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If you haven’t jumped on the Vampire Diaries bandwagon yet, The CW is giving you a chance to make the leap. Starting Monday, Dec 14, they’ll be running a week-long marathon covering every Vampire Diaries episode to date. That’s two a night starting at 8:00 pm.
Witness Elena and Stefan’s first meeting, Bonnie’s encounter with her ghostly ancestor, learn about the cool vampire hunting pocket watch, and best of all, revel in actions of the charmingly evil Damon!
Don’t be put off by the high school hi-jinks and the mopey, “we’ll never be together” love story. Under all of that is a great vampire show — put all thoughts of Twilight aside and watch The Vampire Diaries marathon on The CW.
Pictured: Ian Somerhalder as Damon, Nina Dobrev as Elena, Paul Wesley as Stefan Photo Credit: Andrew Eccles / The CW © 2009 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
782 days ago
[...] gives it up for Vampire Diaries Oh, you’re *so* right about putting “Twilight” out of your mind! I was extremely reluctant to [...]
Oh, you’re *so* right about putting “Twilight” out of your mind! I was extremely reluctant to begin watching “The Vampire Diaries” because it looked so much like just another leap onto the massively overpopular vampire bandwagon, but I finally settled in to an online streaming website and watched episodes 1-10 a couple of weeks ago and I’m extremely glad that I did.
TVD is actually a fairly original story — it’s true that the Stefan/Elena relationship (and Stefan himself) at times seems like almost *too* much of a throwback to watching Buffy and Angel’s tortured relationship in season two of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but it’s just original enough — and just non-”Twilight”esque — to be enjoyable.
Not to mention, for a teen-show villain, Damon is actually rather frightening, if you take his murderously cavalier actions at face value. One thing the show never shies from is the grim reality of how Damon continues living — and thoroughly enjoys it. It’s nice that after so many sympathetic woe-is-me bloodsuckers we finally have a *real* bad guy to root against.
It’s just too bad that the culmination of this marathon is going to be on the same Friday that FOX will start airing the final episodes of “Dollhouse” or I’d rewatch “The Vampire Diaries” from start to finish. Oh, well — thank god for Hulu!