TVD - 4x13 - "Into the Wild" or "Oh Look, A Cave"
Not quite sure what I think about this episode. Liked parts of it-bet you can’t guess which ones, lol-but spent a lot of other parts going: “Why are we still in a cave? Why does no one seem to really care that Jeremy has been kidnapped by the First Slayer? Is the name of this island actually Exposition Island? Did Bonnie skip the day where everyone ( Read more... )
I just cannot get over how far Elena has come -- from “I don’t know what I want” with Matt and “I can be with you forever, if I want” with Stefan - to BASICALLY PROPOSING TO DAMON SALVATORE. LIKE. LMAO. And the thing is that she’s using it to win the fight but she’s also deadly serious. She’s laying it all out on the table: for better or worse, he is it for her.
Oh God, I can't either! I am boggled. When I think about it for too long I have to lie down. HOW IS THIS EVEN REAL? I also can't deal with Damon's face through the whole thing where for a second you can see that he really, really wants to consider it.
For real though, I think Elena likes throwing down gauntlets for herself as much as she likes throwing them down for other people. If Damon had said okay, let's do this thing!, I think a small part of her would have been like O_O but then she would have shaken it off and committed to backing up her own words, 100%. Once she decides how she is going to care about you, there is no going back for her. Ever.
I think this would clear up a lot of things - namely, the fact that Elena continued to choose Stefan out of sheer obligation and not because it’s what she really wanted. I feel like this is the main thing Damon (… and half of fandom) just does not get. It isn't him right now, it’s been him for a long time.
AMEN. Seriously. I almost want this scene more for fandom purposes, because if I have to read one more post along the lines of "If all of Elena's feelings are magnified, she should still love Stefan more because she loved him more as a human since she chose him" I will scream. But it is starting to feel somewhat contrived for them to keep having this argument, and not to have Elena admit to loving him pre-vampire as *proof* considering how much she wants to prove it. He might not believe her, but it's still weird that idea is not in her toolbox.
Seriously, I’ve been talking about this with Marta for weeks now. Obsessed with the idea of Elena and Damon’s friendship falling apart because he (along with everybody else) refused to put his faith in her stated feelings. For someone like Elena it must feel like he’s effectively abandoned her.
This is the one that I hope they go with, I do, I do! As much as it will make me twitchy, I think it makes more sense for the characters, honestly, and I'd just like to see Elena graduate single. There's that thing Plec said before the season aired about it being the time for the characters to consider if they should still be with their high school boyfriend ... which at the time I construed as Stefan, but I also wasn't expecting D/E to be together in any sense so soon this season. Now I'm thinking she means both Salvatores.
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