Sometimes I think the writers are so afraid that the audience will hate Elena that they go too far the other way to make sure we sympathize with her.
There was some talk over on the lj post about how the showrunners were worried that Book!Elena (and I didn't even know there were books, because apparently I live under a rock) was too selfish and vain to be sympathetic and were deliberately trying to counter that with Show!Elena? And I think it makes a lot of sense that the going to far to get the audience to like her overreaches into burying, instead of acknowledging and working, with her flaws. So it's like they are still there but are now the elephant in the room. Which...I find her flaws INTERESTING, I sincerely do. Like I also said over there I have a huge soft spot for messed up teenage girls navigating the rocky shores of growing up and making poor life decisions as a result. It's just hard to sympathetically wince when I feel like I'm being told I should be nodding approvingly.
Which is probably why I am ALL OVER Caroline in the way I'm finding it hard to be with Elena.
Also, I am weirdly giddy that there will be a character named Rebekah. That was supposed to be my name, but, for reasons involving a traumatic premature birth and the chaos that ensued, it ended up Rebecca on my birth certificate and everyone was so worn out by the DRAMA of it all by the time my parents actually noticed the error and were taking me home, they just went with it as 'eh, close enough'. :D
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Date: 2012-07-24 12:36 am (UTC)There was some talk over on the lj post about how the showrunners were worried that Book!Elena (and I didn't even know there were books, because apparently I live under a rock) was too selfish and vain to be sympathetic and were deliberately trying to counter that with Show!Elena? And I think it makes a lot of sense that the going to far to get the audience to like her overreaches into burying, instead of acknowledging and working, with her flaws. So it's like they are still there but are now the elephant in the room. Which...I find her flaws INTERESTING, I sincerely do. Like I also said over there I have a huge soft spot for messed up teenage girls navigating the rocky shores of growing up and making poor life decisions as a result. It's just hard to sympathetically wince when I feel like I'm being told I should be nodding approvingly.
Which is probably why I am ALL OVER Caroline in the way I'm finding it hard to be with Elena.
Also, I am weirdly giddy that there will be a character named Rebekah. That was supposed to be my name, but, for reasons involving a traumatic premature birth and the chaos that ensued, it ended up Rebecca on my birth certificate and everyone was so worn out by the DRAMA of it all by the time my parents actually noticed the error and were taking me home, they just went with it as 'eh, close enough'. :D