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MH: FCA review type thing.
Let's talk FCA, shall we? I think we shall. If you haven't seen it, I would look away because, um, spoilers. Unless you're into that or you know that I tend to be pretty vague anyway so take your chances?
I don't get why FCA didn't get a big fandom explosion when it came out. I went through the Frights Camera Action tag on tumblr and it was mostly doll pics and a few reviews of the movie that I skimmed.
I found that most people either really liked the movie or found it kinda meh. Which is good that it's not all out hate, right?
Because, you guys, I think this is actually my favorite of the bunch. Which is funny because Lagoona is rarely in it and Abbey's in it even less, and Ghoulia should sue Mattel for sending her down a red carpet in her Scaris outfit. Seriously, Mattel. I get not wanting to anger people by using her DotD outfit (since that doll is impossible to find so maybe instead of re-releasing W1 a thousand times you should re-release DotD2!) but you coulda used her DDG or even her GNO outfit. Both are more dressy than her Scaris outfit, k?
All that aside, we begin with some super awesome movie posters.
Frankie starts us off even though she is missing for most of the movie. For which I say thank you, dollie overlords because while I like Frankie, it's really easy to get sick of her. This poster, however, is gorgeous.
In no particular order we also had ones for (not pictured) Cleo, Clawdeen, Robecca, annnd:
Ghoulia!
Hoodude!
And Draculaura. ♥
I see you trying to weasel your way into the movie, Frankie, but it won't work. Not even with this super awesome homage to The Craft. (Eeeeeee!)
Okay, moving on and as quickly as possible: we open in a movie theater where we watch Veronica Von Vamp acting badly in what I can only assume is meant to be another play on Twilight, sort of. Only Draculaura is freaking out because the movie is about the vampire queen and vampire rules that don't exist and it turns out that Lala is one of those people who vents to the movie screen and ruins movies for everyone else.
Just about everyone in MH is there in the theater and they don't take kindly to shelling out what is likely $20 (the cost of a MH doll, Lala!) only to have the vampire expert harsh their squee over Edweird and that other guy.
Draculaura, I love you so much in this movie, but the first time people tell you to hush, you hush!
After the movie, Howleen tells Lala she owes her a movie (you do!) and everyone else falls in line, basically proving how HUGE the MH lineup is these days. They ask about the real vampire queen and Draculaura tells them a little story about how things really worked at the vampire court, 400 years ago before she had to uh, flee the country.
They kid around about how she could be the next vampire queen and Draculaura is totally adorable when Frankie asks whether she wants a gold or diamond crown. Diamonds because they go with everything! But when the group is back within the halls of MH and still chattering about Lala being queen, Toralei and Gory begin taunting Lala about beinga virgin who can't drive a nobody vampire who's never done anything, and totally lacking in vampire powers. Oh, Draculaura. You're so cute that I can overlook all the horrible soon to be dated slang coming outta your mouth. Her friends stand up for her and Cleo offers to plague someone and it's all very cute.
I think it's time to cut to our real bad guy, Lord Stoker. Turns out he's been ruling over vampire-kind for 400 years and the vampire court is just about tired of his obvious lack of looking for the real queen of the vampires. Not wanting to be introduced to daylight, he lies and says he totally found the queen and uh, her coronation is next week. Didn't you get the invites? Dammit, Ygor, what do I pay you for?
Ygor, he who keeps his tiny brain in a little jar and yes that's actually a thing and I did laugh til I coughed up a lung, asks wtf because you totally lost the vampire's heart like, four centuries ag-ouch! I mean yeah, yeah, master. Okay, actually he offers the coronation bit but I had a bit gong up there, okay? In either case, Stoker ain't pleased at having to find a queen.
Still, he's given the matter a little thought over the centuries and has decided what he needs is someone meek and powerless to be his puppet while he rules behind the scenes.
Gosh. I wonder who he's going to choose...
Considering Dracula in this world is meant to be a bit of a rebel and has actually said, to his daughter, that traditions change, this shows incredible lack of foresight on Stoker's part. Seriously, dude, you're going to muck this up so badly even Widget knows it's coming and he's one of those people who asks, "What happens now? Now? Now?" throughout a movie he knows no one else has seen yet.
Back to MH where Torelai and Gory team up to throw spitballs at poor Draculaura. She flips out and then Bloodgood calls her down to her office where... Stoker is waiting. Congrats on being royalty, Draculaura!
Lala is shocked, as you would be, and then her friends appear, ready to have Gory disciplined for bullying when the queen bomb is dropped and Cleo's like, FINALLY. Someone appreciates me, wait, you mean this is for Lala? Well, FINALLY, some more royalty around here. She's adaptable, really. I'm impressed.
Given that Ygor promised a queen's coronation within a week, Stoker whisks Draculaura back to Transylvania with some of her ghoulfriends. Abbey, Venus, and Spectra aren't around to beg off, while Lagoona, Frankie, and Ghoulia claim they have a Clawculus project due. I'm sorry, but isn't Clawculus just a play on Calculus? Are there really projects for that? No? Well, then, carry on.
This leaves Robecca, Clawdeen, and Cleo to soldier on. Hoodude gets whiff that Draculaura is really a queen and he follows because, well, we need comedic relief and also he's adorable.
Remember when I said Stoker was going to mess this up in no time flat? Well, after the montage of the castle, Stoker calls Lala in for a little chat about being queen, but he's late for his own meeting. Lala is fiddling around with his desk and finds the Vampire's Heart. Only it won't light up at her touch, which is weird because that's how queens are identified. The heart glows under their touch and their touch alone.
Stoker appears and is cheesed off that she's touching his stuff when Ygor told her not to and is so flustered that when Lala asks what's up with the heart he says, "No worries, I'll change the batteries and...crap." (Widget adored the battery thing, btw.)
Draculaura realizes it's a fake so she's a fake queen and demands some answers. Stoker tries the whole, "Don't you want to make a difference? Don't you want to BE somebody?" angle and Draculaura considers it, but you can tell she's not completely sold. Still, the vampires DO need a queen so maybe...
And like the idiot he is, Stoker's first demand is that DracuQueen command all vampires to stop associating with other monsters.
You COMPLETE IMBECILE. I just... really? The queen who brought along three friends (Hoodude stowed away so she doesn't know about him yet) and not a one of them is a vampire is not the person you choose to lead with vampire purity as your platform. DUDE. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.
Draculaura takes this as her cue to GTFO and runs back to her room where her friends appear and wonder why the newbie queen is crying. She explains that she's a fake and Stoker is just trying to use her.
Cleo points out that fake royalty is better than no royalty and Clawdeen agrees that maybe it won't be so bad since the vampires DO need a queen and Draculaura would be a good one.
Draculaura realizes she buried the lead and explains his first dastardly plan (vampire supremacy!) and like that the ghouls realize this is not the place to be. Draculaura realizes that maybe if she finds the REAL queen, that will be her one big moment. Robecca, who is included in this lineup because she has very real feelings about this whole thing, agrees. They search for clues with Hoodude's help and I fall in love with Draculaura as she keeps Stoker occupied.
She's. So. Cute!
They realize that Elissabat, Draculaura's "childhood" friend, stole the heart when she learned she was the next vampire queen only her uncle, Stoker, was obviously going to use her for nefarious plots (see supremacy) so she ran away, leaving notes behind for Dracula.
Considering all her notes were left exactly where she placed them, I'm assuming that shortly after Elissabat ran away, Dracula and his family were run out of town before he could locate any of the notes. Or else he just never thought to look behind his portrait for a note from a vamp teen. Whichever.
They head off to Londoom, prompting Widget to point out a) it's London and b) why is it ALWAYS a full moon in MH-ville?
Robecca, proving that the heroines can be as dumb as the villains, leaves a book opened to a spread on Londoom, thus making it super obvious where they've gone. Ygor is sent after them.
Clawdia shows up and there's some crown jewel heist and some Shakespoof of some sort and we find that Elissabat has run off to New Gorleans. Clawdia accompanies her little sister and friends to the big uneasy where he find a ghost ship and Honey Swamp who is clearly going to be Operetta's BFF.
I should point out that of the four new characters introduced as dolls for this line, Honey doesn't sport a fang ANYWHERE in the movie. Everyone else is fangfilled, so I'm not sure why the doll needed a mouth full of sharp teeth.
Ygor crashes the ghost ship and we find out that Honey shoots in serious HD and that Robecca can read gibberish as well as Clawdeen. (the notes aren't even trying to be written in anything remotely resembling English) Turns out Elissabat handed the heart over to someone she and Dracula both trust. Hexiciah Steam's hand is shown but that's about it, and the ghouls don't know that because Scarah isn't here to pick up spare thoughts from paper or something. Dunno.
Creepy, but gorgeous.
Clawdia's off on a tangent about literary devices when Robecca points to one of the posters Hoodude's been making kissy faces at all movie long.
Might the person Elissabat trusted be Veronica Von Vamp, legendary actress? Clawdia's unimpressed with the obvious nature of the poster but she and Honey are totally down with a trip to Hauntlywood.
It's about this time I remember I've been ignoring the C or D plot. Toralei and Howleen have torn the school in two over who's cuter, Edweird or the other guy from the Vampire Monarchy movies. Toralei's in Camp Edweird (so's Lagoona) and Howleen's gunning for the other guy whose name I didn't catch because, as Twlya points out repeatedly, it's not that important.
Still, the school needs something to obsess over and so Cute Court is called into session so that T and H can make their cases before a very bored Twyla. When Twyla asks the science behind what's hotter, chin or dimples (dimples, Twyla, almost always dimples) Ghoulia takes her glasses off and tries not to roll her eyes skyward and fails. She then notices something the boys, particularly Gil, realized ages ago. There's almost no difference at all aside from hair color.
SPOILER.
They're the same dude! Shocking, right?
Wydowna's quick to adopt the "twice as much to love!" philosophy and Ghoulia realizes that Elissabat and Veronica Von Vamp are the same person.
Shocking, right?
Only it takes everyone else forever to realize this, so we head back to Hauntlywood where there's a montage set to some insipid song and eventually we run into Viperine who is adorable but in this thing for a max of five minutes. We also run into the unholy lovechild of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Allen Poe (I'm not kidding in the slightest) as a director who needs to be wound up and as we crisscross the backlot, we lose our newbies. Clawdia gets snatched up by Scary Stone, a screenwriter whose doll I would maim for:
So. Pretty!
Honey winds up shooting underwater scenes for a swamp monster flick, and Viperine appears again to get them into Veronica's trailer.
Widget spent the entire time shrieking, "SHE'S ELISSABAT!" as Draculaura implores her to help them find the vampire's heart and Elissabat because the vampires need their queen annnnnnnnnnnnd yeah. Veronica says no and heads back to set, with the ghouls defeated. They run into Ygor and Stoker on set and he tries to kidnap Draculaura (because a kidnapping on a hot set while film is rolling is a great idea, dude. Witnesses and on film!) before Veronica kicks him off set and eventually comes clean about being Elissabat just before Ghoulia can spill the beans. (How, exactly, did she and Operetta make it to Hauntlywood?)
Big reveal time! Turns out that the vampire's heart was inside Robecca this whole time! It's why she's been able to tell when they're heading in the right direction; the heart has been leading them back to Elissabat the whole time.
Everyone's invited to the coronation, red carpet looks for everyone but Ghoulia and maybe Frankie! Seriously, Robecca gets a black carpet outfit that is to die for (I tried to resist) but Operetta is the doll with the exclusive? I don't understand.
Anyway, Draculaura finally gets her vampire powers when Elissabat is crowned queen and the credits roll annnnnnnd...
We never get a good explanation for why Elissabat looks exactly like Draculaura in doll form. None. There's no princess and the pauper switch going on, there's absolutely no reason for them to have not given Elissabat her own mold at all. They just got lazy.
But it's a fun ride and Draculaura is adorable in it. "Being a diva is Cleo's super power." Seriously, what's not to love about that?
It's a run romp that'll teach you what not to do when you are in the position of being an evil overlord or running from a tyrant. The mockery of who's cuter is always fun and I kinda adored Gil, Clawd, and Deuce being baffled by the whole feud.
Most of all, Draculaura is given a chance to shine. She's presented with a way, very temporarily, to get all she thinks she wants, and the thing is, even before she knows it would cost her everything she holds dear, she's already walking away because it's not right, it's not real, and it's not who she is. She's got one foot out the door even before Stoker makes a complete mess of things with the whole vampire supremacy thing, and it's pretty obvious that she wasn't ready to compromise herself just to be special.
Contrast that with Elissabat who had every right to run away at first but eventually should have realized that in doing so, she'd deprived her people of something very important, and even once she realized that, it still took her worst nightmare being inflicted on an old friend to make her really consider growing the hell up and assuming her destiny. And even then you could tell she was looking for an out, even though it's pretty likely she'd be given a lot of freedom with the whole vampire queen deal. People can't have their VM movies without her.
You stay awesome, Draculaura.
No. Seriously. Stay awesome. Don't let them downgrade your characterization again.
I don't get why FCA didn't get a big fandom explosion when it came out. I went through the Frights Camera Action tag on tumblr and it was mostly doll pics and a few reviews of the movie that I skimmed.
I found that most people either really liked the movie or found it kinda meh. Which is good that it's not all out hate, right?
Because, you guys, I think this is actually my favorite of the bunch. Which is funny because Lagoona is rarely in it and Abbey's in it even less, and Ghoulia should sue Mattel for sending her down a red carpet in her Scaris outfit. Seriously, Mattel. I get not wanting to anger people by using her DotD outfit (since that doll is impossible to find so maybe instead of re-releasing W1 a thousand times you should re-release DotD2!) but you coulda used her DDG or even her GNO outfit. Both are more dressy than her Scaris outfit, k?
All that aside, we begin with some super awesome movie posters.
Frankie starts us off even though she is missing for most of the movie. For which I say thank you, dollie overlords because while I like Frankie, it's really easy to get sick of her. This poster, however, is gorgeous.
In no particular order we also had ones for (not pictured) Cleo, Clawdeen, Robecca, annnd:
Ghoulia!
Hoodude!
And Draculaura. ♥
I see you trying to weasel your way into the movie, Frankie, but it won't work. Not even with this super awesome homage to The Craft. (Eeeeeee!)
Okay, moving on and as quickly as possible: we open in a movie theater where we watch Veronica Von Vamp acting badly in what I can only assume is meant to be another play on Twilight, sort of. Only Draculaura is freaking out because the movie is about the vampire queen and vampire rules that don't exist and it turns out that Lala is one of those people who vents to the movie screen and ruins movies for everyone else.
Just about everyone in MH is there in the theater and they don't take kindly to shelling out what is likely $20 (the cost of a MH doll, Lala!) only to have the vampire expert harsh their squee over Edweird and that other guy.
Draculaura, I love you so much in this movie, but the first time people tell you to hush, you hush!
After the movie, Howleen tells Lala she owes her a movie (you do!) and everyone else falls in line, basically proving how HUGE the MH lineup is these days. They ask about the real vampire queen and Draculaura tells them a little story about how things really worked at the vampire court, 400 years ago before she had to uh, flee the country.
They kid around about how she could be the next vampire queen and Draculaura is totally adorable when Frankie asks whether she wants a gold or diamond crown. Diamonds because they go with everything! But when the group is back within the halls of MH and still chattering about Lala being queen, Toralei and Gory begin taunting Lala about being
I think it's time to cut to our real bad guy, Lord Stoker. Turns out he's been ruling over vampire-kind for 400 years and the vampire court is just about tired of his obvious lack of looking for the real queen of the vampires. Not wanting to be introduced to daylight, he lies and says he totally found the queen and uh, her coronation is next week. Didn't you get the invites? Dammit, Ygor, what do I pay you for?
Ygor, he who keeps his tiny brain in a little jar and yes that's actually a thing and I did laugh til I coughed up a lung, asks wtf because you totally lost the vampire's heart like, four centuries ag-ouch! I mean yeah, yeah, master. Okay, actually he offers the coronation bit but I had a bit gong up there, okay? In either case, Stoker ain't pleased at having to find a queen.
Still, he's given the matter a little thought over the centuries and has decided what he needs is someone meek and powerless to be his puppet while he rules behind the scenes.
Gosh. I wonder who he's going to choose...
Considering Dracula in this world is meant to be a bit of a rebel and has actually said, to his daughter, that traditions change, this shows incredible lack of foresight on Stoker's part. Seriously, dude, you're going to muck this up so badly even Widget knows it's coming and he's one of those people who asks, "What happens now? Now? Now?" throughout a movie he knows no one else has seen yet.
Back to MH where Torelai and Gory team up to throw spitballs at poor Draculaura. She flips out and then Bloodgood calls her down to her office where... Stoker is waiting. Congrats on being royalty, Draculaura!
Lala is shocked, as you would be, and then her friends appear, ready to have Gory disciplined for bullying when the queen bomb is dropped and Cleo's like, FINALLY. Someone appreciates me, wait, you mean this is for Lala? Well, FINALLY, some more royalty around here. She's adaptable, really. I'm impressed.
Given that Ygor promised a queen's coronation within a week, Stoker whisks Draculaura back to Transylvania with some of her ghoulfriends. Abbey, Venus, and Spectra aren't around to beg off, while Lagoona, Frankie, and Ghoulia claim they have a Clawculus project due. I'm sorry, but isn't Clawculus just a play on Calculus? Are there really projects for that? No? Well, then, carry on.
This leaves Robecca, Clawdeen, and Cleo to soldier on. Hoodude gets whiff that Draculaura is really a queen and he follows because, well, we need comedic relief and also he's adorable.
Remember when I said Stoker was going to mess this up in no time flat? Well, after the montage of the castle, Stoker calls Lala in for a little chat about being queen, but he's late for his own meeting. Lala is fiddling around with his desk and finds the Vampire's Heart. Only it won't light up at her touch, which is weird because that's how queens are identified. The heart glows under their touch and their touch alone.
Stoker appears and is cheesed off that she's touching his stuff when Ygor told her not to and is so flustered that when Lala asks what's up with the heart he says, "No worries, I'll change the batteries and...crap." (Widget adored the battery thing, btw.)
Draculaura realizes it's a fake so she's a fake queen and demands some answers. Stoker tries the whole, "Don't you want to make a difference? Don't you want to BE somebody?" angle and Draculaura considers it, but you can tell she's not completely sold. Still, the vampires DO need a queen so maybe...
And like the idiot he is, Stoker's first demand is that DracuQueen command all vampires to stop associating with other monsters.
You COMPLETE IMBECILE. I just... really? The queen who brought along three friends (Hoodude stowed away so she doesn't know about him yet) and not a one of them is a vampire is not the person you choose to lead with vampire purity as your platform. DUDE. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.
Draculaura takes this as her cue to GTFO and runs back to her room where her friends appear and wonder why the newbie queen is crying. She explains that she's a fake and Stoker is just trying to use her.
Cleo points out that fake royalty is better than no royalty and Clawdeen agrees that maybe it won't be so bad since the vampires DO need a queen and Draculaura would be a good one.
Draculaura realizes she buried the lead and explains his first dastardly plan (vampire supremacy!) and like that the ghouls realize this is not the place to be. Draculaura realizes that maybe if she finds the REAL queen, that will be her one big moment. Robecca, who is included in this lineup because she has very real feelings about this whole thing, agrees. They search for clues with Hoodude's help and I fall in love with Draculaura as she keeps Stoker occupied.
She's. So. Cute!
They realize that Elissabat, Draculaura's "childhood" friend, stole the heart when she learned she was the next vampire queen only her uncle, Stoker, was obviously going to use her for nefarious plots (see supremacy) so she ran away, leaving notes behind for Dracula.
Considering all her notes were left exactly where she placed them, I'm assuming that shortly after Elissabat ran away, Dracula and his family were run out of town before he could locate any of the notes. Or else he just never thought to look behind his portrait for a note from a vamp teen. Whichever.
They head off to Londoom, prompting Widget to point out a) it's London and b) why is it ALWAYS a full moon in MH-ville?
Robecca, proving that the heroines can be as dumb as the villains, leaves a book opened to a spread on Londoom, thus making it super obvious where they've gone. Ygor is sent after them.
Clawdia shows up and there's some crown jewel heist and some Shakespoof of some sort and we find that Elissabat has run off to New Gorleans. Clawdia accompanies her little sister and friends to the big uneasy where he find a ghost ship and Honey Swamp who is clearly going to be Operetta's BFF.
I should point out that of the four new characters introduced as dolls for this line, Honey doesn't sport a fang ANYWHERE in the movie. Everyone else is fangfilled, so I'm not sure why the doll needed a mouth full of sharp teeth.
Ygor crashes the ghost ship and we find out that Honey shoots in serious HD and that Robecca can read gibberish as well as Clawdeen. (the notes aren't even trying to be written in anything remotely resembling English) Turns out Elissabat handed the heart over to someone she and Dracula both trust. Hexiciah Steam's hand is shown but that's about it, and the ghouls don't know that because Scarah isn't here to pick up spare thoughts from paper or something. Dunno.
Creepy, but gorgeous.
Clawdia's off on a tangent about literary devices when Robecca points to one of the posters Hoodude's been making kissy faces at all movie long.
Might the person Elissabat trusted be Veronica Von Vamp, legendary actress? Clawdia's unimpressed with the obvious nature of the poster but she and Honey are totally down with a trip to Hauntlywood.
It's about this time I remember I've been ignoring the C or D plot. Toralei and Howleen have torn the school in two over who's cuter, Edweird or the other guy from the Vampire Monarchy movies. Toralei's in Camp Edweird (so's Lagoona) and Howleen's gunning for the other guy whose name I didn't catch because, as Twlya points out repeatedly, it's not that important.
Still, the school needs something to obsess over and so Cute Court is called into session so that T and H can make their cases before a very bored Twyla. When Twyla asks the science behind what's hotter, chin or dimples (dimples, Twyla, almost always dimples) Ghoulia takes her glasses off and tries not to roll her eyes skyward and fails. She then notices something the boys, particularly Gil, realized ages ago. There's almost no difference at all aside from hair color.
SPOILER.
They're the same dude! Shocking, right?
Wydowna's quick to adopt the "twice as much to love!" philosophy and Ghoulia realizes that Elissabat and Veronica Von Vamp are the same person.
Shocking, right?
Only it takes everyone else forever to realize this, so we head back to Hauntlywood where there's a montage set to some insipid song and eventually we run into Viperine who is adorable but in this thing for a max of five minutes. We also run into the unholy lovechild of Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Allen Poe (I'm not kidding in the slightest) as a director who needs to be wound up and as we crisscross the backlot, we lose our newbies. Clawdia gets snatched up by Scary Stone, a screenwriter whose doll I would maim for:
So. Pretty!
Honey winds up shooting underwater scenes for a swamp monster flick, and Viperine appears again to get them into Veronica's trailer.
Widget spent the entire time shrieking, "SHE'S ELISSABAT!" as Draculaura implores her to help them find the vampire's heart and Elissabat because the vampires need their queen annnnnnnnnnnnd yeah. Veronica says no and heads back to set, with the ghouls defeated. They run into Ygor and Stoker on set and he tries to kidnap Draculaura (because a kidnapping on a hot set while film is rolling is a great idea, dude. Witnesses and on film!) before Veronica kicks him off set and eventually comes clean about being Elissabat just before Ghoulia can spill the beans. (How, exactly, did she and Operetta make it to Hauntlywood?)
Big reveal time! Turns out that the vampire's heart was inside Robecca this whole time! It's why she's been able to tell when they're heading in the right direction; the heart has been leading them back to Elissabat the whole time.
Everyone's invited to the coronation, red carpet looks for everyone but Ghoulia and maybe Frankie! Seriously, Robecca gets a black carpet outfit that is to die for (I tried to resist) but Operetta is the doll with the exclusive? I don't understand.
Anyway, Draculaura finally gets her vampire powers when Elissabat is crowned queen and the credits roll annnnnnnd...
We never get a good explanation for why Elissabat looks exactly like Draculaura in doll form. None. There's no princess and the pauper switch going on, there's absolutely no reason for them to have not given Elissabat her own mold at all. They just got lazy.
But it's a fun ride and Draculaura is adorable in it. "Being a diva is Cleo's super power." Seriously, what's not to love about that?
It's a run romp that'll teach you what not to do when you are in the position of being an evil overlord or running from a tyrant. The mockery of who's cuter is always fun and I kinda adored Gil, Clawd, and Deuce being baffled by the whole feud.
Most of all, Draculaura is given a chance to shine. She's presented with a way, very temporarily, to get all she thinks she wants, and the thing is, even before she knows it would cost her everything she holds dear, she's already walking away because it's not right, it's not real, and it's not who she is. She's got one foot out the door even before Stoker makes a complete mess of things with the whole vampire supremacy thing, and it's pretty obvious that she wasn't ready to compromise herself just to be special.
Contrast that with Elissabat who had every right to run away at first but eventually should have realized that in doing so, she'd deprived her people of something very important, and even once she realized that, it still took her worst nightmare being inflicted on an old friend to make her really consider growing the hell up and assuming her destiny. And even then you could tell she was looking for an out, even though it's pretty likely she'd be given a lot of freedom with the whole vampire queen deal. People can't have their VM movies without her.
You stay awesome, Draculaura.
No. Seriously. Stay awesome. Don't let them downgrade your characterization again.