I GOT A DAY OFF WORK BECAUSE IT WAS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY. And university took a break a day early -- though this means the mid-semester break will be a week shorter.
Right! And I think the episode did a good job with showing us that Elijah was never that Noble Elijah-construct, but without trying to imply he was axiomatically *the opposite* of that. Elijah's dream is to be a broker of peace between the bad and the worse, his drive to love and be loved is certainly genuine and hardly villainous. But we live in a fucked-up world, Elijah for much longer than most, and those impulses became warped and nasty under the power structures we all live under. It is totally believable, it is damaging without being dismissed and othered as some intrinsic evil. That shows up most starkly in his treatment of the doppelganger (doesn't matter which one, and that's the problem).
his "respect" for Elena is (as is the case for her interactions with almost every man on the show) dependent on her instinctively presenting in the right way to evoke the right response from him (and in Elena's case, when it comes to Elijah, it means being someone he can relate to, in whom he sees himself reflected, but in a positive light
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I GOT A DAY OFF WORK BECAUSE IT WAS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY. And university took a break a day early -- though this means the mid-semester break will be a week shorter.
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Instant gratification, I like it!
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his "respect" for Elena is (as is the case for her interactions with almost every man on the show) dependent on her instinctively presenting in the right way to evoke the right response from him (and in Elena's case, when it comes to Elijah, it means being someone he can relate to, in whom he sees himself reflected, but in a positive light ( ... )
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