Hi there! I thought you weren't ~here~?* How are you settling in?
*That's why I didn't get back to you on our last discussion.
Although this time, I whole-heartedly agree with your feelings on Bonnie.
Also, this is the first review I have come across that has some Elena love in it. THANK YOUUUUU <3 I thought she was fabulous. Also I tend to put down that end Stelena scene down to manipulation rather than her desperately begging him or whatever.
Damon was brilliantly in character, confused little thing.
I REALLY WANT KLAUS TO GET HIS EVIL ON. Okay, so utter hilarity ensued with his artistic streak and his trauma over daddy killing his horse, yes. But I just want to see him function as a villain again. Yes to your Caroline/Klaus thoughts, I loved her calling him out on his deep-seated personal issue but
how Klaus constructs his self-narrative in relation to the female fixation of the hour - in this instance, Caroline. - I don't follow. Talk me through? :/
'Lol, Kol' was exactly how I felt ;)
FINN MAY BE INTERESTING YOU KNOW. But damn it, I want to see him adapt to modern times!
Yes, I will take this reading of that last S/E scene as manipulation. I'm confused as to how anyone can walk away from this episode not enjoying how Elena is coming into her own. Blah, fandom.
Klaus will ne'er function as a villain again tbh. I just don't think that the show wants to go there, they've virtually deconstructed him as THAT in quite startling fashion over the course of the season. It's increasingly hard to believe that this is the same man Katherine was deathly afraid of and if they tried to make him that again, I almost feel like I'd be mega confused, LOL. He should just rent a loft in town and paint all day tbh (do they have loft apartments in MF?).
how Klaus constructs his self-narrative in relation to the female fixation of the hour - in this instance, Caroline. - I don't follow. Talk me through? :/
Just in the sense that Damon has constructed a narrative for himself in which he is the knight to Katherine's damsel, the huntsman to her queen in the past, and he's doing some iteration of that with Elena - or trying to at least, ha. And as a character in general he's engaged in narrative composition about himself and where he stands in relation to the people around him, namely Stefan (good brother/bad brother dichotomies etc.). Klaus, in similar yet different ways is also engaged in narratives. With Caroline though, and she points it out in the episode actually, there's a distinct flavor of a charming prince coming to bestow his everything (knowledge, experience, sophistication) on a Cinderella-like figure in Caroline. And it's ridiculous. But it's sort of how I read him and his self-delusions.
I wanted so much more for Finn. Now I want Finn fic. Him deciphering a cellphone must have been amazing.
I see the logic in what you're saying about Klaus and yeah, you're probably right. But it's conceivable that he has a 'No Birthday, no mercy' philosophy towards ~evil~. We've seen two different sides of a coin and now we can see the overlap? PLEASEY!
Oh, I completely understood what you were saying about Damon, I just didn't see how it applied to Klaus. I'm not quite sure I agree - partly because with Damon we've seen exactly the same thing happen twice, whereas Klaus hasn't had anywhere near that level of development. Having said that, Caroline's description of a 'twisted Cinderella fetish' was on the money.
I KNOW, RIGHT?! It could have been a non-crack!way to bring some humour in. Apparently, I'm the only one deluded enough to think he may be of some interest outside of that :/
Hi there! I thought you weren't ~here~?* How are you settling in?
*That's why I didn't get back to you on our last discussion.
Although this time, I whole-heartedly agree with your feelings on Bonnie.
Also, this is the first review I have come across that has some Elena love in it. THANK YOUUUUU <3 I thought she was fabulous. Also I tend to put down that end Stelena scene down to manipulation rather than her desperately begging him or whatever.
Damon was brilliantly in character, confused little thing.
I REALLY WANT KLAUS TO GET HIS EVIL ON. Okay, so utter hilarity ensued with his artistic streak and his trauma over daddy killing his horse, yes. But I just want to see him function as a villain again. Yes to your Caroline/Klaus thoughts, I loved her calling him out on his deep-seated personal issue but
how Klaus constructs his self-narrative in relation to the female fixation of the hour - in this instance, Caroline. - I don't follow. Talk me through? :/
'Lol, Kol' was exactly how I felt ;)
FINN MAY BE INTERESTING YOU KNOW. But damn it, I want to see him adapt to modern times!
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Yes, I will take this reading of that last S/E scene as manipulation. I'm confused as to how anyone can walk away from this episode not enjoying how Elena is coming into her own. Blah, fandom.
Klaus will ne'er function as a villain again tbh. I just don't think that the show wants to go there, they've virtually deconstructed him as THAT in quite startling fashion over the course of the season. It's increasingly hard to believe that this is the same man Katherine was deathly afraid of and if they tried to make him that again, I almost feel like I'd be mega confused, LOL. He should just rent a loft in town and paint all day tbh (do they have loft apartments in MF?).
how Klaus constructs his self-narrative in relation to the female fixation of the hour - in this instance, Caroline. - I don't follow. Talk me through? :/
Just in the sense that Damon has constructed a narrative for himself in which he is the knight to Katherine's damsel, the huntsman to her queen in the past, and he's doing some iteration of that with Elena - or trying to at least, ha. And as a character in general he's engaged in narrative composition about himself and where he stands in relation to the people around him, namely Stefan (good brother/bad brother dichotomies etc.). Klaus, in similar yet different ways is also engaged in narratives. With Caroline though, and she points it out in the episode actually, there's a distinct flavor of a charming prince coming to bestow his everything (knowledge, experience, sophistication) on a Cinderella-like figure in Caroline. And it's ridiculous. But it's sort of how I read him and his self-delusions.
I wanted so much more for Finn. Now I want Finn fic. Him deciphering a cellphone must have been amazing.
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I see the logic in what you're saying about Klaus and yeah, you're probably right. But it's conceivable that he has a 'No Birthday, no mercy' philosophy towards ~evil~. We've seen two different sides of a coin and now we can see the overlap? PLEASEY!
Oh, I completely understood what you were saying about Damon, I just didn't see how it applied to Klaus. I'm not quite sure I agree - partly because with Damon we've seen exactly the same thing happen twice, whereas Klaus hasn't had anywhere near that level of development. Having said that, Caroline's description of a 'twisted Cinderella fetish' was on the money.
I KNOW, RIGHT?! It could have been a non-crack!way to bring some humour in. Apparently, I'm the only one deluded enough to think he may be of some interest outside of that :/
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