I don’t expect much more from someone who contributed to the mess that is the TVD universe.
Yeah I have made it very clear that I haven’t been keeping track of Legacies so I honestly wouldn’t know–I just assumed she was working on it with Plec, she seems like the exact kind of employee Plec would want with her on hand.
I’ve never understood the concept of latching on to successful people–there’s literally nothing to gain there especially in this situation. The only thing she could gain is the “I’m not racist I have a black friend” card which has never worked in the history of ever.
Listen I know next to nothing about Carina beyond what I’ve learned from these asks, but what I do know is when someone is being fake and out of the blue congratulations and compliments falls under that category, hard.
I honestly don’t know what she wants to ask for, Legacies seems like the easiest answer but also makes the least sense given their mission to erasure the Bennetts and everything they’ve done. However, sadly that goal is a bit easier to accomplish when the Bennett is actually there for the comparison, but either way it still makes no sense since they can create one out of thin air. It’s probably more of a PR thing at this point.
Yeah, she’s aware, more than we are, what replying to that comment will lead to.
As for why she stayed on the show, there’s many reason but I’m going to list a few:
1) Her contract wasn’t up. While they could kill Bonnie, and thus fire her, at any moment the same wasn’t true for her. She could have quit if she wanted but that would have stopped her from being able to take other work not just due to the contract but also risk being blacklisted. If I recall correctly sometime before season 5 she tried to get out with the perfect opening of Bonnie’s death but of course Plec kept her on because how can the show function with her magic fix-it.
2) Kinda in that same vein but for different reasons, she didn’t want to be blacklisted. For the same reasons why Paul, Ian, and Nina can talk shit about the show but not her, she isn’t given the luxury of doing what she wants due to racial biases. You think the fandom is crazy every time she expresses any displeasure with the show and call her “ungrateful” imagine how Hollywood would react. To them she was always a diversity quota, if she steps out of line they’re going to move on to the next one who “acts right” acts “grateful” for the opportunity.
3) As you stated, she thought they’d treat Bonnie better, and if you’ll notice right when contract was about to end was when Bonnie’s storylines were getting better and it looked like she was going to be a lead. Of course we know what happens after that, and Kat does too because right after the BS from season 7 she announced season 8 as her last season which is when her next contract expired.
4) Steady paycheck. Like it or not TVD was the most consistent work she’d ever had which is such a shame because she spent a lot of her time on the show worried they were going to kill her off any second so she saved her money before getting some basic things she needed. We already know that everyone who stayed stayed simply for the money and continues staying because that’s all they have, but now Kat isn’t in need of the steady paycheck they provided because she now has steady work and just continues to get more.
Now that she doesn’t need TVD she has stayed classy in separating herself from it by ignoring anything to do with even when she’s promoting her stuff, unlike a certain other cast mate (Nina), she’s finally speaking out about some of the things she faced while on the show, and still manages to be active with her fans. I’m happy for her and I’m happy that she continues to ignore everything to do with that toxic fandom.
I stick by my original explanation of she’s trying to get her to guest star on Legacies. That’s the type of thing you say to to someone you’ve barely had any interactions with right before you ask for a favor.
You compliment them in hopes that they write you back and then the door is open to now request things. It’s what you do when you want to ask someone something but don’t know them well enough to just outright say it.
Now I don’t know of that for sure what she’s doing but that sounds like it. Did Kat reply back to her?
That sounds about right, however can you tell me what exactly she was congratulating her on because that might give me a bit more perspective on it. In any case, I don’t think she was being sincere but that might help me figure out if it was meant to be taken as sincere or some shady shit.
I never watched TO past S1 so I don’t know much about her. The most I knew was that she was essentially the equivalent of Caroline Dries for TO (who I know worked on TO but briefly as I understand) and based on theis she sounds exactly like the crack pot kind of writer TO would hire. In fact she sounds like Julie’s other half.
I can’t really condemn anyone for flip flopping with which character they liked simply because each character flip flopped when they were likable, however she’s supposed to be a writer a d should be able to identify that this is a writing issue, and that there are several writing issue and she can’t even do the minimum of that.
What she is however is a fan girl of the series that takes everything written as law and doesn’t think much else about which is what her like Bonenzo after not liking Bonnie tells me. You know what kind of people do that people who follow the narrative to a T even when that narrative is problematic in so many ways. She doesn’t write for the show but that doesn’t mean she can’t analyze it, in fact if she was writing reviews that’s exactly what she should have been doing but seems to have failed. I’d hate to read what she truly thinks a real “analysis” of the show is.
I find that super weird as well especially since as far as I know she barely knows Kat. She primarily worked on TO and Legacies, had nothing to with TVD and Bonnie never had any crossowe episodes, so beyond a con here and there I don’t think they’ve had much contact.
Weird but I have no explanation for it other than trying to get her on Legacies or she’s trying to use her like the show did with the “I’m not racist I have a black friend” because she’s also faced a lot of backlash in that department as well as Plec for her work on TO.
POC of TVD 