Ok so I’m in early season 4. I’ve always really liked Bonnie, but she never gets anything to do and when she does it’s always just “here’s a random guy for you to have a relationship with and that will be your story for a while” (her and Jeremy 🤮) and it’s never interesting (although I wouldn’t mind if they went anywhere at all with her and Damon tbh).
I also very much like Damon, by far the better brother. I really don’t care about anything Elena-related anymore and I think it’s mostly because they’ve played everything out with her several times through already. Also sorry to Nina Dobrev but she’s not a great actor and I’ve kinda had it with the character by now. The less said about Stefan the better. Jeremy and Tyler too.
Now that I’m several seasons in though it really is feeling like they’re stretching for content. The world and season threats got too big and they have no idea how to stop the power creep so they just keep adding stuff that totally breaks established lore. One of the things I love about Caroline is how well she grounded the story (sure she’s a vampire but she’s also still really into regular high school drama and trying to be a normal person still).
(Also sorry for sending anon before. I didn’t realize I’d clicked that until it had sent)
Hello!! It's been a long time since I watched the show so I apologise in advance for any inadvertent spoilers or vague plot recall.
Okay so Bonnie has legit been done the dirtiest even though she's one of the coolest characters. I like some of her plot lines where her witch roots means she's actively opposed to the vampires but she still wants to be on Elena's side, the conflict could have been interesting but it's never mined deeper. I hate her and Jeremy too and I agree that she and Damon have some legit chemistry (explored in further seasons, so you do have something to look forward to!)
Yeah Elena is annoying, and I got tired quickly about how everything was always about her. I'm not sure if I prefer Damon over Stefan, but Stelena is defs more boring. I prefer Stefan as a stand alone character or his friendship dynamic with Lexi, Caroline etc (more on this later).
I agree with you that the world building gets bigger than the writers can handle, but I really enjoyed the cure storyline in s4. I'm in the minority, but I really liked how there are all these factions with their own agendas competing to get the cure, and well, i always like it when the Originals have to team up with the Mystic Falls gang.
Talking about the Originals, I think they're the best thing the show has ever done. The casting, the acting, the group dynamics, the lore, the integration with the core tvd group... Perfection. What do you think? Who's your favourite Original?
Yes, Caroline is such a breath of fresh air in the show. I absolutely love how she's one of the few characters who actually LOVES being a vampire. I related to her even before she turned, when she was talking about being second choice "no matter how much I do, its never enough". She's thriving as a vampire as well as retaining her connection to her human side, without any of the angsty brooding that Stefan and all do. One of the reasons I love Klaroline is that Klaus is the ONLY one who recognises this, that she wants a life bigger and better than this. He accepts her as she is, and I just looove how much he changes throughout the course of knowing her, how he consistently puts her first. Sigh. I can go on and on about Klaroline. They have such epic moments, my god. What have been your favourite scenes??
Mean song rating for favourite character's songs: 8.19
Mean song rating for favourite character's solos: 9.4
Mean song rating season 1: 6.54
Mean song rating season 2: 6.47
Mean song rating season 3: 6.07
Mean song rating season 4: 5.67
Mean song rating season 5: 6.08
Mean song rating season 6: 8.29
Songs rated: 450
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Ranking:
1. (10) - S1x03 - Bust Your Windows
2. (10) - S1x05 - Last Name
3. (10) - S1x06 - It's My Life/Confessions Part II
4. (10) - S1x07 - You Keep Me Hanging On
5. (10) - S1x15 - 4 Minutes
6. (10) - S1x17 - Run Joey Run
7. (10) - S1x18 - The Boy Is Mine
8. (10) - S1x18 - Lady Is a Tramp
9. (10) - S1x20 - Bad Romance
10. (10) - S2x05 - Time Warp
11. (10) - S2x06 - Stop! In the Name of Love/Free Your Mind
12. (10) - S2x06 - Start Me Up/Livin' on a Prayer
13. (10) - S2x07 - Singing In the Rain/Umbrella
14. (10) - S2x09 - Dog Days Are Over
15. (10) - S2x09 - Valerie
16. (10) - S2x11 - Thriller/Heads Will Roll
17. (10) - S2x11 - Need You Now
18. (10) - S2x14 - Blame It (On the Alcohol)
19. (10) - S2x18 - I Feel Pretty/Unpretty
20. (10) - S2x19 - Songbird
21. (10) - S3x11 - Never Can Say Goodbye
22. (10) - S3x13 - Stereo Hearts
23. (10) - S3x13 - Cherish/Cherish
24. (10) - S3x18 - Shake It Out
25. (10) - S4x01 - Chasing Pavements
26. (10) - S5x03 - If I Die Young
27. (10) - S5x12 - Toxic
28. (10) - S6x02 - Mustang Sally
29. (9) - S1x01 - Don't Stop Believing (Pilot)
30. (9) - S1x02 - I Say a Little Prayer
31. (9) - S1x02 - Take a Bow
32. (9) - S1x05 - Alone
33. (9) - S1x05 - Somebody to Love
34. (9) - S1x08 - Sweet Caroline
35. (9) - S1x11 - Papa Don't Preach
36. (9) - S1x14 - Hello, I Love You
37. (9) - S1x14 - Gives You Hell
38. (9) - S1x15 - Like a Virgin
39. (9) - S1x15 - Express Yourself
40. (9) - S1x15 - Borderline/Open Your Heart
41. (9) - S1x18 - Jessie's Girl
42. (9) - S1x20 - Beth
43. (9) - S1x21 - It's a Man's Man's Man's World
44. (9) - S1x22 - Bohemian Rhapsody
45. (9) - S2x01 - Empire State of Mind
46. (9) - S2x03 - Losing My Religion
47. (9) - S2x03 - Only the Good Die Young
48. (9) - S2x04 - River Deep, Mountain High
49. (9) - S2x04 - Lucky
50. (9) - S2x04 - Sing!
51. (9) - S2x14 - Tik Tok
52. (9) - S2x15 - Afternoon Delight
53. (9) - S2x15 - Landslide
54. (9) - S2x21 - Back to Black
55. (9) - S2x22 - Yeah!
56. (9) - S2x22 - I Love New York/New York, New York
57. (9) - S3x04 - Candyman
58. (9) - S3x05 - America
59. (9) - S3x11 - Smooth Criminal
60. (9) - S3x12 - La Isla Bonita
61. (9) - S3x15 - I'm Still Standing
62. (9) - S3x17 - How Will I Know
63. (9) - S3x18 - Cell Block Tango
64. (9) - S3x19 - Take My Breath Away
65. (9) - S3x21 - Paradise By the Dashboard Light
66. (9) - S4x04 - The Scientist
67. (9) - S4x04 - Mine
68. (9) - S4x05 - Everybody Talks
69. (9) - S4x12 - A Thousand Years
70. (9) - S4x13 - Girl On Fire
71. (9) - S5x12 - Keep Holding On
72. (9) - S5x13 - Just Give Me a Reason
73. (9) - S6x12 - I Kissed a Girl
74. (8) - S1x02 - Gold Digger
75. (8) - S1x06 - Halo/Walking On Sunshine
76. (8) - S1x07 - Keep Holding On
77. (8) - S1x11 - Hair/Crazy In Love
78. (8) - S1x13 - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
It wrapped up the disjointed threads of TFA and TLJ and went absolutely HOG WILD which is all i can ask for. I was mostly worried that they had put themselves in a position where the only two ends left available for Kylo Ren were EITHER:
1) Being killed like a rabid dog, thus ending the Skywalker story in ignominy and shame
2) Turning at the last second and pulling a cookie-cutter Vader move before instantly dying, which would have been very unsatisfying and feel hackneyed
I think that was the hardest problem they had to solve, and I felt like they did it pretty well and successfully walked a tightrope where it felt Vader echo-y in a good way without being a complete copycat.
Aside from that? The FORCE SHENANIGANS. It was LIT. There were no punches pulled, no time wasted thinking critically, no concessions to realism, they really just went for it. STRAIGHT up EU style and I was LIVING.
Doubling and tripling down on the Force bond!! Ripping a freighter in half in the sky!! Han and Kylo!! Test tube clone Snoke! FORCE LIGHTNING. All the ghosts, SO many ghosts! RIDICULOUS Force healing that makes NO sense. JEDI MASTER LEIA ORGANA SOLO. Hearing everyone’s voices!! The Knights of Ren! ALL THE FIGHTS WERE SO COOL. THE TRIO DYNAMICS WERE SO GOOD. REY PASSING THE SKYWALKER SABER BEHIND HER BACK TO KYLO, IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ROOM I’M SORRY I WAS ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. THE LEIA LUKE FLASHBACK. LUKE LIFTING HIS X WING FINALLY.
mallosoar replied to your post “you know, when i made the initial decision to give all of my shepards...”
You should also check out 20000-names . com. They've got special categories including a celestial/heavenly one. Although the website is kinda hard to look at
oh boy you weren’t kidding about this thing being ugly
I’m sorry. Rereading this it came out a lot stronger than I had intended. I didn’t mean to make it sound so attack-y.
What I meant was that a lot of the show gifs that are included in gifsets have included more things that have not happened/probably will not happen in the books (as far as we know, obviously nothing is certain). I think it’s just that a lot of the new season stuff is a little jarring to see in book edits.
But yeah, I can see how this just gets harder and harder as the show continues. I definitely understand that most of the fanart will have at least some show influence. Sorry again if this sounds like I’m attacking… I think I’ve just gotten more nitpicky over time.
Hi, it’s ok, I knew you weren’t trying to sound hostile.
I (@joannalannister) am mostly the person who is reblogging things here rn, so maybe it would help if I explain my reasoning behind the things that I reblog?
Like, with everything that I reblog here, I’m trying to ask myself things like, “Does this fit with the spirit of the books?” or “Does this post show one of the themes of the books?” or “Or is this further illustrating something from the books?” or “Does this show something that I strongly believe will happen in the books?”
For example, this gifset uses footage from the new season (and older seasons) to illustrate the quoted caption. Personally I don’t think that Arya is going to murder any Freys in future books, certainly not like that, but I did think that the gifset was great at depicting her revenge fantasy in that moment in the books, like, what was Arya imagining when she told herself in the books, “One day I’ll know, and then I’ll kill them all.” In that moment, she was thinking of her lost family and imagining Freys dying because she was in pain, and I thought that gifset really illustrated all that. Obviously some people might not agree with me on that, maybe other people feel that Arya was imagining something different, but I can only do my best with what I see and how I feel about it.
There’s another gifset in the queue where the gifmaker used footage of Dany at Show!Dragonstone, except the gifmaker fancasted it as Dany’s garden high in the pyramid in Meereen, which I thought was pretty cool and pretty clever because the gifs do look garden-ish. Like I said previously, the show is all fancasting material to me.
As a counter-example, like, what about Dany wearing red and black? It’s super popular for people to depict Dany in the colors of her house, and supposedly that makes it an #asoiafedit ... but Dany doesn’t typically wear red and black in the books. iirc she most frequently wears pastels, purples, violets, blues, etc in the books. (Hence, gifs of Dany in purple.) So should I not reblog the gifs and graphics and fanart where people work so hard to identify Dany with House Targaryen and to show her Targ-ness? Maybe some people would disagree but I’m gonna still reblog it.
And what do I do with Missandei? Obviously the show actress is much older than the Missandei of the books, so some people have told me not to reblog her. But I would rather reblog her because she is an important character of color in the books, and I think that diversity is an important theme in the books. (I think that the books could benefit from more diversity, but I do think that GRRM believes that diversity is important.) And yes, there are problems with using infantilizing book quotes with an adult actress, so I totally believe that it’s a difficult issue. I would prefer to have more representation of poc, women, disabled people and other underrepresented groups on the blog so I am going to reblog things like show!depictions of Missandei. I think this is in line with the spirit of the books.
Other people ask why I’m reblogging art that looks more like Tyrion from the show, or Bran that is obviously show based, and it’s the same thing, I think it’s important to have representation of disabled people on the blog. I’m trying to be very careful not to reblog things like Tyrion watching a battle with Jaime charging, or Bran talking to Sansa and Arya in the godswood in Winterfell, while still finding depictions of these characters to reblog.
And like ... this gifset. It’s obviously using a lot of show footage, but I think that the captions are strongly in line with the feminism of the books. And I know that Sansa isn’t wearing that heavy winter clothing yet in the books, but I assume she’s gonna be wearing it soon. And obviously Cersei’s bald at the end of ADWD but I believe her hair is gonna grow a bit in future books. So some of these things are me projecting my TWOW feelings on them, and maybe not everybody gets the same feelings I get from a post, but I can only do my best here.
Some people have asked why there’s Jon/Dany stuff on the blog. Well, for one, I ship it. Two, I shipped it and reblogged it long before the show ever went there, and my shipping is entirely book based. Three, I will bet anyone $20 American dollars that Jon and Dany will have some sort of romantic feelings for each other in TWOW/ADOS as they work to save the world together. (I have offered this bet on my personal blog and no one will take me up on it.) Four, I reblog other book-based Dany ships and Jon ships too. I reblog a lot of book-based ships here, for a lot of characters, a lot of whom I don’t even care about, some ships I actively dislike, but if it’s related to the books, I reblog it, cuz that’s what the blog is about. The Jon/Dany stuff might seem a little prominent on asoiafedit right now because the show is going there (I’ve said on my personal blog, D&D are just hitting targets in GRRM’s outline) and it’s easier for people to make stuff for it, but I’m not reblogging show scenes and show dialogue, etc.
I know you didn’t ask for all this explanation, idek if you’ll read it all, but if you do read it, I hope that explains that I really, really am trying to keep the books in mind for everything that I reblog.
Because believe me, I don’t like the show. When people put things into the asoiafedit tag that don’t jive with the books for me, I just scroll past them.
If I could make this blog have only ASOIAF gifsets and only pure book art that was not influenced by the show, I would.
But I can’t.
I’m doing the best that I can with what I have, and honestly I’m trying to walk a very fine line here. I agonize over this more than I should.
