TVD 3.10 thoughts: "the slow spiral into insanity...."

[ladygawain]

Okay, so I haven't written episode reaction posts in a long time. But, this show, you guys. I feel like I need to do this for my own sanity (and for an episode obsessed with the idea of sanity/insanity, that's fitting). Also, I re-watched it this morning and it was good, it's always good without ad breaks, isn't it?

Speaking of insanity, to start, I

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[angryzen]

On the Asylum, Cana said Jeremy is going to Denver because "in reality" he finally managed to escape from the asylum. Lol.

I will make an actual constructive comment after I've rewatched the episode. While the Stefan rage has lessened (is this what apathy feels like?) it's still there, and I'm still frustrated about the witch house.

[ladygawain]

Oh god, I forgot about the witch house. Ugh. The most tiresome shit and I wish they'd singe him a little tbh /is bitter. I can only say, at least it's in character? Trololo

Yes, tell me your feels. I feel like I was way positive in this not-review, mainly because I forgot most of the things I was angry about and I'm too obsessed with particular things to bother?

I'm so lazy.

[angryzen]

Oh! I forgot to tell you that you have the episode number wrong. It's 3.10, not 2.10. I don't know why it's so easy to make the mistake. I always want to write like we're still in season 2.

It's totally in-character for Stefan, I just hate the lack of resistance/backlash from Bonnie and the witches. I wish it was canon that he was looking like Damon when he initially set foot in the place, bouncing all over, screaming indignantly that he's trying to kill Klaus like it's the secret password.

Your review is very positive. Lol. It made me feel like I missed several things (in the episode).

[ladygawain]

Lol, thank you for pointing that out! Wow, like a drunkard and it’s the afternoon

[skysamuelle]

Honestly, I thought that, minus the part about the Stefan and Bonnie, this was the worst episode of the season

[ladygawain]

Personally, I don't think anything can surpass the one exclusively about the originals (I forget what it was called) for just sheer terrible and also offensiveness this season but I have an irrational hatred of the originals and how they're being used this season to "rain over the parade" as you say and basically hijack this story from characters I'm actually invested in. Sigh

[ever_neutral]

oh my god. THE ASYLUM DIARIES. where has it been all my life. I particularly love the Caroline, Stefan, and Damon's hair parts.

Love all your thoughts about insanity/sanity. Especially: Klaus talking to his sister's corpse (the biggest lunatic in town tbh). -- BWAHA. All other arguments are invalid. And ughhhhhh, everything you say about all of these kids just trying to survive, I want to hug all of it.

This is no Corinthian (yes, the Bible 1 Cor 13v1-13, it was my high school reading okay, I could recite that shit by heart right now) interpretation of love here. Love is cruel okay. It's not always kind. It's not always patient. It's not always good and full of sunshine and roses and faith and hope. Sometimes it's fearful, sometimes it's vicious, sometimes it's ruthless, sometimes it's selfish and cowardly. And this show does a really great job of playing with that on multiple levels with every, single character. Every, single oneMONSOON ON MY FACE. How. It's like you've taken the words straight from my heart. HOW. And I've seen

[ladygawain]

LOL, I'm glad you likey. Caroline gave me particular joy in that terrible AU, I don't know why. The story of Damon's hair and the evil make-up person in the TVD costume department that clearly has some kind of vendetta, constantly gives me life.

I just want all of the fic of Klaus spending years just having in-depth conversations with the corpses of his dead family. You know, since he's so ~lonely~ and stuff and he's not all there in the head. He'll bring them out for tea some mornings or to watch the sunset while he drinks himself to a stupor and inevitably ends crying buckets of salty tears into the wood and being generally ridiculous. Also now that he has Rebekah's body, he'll set her up in a nice room with all the frills and stroke her hair while he goes on and on and weeps a lot. It'll be amazing.

I've seen some worry that the compulsion was supposed to come across as The Right Thing, but… on this show? No. I just never worry about that anymore. It's wholly irrelevant to the equation. THIS. And lord, it's such a tiresome

[ladygawain]

DO ITTTTTT!

Weep, all of the tears!!!!!! (BB, we have feelings about OUAT, I feel like that's my actual fandom lowpoint)

Thank you, thank you. Come and join me in this morally-depraved bar, please!

[angryzen]

Almost finished re-watching. Keeping your observations in mind, I wish they had spent more time in Elena's paranoia state. Klaus has made his move; she's even spoken to him. Paranoia solved. I wish Klaus had been hovering just a little longer. So we can see the horror, the uncertainty that has been Elena's life for however long it's been since Homecoming. So maybe the guy jogging really was just a guy jogging or a random vamp who thought she was just a regular human and wanted to eat her (or there any random vamps in MF? Geez).

It stood out to me, and I think it's funny, when Elena was talking about her paranoia, and Bonnie goes, "I don't blame you [for being paranoid]. YOU tried to kill him. Now here's what's driving ME crazy." It's amusing because it seems like she's so over Klaus. She was already scared of dying and then she did die, now it's these darn coffins that are keeping her awake. It keeps with The Reckoning when Klaus appeared behind her and....she just looked at him. The days of Bonnie being scared of a vampire (as

[ladygawain]

It would've been pretty awesome to have an episode in between to really build the sensation of paranoia. I also would've liked to see (not necessarily from Elena's POV), different hybrids just sort of being around the town, like Klaus can take a little walk down the street and just give these looks to random people and they all give him deferential nods so we can see the scale of the "new deal" in town and the kind of hold he's taken over it. But part of me is glad they sort of told that story quickly because they showed, pretty well, with Jeremy's storyline esp. just how "crazy" things have gotten in their lives as a whole. Not just Klaus but the culmination of three seasons has fundamentally scarred and changed all of them and they're all becoming something not-quite-monstrous-but-actually-damn-monstrous

[angryzen]

let's talk Bonnie some day

Lmao.

Maybe because Katherine's supposed to sound like she's playing with you all of the time.

Because I'd think Elena would have to have gone right to the image of her watching Jenna die right in front of her and that probably added to her hysteria and irrational need to "protect" Jeremy.

If ever there was a sign that I wasn't completely tuned in to Elena and her experiences, this would be it. I didn't even connect the attempt on Jeremy's life with the attempt on Jenna's life last year (probably because they've given all references of Jenna to Alaric?), but had this been Bonnie, I would have connected everything.

But the Elena of almost exactly one season ago is not the same Elena we have now, and that's a choice that makes sense to me? That she would be somehow less giving and compassionate in some cases, and that is accompanied by a level of hypocrisy (see: Stefan) but I sort of get why she's so cold to him here?I like this explanation a lot. I just don't feel the way the show seems to be backing her