'Lost Girls' - The Vampire Diaries, Season One

The Vampire Diaries

Season One

Episode Six

'Lost Girls' - 3.0

Of the three faces here; one can't act, another's Paul Wesley and one's a statue. 

Apart from talking about what actually occurred in the episode, I'm really at a loss as to what to talk about here. It gets that way with nearly all the Vampire Diaries episodes so far. They are actually pretty bad, especially for the first part of the first season. While many would argue that a show is only just finding its feet, I argue it is just finding its audience. Of all times, the first few episodes are what should hook the viewers in and keep them captivated. Why did this show start so awful?

So, why is 'Lost Girls' just no good? I mean it is not the worst the show has given us - hello, Pilot episode - but it definitely a failed attempt to be dramatic and eventful. Yes, Elena definitively discovers the existence of vampires. Yes, Vicki Donovan is killed and turned by Damon. I'll admit, it is two big events for two characters, but what about the others? Tyler, Caroline and Bonnie don't even make an appearance, instead we get to see Nina Dobrev play two roles surprisingly badly while Stefan attempts to explain why vampires aren't all evil and Damon runs through the supporting cast. Not even likable supporting cast members either! He just kills the ones we don't like - now that's an emotional hit, seeing Logan Fell get sucked dry. You know, I'll weep into my pillow over this. Notice sarcasm?

Damon, who actually does some shit, doesn't get any better. He just whines about Stefan having his ring and then spends a good part of the episode dancing half-naked with Vicki - pre-vampirism. I'm sure that sequence was supposed to be funny, but it wasn't. I didn't want to see Ian Somerhalder's chest thrown at me for like five minutes,  I'm sure girls would, but not me. Screw you, Somerhalder. I don't like you.

The death of Vicki occurs at the end of the dance number, and I'll admit that it was... pleasurable? I don't know, I enjoyed that bit, even if the preceding dialogue cemented Vicki's 'death', entirely ridding her subsequent 'death' of any shock value. I mean, I don't like Vicki, she's a depressing, slutty junkie who needs to be removed as soon as possible, but her transition could spell good things for the show as a whole, as now the weak down-trodden girl can take some vampire vengeance. Hoorah! Stake Damon, Vicki. Do it, you know you want to.

So, what else happened? Oh yeah, Elena moaned about Stefan being a vampire, acting all scared and disturbed, but we all know she'll get over it, and it looks like so does Nina Dobrev. She was taking Elena's shock realising about as seriously as you take Barberella. There was so little emotion going on back there, I had trouble caring one iota about her. Although, I have to give her some props for the break up scene with Stefan at the end of the episode, it was well acted and her tears look genuine, though I can't let it make up for the shit she had trodden through the episode earlier. You know what else she did? Entirely ruined Katherine's big introduction! We spend the last five episodes building up Katherine as this manipulative force to be reckoned with, and sure she's a vampire which is kind of a shock, but Dobrev failed on every account to bring her to life. Ha, pun. Anyway, I know that she will improve as the vampire vixen, but in 'Lost Girls' she was pretty horrid.

Anything else? No, not really. Nothing worth mentioning at all. Screw you Vampire Diaries. GET GOOD ALREADY.