It still irritates me that that they killed Enzo. Say what you want about the pairing of Bonnie and Enzo but she was happy and after everything that the writers have TVD did to her, she deserved a happy ending. Of course, they just couldn’t resist pulling out the Bonnie gets screwed card one more time.
At least she lived? I mean that is the standard the show reduced her fans to. I was honestly expecting her to die so at least I can say she survived that show.
But her ending is still complete horseshit.
Don’t get me wrong I hated Benzo and how OOC it made Bonnie, and hell even Enzo, but I was no fan of them killing him off. It was a mistake of a ship, but putting her through pain to literally just put her “back in her place” just pissed me off more than Benzo ever did. And what I kinda hate most of all is that Bonnie didn’t start being Bonnie again until after he died, like for her to be herself and not Elena 2.0 she has to lose her loves one and be in pain, but I guess that is how Plec saw Bonnie.
But one thing Enzo’s death did confirm for me. Benzo was never for Bonnie fans, it wasn’t to placate us, and we kinda should have known because when does Plec do anything for us? It was for entitled Delena fans who were worried that Bamon was going to close their endgame because it’s thrown away flippantly the moment Delena becomes feasable again, hell the entire relationship was flippant and not in a good sense, but that’s because it wasn’t there to be satisfying for us. Benzo may feel like half-assed Bamon, but it shares more in common with Delena and that’s not a coincidence.
It’s a known fact that her hair is awful in the early seasons but her hair while in her cheerleading uniform, the only clothes they couldn’t purposefully make bad, makes me so angry because I know this is deliberate.
How do I know? As a former cheerleaders one of the first things you learn is that on game day and practice your hair is supposed to be up. It can be on pigtails, or a bun, or any updo, it just needs to be up and out of your face, something Bonnie’s hair isn’t in either of those pictures.
And again I’d give them the benefit of the doubt as many t.v. shows and movies forget this fact often (and drive me insane doing it). Hayden Panetiere being the biggest offender in both Heroes and Bring it On, but this is a convenient fact that they remembered for both Caroline and Elena.
Their hair is both up and out of their face so that they can do stunts without getting their hair caught in things. Hell there’s kinda even a storyline around their hair being up in season 4 when Elena steals the girls ribbon (which made no sense considering the ribbon wasn’t her team’s color). Every single girl at that cheer competition’s hair is up, but not Bonnie’s. Her hair is down with a bad weave. They couldn’t make the cheerleading uniform look bad on her so they had to go for her hair.
some day, before i die, i would like to genuinely sit down in a room with plec and ask her why the fuck she thought it might be a good idea to make Bonenzo happen almost as a bonnie consolation prize, and then TAKE THE CONSOLOATION PRIZE AWAY to make her fucking suffer at the end of the series, yet show the people who inadvertently caused her to suffer have a good ending. was it to torture bonnie fans? was it to put bonnie in her place because she was so hated by the writers that it would be funny to them? i genuinely don’t get it, like.. the LEAST they could have done was NOT that
It’s because Bonenzo was genuinely never for Bonnie fans, it was for the threatened Delena fans who disliked her baiting Bamon but for different reasons than Bonnie fans hated it. See we knew it was baiting, past experience has taught us well, but they didn’t because for the first time in their existence entitled D/E fans had to deal with their ship not being catered to and as usual Plec had to do something about it lest they turn on her.
Think about the people who mostly attached to B/E? I noticed that a lot of D/E fans were the main supporters and why wouldn’t they? Think about how a lot of B/E plays out? Especially season 8 when Bonnie is the most OOC she’s ever been to the point that she’s literally Elena 2.0, but the season 6 hallucinating one who can’t function without her man. You think that was romantic for us? No, but there’s a faction in the fandom that would sure thinks it was. They got to watch their ship play out while their main one was on hiatus, what’s not to love about that?
Bonnie fans tried to like it for a minute, but when absolutely no effort was put into building we saw it for what it truly was, a consolation prize, except we were wrong about it being ours and we honestly should have known better because when does she ever do anything for us? Even when she’s forced to have Bonnie as the lead because we’re her last resort she doesn’t, she makes Caroline the lead.
Plec does not like Bonnie nor does she like her fans, so the reason why Bonenzo gets ripped away is because Bamon was no longer a threat to Delena, so it simply didn’t matter what happened to them for her. Bonenzo was never for us, it was always disposable for her because Bonnie was always disposable for her and that never changed over 8 seasons.
It’s 2018, does anybody really think that tvd would have made so much more sense if Elena had a. Died or b. Turned human and gone off to start a new life alone.
Because the Elena who loved Stefan died in season 3 and the Elena that she became with Damon was so weak and selfish that it wasn’t the real her that we knew from the beginning.
So obviously Bonnie is strong enough to stand up for herself and everyone else to Damon. She also brings out the best in him, as the show told us and showed us repeatedly. Had they not ignored this relationship, Damon had a chance at an ACTUAL redemption instead of a cheap and useless one. And this ship made so much sense. What was the point of the look on Damon’s face when Elena said about Bonnie, “but to you she’s something else, isn’t she? ” if nothing was meant to come of this relationship? Wasted potential out the wazoo.
Don’t get me wrong, I liked Bonenzo. It was very cute and sweet, but they had to completely change Enzo’s character to make it happen and it was ultimately all a tool to torture Stefan and Bonnie some more.
If Stefan was going to die then Damon should have died as well. No one in their right mind can honestly say that Stefan deserved death more than Damon. They both did, if anything. If they both died, all the girls could have gone back to being actual best friends and started the lives they were going to have before Stefan and Damon came into their lives.
Caroline never should have raised Alaric’s girls. They never should have gone that route with the storyline. It’s gross and weird. Now the girls are cute and I know Caroline loves them as her own. But those were Jo and Alaric’s girls and he should never have treated Caroline like their mom and he never the hell should have fallen in love with her!
The Valerie storyline was pointless even though I actually like her. I don’t believe for a second that my innocent little 17 yo human Stefan would go off in the woods and have sex with a random girl he just meet in the 1860s! It’s just stupid and weird and needless drama. Just to dangle the child he could never have in front of his face.
Steroline made perfect sense from the beginning. She had a crush on the hot new guy. He saves her vampire life. They become best friends. They become more. They make each other happy. I honestly would have been okay with them stretching out the getting together phase for much longer instead of all the dumbass breaking up and getting back together. Even though they got married, the terrible plotlines still left a bad taste in my mouth.
Why did Tyler die alone in a car trunk? Why was no one mad at Damon for killing their childhood friend?
Why was Forwood disrespected the way it was?
Did Damon and Elena die at the exact same time? Why were they walking together into the afterlife? Remember that time they burned to death in a car? That was nice.
Okay, I’m just rambling now but y’all know what I’m saying. It was a disaster.
I’ve said it before, but Elena should have died in season 6, hell I would have been fine with her dying in season 3 because by the end of that season and on she has no function in the plot unless you count love interest which I don’t because there needs to be more to a character. There isn’t more to Elena. There are only two things that gave her function: doppelganger, and love triangle. Everything having to do with the doppelganger and why they’re special dies after season 3, as does the love triangle that wore on people’s patience by that point. It became a lot less “chose X because they’re perfect for you” and more “chose someone so I don’t have to listen to you whine about it more”, in fact we were done with Stefan and Damon’s whining as well over the “grand prize”. But I digress.
Anyway in the long run I felt that Elena hindered the show. They kept having to recycle plots to keep her relevant, and the only way to rectify that was to kill her off. She was too important to be a character that lingers on, that’s why season 7 and 8 suck, because they couldn’t let go of the golden girl who they really should have let go of a long time ago.
Bonnie and Bamon, if the network and writers weren’t racist that would have happened season 1, and then maybe Damon’s story line that season would make sense because why the fuck was he wasting his time with Caroline when Bonnie was who he needed to get the the tomb open? The story line that forever marrs the show and marrs Damon was completely unnecessary and only happened because the network request they not go the Bamon route, which in turn ruined their show in the process so at least there’s that for compensation.
And Bonenzo, we all know damn well ain’t nobody was asking for that. It only exists to placate threatened Delena fans because Bonnie was getting to close to Damon for their liking. Y’all thought Plec was throwing Bonnie fans a bone? We should have known better, she don’t do nothing for us, she just services her DEer’s. Why do you think it’s thrown away the moment she knew Elena would be coming back. But again I digress because we ain’t got time for that rant.
For me Forwood dies around 4×06 and not even because of Klaroline which had a big part in screwing Tyler and Forwood over. Steroline is what ruins them in the end when Caroline first betrays his trust by tell Stefan about the other unsired hybrids, and then proceeds to get one of them killed due to this. And what truly kills it is Caroline’s inability to be self aware. She doesn’t understand what she did wrong, she doesn’t even understand why Tyler’s so upset and that actually continues for their remaining relationship–she just doesn’t understand Tyler. So the fact that they break up is the most natural progression for them unfortunately that’s not what breaks them up. It’s made out to be Tyler’s fault and pretty much all to make sure Caroline still be “innocent” because apparently the only way to do that is to villainize Tyler which has so many historical contexts it’s almost impossible to believe that Plec is this ignorant.
“If Stefan was going to die then Damon should have died as well.”
That’s pretty much how I felt because in comparison to Damon Stefan is better, but is he better overall, no and having just Stefan doesn’t get that across. What it got across was Stefan dies for a ship whether you believe that to be SE or DE is up to you, but he still dies for the most superficial reason and his death needed to be more important. Plus added with the fact that Damon has no function as well as a human, like there is no real happy ending or redemption for him, not having him die (and I’m not counting that BS one at the end because there impact to it) just stunts the storytelling (which shouldn’t be new to any of us reference my comments about season 1).
And Steroline? That should have worked, but they did what I like to call instalove them, and not only that they instaloved a friends to lovers romance which if Plec wasn’t an idiot she’d know that one negates the other, and as proven by the show it turns into a train wreck that made no sense. I honestly would have rathered the Calaric stuff because at least that made sense, however if the show had been written properly that never would have been a situation to come up because a) it was already a plot hole, and b) if Kai had been written in character in 6×22 he wouldn’t have done what he did at the wedding. But again I digres because this reply has already gone on too long. I think it’s longer than your original post.
You know I realized the reason why I really don’t like Klaroline us not really due to the pairing itself. I have no moral qualms with the abuse of it because it’s literally impossible with any TVD ship and I really don’t like the idea of quantifying abuse. If I hate one ship due to abuse I have to hate them all including my favorite ship, Bonkai, because abuse is abuse, plain and simple it’s terrible in every form and saying one is worse than the other does nothing more than trivialize serious matters because it wasn’t as bad. It’s unfortunate that certain things have to be overlooked, but I do feel that it works better in Kai and Klaus’ case due to their roles as antagonists however I still don’t consider them excuses.
The reason I don’t like Klaroline is because I now can’t help but think about the role they play in the oppression of Tyler and Bonnie. I used to like Klaroline, hell I even used to like Delena (but that got ruined for a whole slew of other reasons that didn’t even require deeper thought) because I used to be a very casual viewer of TVD, it wasn’t really a show I took that seriously so I pretty much took what ever the spoon fed me until season 5 when as a casual viewer I couldn’t even stomach it and had to stop watching. To this day I still haven’t seen the entirety of that season. But back to my point, now I really don’t like Klaroline because I can’t separate the reason why it’s there to begin with and the characters it screwed over with it’s existence.
I’m so lukewarm about most non-Bonnie ships, I don’t really think about why I don’t care for any of the other ones. But I think you probably encapsulated why I’m neutral towards KC.
The Tyler thing makes me so sad, he changed so much and became so complex only to be discarded and his final death was so 😒 And I can’t even think about Bonnie’s treatment w/o getting mad and I’ve acknowledged before that great literary criticism could be academically written about it.
This was a great meta
Well when the show is intent on not giving your favorite character a romance storyline you kinda have to look at the other romances because that’s all there is. However when it comes to TVD there isn’t a single relationship I’m passionate about that doesnt involve Bonnie so I feel that’s pretty telling on how bad the others are to begin with, and how much better the show would have been if they had explored just one Bonnie ship (and I don’t count Jeremy or Enzo because they aren’t explored there just there with little to no build up and little to no chemistry).
But its weird I’ve never really disliked a ship that had nothing wrong with it fundamentally like I do Klaroline because there really isn’t that much wrong with, it just represents everything wrong with the show and it’s low regard it holds POC’s. It literally kills two birds with one stone and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. Plec wouldn’t have risked her other characters the way she did Tyler with pairing Klaus with Caroline, even if so they certainly wouldn’t have been made irrelevant the way Tyler.
Think about the previous triangle with Matt, Caroline, and Tyler. For one, it was a he’ll of a lot more mutual due Caroline not actively being in a relationship (she’d broken up with Matt). Two, Tyler isn’t the reason they break up. And 3, after it ends Matt goes on to have several independent storylines towards his development that aren’t off screen. Matt’s irrelevance is cause by him being irrelevant, and yet still made more important than Tyler. Like I pointed out in another post, Matt maybe missing from a lot of episodes, but we aren’t missing key things about him as they all happen on screen, a luxury Bonnie nor Tyler are given.
Anyways my long tangent point is that had the actor been white, because Tyler for all intents and purposes is white, that none of that would have happened. Their value wouldn’t have only been connected to someone else, it would have been independent and been utilized in the show.
(Sidenote: do you ever find it weird that they really didn’t explore werewolf lore while Tyler was on the show. They brought in Hayley and shipped her off to another show to explore the origins instead using a main character from the show who probably has a rich history as well.)
You know I realized the reason why I really don’t like Klaroline us not really due to the pairing itself. I have no moral qualms with the abuse of it because it’s literally impossible with any TVD ship and I really don’t like the idea of quantifying abuse. If I hate one ship due to abuse I have to hate them all including my favorite ship, Bonkai, because abuse is abuse, plain and simple it’s terrible in every form and saying one is worse than the other does nothing more than trivialize serious matters because it wasn’t as bad. It’s unfortunate that certain things have to be overlooked, but I do feel that it works better in Kai and Klaus’ case due to their roles as antagonists however I still don’t consider them excuses.
The reason I don’t like Klaroline is because I now can’t help but think about the role they play in the oppression of Tyler and Bonnie. I used to like Klaroline, hell I even used to like Delena (but that got ruined for a whole slew of other reasons that didn’t even require deeper thought) because I used to be a very casual viewer of TVD, it wasn’t really a show I took that seriously so I pretty much took what ever the spoon fed me until season 5 when as a casual viewer I couldn’t even stomach it and had to stop watching. To this day I still haven’t seen the entirety of that season. But back to my point, now I really don’t like Klaroline because I can’t separate the reason why it’s there to begin with and the characters it screwed over with it’s existence.
We all know how it oppressed Tyler, it’s literally the reason he’s shoved off screen in seasons 3 and 4. It’s not a coincidence that everytime Tyler had to go off Caroline’s scenes with Klaus increased and it got even worse when he didn’t even have to be away for that to happen, his screen time just gets cut in favor of them. And then there’s how Klaus treated him, now I wouldn’t have much of problem with it as Klaus is/was the antagonist if it wasn’t trivialized by the entire show and then just used as way to shove him off screen.
One of the things that comes to mind is
the Klaroline sex scene which I was not a fan of the because a) it literally came off as a scene in a porn with the flimsy reason behind it, and b) the betrayal of Tyler and how it played in the further diminution his character. I wouldn’t call it cheating, but sleeping with the guy who enslaved your childhood friend, killed his pack and his mother is just trivializing what he went through, but considering the standards Delena set for the show it’s not surprising. But think about the scene when she finally tells him, he gets punched in the face by Stefan and ends up the “bad guy” in the situation for simply getting angry. He wasn’t even going to hurt anyone, there’s a reason why he told Caroline to leave, but it’s not like it mattered because Caroline still ends up being “innocent” in the whole thing. It sickens me the fandom’s reaction to this and pretty much his entire story line with Klaus. Look at some of these comments.
He’s even villainized when it comes to Hayley, a character who got 12 people killed for information she could have gotten if she just hired a PI, but that doesn’t matter because she perfect.
People actively ignore his character development in order for Klaus, Caroline, and even Hayley to seem better. And what makes it worse is that they actively ignore the things those characters have done as well because if they didn’t they’d have to realize that Tyler was a much better person than all if them. They literally protect white people at all costs and needed to the POC to be the bad guy in order to do so.
But, again, none of that’s really news since that’s how this fandom works in general. You have to ignore the bad things they do and make excuses instead of owning up to them.
Do I think Tyler is perfect? No, but he’s literally the only character to actually redeem himself. You never see him pull the same shit that he did in season 1. He made it his goal to change and not be so angry all the time and actually succeeded, and on his own. Caroline had her part, but his attitude change didn’t rely on her, he made the effort himself which is something sorely missing from redemption arcs on this show.
And then after he ends his relationship with Caroline, something the show pretty much had been incrementally doing to make room for KC, his character ends up off in the limbo where characters the writers no longer care about are held. It’s as though if he isn’t connected to Caroline or Klaus, his character has no value which is one of the biggest injustices on the show, but not surprising because if you’re a POC who’s not serving someone your time on the show expires real quick unless they can find a way to put you back in your place.
Then there’s it’s role in further oppressing Bonnie which I feel is lesser known because a) there are a lot more pressing issues when it comes to Bonnie which most of us are very aware of, b) KC became huge in the fandom (or more so loud) to the point that it kind of buries the initial reactions of the audience at the time, and c) Kennett takes the spotlight with the controversy that surrounded it due to Plec’s racist tweet about how Kennett when she was asked about why Bonnie was being paired with her stepbrother.
Now this didn’t really come to my attention until after I read The Problematic Treatment of People of Color on The Vampire Diaries, which if you haven’t read it I suggest you do because it’s a really great resource when describing how Bonnie’s treatment is problematic. It could use a bit of an update to include seasons 7 and 8, but that wouldn’t change much because not a damn thing changed in those seasons other than they got more sneaky about her treatment as opposed the overt nature in the previous seasons. Anyway this excerpt pretty much the seed that made me further inspect KC.
My first thought when reading that is that “this makes so much sense” because when you look at the first KC scene on Caroline’s birthday and put it in context with the entire episode, it comes completely out of thin air. You get so caught up in the chemistry between the actors and the sweetness of it that you don’t think about how random it is, but that’s also partially due to that fact that around this time things had gotten pretty random and convoluted. However if they didn’t have chemistry I probably would have had the same exact reaction to them as I did Benzo when Enzo saves Bonnie from the armory: “sweet, but random.” And then I thought about all KC’s scenes in general and a lot of them are forced, in that they had to make up unnecessary reasons for them to be in scenes together. They literally had to bend the plot of the show in order to put them together. That’s what made me realize that the ship is all chemistry, but no real substance. They were put together because Bonnie couldn’t have a love interest that would threaten the other white girls’ status in the hierarchy of character’s value on the show. Bonnie always needed to be lower than Elena and Caroline. She needed to be the ugly friend, and the show put a lot of time and effort making sure that was the status quo, so far that the actively stifled their show in order to do so.
Think about season 3, who makes more sense as his love interest? Bonnie who he had several direct story lines, or Caroline who he’s only connected with through Tyler? Now I’m not saying there’s nothing there between them but in the interest of better ties and how the plot conform to a ship there’s a hell of lot less work needed for Klonnie to makes sense than KC and IMHO would have been a more interesting route and if you look at some of the comments back when this season first aired that was something some people noticed.
Not only that but both Kat and Joseph actively shipped it to the point of talking to the writers and it was promptly shut down which isn’t surprising because, well it’s Bonnie, we all know the racial bias when it comes to her. Apparently they even cut some scenes that were supposed to be with them in the witch house that would have actively driven the ship and again been a better story line due to the Bennett’s direct involvement with the Mikaelson’s that season (direct involvement that ends up pushed to the side in favor of Elena and Caroline i.e the Mikaelson Ball).
And what makes it worse is that that wasn’t even the original story line for that season. Kevin Williamson before he let go of control talked about a Stefan/Klaus/Bonnie story line for that season, but I’m guessing that got scrapped along with the scenes they were supposed to have. And trust me I would have been way more willing to watch that than more old S/E/D shit and definitely more than Klaus/Caroline/Tyler shit which like I said they actively stifled their show in order to exclude Bonnie.
Now none of this is really a new phenomenon when it comes to Bonnie and ships especially at this juncture. This technically starts in season 1 when again they pair a potential love interest for Bonnie with Caroline. I’ve talked about it before on how random it is that Damon goes after Caroline with his main goal in the beginning of the season and how counter-intuitive it was. He should have been pursuing Bonnie at the very least and at the most keeping his promise if he wanted to get the tomb open. There’s a reason why that ends up a convenient favor Elena has to ask Bonnie and its because that whatever diabolical plan he had wasn’t planned well. Damon just did random shit for no reason. The only thing that made any sense is his story line with Vicki and that’s saying a lot since he kills her simply because he was bored. Anyways in the book that the loosely base he show on, the first person Damon kisses and uses as an in to to the MFG is Bonnie, but that gets scrapped in favor of Caroline and the disgusting story line that will forever mar the show.
Then there’s Tyler who they scrapped a story line between him and Bonnie in favor of Caroline. They didn’t want to rip off Buffy (but had no problem doing it with Liv in S6). Now that one doesn’t grate me as much since Caroline/Tyler is a pairing in the book but if they’re going to go out of their way to include the book romance for supporting characters that should have applied to Bonnie a well. In fact when it comes to things from the book that they use in the show it seems Bonnie is the only exception to the rule because they even go so far as to include Meredith/Alaric, a character who was previously scrapped from the show.
However I guess what I’m getting at, is that though this isn’t new and continues well after season 3, KC was just my limit with it. The ship was conceived out of thin air with the specific and more blatant purpose of not pairing Bonnie with a desirable character to further oppress her. The blatantness of it actually grates me more than when Plec did this with Bamon because while I hate Delena with a burning passion it didn’t come out of thin air. Delena is a pairing that’s briefly explored in the books and if you go by the original author’s endgame is something that’s supposed to end, but the show never took that queue, but either way they had a lot more cause denying them than they did Klonnie and I can’t really separate that from KC.
I see two characters who have chemistry and nothing else because it was already a Hail Mary putting them together to begin with that only worked out because of that chemistry. If they didn’t they would have gone over as well as Bonenzo did which was a ship made to placate threatened Delena fans, the only difference here is that it threatened Plec’s vision of Bonnie and where she stands in the hierarchy of female characters.
You know as much as I love Kai’s role in bringing Bonnie back from the prison world…
It annoys me a lot how they did it. They didn’t bring her back. All they did was remind her of something she already knew meaning SHE brought herself back. But what really annoys me about it is that that’s something she should have been able to figure out on her own a lot sooner meaning most of her time spent in the PW was unnecessary and just another reason for Julie to have her missing from episode because it wouldn’t be a season of TVD without her inexplicably missing.
I don’t think the age difference will be a problem in their relationship. I mean, in one of the flashabcks, Stephen’s father tells John he has a son “a LITTLE BIT younger than him [john].” So, assuming Stephen and Astrid are the same age….where’s the…
I don’t think it is necessarily Stephen’s father’s fault, but more of the inconsistency of the writers. Sometimes they make it sound like John is at late 20’s and other times mid twenties. They have to establish things more better.
What I find hilarious about this is that this show only lasted one season and Plec STILL had issues with continuity.
One of the things that drives me insane about Bonnie’s wardrobe in the early seasons is that it doesn’t tell me much about her. It never adds to her character like the others did.
Caroline was always in short dresses. Occasionally she wore jeans but it was always something that was clearly meant to be fashionable. Her clothes matched her personality which at the time meant to be bitch, but was insecure and someone who cared too much about her appearance and as such her wardrobe matched that.
Elena was always wearing “girl next door” clothes which is a weird classification that in of itself, but she wore jeans and converse and a solid color shirt. Very plain, it was almost modeled after Clark Kent where they always tried to keep him in primary colors. What that told me is that she was always meant to be the self-insert protagonist. There wasn’t much to her wardrobe because there was never meant to be much to her character beyond being “relatable” so that anyone could vicariously live through her. But either way it matched her.
However Bonnie, her wardrobe was always supposed to be eccentric. Her clothes were always supposed to be a little off, but a little off in a hippie sense, not wearing Caroline and Elena’s hand-me-downs way and it drives me insane that they rarely are off in that way. That’s what gets me about her wardrobe being bad, it’s not that she has the worst clothes and hair, it’s that no thought was given when they were coming up with it. They mostly just put her in the same clothes as everyone else.
In the books she wore interesting pieces and was very spiritual, in that she beleived in the witch stuff. There was very little skepticism and that was probably one of the first ways they cut down her character. You could tell they tried to add some BoHo looks but they never quite followed through. Most of the time seasons 1-4 she was either dressed in frumpy sweaters or exactly the same as Elena. She didn’t have much individuality in her wardrobe which makes when Caroline gives her Damon’s (Emily’s) necklace in season 1 because she knows it’s her style, make no sense because by that point Bonnie doesn’t have a style, or distinct look. She doesn’t wear anything that’s hers.
Unless it was a decade dance she was mostly in jeans and a solid color. Occasionally dress, but otherwise pretty basic, no real interesting prints like her character suggest she should. She doesn’t get any kind of distinct style until about season 5 which you can tell is when they started letting Kat have more influence over her wardrobe, noted by the haircut and the fact that she’s wearing clothes that were completely different from the previous ones. This change could be due to college, as they did up all of the girls’ wardrobe, but also note that they still had Bonnie mostly dressing like Elena as well, until she gets to 1994 at which point I think Kat had complete control over her wardrobe as she has a lot of nostalgia for the 90s and Plec didn’t have much investment in her character at the time. (It took that season for Plec to notice the potential of Bonnie and even then still squandered it).
We know that her character doesn’t get better clothes until after she gets “value” by Elena leaving and befriending Damon, but I’m willing to bet that it’s also because Plec didn’t care enough about how Bonnie dressed and just gave Kat free range as well which while was a benefit on the end, it says just how much thought was put into her character in general and the fact that the only person who had any investment in Bonnie was Kat.
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