This is excellent, excellent, excellent -- and your saying you think a lot of this was deliberate on the part of the writers reminded me to look up who actually wrote this episode and I was not surprised to discover that it was co-written by Michael Narducci, also responsible for "The Last Dance" (favourite episode of all time for the Bonnie character work and insightful look at the Damon/Stefan brotherly dynamic) and "As I Lay Dying" (with Septien and Meyer). When Michael Narducci is writing I'm always completely willing to believe that all the meta-commentary is deliberate, particularly since it's consistent across his episodes.
I still don't understand what Stefan's motivations are, though. What does he want? How does he feel about any of the other characters? Does anyone know? Can someone explain?
I think it was a smart, strategic choice given how fandom would've reacted if Bonnie had said even a fraction of that onscreen and also because the words Caroline were saying felt like something of meta commentary even though they were
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Elena. Legitimately the single thing this show is getting absolutely right for me right now in a way they never have before.
YES THANK YOU. I'm getting so tired with how fandom's been hating Elena, especially when I've never loved her more. I might be turning into this crazy person for whom Elena can do no wrong. If so, feel free to sedate me ;).
I love everything you write about the witches. The part of why I haven't written an episode reaction yet is that I can't figure out what I think about what happened to Abby. On the one hand, the whole coin toss is just awful (and that's the point, right? The Salvatores ARE awful!), but on the other hand - I LOVE it when characters get turned into vampires, it leaves us with some may tremendous openings! TVD mythology is constructed in a way that makes me want a vampire!AU for every single character. So yeah, vamp!Abby? Bring it on! The conflict for Bonnie is beyond awesome; I've never been so invested in this character as I am now.
What are we going to do for hiatus, people? *sobs*You
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Also for some reason him and Klaus just seemed so awkward to me in that bar, like they were trying to be cool but not quite succeeding.Lmao. Klaus and his lame siblings
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the Elena/Elijah relationship was an under-developed, pandering mess
what up. It so is. I kinda love that the show just went with the handwave in the last episode that he glomped onto her because of Tatia, but there's no way it could compare to the complexity of the whole Katherine/Salvatores/Elena tangle, so it's just kind of meh. And lol, Klaus and Kol are so ridiculously adolescent. I love it.
Alaric getting injured. Again. Seriously, this is why this character is actually shock!hilarious!subversive. On any other show, he would be the efficiently badass hunter-dude who is knowledgeable about weaponry and obscure historical facts and has a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe to him. On this show, not a week goes by without him getting killed or slapped around; he's a loser drunk whose best friend is a psycho, and his general impotence in all romantic relationships is frankly the stuff of legend. Love it.He really is! And yeah, because if he were the main character, he would still have the drinking
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I ENJOY ALL OF YOUR TUMBLR POSTS. Vigorous nodding.
Also looking askance at the Caroline/Klaus situation. I’m not opposed to this in theory, really, but WHAT was with the romcom vibe this episode. A ship as dark and dubious and problematic as this, it should just be - more. Darker, weightier, creepier, idk. Klaus, what even have you become in this story.
Amen to your Elijah and Elena/Elijah feels. I feel strange about criticising them here because I genuinely like both the character and the ship (though I’m not ~invested), but this may have been the first episode where that whole thing just did not work for me. Less is more, show.
Rivaling Damon's for most demonically-sculpted, in a good way
* tear *
Seriously, this is why this character is actually shock!hilarious!subversive. On any other show, he would be the efficiently badass hunter-dude who is knowledgeable about weaponry and obscure historical facts and has a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe to him. On this show, not a week goes by without him getting killed or slapped around
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I still don't understand what Stefan's motivations are, though. What does he want? How does he feel about any of the other characters? Does anyone know? Can someone explain?
I think it was a smart, strategic choice given how fandom would've reacted if Bonnie had said even a fraction of that onscreen and also because the words Caroline were saying felt like something of meta commentary even though they were ( ... )
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YES THANK YOU. I'm getting so tired with how fandom's been hating Elena, especially when I've never loved her more. I might be turning into this crazy person for whom Elena can do no wrong. If so, feel free to sedate me ;).
I love everything you write about the witches. The part of why I haven't written an episode reaction yet is that I can't figure out what I think about what happened to Abby. On the one hand, the whole coin toss is just awful (and that's the point, right? The Salvatores ARE awful!), but on the other hand - I LOVE it when characters get turned into vampires, it leaves us with some may tremendous openings! TVD mythology is constructed in a way that makes me want a vampire!AU for every single character. So yeah, vamp!Abby? Bring it on! The conflict for Bonnie is beyond awesome; I've never been so invested in this character as I am now.
What are we going to do for hiatus, people? *sobs*You ( ... )
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the Elena/Elijah relationship was an under-developed, pandering mess
what up. It so is. I kinda love that the show just went with the handwave in the last episode that he glomped onto her because of Tatia, but there's no way it could compare to the complexity of the whole Katherine/Salvatores/Elena tangle, so it's just kind of meh. And lol, Klaus and Kol are so ridiculously adolescent. I love it.
Alaric getting injured. Again. Seriously, this is why this character is actually shock!hilarious!subversive. On any other show, he would be the efficiently badass hunter-dude who is knowledgeable about weaponry and obscure historical facts and has a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe to him. On this show, not a week goes by without him getting killed or slapped around; he's a loser drunk whose best friend is a psycho, and his general impotence in all romantic relationships is frankly the stuff of legend. Love it.He really is! And yeah, because if he were the main character, he would still have the drinking ( ... )
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Also looking askance at the Caroline/Klaus situation. I’m not opposed to this in theory, really, but WHAT was with the romcom vibe this episode. A ship as dark and dubious and problematic as this, it should just be - more. Darker, weightier, creepier, idk. Klaus, what even have you become in this story.
Amen to your Elijah and Elena/Elijah feels. I feel strange about criticising them here because I genuinely like both the character and the ship (though I’m not ~invested), but this may have been the first episode where that whole thing just did not work for me. Less is more, show.
Rivaling Damon's for most demonically-sculpted, in a good way
* tear *
Seriously, this is why this character is actually shock!hilarious!subversive. On any other show, he would be the efficiently badass hunter-dude who is knowledgeable about weaponry and obscure historical facts and has a bit of an Indiana Jones vibe to him. On this show, not a week goes by without him getting killed or slapped around ( ... )
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