It totally is. The writer had signed a shitty contract that gave the publishers all the rights so they could literally just take her books from her if they didn't like what she was doing with them.

Literally everyone else got to at least try having a romance with the people they were partnered with in the books. Except Bonnie. Bonnie got NONE of her book love interests at all. She didn't so much as get to kiss the person deemed her soulmate in the source material. It's a massive problem.

Well that would make sense. I mean, we did see a literal army of dead Bennett witches, most of whom died in fiery murders.

And in both times things got out of hand because he caught wanderlust and went on to start a handful of other failed shows and it was a struggle to get them on track.

I met my best friend in a local bookstore that serves drinks. That can be a job! With the Republican tax cuts Virginia is sure to have with its library system that could be a great way to get some revenue to keep the doors open. #dystopianVA

It became a full on romance in the books and was meant to be OTP for those characters, but the popularity of Delena in the show caused them to fire the writer and replace her with a ghost writer. The original writer went on and self published the stories continuing with Bamon/Stelena, though.

The same way Katherine manipulated a mind reader into letting her take over after hid death that she was tricking him into setting into place. While being able to see everything she is currently thinking and everything she had ever done before to get in hell. Plot holes.

We have literally never seen Damon as a human or a vampire have an interest in anything other than killing people, reading books and having the sex.

"You have a couple years until you guys get that divorce I warned you about because you are an alcoholic with no life skills or formal education and will have an ensuing mental breakdown after being cured."

And now hell is gone and there is…Peace? So no matter what you do if you have someone willing to murder for you you can find a way to get whatever flavor of afterlife you want. All you need is a witch, a spell and a willingness to murder whomever wanders past you.

She can show up as Tatia if she wants to. All the doppelgangers are essentially the same person. Different mannerisms and personalities but all the deeper stuff is the same.

But I actually don't think that was it. I think "finding peace" or whatever is what they were inexplicably all allowed to do, completely undercutting how they had just told us that they would need to work for it, and also making the Bonnie's dimension thing just an excuse to have Enzo pop up on her whenever she's…

That army of dead residents of that town attests to that. The choice to have these women, most of whom were literally murdered by the shitty racist white people in that town finally all band together to…save the descendents of their murderers? It was a great optic to see them all together, then you think about the…

It was a super irritating decision to say the hell with redemption, we'll just murder all the consequences. If we kill satan and explode hell it's like we died decent people.

Caroline didn't try to help Stefan and she had just married his ass the day before. I also only cared for the Bennett and Donovan stuff. I wanted Damon to get his chance to take Katherine to hell and the silliness with Stefan curing him and deciding to die just teed me off.

The actress that plays her would never agree to it. Bonnie's character was dogged and sidelined over the entire show. And she never got her canon book romance with Damon. And we know why and she does too. She's not taking another chance at such second class treatment.

If she went to TO she would be basically locked in a cupboard for fear that one of his enemies would murder her relatively powerless ass to get at Klaus. Like they did Cami.

And both leads were constantly sighing in her general direction and Damon had taken on a monk-like chastity. WAtching two whole seasons of the dudes waiting for her while Stefan was kinda half ass interested in Caroline at best was a damn shame.

Julie said that but I don't believe it. They had so much dialogue about kids I think they always wanted to have kids on the show and Caroline was the best choice. They weren't going to do it for Bonnie because she was barely even allowed to have a boyfriend and she never got plotlines about herself, she just hopped…

That's what made it so much worst, I think. They didn't just put the characters together after they broke up, they had them be the most explicitly physical relationship on the show.