I don't know if she has less reason than Caroline to think social success will pay off for her? She's only got to observe Elena to realize the advantages it can give you...I wonder if it's more that Bonnie's not wired to think in those terms to begin with?
I certainly think disposition is part of it. (Part of me thinks Bonnie and Jeremy hit it off because they are basically the only two introverts in Mystic Falls?) But it's mostly that, there's no nice way to say this, Caroline is white. And in Mystic Falls, which proactively concentrates social status in the descendants of its Confederacy-era elites, Caroline being a Forbes means that playing by the rules to some extent is really going to pay off for her, and her floor of social status is relatively high. By contrast, no matter how beautiful and graceful Bonnie is, she's going to be overlooked, and she figured that out at a young enough age to develop different priorities for herself.
I would LOVE to see Elena try to compel him again, and then have Jeremy fake her out by pretending to be compelled (and have his view of his sister shift because of that.)
That would be fantastic. There's clearly going to be a reckoning with Jeremy in some form, and I can't think of a more poetically just way than for him to get a clearer picture of his sister because of an attempted compulsion. I thought that was a wonderful moment at the end there, where he did a genuinely compassionate thing in giving his bracelet to April, with no expectation of payoff.
the way the show brought up Jeremy's compulsion by Stefan, and Elena's ~indignation over that (while casually discussing Damon's compulsion of Jeremy under her orders, and the possibility of doing that again)...I'm not sure what we're supposed to be feeling, here.
I think it was pretty deliberate. The exchange where Elena mentions the compulsion to Damon doesn't serve any other purpose than to remind us it happened, and keep Elena's complicity in this whole thing on the table.
fandom is fixating on his, "I'm fine with her either way,"
lol, I am shocked. (ed note: I am not shocked.) Salvatores are horrible, and they care way more about each other than they do about Elena. I seriously don't see how much people can *like* their favored brother while denying such fundamental aspects of his character.
I certainly think disposition is part of it. (Part of me thinks Bonnie and Jeremy hit it off because they are basically the only two introverts in Mystic Falls?) But it's mostly that, there's no nice way to say this, Caroline is white. And in Mystic Falls, which proactively concentrates social status in the descendants of its Confederacy-era elites, Caroline being a Forbes means that playing by the rules to some extent is really going to pay off for her, and her floor of social status is relatively high. By contrast, no matter how beautiful and graceful Bonnie is, she's going to be overlooked, and she figured that out at a young enough age to develop different priorities for herself.
I would LOVE to see Elena try to compel him again, and then have Jeremy fake her out by pretending to be compelled (and have his view of his sister shift because of that.)
That would be fantastic. There's clearly going to be a reckoning with Jeremy in some form, and I can't think of a more poetically just way than for him to get a clearer picture of his sister because of an attempted compulsion. I thought that was a wonderful moment at the end there, where he did a genuinely compassionate thing in giving his bracelet to April, with no expectation of payoff.
the way the show brought up Jeremy's compulsion by Stefan, and Elena's ~indignation over that (while casually discussing Damon's compulsion of Jeremy under her orders, and the possibility of doing that again)...I'm not sure what we're supposed to be feeling, here.
I think it was pretty deliberate. The exchange where Elena mentions the compulsion to Damon doesn't serve any other purpose than to remind us it happened, and keep Elena's complicity in this whole thing on the table.
fandom is fixating on his, "I'm fine with her either way,"
lol, I am shocked. (ed note: I am not shocked.) Salvatores are horrible, and they care way more about each other than they do about Elena. I seriously don't see how much people can *like* their favored brother while denying such fundamental aspects of his character.
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