THE ORIGINALS friending meme! This is a meme for fans-to-be of the spinoff of TVD.


<b>LJ/DW handle:</b> <b>Anything else you'd prefer to be called?</b> <b>Anywhere else you post?</b> ><b>Excitement level from "eh, it's on before Supernatural" to "I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER?! SILAS AND QETZIAH, GIVE ME STRENGTH!"</b> <b>Posting poison (graphics, fic, meta, recaps, none but I like to read and/or comment)?</b> <b>Favored Original?</b> <b>Favorite new character from the pilot?</b> <b>Other shows you watch?</b> <b>Other things we should know?</b>

There is a mirror post on LJ, and also a poll with anon enabled.

(Clearly I am not the graphics person, but if anyone would like to make one, by all means!)

First order of business: if I put up a friending meme for people who are excited about The Originals, is it just going to be me kissing my own ass?

Before I go into the episode, I would like to make a non-spoilery for-everyone shamelessly-recruity observation about why TVD (and now with The Originals, the whole TVD-'verse) works: it wholly embraces its core principle of WHY THE FUCK NOT?! Lest this sound backhanded, I mean it as the highest of praise. Some stories involve foregone conclusions, which come with the benefit of clear direction and literary convention, but at the cost of interesting opportunities and characterization/story twists that spring up organically. Because television fandom, much more so than what little I know of more conventional literary criticism, puts an unwarranted premium on stories hitting some objective markers of doing it "right," this kind of storyline seems heavily privileged. (Then, of course, we turn around and piss about character agency as if we didn't insist on having their actions predetermined from the moment of their own genesis.) TVD is different, in-universe and from a plotting perspective. It is an anarchic universe, where there is no supernatural - or for that matter earthly - controlling authority. In-universe, shit happens because shit happens, and the characters adapt. From a creative perspective, it's a fast-moving storyline that continuously adapts, and shit happens because WHY THE FUCK NOT?! This is just as valid a stylistic approach to storytelling as the more deterministic method, and the sheer cracky glee with which the show executes and ups the ante is a beautiful, beautiful thing.

( Hello, my shadow self. )

I'm cutting myself OFF from this post, in the hopes that I'll do a real S4 reaction post after letting it all marinate, but looking back at my reactions to the season premiere, JFC, I'm going to go soak in how awesome this season has been from the first moment.

WHEW OKAY I AM CUT OFF. I'm really hoping to do a S8 writeup sometime during the summer but I just had to get so much vindication love out for this episode now so! The first part of this is about the broader season metaphor, the second part is about DA BRUDDERS, and the last part is about the angels.

( once I rose above the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion )