolves around Elena, the main character, and the only two people hanging out with her are Elena and Bonnie? that makes no sense. Jo would have friends and a life before Ric walked into it. she wouldn't just be a blank slate. honestly they also did this with Ethan and Maya's mom, but she was only there for two seconds. Jenna is the most developed out of Ric's love interests in that kind of way, because she was also Elena's parental figure before meeting Ric, but even then we just get some lines dropped about her being a grad student

with Keelin, they did the same thing. she seemingly had no friends or girlfriend or anything in texas and was okay with just ditching everything and staying with her kidnapper. it was also never properly addressed that that was stockholm syndrome that was only written to basically 'excuse' Freya's actions (and probably to hit a diversity box because we know how plec & co are) but that's a whole different post. it's frustrating to me that characters like Jo and Keelin clearly have very established lives and yet we see no evidence of it even in the small scenes where it would make sense for us to