Comments | morwen_peredhil: The bad and the good

morwen_peredhil

The bad and the good

Sep 17, 2010 21:08

Whininess:

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morwen_peredhil September 18 2010, 02:19:10 UTC

It will all seem even more tragic, yes, but it's really, really worth it.

I'm kind of in love with Rex, actually, and can't help shipping him with Ahsoka. AND IT WILL ALL END IN TEARS. (Except we don't know what happens to either of them, so I can't stop hoping that he won't, you know, shoot her in the back when Order 66 is given. Sigh.)

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morwen_peredhil September 18 2010, 02:24:30 UTC

DO IT.

You know you want to!

meganbmoore September 18 2010, 02:34:54 UTC

I see we share opinions on Damon.

morwen_peredhil September 18 2010, 02:39:27 UTC

Heh. Yes indeed!

raffaella September 18 2010, 18:22:33 UTC

I haven't watched this episode yet and I might stop watching TVD, because people's refusal to kill Damon (or, at the very least, their tendency to go out of their way to save him when they could just let things happen to him) is getting on my nerves. He tried killing Jeremy, but I'm sure that Elena will soon find him excuses and prevent Bonnie from killing him, which just doesn't make sense.

morwen_peredhil September 18 2010, 18:32:55 UTC

He really, really needs killing.

Out of universe, it's obvious that he shouldn't be killed off because he's one of the stars and drives so much of the drama, but in universe they should all be wanting to kill him with fire instead of allowing him to continue on his merry, rapey, murderous way. And they can all continue to be shocked, SHOCKED! the next time he commits some hideously evil deed that they could have stopped by staking him in the first place - or just not going out of their way to save him.

raffaella September 19 2010, 10:26:15 UTC

It's always a big narrative problem when the only explanation you can find for the continued existence of a character (or the fact that people still actively engage with him on a semi-friendly basis) is out of universe. Because in universe, it makes your protagonists look stupid, incompetent and morally blind (see the problem of the Joker in the Batman comics, or any villain who keeps popping up and whom the hero refuses to dispatch for good).

And I can already tell that it's going to be a problem with Damon. I know that Elena isn't a killer and that he's Stefan's brother, so maybe not with the killing, but he should at least be at the point when people refuse to even talk to him and don't lift a finger to help him if he's in trouble. Sigh.