CAN WE ALL ALWAYS TALK ABOUT BONNIE SO MUCH SHE IS THE BEST.
from the very beginning of the series she plays a bit fast and loose with her powers, doing what she thinks needs to be done even at the expense of others.
Agreed. I do think it works for her because she works on witch-morality, where simply using powers has nothing to do with protecting or losing innocence. If anything, it's this:
She saves them, because she cares about Caroline and Elena, at the very least (and probably Damon and Stefan, too, though she wouldn't admit this to herself). And so she's come around the other direction, recognising a bit of moral complexity where she didn't before, if that makes any sense.
deviation from witch-morality and into creating her own is what fits the theme of the season.
I think it's too much to ask for to get Bonnie/Damon, because even though they're clearly Soul Mates of Awesome, that would interfere with Elena being the Specialist of Snowflakes Who Everyone in the Universe Wants and is in Love WithDAMON/BONNIE IS THE BEST, I
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NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WRITE POSTS LIKE THIS THAT MAKE IT LOOK LIKE THIS SEASON WAS ACTUALLY GOOD. X(((((((((((((
i.e. I enjoy your thoughts. I will need to mull over many of them. But I especially like:
The show doesn't have him go balls-out Angelus, either, but merely allows Elena to be appropriately alarmed by a slight Klaus-instigated increase in the same behavior that she accepted as romantic back in S1 - the stalking, the half-truths, the constant undermining of her autonomy and emotional independence - which in both instances are a pale imitation of the same number Klaus did on his head, in the 1920s and the present.
W O R D. Back when the writers were actually stunning with the Elena/Stefan abuse narrative. And the overarching cycle-of-abuse theme. I just. I don't know what to make of it all after the season finale? I guess we'll see.
Tyler's fight does a neat job of deconstructing the idea of redemptive (blech) arc, which is usually presented as grueling but basically linear story. Tyler doesn't have shit
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But...it was! Not perfect, obviously, but very good. It also hangs better as a whole without, you know, a two-week hiatus between every act. But there's not a whole lot that can be done about that.
I don't know what to make of it all after the season finale? I guess we'll see.
Agreed. I'm not sure we can evaluate it fully until we hear from Elena next season, now that she has some much-needed perspective. But I do think the understanding of abuse that the show was reaching for was extremely sophisticated.
Really, my only real complaint with Tyler's arc is that "for the girl I love" bit. It's not that it isn't good there's a (healthy) counterpoint to Klaus's abuse of Tyler, but it irks me that Caroline herself basically gets nothing to do through all of this except be the beacon of light that reaffirms Tyler's worth.Yeah, I'm not wild about that part of it either, but if I take the love triangles as being 90% metaphor it's a lot easier to swallow. And I think it's in character for Tyler to not quite have the self-worth to own the
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Admittedly I don't know how much of it comes from the books and how much of it comes from the show, but I think Elena (along with all the other Petrovas) is an impressive commentary on a particular type of femininity - white, wealthy, pretty, and thin, and with incredibly high social adeptness. It's all about the soft power, about this near-total disempowerment (that comes in part from looking like total disempowerment) and both how that makes her of unquestioned dominance among the little non-queen bees, but that depends on this house of cards in her social circle, and so she's so vulnerable when one of them gets pulled out of place.
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from the very beginning of the series she plays a bit fast and loose with her powers, doing what she thinks needs to be done even at the expense of others.
Agreed. I do think it works for her because she works on witch-morality, where simply using powers has nothing to do with protecting or losing innocence. If anything, it's this:
She saves them, because she cares about Caroline and Elena, at the very least (and probably Damon and Stefan, too, though she wouldn't admit this to herself). And so she's come around the other direction, recognising a bit of moral complexity where she didn't before, if that makes any sense.
deviation from witch-morality and into creating her own is what fits the theme of the season.
I think it's too much to ask for to get Bonnie/Damon, because even though they're clearly Soul Mates of Awesome, that would interfere with Elena being the Specialist of Snowflakes Who Everyone in the Universe Wants and is in Love WithDAMON/BONNIE IS THE BEST, I ( ... )
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i.e. I enjoy your thoughts. I will need to mull over many of them. But I especially like:
The show doesn't have him go balls-out Angelus, either, but merely allows Elena to be appropriately alarmed by a slight Klaus-instigated increase in the same behavior that she accepted as romantic back in S1 - the stalking, the half-truths, the constant undermining of her autonomy and emotional independence - which in both instances are a pale imitation of the same number Klaus did on his head, in the 1920s and the present.
W O R D. Back when the writers were actually stunning with the Elena/Stefan abuse narrative. And the overarching cycle-of-abuse theme. I just. I don't know what to make of it all after the season finale? I guess we'll see.
Tyler's fight does a neat job of deconstructing the idea of redemptive (blech) arc, which is usually presented as grueling but basically linear story. Tyler doesn't have shit ( ... )
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I don't know what to make of it all after the season finale? I guess we'll see.
Agreed. I'm not sure we can evaluate it fully until we hear from Elena next season, now that she has some much-needed perspective. But I do think the understanding of abuse that the show was reaching for was extremely sophisticated.
Really, my only real complaint with Tyler's arc is that "for the girl I love" bit. It's not that it isn't good there's a (healthy) counterpoint to Klaus's abuse of Tyler, but it irks me that Caroline herself basically gets nothing to do through all of this except be the beacon of light that reaffirms Tyler's worth.Yeah, I'm not wild about that part of it either, but if I take the love triangles as being 90% metaphor it's a lot easier to swallow. And I think it's in character for Tyler to not quite have the self-worth to own the ( ... )
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