TVD - 4x17: Because the night belongs to ladies
Short reaction post, because I am not quite sure how I feel about this episode. Sort of like after I take Sudafed to help kick the monster cold I've had all week and am left lying in bed going: "My arms feel bubbly. Do I like it? Do I hate it? Do I think maybe they are birds?" (Note to self: stop taking Sudafed and hallucinating).
Will you guys judge me if I say that I am mostly bummed because I kept expecting for Damon to get his emotional ass kicked and then he didn't, really? Don't get me wrong, I am supremely pleased that Elena knew he was lying the whole time, and that he knew she was lying pretty much the whole time, because that's what they do, they see each other. But I kept expecting it to lead to slightly deeper revelations about them as a whole and then all we really ended up with was more about ~Lexi, who honestly, I am done knowing more about.
THAT SAID, I am over the fucking moon that it ended with Elena running her own show with the help of Rebekah, because I am sick of Salvatores telling her what species she should be. This whole season has been so arghhhhhhhhhh, because first it was Stefan telling Elena that her emotions were heightened, then it was everyone telling her that she was sired, and now it's everyone telling her that she has no humanity. It's starting to kind of seem like you all are just looking for excuses to take away her right to make decisions/tell you things you don't want to hear #justsaying #ifthejerkpantsfit
Also, I would like to be named president of the Elena and Rebekah Exchange Devious Flirty Looks Club. Scheme forever, ladies, and please let me watch. Also, REBEKAH DON'T GO AWAY. THE ORIGINALS will never love you as much as I do.
Other things:
+++Was genuinely surprised that Caroline ended up being the one to kill the witch coven out of pure protective instinct while Klaus and Stefan stood around going derrrrrrrrrr. I hope we get to see her deal with this in some fashion, and it's not just a way to bring her ~closer to Klaus. Was left really baffled by his "terrible" zinger there at the end, although maybe I should not be. If there's something that we've been seeing time and time again, it's that Klaus just does not *get* degrees of evil or proper emotional responses. Making it your life's mission to hunt down people who have "betrayed" you is not the same as killing twelve people in a kneejerk attempt to save your friend.
+++I feel like television representations of NYC always have a lot of steaming manholes. Sometimes manholes steam, but no one just walks through them all the time like it's all dramatic. They stink. If you see one, you avoid it.
+++Bonnie amnesia is dumb. Don't know why Stefan got to be there playing the concerned friend after he was going to let her die.
+++Damon is making me so sad lately, even while I understand why he's doing what he's doing. As far as he thinks, Elena's last emotion-ful wish was to be human, and via Damon logic, that means that her last emotion-ful wish was to be with Stefan, so he's doing his best to fulfill that and reset everything to factory settings. Because that's easier. Because that will hurt less that the way that it hurt when he found out that what he thought was a totally real night could actually be due to a sire bond. But I'm annoyed because he's not trying to talk to her, he's just disengaging further, and even making little quips about why Stefan is the better boyfriend, which I am frowny-facing all over, because if we can establish anything, can it please be that everyone realizes Stefan is just as horrible a boyfriend in his own way? And that in the evolution of good boyfriend-dom, they are both still playing around and splashing each other in the protoplasm?
But it's interesting. In some ways, I don't even think it's about his fear of not living up to expectations now. It's his fear of actually having expectations.
+++NEW HAIR IS CUTE. FLIP IT ALL OVER, GIRL.
+++I am so incredibly psyched about doppleganger vs. doppleganger. I am ready.