Kat sounds so different in the trailer for The Holiday Calendar. I can’t tell if it’s because the character has a different accent or Kat is able to put life into it. Because for me, I love Bonnie but especially with the later seasons (they are fresher in my mind sadly) her performance felt monotone, but I always felt that it was because she was dragged down by the plot since she was never allowed to be happy or normal, just Miss Bonnie-I’m-At-Your-Service Bennett.

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I’m noticing her new roles she puts more life into them. I agree I think the plot pulls Bonnie down. So it’s refreshing after seeing her in 8 seasons playing a character bit more happy or she just seems more happier playing that character???. That’s better written and she is not this token service witch. You can tell these writers write her character with actual respect 🍵. I even seen an episode of TMNT and she seems more happier. There is more life in the role. Even voice acting I’m like…is that Kat?? 😂

My favorite Bonnie season is s6 tbh. I felt we saw a side of her we never saw before. She was more expressive, ima do what I want, there was also things that could of been explored regarding witch lore but never was. It was cool but then of course it gets shut down by s7 and s8. S8 is the worse Bonnie season imo. She is so monotone and ooc. She just seems like a elena 2.0 which is ODD.

If I’m being honest I don’t remember the earlier seasons that much. I remember s5 her dead, coming back, then dying again. But s1-4 is a freaking blur to me. I have no motive to rewatch those seasons except if I ever write a essay about the mistreatment of Bonnie Bennett and have to 😂

S1 she was a lot more bubbly from the start and then all the witch stuff happens and then she just seems worried, but not the kind of worries S2-4. She eventually figured it out and then her Grams died and everyone starts treating her like the angry black woman even going so far as to treat her like she has no right to he angry. After that she just looks miserable.

S2 Bonnie kinda pisses me off simply because it’s like she came to the conclusion that everyone else is right, she has no right to angry and then she looks miserable for a different reason. She “accepts her fate” and became so gung ho about dying.

She carried this misery on to seasons 3 and 4 and in season 5 some life does go back into her literally when she’s brought back. It’s crazy that even with all the pain she was in she seemed a hell of lot happier and seemed to value her own life more than the entirety of s1-4. But of course she goes back into default mode of “accept my fate” but she seemed a lot more sad about it this time. This attitude makes it’s way to S6 and then S7 she’s back into self sacrificing mode. And S8 I just won’t talk about because she was so OOC, desperate and whiny, it was like, what the hell did you do with Bonnie Bennett? That was as you said, Elena 2.0 whiny and desperate to boot.

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minibetta:

I agree with everything you said. Because Bonnie was a character that sacrificed everything for her white counterparts they have this weird thing that Kat, a black woman cannot be the successful one now tvd has ended because they’ve been accustomed to her getting the short end of the stick. I’ve seen Nina fans go to great lengths to make out as if Kat and Bonnie are nothing compared to Nina. It’s safe to say Candice is either done with acting or will stay on JP shows. 1/2

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Ian is funny because he hates his ship but still attends cons to hear teenaged girls scream his name, but his fans think he can do no wrong. Paul fans come across as self righteous at times. They love to label Kat as problematic whereas Paul has mentioned his love for woody Allen multiple times. Which is another thing. Obviously I’m generalising because I don’t know all of them but one thing that’s apparent is that they cannot leave Bonnie/Kat alone, she’s always seen as a threat 2/2

And the funny part about it is that they only see Kat as the threat. I don’t see any of this hate when it comes to the other actors and when there is there’s always someone there to jump to their defense so they never even have to acknowledge it. Kat, much like Bonnie, has always had to fight her own battles, and that’s not to say she doesn’t have people coming to her defense, but the fandom gets real real quiet when something bad is said about her (or Bonnie for that matter).

To them she was never even supposed to be cast as Bonnie because of the color of her skin in the first place, so the fact that she’s having any success after that just kills them.