The Vampire Diaries (Season 1)

I almost wasn't able to keep watching this television program about a high schooler in love with a vampire.  The whole concept is getting old.  Why is it teenage girls find it so romantic to fall in love with 100 year old dead guys?  Is it the bad boy image?  What's been done before and better is really stale here and by episode five I was ready to give up.   Yet there is a mystery about Mystic Falls and the Salvatore brothers that intrigued me so I stayed with it.  The end result is that I was entertained and I am interested to check out Season 2.  I hate the CW soap opera vibe and the annoying CW music soundtrack fading in and out of scenes, but the acting is decent and the characters are becoming more developed.  Sometimes I wish they'd cast actual teenagers for these shows about teenagers, but I guess that's not something the producers have any control over.  (You can't stop an actor from aging.)  Also it would be nice if they would cast actors that looked like the teenagers I grew up with instead of casting from a modeling agency of Hollywood hotties.  But that's why these shows succeed, the audience of these shows want to fawn over beautiful people, so obviously I don't know what I'm talking about.  Still behind all the usual vampire lore and eye-rolling melodrama I must admit this could become a guilt pleasure in time.  We'll see. Grade: B.