Temis: Are you still watching?
Yep, I finally saw the first "historical episode!" (and the first ep where I managed to keep my finger off the ff button
) Very interesting, a few thoughts...
-If they've hinted that Catherine is a Union sympathizer (being in the church that was burned down), what does that imply about her relationship with Damon, that dirty secesh*?
-I can't see Damon giving a flip about the Confederacy, or any other political movement, for real. Was it all just a fun adventure (until the bullets start flying)? Or was he a very different person "before"? (I've interpreted the very different personalities of the brothers as a hint that vampirism doesn't change your personality but just enhances what already exists. Or is there a more interesting explanation for the difference?)
-Speaking of bullets flying, what might happen if Damon were mortally wounded, with Catherine his only route to "survival"? Just wondering if that's how it all went down. Seems like Damon is in a very high-risk occupation where such things are likely to occur. (I'm probably remembering another vampire story where something like that happened...Anne Rice perhaps?)
-The costuming department was remiss in giving Damon such a new-looking uniform, considering he was "on leave" and not a new recruit. They should have stomped on it and dragged it through the mud a lot to give it more authenticity. I did notice that Damon's hair looked like it hadn't been washed in a month.
-Speaking of hair, I like Stefan's look a whole lot more in flashbacks. I know they do the slicked-back look to convey the sense of him being repressed, but it's not at all flattering.
-Was the very well dressed black "maid" in Catherine's carriage one of Bonnie's witchy ancestresses? Hmm.
And on other topics:
-I keep seeing the Made in Georgia logo at the end of episodes. I'm sure I recognized a location outside Vancouver (a kind of treehouse-in-the-cedars place with a high footbridge over a stream) in an early ep, and the forests strike me as too piney/cedar-y to be anyplace in the South. But the flashback scenes seemed more geographically plausible. Are the flashbacks being shot in Georgia?
-if Stefan is surviving entirely on chipmunks and other woodland creatures, he must be eating a whole scad of them to measure up to one human being per night (which seems to be Damon's diet). I imagine the target market for this show would rather see Stefan snack on Elena than a fuzzy bunny. Do we ever see him eating any rodents, raccoons etc? (Don't tell me any spoilers about him falling off the wagon and goes for bigger prey.)
*wow, got the spelling right on first try!
), a major reason for me to keep watching is waiting patiently for Saint Stefan to fall off the wagon. That guy is entirely too prim and proper. Maybe they haven't pulled the trigger on that yet, but it's an inevitable plot twist, isn't it?
Cuz that's one of my pet interests. Can't wait for Abe Lincoln: Vampire Killer. Cowboys and Aliens is also in that line. Wish Supernatural would do that Old West spinoff series...