TVD - 4x15 "Stand By Me" - she's a mad man with a mad plan, and she's standing outside the door
I'm still all feelings and no brain when it comes to this episode, so I should probably have held off on writing this until after the Perspective Fairy came to bop me on the head, but I do stupid things sometimes. Also, it is Saturday and the other thing I have to do today is cleaning my house so the people coming over tomorrow for Oscar Party fun-
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Same.
But Elena frames it as "Does that make me a bad person?" She really doesn't know. Her entire good/bad dichotomy has been upended, and who knows when she's going to have time to sift through the ashes and piece it back together.
Good point. I think it’s also that one of her principles is to do anything for the people she herself loves, so leaving Jeremy to just be DEAD FOR REAL would feel like a betrayal of him.
1098917890781% word to both Salvatores being literally the worst about Elena this episode. Which is why I could vomit blood at all the posts I’m seeing about how one or either (usually Damon because this fandom cannot get off his pasty dick) did the ~right and ~noble thing by her as opposed to basically being the abusive pieces of shit that they are. Good fucking grief.
But I thought it was interesting that he was so hesitant to touch or engage with Elena through any of this, and I think that's because he felt like it was no longer his "role" because he is just a "friend" and Damon is ... whatever Damon is to Elena now. And I'm not saying that as a dig to Stefan, I'm honestly not, because weirdly I do think a part of him is trying to respect his brother's new relationship with Elena even as he repeatedly undermines it by continuing to refer to it as just the sire bond.
Yeah. It’s such a contrast to the way Stefan would essentially exploit Elena’s emotional vulnerability in the past to reinforce his role as her protector/saviour. But since he has literally no idea how to be her friend sans a romantic script, he resigns himself to being basically useless and defers to her new beau whom he apparently sees as having the power to dictate whatever she does. Which, really, sums up Stefan’s view of women pretty neatly.
Stefan is not a wunderkind of *selflessness.* He's just highly desirous of that ideal and really good at framing his own desires as such, something that I think the show is finally making him acknowledge in very smart ways, like with the admission that he desires the cure even if he and Elena aren't together.
Praise.
I read a recap that described them as bad cop/worse cop AND I NEED MORE OF THAT IN MY LIFE.
Hahahahaha A+.
I loved Caroline sneaking away to give voice mail updates to a non-responsive Tyler. She's still smarting from the break-up and needs someone to support her, but it pales to what Elena's going through so it has to be in the spare bedrooms and outside and ugh. There was something really right about that, and respectful of the fact that these supporting characters have their own lives going on in the background.
So much yes. People who doubt Julie Plec’s writing abilities after this episode need to take several steps back.
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Very true. Especially interesting considering it's so close on the heels of her encouraging alive Jeremy to kill Kol's line of vampires. Obvo, I am evil and do not want her to feel any guilt for this at all--we haven't even gotten any indication that she does feel guilt--but destroying the veil would also rectify this past ~wrong but she doesn't care, which I think is new. Jeremy being dead has made something snap, and now we've transitioned to a don't-look-back, what's-done-is-done (aka very Damon-like) Elena, because trying to sort right from wrong anymore is just too damn confusing. Which is cool. Which is terrifying.
But since he has literally no idea how to be her friend sans a romantic script, he resigns himself to being basically useless and defers to her new beau whom he apparently sees as having the power to dictate whatever she does. Which, really, sums up Stefan’s view of women pretty neatly.
The brother dynamic in this episode is so fucking weird. I love it, but am also left going OH DEAR GOD, ALL YOU HAVE NOW ARE TWO TWIN DUMBASSES. I AM SO SORRY, PEANUT. Until they figure out their new roles, they are going to keep prompting one another into the worst possible behavior. Stefan needs to admit that there is a universe in which Damon can help Elena as Damon, and Damon needs to suck it up and stop looking at his weirdo brother--who already did his own part in tanking a relationship with Elena--for ~boyfriend tips.
We're doomed.
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