(FYI: If you haven't seen the full season of The Secret Circle, there are spoilers in this post!)
On Thursday night, I stayed up late, glued to the finales of The Vampire Diaries (one of my favorite shows) and The Secret Circle (not as great as TVD but entertaining nonetheless). I knew The Secret Circle was a bubble show, but out of all the cancellations in the past few days, this is probably the one I was least expecting. I had resigned myself to Nikita getting cancelled (but happily, it was renewed), as well as two other CW shows I had given up on over the course of the season - Ringer (which was cancelled) and Hart of Dixie (which I was surprised had been renewed but I guess I hadn't paid much attention to the rumors and ratings lately). I guess if you were to give me a choice between Nikita and The Secret Circle, I would probably choose Nikita (despite being 4 or so episodes behind right now), so I can see where the CW was coming from.
The Secret Circle had a lot of promise, especially for the CW's usual audience. I like shows that center around high school and magic so, even though I haven't read the book(s?), I knew I was going to watch this. I also thought, since it came from the same team as TVD, that it would have the same awesomeness that TVD does. I still think it could have, but it just didn't match up to TVD.
For example, pacing of the story. TVD moves really, really quickly. Things that would be season finales on other shows happen in the middle of the season and not even during sweeps. You never know who is going to die (or be brought back to life) or face some other supernatural circumstance. The Secret Circle was slow. Maybe part of that was due to them being new to witchcraft and maybe they thought it would be a good idea to show their journey. But after watching TVD, the Secret Circle just seemed to crawl. Once they bound their circle, they didn't do much magic at all. I wanted to watch people do magic! Talking about magic and spells isn't anything like seeing them done. In the finale, they unbound the circle, got their individual powers back, and it was fantastic. I feel like if this had happened at midseason, maybe things would have been different.
From the finale, it looks like the direction they were going to head in was filled with a lot of dark magic and people discovering what they could do individually with their powers. I think that would have been really interesting and just wish that had happened earlier. We could have skipped over the whole drug dealing and creepy guy with girlfriend in a coma part and maybe we would have gotten here sooner. I'm sad that we won't be able to see the directions the characters are going in, since, other than the hilarious foaming jellyfish that turned into a crystal skull, the finale was actually pretty good and had potential.
I guess we'll find out on Thursday what the CW is going to pair with the Vampire Diaries next season. Maybe Cult so that Alaric stays close to his Mystic Falls pals?
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