laura, how do you feel about j ulie p lec as a writer? i wrote it like that so it doesnt show up in tags.
i doesn’t like her and her writing. She has great ideas, such as the premise of TVD (i know it’s based on a book but the show is so different and imo better than the book) and The Originals, but other than that… yikes.
The two things I hate the most about her writing :
1 - She writes the relationship drama first, and only then she writes the storylines to fit the drama. It’s not, for ex : This episode’s storyline is that Caroline chooses to help Damon for x reason and because of that Tyler gets mad at her. No, it’s : I want Caroline and Tyler to have drama in their relationship so what i can do to create that ? oh yeah i’ll make Caroline help Damon. And so storylines are often illogical or dumb because Plec prioritizes relationship drama over an actual good story
2 - The way she and the other writers treat characters of colours, especially black characters : either they die, or they are mainly there to help and support white characters. Her treatment of Bonnie was despicable, I won’t say more on the subject or else i’ll get really mad lol.
Even if it also has a lot of issues, The Originals is a way better show than TVD and the 1 or 2 main black characters are actually not treated as bad as on TVD (even though women and minor/secondary characters of colour still die on the daily), so i’m wondering if she doesn’t write as much for The Originals as she did for TVD.