jelly-bean-jones:

You’re so cute, you didn’t sound sassy!

And as far as unpopular opinions that don’t revolve around Damon (limited options there), I’m not sure if these are “unpopular” but they are definitely controversial or I don’t hear them spoken about often:

* Steroline was a terrible couple
* I didn’t like Katherine and Elijah together at all, I saw zero chemistry
* I don’t think Jenna should have died so early in the series
* I liked Alaric with Jenna over Jo
* I ship Bonkai
* I strongly disliked Hayley
* I liked Forwood in the beginning but then I thought they were kind of a disaster, I preferred Liv/Tyler and Klaus/Caroline
* Couldn’t stand Vicki

You know I never really liked Vicki that much and really only cared about her death in the context of Matt and Jeremy, but then someone pointed this out to me:

Vicky. Alcoholic, unemployed and irresponsible mom which basically makes Vicky the main breadwinner of the family prior to her death. Deals with it in a bad way via drugs. Tries to keep her brother from it and supports him. Was nearly raped by Tyler Lockwood (remember she kept saying “no” and he kept on going? Yeah, that’s sexual assault) but Jeremy was thankfully around to stop it. Treated like dirt everywhere she goes and has no support system other than her brother (who is younger and she wants to protect in her own way). Compare her to Elena: lost her parents but her aunt Jenna was infinitely kind enough to take her and Jeremy in (meaning that Elena did not have to drop out and become the main breadwinner), from an affluent family, her brother might have gotten into drugs as a result of parents’ deaths but so far he’s sticking to the non-lethal stuff (mostly weed), and has the unconditional love and support of family and friends. Honestly, I kept on wondering why people were going all “poor Elena” like she was the only orphan in town and nobody ever did anything for Matt and Vicky. Honestly, I was waiting for someone to make a comment on the classist double standard but nobody did.

While that didn’t push me into “I love this character” territory, it did make me see Vicki in a different light and understand her more. Vicki really wasn’t that terrible until they turned her into a useless plot device in season 3 (and later in season 8) because despite her brief time she was well written enough to have an impact on the show overall, well until the show gets to the death has no meaning as well as getting turned into a vampire, but the show did that all by itself with it idiotic writers so…