The Vampire Diaries

[lea_hazel]

Cable is running the second season of The Vampire Diaries, I caught a few episodes, and I ended up quite liking it. I'm thinking of watching from the start instead of relying on the TV, which only provides one episode a week (an utterly unacceptable rate at which to watch TV, I'm sure you'll agree). Then I remembered some people saying the beginning of the show was weak and it took a while to hit its stride.

So I am turning to the infallible wisdom of the internet: Should I watch from the beginning, skip straight to season 2, or just watch a select few episodes of season 1?

ETA: Less than five minutes into the first episode: please stop hitting people with cars.

Comments

[ex_pippin880]

I've been told it picks up during the first season, around episode 4 or 5?

[lea_hazel]

Ooh I hope so because the pilot is pretty crap.

[meganbmoore]

I prefer the first season. A lot.

Actually, the first half of season 1 the most. Cheesy? Oh yeah. But women talked then and had things going on, and it's the only time the show even pretended that it didn't think the sadistic serial rapist was a poor abused woobie who is always wronged because people (intelligently) tend to prefer his brother.

[lea_hazel]

I see what you mean.