Boo-Kai: Halloween (Day 5)➡️ Bonnie hoped to have a relaxing holiday by herself, well that was until Kai Parker crawled out of her floor thirsty for vengeance and comfort.
“It’s crazy. A part of me wants to trap you in this magnificent prison world I’ve designed just for you…ugh, but the other part wants to celebrate Halloween with you…”
“This is not happening.”
“What the hell! I’m a sucker for the holidays! I’ll let you have one more day of freedom before you spend the rest of your days in hell. So…you want to hang out-“
Season 7, but yeah. Here’s the thing Plec knew this which is why she kept teasing it, baiting Bonnie fans with more focus, a better love interest, pretty much everything we had been complaining about and delivered on nothing. The best she did was Enzo and absolutely no effort was put into that. They had a whole season to develop them and not only didn’t but had to have a flashback episode that essentially explained fuck-all and then wanted us to think he was the end all be all and be congratulated on this “effort” by Bonnie fandms. Of she didn’t because we see right through her everytime and it’s that Kat/Bonnie is just a box for her to check for diversity, she had no interest in telling her story in any sense.
I think something we have been seeing is mindless diversity. White show runners, writers, and directors believe that having a Black character is enough to win them points and that they don’t have to actually engage with the marginalized identity given to the character. You can’t just make a white character Black without considering what that means. Certain scenes or choices that are okay for white characters become marred in racism and racist histories when the character is Black. You can’t be blind to the power dynamics that exist in our real world. You can’t turn a character Black but still give them storylines that are soaked in racism
Making your only villain a woc who is mean and cruel to your white Woman protagonist is bad! Making your Black character a savage monster is bad! You can’t just slap on new identities to characters without considering how those new identies changes how the character interacts with the storyline and the real world.
Of course you can have Black characters or characters of color that do bad things but you need to pay close attention to the narrative around that character. It’s not groundbreaking to have a bitchy mean Black girl or the sexually provactive, fiery Latina.
White writers refuse to let go of ideas of white fragility and white female victimhood when making their white woman characters and gleefully use the abuse and domination of the big bad poc to show how empowered she is.
Boo-Kai: Trick or Treat (Day 3) ➡️ When Bonnie visits the 2018 PW her life is torn apart when she discovers that not only Kai has expanded the prison world but also trapped her there with him.
POC of TVD 