#vampire academy show

[mylifeisjustafeverdream]

why didn’t you like british dimitri :(

I can't lie, he's simply not sexy enough. This is the man that had these hoes framing each other for murder for the CHANCE to be with him. You cannot convince me that British boy could inspire such nonsense.

On a more serious note...

My issue with British! Dimitri really just speaks to my larger issue with how the show, and others like it, chose to adapt the source material. I literally HATE when one of my favorite book series is adapted and it is done in a way that the VA show did. It's this thing that a lot of YA adaptations do where they take the basics of a series like the setting, characters, and usually the overarching premise of the first book and use it to create it's own show. It's what Pretty Little Liars, Vampire Diaries, and Shadowhunters did. They take the series and gut it for parts to make a broadly marketable series that they can push for as many seasons as possible. An "adaptation" that you can identify as the book series, but also tells a completely different story. This isn't me saying these shows are bad television shows. I am saying they are bad adaptations. Of the previously mentioned shows I was only able to get through Vampire Diaries and most of Pretty Little Liars, and that was because I didn't read the books before I watched it. I wasn't met with the soul crushing devastation I was met with when I watched Shadowhunters and realized it was not actually going to adapt the book. (It's why, even though it's a literal dumpster fire, I prefer the movie because it at least tried to follow the books) Some people don't mind this, and that's totally okay, but I hate it so much. I feel like these adaptations take away so much from the story they are adapting, and make it worse. Obviously they could make it work having Dimitri be British, but it also just alters so much about how he is characterized. He wasn't Russian in the way that Lissa and Adrian are. It wasn't just used to give him a cool name, or to make sense in the overall world building. Richelle made Dimitri being Russian a significant aspect of his character. It influences his plotlines and is a major factor in why he behaves the way he does. The changes made to show Dimitri fundamentally change who he is in the world of the series. Him being a foot taller than Rose isn't to make a cute height difference, it is to signify just how massive he is compared to the other Dhampirs. The boys refer to him as a god, and that's not just because he was a good warrior. If that were the case they'd say the same thing about Janine, and they don't. Dimitri's entire being makes him a force to the dhampirs. He is other worldly to them. The show made him plain, average. That is my issue with British Dimitri.

[vampireacademyshow]

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[damnfrnz]

❝ and when the clouds go to sleep,

we can be spotted in the sky.

we’re frightened and sing alone.

god knows i don’t wish to be an angel of his ❞

— „engel“ von rammstein (in translation)

[itmakesssenseincontext]

So having now finished the Vampire Academy show, I really loved it. I loved the changes because the changes made it good TV.

But my favourite change? Dimitri's books. In the books he reads old Western Novels because they remind him of his childhood and family. Its cute, its sweet, and just kind ties into the whole Cowboy thing.

In the show he reads biographies. Specifically human biographies, and the ones whose titles we see tend to be Civil Rights leaders, and others who have fought for justice. Specifically we see 'I Have a Dream' - Reverand Martin Luther King, 'Long Walk to Freedom' - Nelson Mandela, and 'The Art of Happiness' - The Dalai Lama, all positioned so you can easily read their spines in a lingering shot when Rose visits Dimitri while he is under house arrest. There are other books in the piles, but the writing is upside down or obscured or otherwise difficulty to see at first glance.

I think its really interesting, because up until this point, Show!Dimitri is so resigned to what his life is, he's a Dhampir and because of that he is a Guardian because that is what he has been told is his only option his entire life. Anything else would be shameful. He's prepared to throw away love because attachments make his job harder. He's dedicated, he's seen what happens when he takes time for himself.

But he is also so desperately aware of how unfair the system is. We see it when he lets Sasha go, when he stays to protect the village, when he lies about it to protect Rose, and encourages her to keep lying. We see it when he and Rose talk about the system being unfair, and he seems so trapped, so convinced that all these rules and his way of life is keeping him in control, but agreeing with Rose that so much of it is just not right. We see it when he is furious about the tests and them adding a real Strigoi to test the students with out warning them. We see it when he *let Rose win* the Trial by Proxy, because he might agree with the Elementalists because of religion, he knows what they want to do to Dhampirs is wrong.

And the whole time he is making these little rebellions against the system, he's doing it with the knowledge that if he pushes too far there will be collateral damage. He can't just abandon the system, because lives will be list, and they won't be his own.

And then the biographies kind of click into place. Is he trying to make sense of his world? Or looking for advice and inspiration? Because if we get more seasons, I would not be surprised if we see Dimitri taking a stronger stance on Dhampir rights, potentially even working to advance them.

[kajaono]

I honestly do not understand why Peacock cancelled VV so fast

Look at Star Trek disco which was heavily criticized after the first season. But paramount sticked to it because they said: „we want this to promote our new streaming platform paramount+, we will not cancel it right away. This is an amazing opportunity to build a loyal fanbase and to test the water, to see what fans want“

Same goes kinda also for Shadowhunters. Season 1 was okay but struggled. So it got a soft reboot, new showrunner, new design. And it totally paied off, it got 22 episode each season instead of 10 episode. It was even so successful that Freeform thought they could use the show to promote their own service independent from Netflix (and totally failed, but that’s another story)

So cancelling VV so fast when it was the only big international show of peacock, which was sold in over 100 countries, was the dumbest marketing choice ever,

Maybe only topped by HBO max removing HBO from their name

[twilight-mademegay]

Hope the Vampire Academy show haters are happy.

[mixedmediareviewspodcast]

New episodes out now! Can we talk about this series?

(Don't be mad, but I kind of like the show the best...)

[crowleying]

Dimitri Belikov

Unholy - Sam Smith (feat. Kim Petras)

Daddy

[ilostmypensandpaper]

Only one episode of Adrian??? No Adrian lurking around the academy like a layabout?????? No more little flirts to Rose?????? Wasted potential

[romitricrazed]

I dont think it is that simple with saying that Rose got whitewashed, because like - I dont know about you, but in my experience, many turkish people are rather pale, and also rose would spend like 90% of her life away from the sun, so how should she get tanned? Also with her skin being described as the color of an almond - almonds are white inside from what i remember.

But still, there isnt that much of an problem with them casting a non russian, unless if they like would have erased his entire connection to russia. there really wasnt that much of an problem with things like "Roza"

weird enough this is an unpopular opinion probably but idc about the casting directors casting a non russian actor for dimitri tbh i mean like. yeah if they give him lines in russian they MIGHT sound a bit off but that is nowhere near as bad as them possibly casting a white woman to play rose who's a woc

[vampireacademyshow]

Always going to be my Rose Hathaway ❤️

[damnfrnz]

❝ she looked at him, blood on his lips, taints of bruises on his ribs and shoulders — a blue-and-purple picture she thought she had never seen ❞.

[alittlechaotics-blog]

I miss them

[itmakesssenseincontext]

I'm a bit drunk so bear with me. But Mikhail being both the first guardian to kill a Strigoi on screen, and Rose's first kill is just upsetting and poetic

[elinorasims]

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[mixedmediareviewspodcast]

Can I just say, that I thoroughly enjoyed this show? New episode out now!