New Promo: Vampire Diaries Season 5

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New Poster: CW's The Originals

This is the spin-off from Vampire Diaries... With a man of color as a main character.

New Cover: Vampire Diaries

This is my only true guilty pleasure

I'll admit it... I Like Vampire Diaries!

For years, I've denounced 'Vampire Diaries'. I thought of it as a low rent 'True Blood' and 40% discount version of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'. But one night, Chance from the hot blog, Fanboys of the Universe, challenged me to give it a shot.

So for the past week, I've watched the entire 1st season on Netflix. And, I have to say it's not all that bad. In fact, it's okay.

The main characters are Elena, the femme fatale and Stefan and Damon, the vampire brothers. This series is clearly written with teens in mind, but it's not so YA (Young Adult). The stories are a little predictable, but watchable and fun. Kevin Williamson developed the series, so you can see and hear some of 'Dawson's Creek' (I loved Dawson) in the series. The actress Nina Dobrev does a great job as Elena and Ian 'Hottie' Somerhalder is also great in his role of the bad boy Damon. Other stand-outs are the singer/actress Katerina Graham and Steven R. McQueen.

The series is decent and attractive. There are creative pieces that are entertaining and well thought out. I still won't place it at Buffy's level, but it has quality and appeal. So, I stand corrected about VD. I may actually watch it regularly.

...I still can't believe I'm watching this.

Fangirls will ruin EVERYTHING!

I am sad to report that "Vampire Diaries" did well on Thursday.

It brought in 4.8 million viewers for its debut.

However, it's based off of the "curiosity measure", meaning folks who watched this show may not come back next week.

After watching it, I was convinced this show is a hot mess! But hopefully my prediction will come true... 1 season and 1 season only.

However, to make me feel better, half of the cast was arrested for foolishness.

Nina Dobrev, 20, Sara Canning, 22, Candice Accola, 22, and Kayla Ewell, 24, were all rung up on disorderly conduct charges back on Aug. 22, according to the incident report from the Monroe County Sheriff's Department obtained by E! News.

Also busted were photographer Tyler Shields and actress Krystal Vayda, who isn't a castmember. Both face similar charges.

Authorities found the giggly group standing on the Rumble Road Bridge overlooking Interstate 75 around 3:42 p.m.—a little early for vampires, but not for the actresses.

After examining the camera, officers found images of the Vampire crew confusing the freeway for the runway and striking a series of poses, including hanging over the bridge, straddling a railing and simulating being tossed over.

Police spokeswoman Alison Seoman-Willis said the sextet was taken into custody and booked at a nearby station, where they "were all cooperative," paid a fine and were released.

From Comic-Con: The Vampire Diaries is the "Ishtar" of the Fall Season

At Comic-Con, you get to see the pilots for most supernatural and sci-fi like shows. The lines are incredibly long, but usually worth it.

But not CW's, The Vampire Diaries.

That session was the talk of the evening. During the Gay in Comics mixer, folks were bashing it royally. They even left the screening early, saying it was a bad wet dream. Several viewers were making jokes, saying: they would rather lose their balls than to sit through that mess again.

Other reviews were just as bad. i09 said:

Sadly VD makes Twilight look like Shakespeare. This show is a giant sparkle of crap.

The Examiner:

The reception wasn't the greatest for the "Twilight-like" TV show. It wasn't that bad, but it had many similarities to the Stephenie Meyer story, and they seemed to be unpopular with the "Twilight" heavy crowd.

HitFix

It's almost enough to make one feel bad for the show until one considers that, well, "The Vampire Diaries" pretty much sucks.

There's more, but I'll stop the hater party. However, it doesn't look good for the show's future. I knew it would be bad, but we will see how CW struggles to keep the show alive.

But on a great note, the True Blood session was the bomb!!! More of that later.

Hot to Trot,

V.

Forgive Me...Sneak Peek of The Vampire Diaries

What do y'all think? I will watch one show, just one. But I will probably hate to death.

Buffy - Substance + Malarkey = The Vampire Diaries

This is a pic from the Twilight rip-off, The Vampire Diaries. I will give this show a half a season at best.

By the strength of Gorilla Grodd... Why am I tortured so?

Oh, I still will love Ian Somerhalder after this.


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CW continues to F**k up Prime Time

They are like a rash that just won't stop coming. CW continues the trend of bad ideas by picking up a pilot based on the "Vampire Diaries" books. And these books were lame, fan fiction at best. Okay, some fan fiction is good, I'm talking about the broke ass versions.

CW pointed out that these books were out before Twilight, like that makes any difference. This story is all about 2 vamp brothers, one's good and the other's bad. And there's some silly girl in love with the both of them.

Bright Lady, why do they insist on dumbing down our vampires? Then to add salt to the wound, they have Gossip Girl production company Alloy Entertainment on board. Scream and Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson, and Kyle XY writer Julie Plec to deal with the story, and now the book series' company plans on re-releasing the books to ride on Twilight's success.

So pretty much, this will fail. We are done with the sappy vamps and CW's massacre of good stories. There are comic books with better stories and True Blood? Hello?

CW, save your money and stop wasting our time.