I'm torn between being jealous and laughing at them. Because yes they're getting plenty of screen time and a plenty of hints towards it happening and yet...well they're going to be on separate shows next year and Klaus has his baby mama and replacement blonde in New Orleans so really they're not that much better off than we are. Well, it'd be a hell of a lot easier to vid and such, that's what having actual text rather than primarily subtext will do for you.
It doesn't surprise me that Caroline would be drawn to him though
Sometimes I think we forget how young these kids are (the time span of the show doesn't help). Caroline has always been presented as kind of insecure about herself and her potential, and Klaus is this older guy and bad boy who gives her a kind of validation she doesn't feel like she gets elsewhere. Tyler kind of does provide that, being a reformed bad boy himself (and he gives her the credit for much of that), but Klaus is that to a whole different degree.
Also I have recently been toying with meta about how Caroline's love drama follows pretty much the same path as Elena's and then they judge each other for it while not applying it to themselves. In this Klaus is her 'Damon', a love doomed to fail, and she knows is doomed to fail, but kind of eventually has to get in it to be able to get past it (that's what I'm telling myself about E/D to help me stomach it). This ignores the fact that Damon kind of already is Caroline's 'Damon'; but they don't quite serve the same function either.
And yeah it sucks because that friendship gets ignored and the parallels only exist because the writers keep going with the same tropes, but it's something to ponder during the hiatus.
Re: plot holes large enough to fit a Buick
I'm torn between being jealous and laughing at them. Because yes they're getting plenty of screen time and a plenty of hints towards it happening and yet...well they're going to be on separate shows next year and Klaus has his baby mama and replacement blonde in New Orleans so really they're not that much better off than we are. Well, it'd be a hell of a lot easier to vid and such, that's what having actual text rather than primarily subtext will do for you.
It doesn't surprise me that Caroline would be drawn to him though
Sometimes I think we forget how young these kids are (the time span of the show doesn't help). Caroline has always been presented as kind of insecure about herself and her potential, and Klaus is this older guy and bad boy who gives her a kind of validation she doesn't feel like she gets elsewhere. Tyler kind of does provide that, being a reformed bad boy himself (and he gives her the credit for much of that), but Klaus is that to a whole different degree.
Also I have recently been toying with meta about how Caroline's love drama follows pretty much the same path as Elena's and then they judge each other for it while not applying it to themselves. In this Klaus is her 'Damon', a love doomed to fail, and she knows is doomed to fail, but kind of eventually has to get in it to be able to get past it (that's what I'm telling myself about E/D to help me stomach it). This ignores the fact that Damon kind of already is Caroline's 'Damon'; but they don't quite serve the same function either.
And yeah it sucks because that friendship gets ignored and the parallels only exist because the writers keep going with the same tropes, but it's something to ponder during the hiatus.