TVD is one of the few things where I actively wish I was less attached to some of the women (primarily Bonnie and Caroline at this point) so that I wouldn'r feel compelled to watch it.

I admit, as soon as I learned Kevin Williamson was involved in Secret Circle, I started bracing myself. I'm suprised we didn't see Nick using magic to get dates. (I'll be happy if they skip the Adam/Cassie/Nick triangle altogether, TBH. It was non-intrusive in the books, but I don't trust the show with it. They can have him pine after Diana instead.) I think the fact that it isn't a vampire show will help us at least as far as rape and direct violence towards women goes, but now it's a subgenre with a tendency to punish women for wanting/using/having power, and we're already having bits about Faye being "wrong" to want to use what she has, so we'll see.

Still, even with basically opening the episode with a man toying with a woman before lighting her on fire and watching her and her house burn down, we still have a thousand times less violence towards women than TVD's pilot, and without the "he is funny and sex-ay though, isn't he?" approach to the perpetrator.