The Vampire Diaries TV series.
Sep. 28th, 2012 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pathology_docSo my lovely wife got me addicted to this show, which we're working through on DVD (currently on disc 1 of Season 2). I thought I could just keep an ear on the action while reading whatever technical book du jour I'm working my way through, but that's proved impossible. Everything stands still for this (including the children, who - given their ages - we make sure are sound asleep in their cribs before we even put the disc in).
Forget the vampires, forget the werewolves, forget everything else that has been recycled, re-imagined and given a shiny new coat of cool for this show. Regardless of what TV Tropes might tell you, IMO it features only two essential tropes - "Nice Job Breaking It, Hero" and "Poor Communication Kills", applied over and over again. Often in conjunction.
One might argue that the first of these involves frequent possession of the Idiot Ball (thus, three major tropes). I would not take objection to that interpretation. Suffice it to say that the number of times I have either said or felt like saying "No, you fool(s)!" is legion.
Forget the vampires, forget the werewolves, forget everything else that has been recycled, re-imagined and given a shiny new coat of cool for this show. Regardless of what TV Tropes might tell you, IMO it features only two essential tropes - "Nice Job Breaking It, Hero" and "Poor Communication Kills", applied over and over again. Often in conjunction.
One might argue that the first of these involves frequent possession of the Idiot Ball (thus, three major tropes). I would not take objection to that interpretation. Suffice it to say that the number of times I have either said or felt like saying "No, you fool(s)!" is legion.