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...so Elena made me care about her again? I am not sure what to do with this. I almost never give a damn about the main character and she keeps making me care. Like, I don't even know. It is alarming me, but she's being all insightful and crap and while I am totally over her shock at Stefan or basically anything Stefan/Elena related until she actually takes notice of the "real" Slim Shady Stefan (well, ok, wait, am I actually going to talk about this again? No.)
Anyway. Elena. I care.
…and not so much about anybody else… wait. Not true. I'm gonna attempt to have some thoughts here:
so the thing about Damon for me is that whenever we go back to flashback Damon is that he's jarringly naive, which is all fine, because otherwise we'd have no character development or whatever you want to call it, but it always takes me a moment to fit the two versions together in my mind, because present day Damon is so certain of who and what he is (even when he lies to himself).
And lately, to me it's been horribly obvious that in TVD the vampires never grow up. Wait. I don't me they don't age and while yeah, ok, vampires as a metaphor for extended adolescence and no adult responsibilities and but all the adult fun is a thing that's been done before. They had an article in my newspaper (yes, SMH). But what I mean, is that in TVD they don't get older emotionally. Yes. That is what I am saying. (I have examples, their names are Rebekah, Klaus and Stefan). So for me, this naive!Damon and present!Damon just, part of me wants to see present!Damon be just as naive about things because yeah, "buttoned up" Damon (OMG, Sage. I have no kind feelings towards her, besides that she's awesome?) he's in there, somewhere, in present day Damon and I just. Hilarity. I want to see that.
...so Sage right? I feel as though this is the proper place to mention her? Is awesomely awful. Like. Just everything about her, her mere existence in the show? Awesome, because yeah she espouses some "effed up, no good, are you for real?" shit and you can take that on face value and be horrified as you rightly should (because yeah, that's some problematic advice).
But here's the thing, that's awesome about that? Damon is the "buttoned up" one in this scenario, Damon is the one who "secretly craves seduction." Yes, I am going there (because who am I kidding this is about Damon and not Sage). We see him kill in 1912, but there's no enjoyment in it. There is no "pleasure." Damon is not on board with his vampiric-self, he's still mourning Katherine and pissed off that things didn't work out as the way he wanted. Wait, I was talking about Sage, and why her existence is awesome. Sage's existence is awesome because her presence in the story works on multiple levels. She both a mentor and a predator, she points out that vampires are sexual predators/murderers and then also hmm, I want to say inverts that. But invert isn't the right word.
Anyway, I like Sage and her ickiness.
...and this brings me to Rebekah. So one of the things that even though people think the white oak tree story line is stupid is that they didn't let it lag as a story line even though it wasn't the focus. I feel that this ep was TVD of old (well, ok, not the earliest eps because eew) but when it hit its stride, because there was reference to other things going on that didn't require the screen time. We had Bonnie and her mum referenced, we had Rebekah following 'leads' and then crashing brotherly bonding time. And seriously, that was my favourite.
...also diaries. There were actual diaries in The Vampire Diaries. I missed the diaries! I missed them! But not as much as I missed the crow.
...and I have other thoughts but basically, I'm tired and I've had a SHIT day and I am getting self-conscious about paper thin walls and how loud my typing is. What.
...so Elena made me care about her again? I am not sure what to do with this. I almost never give a damn about the main character and she keeps making me care. Like, I don't even know. It is alarming me, but she's being all insightful and crap and while I am totally over her shock at Stefan or basically anything Stefan/Elena related until she actually takes notice of the "real" Slim Shady Stefan (well, ok, wait, am I actually going to talk about this again? No.)
Anyway. Elena. I care.
…and not so much about anybody else… wait. Not true. I'm gonna attempt to have some thoughts here:
so the thing about Damon for me is that whenever we go back to flashback Damon is that he's jarringly naive, which is all fine, because otherwise we'd have no character development or whatever you want to call it, but it always takes me a moment to fit the two versions together in my mind, because present day Damon is so certain of who and what he is (even when he lies to himself).
And lately, to me it's been horribly obvious that in TVD the vampires never grow up. Wait. I don't me they don't age and while yeah, ok, vampires as a metaphor for extended adolescence and no adult responsibilities and but all the adult fun is a thing that's been done before. They had an article in my newspaper (yes, SMH). But what I mean, is that in TVD they don't get older emotionally. Yes. That is what I am saying. (I have examples, their names are Rebekah, Klaus and Stefan). So for me, this naive!Damon and present!Damon just, part of me wants to see present!Damon be just as naive about things because yeah, "buttoned up" Damon (OMG, Sage. I have no kind feelings towards her, besides that she's awesome?) he's in there, somewhere, in present day Damon and I just. Hilarity. I want to see that.
...so Sage right? I feel as though this is the proper place to mention her? Is awesomely awful. Like. Just everything about her, her mere existence in the show? Awesome, because yeah she espouses some "effed up, no good, are you for real?" shit and you can take that on face value and be horrified as you rightly should (because yeah, that's some problematic advice).
But here's the thing, that's awesome about that? Damon is the "buttoned up" one in this scenario, Damon is the one who "secretly craves seduction." Yes, I am going there (because who am I kidding this is about Damon and not Sage). We see him kill in 1912, but there's no enjoyment in it. There is no "pleasure." Damon is not on board with his vampiric-self, he's still mourning Katherine and pissed off that things didn't work out as the way he wanted. Wait, I was talking about Sage, and why her existence is awesome. Sage's existence is awesome because her presence in the story works on multiple levels. She both a mentor and a predator, she points out that vampires are sexual predators/murderers and then also hmm, I want to say inverts that. But invert isn't the right word.
Anyway, I like Sage and her ickiness.
...and this brings me to Rebekah. So one of the things that even though people think the white oak tree story line is stupid is that they didn't let it lag as a story line even though it wasn't the focus. I feel that this ep was TVD of old (well, ok, not the earliest eps because eew) but when it hit its stride, because there was reference to other things going on that didn't require the screen time. We had Bonnie and her mum referenced, we had Rebekah following 'leads' and then crashing brotherly bonding time. And seriously, that was my favourite.
...also diaries. There were actual diaries in The Vampire Diaries. I missed the diaries! I missed them! But not as much as I missed the crow.
...and I have other thoughts but basically, I'm tired and I've had a SHIT day and I am getting self-conscious about paper thin walls and how loud my typing is. What.