Season 2 Spoilers and Speculations 18
Feb 3, 2014 11:56:47 GMT -5
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Post by crazyforbatb_has season 3 on Feb 3, 2014 11:56:47 GMT -5
I'm not throwing tomatoes, just posing a bit of a counterpoint to your perspective…
I don't hold Tori as accountable as I hold Gabe. Having said that, I strongly dislike Tori's character because I don't think she has been given much to like by the writers. A little bit of acharacter depth would not have hurt anyone… Playing the damsel in distress, or victim out of becoming a she-beast and acting like Vincent is 'hers' just because they have the beast-on-beast "supposed" connection… how were we supposed to feel about her? Anything less than hate, seems unlikely. She is an antagonist, and as far as I can see, not much more than that…. But it is true, in my eyes, at least that she barely saw Vincent and Catherine as Vincent and Catherine, and as such she may feel she does have a legitimate claim over Vincent… still lowers the character in my eyes, but not as much as Gabe…
As for Gabe, at the very least he knew how Catherine and Vincent felt about each other, and as such he is being an opportunistic bastard about the whole situation. He is the farthest thing from the perfect guy the writers are trying to paint him as… the perfect guy does not move in on a woman as emotionally vulnerable and damaged as Catherine, and if he has feelings for her, he at least has the good grace to keep them to himself. Gabe is a shady character, so I do blame him for the way he responds to Catherine. He wants to be the warm body that she falls on. I think he is a little more than a pawn in the mess…
My problem with the whole thing, and it is my problem, is that if they were going to "break the bond between Vincent and Catherine" - they are going about it entirely in the wrong way. Being cruel to each other - pushing the outside limits of what is believable - is not the way to accomplish angst. They bastardized their own characters by writing actions and words that are not the slightest bit believable, and then they ask us to trust them in this journey. You don't fall in love with the love of your life, then later try to kill him/her, and then play at a bit of spirited partner swapping. Nobody will ever be able to convince me that this was ever anything more than the typical low brow CW-SOAP-OF-THE-WEEK-Made-for-TV-LOVE-TRIANGLING. They killed two birds with one stone - the problem is that most of us don't believe this storyline is believable… so in an effort to attract the typical teen CW audience, a measure that seems to have failed, they have done what feels very much like irreparable damage to our characters.
I mean, at the end of the day, the writing on the wall is the writing on the wall. They were writing bit of Romeo & Julietesque Shakespearean fairytale, and now that has been been desecrated by graffiti. It's not complicated, it's just a kind of mundane.
ETA: And for the record, I will be a bit more forgiving when they put the car in reverse and back the heck up out of this mess - and do some fast explaining in the process.
Shall we just call this show "Beauty and the Bed-hopper" or "Bed-hopper1 vs Bed-hopper2" cause it sure will be implied that Cat's going their too. Ugh Gabe needs to die or mysteriously dissapear. Where is the idea of finding out who you are? Is that truly accomplished by throwing yourself at people you don't really know. I mean does V really know T and yet they are already living togther. How much of Gabe's character does C know? Every relationship or character development this season has been rushed and feels forced and for the sake of what? Because TPTB know there won't be a season 3 so they got to fit as many crazy ideas as possible into this one last season?? (Just my speculation). In the process they have created another sill little teen soapie with love triangles
destroying characters and screwing up storylines that have so much potential for development.