TVD 3x14: Dangerous Liaisons, Or the Episode Recap That Turned into a Giant D/E Meta Thing
I made the huge mistake of getting caught up in all the spoiler hubbub before this ep aired, all of which was touting what a shipper clusterfuck it would be, and how anyone with, ahem, D/E sympathies were gonna experience what amounted to an emotional neck-snapping. I sat at my desk, reading article after article and working myself into a tizzy of
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YESSSSSSS. Although I don't feel like it was entirely conscious or deliberate manipulation on his part, and so it makes me feel sad that the first time he's genuinely said that to someone, in the present tense, in HOW MANY YEARS MUST IT HAVE BEEN? and he gets the absolute worst response. . . I need a bag to cry into now. No one look at me.
Seriously, I saw some people arguing that Damon wasn't really being that self-destructive at the end there, and I can agree in a technical sense, but on a ~psychological level? He is, absolutely. Like, he chose Rebekah at least in part because it's a betrayal of Elena.
Oh yeah, no one will convince me that he didn't choose Rebekah because it was the most symbolic tearing apart of their little unnamed relationship that he could find. Have been reading all the post-episode Plec interviews where she says that they wanted his reaction to be in character but also a moment of growth, because he didn't take out his anger on an innocent person but is directly lashing out at Elena. I'm like . . . this is our BETTER THING? HAHAHAHAHAHA *Dies of perverse wonderfulness*
I imagine it will be something like "I have feelings for you but I don't want to be with you." IT WILL BE AWESOME?
This is what I have come to hope for, so much that if it doesn't happen I will probably be disconsolate. I sort of feel like we might even get a (dubious) "I love you" from Elena, but it will be followed by "I can never be with you."
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