god. where do i even start? i guess i’ll go with the issues i’ve had during the seasons.

i probably would have had elena stay single the entire first season. even though circa season one, i was the biggest little stelena stan that i knew (even then i had nothing on some of you awesome people) but i have always found it bizarre how such an ‘epic’ love triangle could happen after elena had gotten the chance to experience the good/best side of love. i don’t care if you hate stefan and love damon or hate or love both equally. stefan treated her well. he treated her with respect and he was willing to be patient. it’s not about passion or chemistry or epic love moves. just those two are ideally what a girl should/would want. if she is the sort of girl who values healthy relationships. it just baffled me how she could ever go from stefan to damon after experiencing that. even before it became clear to me that the only way she could love damon like that is when she isn’t completely herself. i would have spent the entire season with her finding herself and discovering the elena gilbert she wanted to be after suffering from such the huge traumatizing loss of her parents. 

and in knowing who my key players were in this love triangle, i probably wouldn’t have had damon terrorize caroline or written in that he had slept with and turned elena’s biological mother. i would have scratched a good chunk of the dastardly deeds that damon had done. because frankly the stuff that delena had to overcome is quite gross and with how elena was written, so strict and so morally correct,  i just don’t see how her being nice to him even made sense. her compassion was grotesquely used and overdone. it didn’t make her seem sweet or understanding, it made her seem foolish. especially when you think about it after watching what happened in later seasons. elena is capable of holding grudges. she’s capable of hate. she was capable of it long before she turned. but it seems all of her hate and contempt goes towards other female characters who have had their hand in the salvatore cookie pot. i’m looking at you rebekah, sage, and rose. she could have spent time holding on contempt to stefan and damon for things they have done just as easily as she did to these women. damon especially. he gave her all the reason to. see: foolish. 

i would have turned jeremy when jeremy first asked for it. don’t get me wrong, i love this character with every fiber of my being. but when they were off with him, boy they were off. i hated janna but i dug the romeo + juliet aspect of them but there was absolutely no point in building up gilbert family legacy and how staunchly they were against vampires when jeremy has been sympathetic since day one. and his sympathy was so endearing and cute too. there were so many interesting avenues to explore with jeremy as a vampire too. he could have been crazy reckless. or his personality could have changed entirely. anything and everything would have been a better alternative than his uncommitted hatred of vampires simply cause it’s ‘legacy’. also kinda misses the point when elena so strongly supported them. she’s just as much of a gilbert. and they never committed in putting jeremy and elena at odds over it. 

i wouldn’t have so much (elena) gilbert support. it seems most of entertaining aspects of the drama and mystery surrounding her is drama missed out on. why should elena’s super friends always bear the brunt of pain and loss and how do they manage to overcome it always and throw their support at her? they will be sad and upset for an episode or two ( looking at you bonnie ) and then they will just get over it. and then after that it’s right back to valuing elena and her life over their own. if they stayed committed to their own loss and their own stuff involving their own families this gross one sided relationship would be ok. but it never works out like that. so it just further cements the belief that elena is just the most special of the special, the most valued, the most praised, the most important of everyone in this universe and as the audience we’re supposed to acknowledge and accept. well i don’t. friend vs friend, rivalries and acting out on this would be far more compelling than wasting more air time to which salvatore elena is thinking about the most this week. 

lol original hybrid baby wouldn’t have happened. i would have fired the writer who came up with that bullshit. 

damon wouldn’t be such a bastard. it’s possible to write in a good bad boy. i mean a superb bad boy with bad boy qualities that borderline slightly irredeemable. there’s still room to grow and change but it won’t be overnight and it could still be believable. see christian troy. damon wouldn’t win all the time or might not ever but then again i wouldn’t be writing a show with a fickle fanbase that has this obsessive need to see the bastard bad boy get what he ‘deserves’. because what he truly deserves is something they’d never want to see. they can’t comprehend the term karma. 

stefan wouldn’t be so angelic. it’s gross and demeaning the way the writing puts emphasis on how stefan is willing to respect elena and her wishes and how damon isn’t. i wouldn’t have embarrassed myself and included that at all if i ever planned on damon actually getting with elena. 

all of the parents and guardians wouldn’t have died. because it’s just damn plain ridiculous how majority of the main characters are fucking orphans. 

i probably would have introduced more aspects about the salvatore family including the mother before introducing klaus. i don’t even need to state the reason.

speaking of klaus, i wouldn’t build him up as such a ruthless villain if i didn’t plan on having him actually live up to it. it’s embarrassing how easily these characters have their lives. damon still manages to cut him down verbally at every turn. am i expected to buy klaus a crazy scary villain when he rejects his own nature when he has ever reason not to.

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