Catch VD! Got Wood? Compulsion Brings Compassion, Yeah?

[angryzen]

The purpose of this post is to rant about recent Damon spoilers, so this will be...spoilery. You can read the interview, and awesome comments here: meganbmoore.livejournal.com/1263279.html

Thanks ladygawain!

First I want to talk about those new promotional ads. *Sigh* For the past two days, I've been shaking my head at the CW. The first ad that came out was

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Re: continued...

[angryzen]

I completely agree with what you said, but I think that can be separate from learning his lesson. What you talk about is a type of personality flaw/self-esteem damage that he's got going on. It's not really a lesson for him to learn so much as something he needs to work through and get over. That's why my opinion is that this Elena thing is him trying to make it right with Katherine. A more emotionally healthy person would want nothing to do with Katherine or anyone who looks at her, romantically-speaking, but Damon has moved on to Elena with no problems. He doesn't even think it's weird that he has. Which is why I say Elena's the true rebound and not Rose.

When I wrote lessons, I meant things that had nothing to do with character flaws, like thinking twice about antagonizing people when it went so bad the first two times. In the case of Andy, I don't understand why he needs her for his man pain when he didn't need a droid for his heartbreak over Katherine which was worst than Elena not knowing he loves her, imo. Lesson is the wrong word, but I'm having a hard time substituting another one (and I'm tired as heck). I guess what I meant to say is that it feels like a step backwards. Damon compelled Caroline to be his toy. Then he moved to compelling sorority girls and drinking (and most likely sleeping with them) and then letting them go. But now we're back to him compelling a woman for a long period of time, except it makes less sense this time because he isn't bored and looking for a thrill, he isn't enjoying being a vamp, and we're actually supposed to feel sorry for him and ignore the woman this time around.

They're trying to tell us that not being able to let Elena knows he loves her hurts him more than anything Katherine ever did, and I'm just not buying it. Whatever happened to him threatening to explode? That never really went anywhere.