I ENJOY ALL OF YOUR TUMBLR POSTS. Vigorous nodding.
Also looking askance at the Caroline/Klaus situation. I’m not opposed to this in theory, really, but WHAT was with the romcom vibe this episode. A ship as dark and dubious and problematic as this, it should just be - more. Darker, weightier, creepier, idk. Klaus, what even have you become in this story.
Amen to your Elijah and Elena/Elijah feels. I feel strange about criticising them here because I genuinely like both the character and the ship (though I’m not ~invested), but this may have been the first episode where that whole thing just did not work for me. Less is more, show.
Rivaling Damon's for most demonically-sculpted, in a good way
* tear *
Seriously, this is why this character is actually shock!hilarious!subversive. On any other show, he would be the efficiently badass hunter-dude who is knowledgeable about weaponry and obscure historical facts and has a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe to him. On this show, not a week goes by without him getting killed or slapped around
YES. This is why I don’t really feel people’s annoyance/worry at the way Ric is treated by the writers. I feel like there’s whole thing there with his charcter, his ultimate failure to live up to the protective figure role he’s cast himself in / been thrown in, not even always through his own fault, but because he is at core just a man in a violent, supernatural universe, and he would have been six feet under long ago if not for the deus ex machina on his finger. /feels
Are we really going to spend the rest of the season in deathly fear of a tree?
Legit lol’d. And yet, still more menacing than Klaus.
"Did you see the way we stood up to Elena?" LOL, I suppose every huntsman goes through endearingly futile attempted rebellious phases.
LMFAO MTE. I literally cackled. Like, not even “we won that argument with Elena” or “we showed her”, but “we stood up to her”, as though Elena is some wicked matriarch who will bend them over and spank them. (Ooh, the visual.)
But anyway, yes to the unapologetically honest Damon characterisation. Lol, you know how I feel.
YES YES YES YES YES to all you say about Elena’s ~compassion. That’s something that leapt out to me from very early on, Stefan’s overtly sappy speech about how “warm, kind, and selfless” Elena is, and why this is important because natch, it’s “the opposite of Katherine”. I’ve been frowning at this characterisation of Elena ever since (not the writers’ characterisation, the characters’… characterisation, you know what I mean). And this is why I kind of tear my hair out when people criticise her for failing to be adequately compassionate all the time? (Case in point: Damon.) Because there are evidently so many things this girl is not allowed to be, because then the image these people of her would ~crumble, and the image is apparently of more worth than the person herself. IDEK.
Sigh, regardless, I'd have written that specific line differently but at the same time it hit so hard because it was written that way. /conflicted.
Haha, I know how you feel. It was actually jarring, but maybe it needed to be.
Aaaaaaaand agreeagreeagree with all the other stuff not mentioned in this comment. (Esp. Esther/Finn. * snerk *) Why do we even bother to converse, really.
Also looking askance at the Caroline/Klaus situation. I’m not opposed to this in theory, really, but WHAT was with the romcom vibe this episode. A ship as dark and dubious and problematic as this, it should just be - more. Darker, weightier, creepier, idk. Klaus, what even have you become in this story.
Amen to your Elijah and Elena/Elijah feels. I feel strange about criticising them here because I genuinely like both the character and the ship (though I’m not ~invested), but this may have been the first episode where that whole thing just did not work for me. Less is more, show.
Rivaling Damon's for most demonically-sculpted, in a good way
* tear *
Seriously, this is why this character is actually shock!hilarious!subversive. On any other show, he would be the efficiently badass hunter-dude who is knowledgeable about weaponry and obscure historical facts and has a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe to him. On this show, not a week goes by without him getting killed or slapped around
YES. This is why I don’t really feel people’s annoyance/worry at the way Ric is treated by the writers. I feel like there’s whole thing there with his charcter, his ultimate failure to live up to the protective figure role he’s cast himself in / been thrown in, not even always through his own fault, but because he is at core just a man in a violent, supernatural universe, and he would have been six feet under long ago if not for the deus ex machina on his finger. /feels
Are we really going to spend the rest of the season in deathly fear of a tree?
Legit lol’d. And yet, still more menacing than Klaus.
"Did you see the way we stood up to Elena?" LOL, I suppose every huntsman goes through endearingly futile attempted rebellious phases.
LMFAO MTE. I literally cackled. Like, not even “we won that argument with Elena” or “we showed her”, but “we stood up to her”, as though Elena is some wicked matriarch who will bend them over and spank them. (Ooh, the visual.)
But anyway, yes to the unapologetically honest Damon characterisation. Lol, you know how I feel.
YES YES YES YES YES to all you say about Elena’s ~compassion. That’s something that leapt out to me from very early on, Stefan’s overtly sappy speech about how “warm, kind, and selfless” Elena is, and why this is important because natch, it’s “the opposite of Katherine”. I’ve been frowning at this characterisation of Elena ever since (not the writers’ characterisation, the characters’… characterisation, you know what I mean). And this is why I kind of tear my hair out when people criticise her for failing to be adequately compassionate all the time? (Case in point: Damon.) Because there are evidently so many things this girl is not allowed to be, because then the image these people of her would ~crumble, and the image is apparently of more worth than the person herself. IDEK.
Sigh, regardless, I'd have written that specific line differently but at the same time it hit so hard because it was written that way. /conflicted.
Haha, I know how you feel. It was actually jarring, but maybe it needed to be.
Aaaaaaaand agreeagreeagree with all the other stuff not mentioned in this comment. (Esp. Esther/Finn. * snerk *) Why do we even bother to converse, really.
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