TVD - The Walking Dead

[pocochina]

Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes! And a (slightly belated) very happy Mother's Day to all the mamas on my f-list!

Four very short thoughts on last week's TVD:

• That was just a really fun episode! I'm not sure how much I have to say about it. Bringing so many of the dead characters back for some closure made for some lovely character moments like it did back in early S3, and it fit well with the just-before-graduation time frame in the kids' lives, those couple of weeks where you're all in the senioritis together. Damon and Ric are always a joy. Obviously can't say enough good things about Accola and Wesley getting another turn as Silas because they both just own it.
• Elena's characterization continues to sing. Everyone around her is so attached to the good girl persona they've all been writing onto her that it doesn't even occur to them that her emotions might be negative. I really enjoyed the scene where Damon tries to talk Elena down from her murderous crusade? I think it's been more and more clear to us (and maybe to Damon) that on some level, for Damon it's always going to be Katherine. And Elena doesn't like that any more than she would've at any other time in the show, but she overplays her hand a bit when she openly challenges Damon to say he wants Katherine to die. And he deflects by calling Elena out on her self-centeredness/protagonist privilege, though in a way that's ridiculously rich coming from him, and it just does not penetrate her skull. I just thought it was a neat scene that was a fun moment for both characters. (I like Damon and Elena interactions which are clearly Not Delena, I guess.)
• I'm willing to humor Matt on grounds of it's just that nice to watch Rebekah have someone be nice to her. (And also that the crap which makes him intolerable to me generally is somewhat justified when it comes to Rebekah, given that he knows she can actually kill him without lifting a finger. It still makes me roll my eyes, but it's less infuriating.)
• So I'm reserving judgment on that last scene until we know where things shake out for her. But right now I'm thinking (a) she's likely to be resurrected if not outright hallucinating and (b) even if she does end up permanently exiting the show, I think it's as good an end to her arc as I could want, tbh - nobody takes out Bonnie Bennett but Bonnie Bennett. She doesn't want to have been fucked over by anyone, so she's going to fuck over EVERYONE. Bonnie's insistence that she was bringing Jeremy back FOR ELENA rang true as characterization even if I don't think it's actually true. Bonnie, in some ways, is just as invested in Jeremy's survival as Elena is. She alienated the spirits for him back in S2, she started her desent into dark magic when he put his heart in her hands at the end of S3, and now she's trying to do something, anything, with her expression that she can be sure Silas didn't manipulate her into doing, and she channels all that into Jeremy has to live in order to avoid second-guessing herself.

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