Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Working At The Car Wash
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.08.2009
August, 2009. Editorial put out the list of new/available series to the recappers, and we gave them back our wish lists. I didn't get my first choice, I got this, instead. And, don't get me wrong, TWoP doesn't make any of us cover anything. I had listed The Vampire Diaries as an alternate choice, but mostly because I knew it wouldn't conflict with covering HIMYM and Lost, and because I came back wrong, and have a taste for bloodsucking fiends. Also, I wanted the money. But honestly, loving Buffy as I have, do, and always will - I was also filled with some dread. No show is ever going to be to me what that show was, and so I was a little afraid that I would hate this show for not being Buffy or the next Buffy. Flash forward to...
Today: It's no Buffy; it's not the next Buffy. The Vampire Diaries is just... The Vampire Diaries. And I kind of love it for that, you guys. I'm sitting so happy that Elena is smart and it didn't take her a fricking season (or getting bit) to figure out what's going on. I'm trying to imagine how I'd feel if someone else was covering this show, and it's not hard. I already do that every week, when watching Supernatural. I covered it for Demian, for weeks last year, and LOVED doing it for him. And as glad as I am that he's all better and is back on the Supernatural beat (because I love his recaps as much as the show), I still pray for him to win the lottery and maybe take a nice long cruise, and ask him to cover for me, while he's gone. I do that, because when I'm watching Supernatural, I still kind of feel like the girl who got candy and flowers every Thursday for the better part of three months, and then they stopped coming. When I watch Supernatural, I still recap it in my mind. My poor husband Scott has to put up with me pausing the TiVo to ramble off some pun, or obscure reference, or wise-ass remark. I can't help it. I don't do that with every show. I don't do that with the show I didn't get (which I do like). But I'd so be doing that with The Vampire Diaries. Oh silly show, with impossibly pretty people embroiled in adolescent angst, and no useful parental guidance, that had the foresight to include a smart heroine. I think I love your stinky cheese guts.
That's it for now. Tune in Thursday when The Vampire Diaries goes back to the future or, I guess that's forward to the past, with "Lost Girls." I've seen some production stills and it promises to be very pretty. Don't forget to vote on a TWoP name for Damon's late, great crow (right over there on your right), and give the episode a grade (up top), too. I need to know if I'm in this love alone.