TVD 4x03: "How about we just leave the murdering to Damon?"

[dante_kent]

I don't have anything particularly intelligent to say about this episode, tbh. It was pretty straightforward. It had its high points. But largely, it was an episode of TVD, which means crazy plot shenanigans and excessive bloodshed and pretty men taking their shirts off and then more ridiculous plot stuff. Aka the best show on television, yes?

So

Comments

[dante_kent]

While I think you raise a lot of good points here, I have to say, the way you delivered your thoughts in this comment actually made me feel a bit personally attacked. I'm more than happy to discuss our different points of view - I very much enjoy going back and forth about issues like these. But the tone of your comment brooks very little room for discussion. Rather, it feels like a teacher lecturing a naughty student. I had thought that I've been very clear on my journal that these are my personal opinions, more often than not come up with on a whim. I rewatch the episodes and write down my thoughts as they come to me, and I never claim to be speaking the gospel about this show. My recaps merely portray what I think when I think it, and I'm more than happy to be talked out of my current opinions, provided that it happens in an amiable, academic exchange. But I feel like you are basically telling me that I am 100% wrong and that your way of thinking is the way I SHOULD be thinking too. While I doubt that was your intention, I had to tell you that my initial reaction was to feel offended and attacked, and I thought I should warn you that your comments had that effect. Perhaps I'm the only person who has ever felt like that. But for my part, I felt personally attacked, and I thought it better to warn you that your comments could be taken thus. I don't mean to attack you in turn, and I hope you don't think I'm trying to offend you. I just needed to make my feelings clear, since I think we have a lot to talk about regarding this show, but in the future I'd rather not feel like I'm being talked down to.

I'm more than happy to discuss the topics you've mentioned, provided that we engage in an actual discourse with a proper back and forth. Please let me know if you'd like me to respond to your opinions with my own, since I think we could have some really compelling conversations about this show.

[arabian]

It was not my intention to make you feel that way, and I'm sorry that you did. Reading my response I can see why you'd feel that way, but it truly wasn't my intention. I just get very frustrated when I read so many complaints (and I'd just read a few other posts) against the show that don't seem to track with what is happening on the show in my opinion

. And I let that flower my phrasing. I'm sorry it came across that way. Feel free to delete my original post. It wasn't my intention, I was just completely blown away by your take on things. I wasn't trying to attack you, it was rather I was shocked and that's where my commentary was coming from. We obviously see the show very differently now and neither one of us has made practically any effort to comment in the other's journals -- probably because we see the show so differently now so we just don't 'know' each other well at all.