High highs and low lows! Fadzai and Sandile claw through the dark era of The Vampire Diaries' fallen angel, Stefan Salvatore.

One of the lead characters of The Vampire Diaries, Stefan returns to Mystic Falls at the beginning of the first season and encounters Elena Gilbert, with whom he begins a passionate romance despite his secret vampire nature. As they fall for each other, though - and the town is plagued by the antics of his villainous brother, Damon - Elena discovers his true nature, and learns to accept him in his entirety. Now allied with her, and along with some friends and family, they band together against the threat of the supernatural.

Over the course of the series, Stefan endeavours to protect his town and loved ones, maintain his relationship with his brother in spite of his antics, and battle against his troubles with human blood. Though he goes through a few periods of being off the rails, and loses a few people from his life along the way, he always returns to trying to be better, and finding humanity in those around him. As such, Stefan ends off as one of the better vampires by the show's conclusion.

(This episode focuses on Stefan in seasons 3 and 4.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of addiction, emotional abuse, euthanasia, gore, mass murder, mental coercion and manipulation, physical abuse, racism, serial killing, sexual abuse, assault and related victim blaming, and suicide and suicidal ideation.

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Fadzai and Sandile put on their shining armour with the knight of The Vampire Diaries, Stefan Salvatore.

One of the lead characters of The Vampire Diaries, Stefan returns to Mystic Falls at the beginning of the first season and encounters Elena Gilbert, with whom he begins a passionate romance despite his secret vampire nature. As they fall for each other, though - and the town is plagued by the antics of his villainous brother, Damon - Elena discovers his true nature, and learns to accept him in his entirety. Now allied with her, and along with some friends and family, they band together against the threat of the supernatural.

Over the course of the series, Stefan endeavours to protect his town and loved ones, maintain his relationship with his brother in spite of his antics, and battle against his troubles with human blood. Though he goes through a few periods of being off the rails, and loses a few people from his life along the way, he always returns to trying to be better, and finding humanity in those around him. As such, Stefan ends off as one of the better vampires by the show's conclusion.

(This episode focuses on Stefan in seasons 1 and 2.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of addiction, emotional abuse, mental coercion and manipulation, physical abuse, racism, sexual abuse, assault and related victim blaming, and suicide and suicidal ideation..

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Spin-off! Your hosts talk about the struggles of CW's Arrow in its later seasons, the very many supernatural love triangles of the 2000s and 2010s, and how TV/movie writers just cannot capture how young people text. Also: the origins of Buffy's Angel, and a tangent about English linguistics.

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of ephebophilia (and pedophilia), and toxic relationships.

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Chapters:

(00:05) - Ricardo Diaz aka Richard Dragon, of Arrow S6

(01:30) - Arrow's tone vs the greater Arrowverse

(03:10) - The untimely death of Laurel Lance

(04:45) - Vampire love triangles (but mostly Twilight)

(06:00) - Edward Cullen is a terrible partner, actually

(07:30) - Jacob Black: a character assassination?

(08:50) - Angel's origins in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

(11:11) - Teen text speech in TV and movies

(12:17) - Gambling, I guess? Are we that hard up on tangents?

(14:10) - Why do Americans speak the way they do?