Julie Plec interview - TVD character commentary
Just had to post about a comment from the recent TV Guide interview that makes me happy...
Elena will also start to see how she's just as capable of destruction as her vampire peers. “Elena realizes that in order to survive and in order to protect the people she loves the most, sometimes she has to behave more like Katherine than Elena, and sometimes a dark choice needs to be made, a violent act needs to be enacted and it’s troubling for her,” Plec says. “So who is she really at her core? She’s clearly not the girl-next-door do-gooder, she never has been." - tv guide
First of all, I fucking love this article's author for calling them her vampire PEERS.
Second of all, yay for the Elena commentary! Sometimes I used to worry that when I saw Stefan repressing and always lying being an intrinsic part of his character, or Elena being awesomely morally flexible, that maybe the writers don't realize it too, like maybe they don't get how they've written their own characters. But then we finally got so much Stefan pay off this season. And it feels good that that the writers do apparently know that Elena is not the sweet girl next door and at the end of the day she'll say "fuck everyone else" just like the Salvatores. Which is why she pretty much became family right away.
The best part of this (momentary) Stefan/Elena separation is Stefan's character has been able to develop. I hope to see a bit more of Elena getting her own growth and challenges when the show comes back.
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Elena will also start to see how she's just as capable of destruction as her vampire peers. “Elena realizes that in order to survive and in order to protect the people she loves the most, sometimes she has to behave more like Katherine than Elena, and sometimes a dark choice needs to be made, a violent act needs to be enacted and it’s troubling for her,” Plec says. “So who is she really at her core? She’s clearly not the girl-next-door do-gooder, she never has been." - tv guide
First of all, I fucking love this article's author for calling them her vampire PEERS.
Second of all, yay for the Elena commentary! Sometimes I used to worry that when I saw Stefan repressing and always lying being an intrinsic part of his character, or Elena being awesomely morally flexible, that maybe the writers don't realize it too, like maybe they don't get how they've written their own characters. But then we finally got so much Stefan pay off this season. And it feels good that that the writers do apparently know that Elena is not the sweet girl next door and at the end of the day she'll say "fuck everyone else" just like the Salvatores. Which is why she pretty much became family right away.
The best part of this (momentary) Stefan/Elena separation is Stefan's character has been able to develop. I hope to see a bit more of Elena getting her own growth and challenges when the show comes back.
This entry was originally posted at http://silviakundera.dreamwidth.org/836517.html. There are
comments.