TVD 4x02, Memorial

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I promised real thoughts on this episode, so here it goes ;). I'm terribly late with replying to comments and reading other episode reactions, I know. It's just that school started, real life takes up a lot of time, and when I actually have some internet time, I try to write fic. I'll do my best to be less late, but I'm not sure if I can catch up

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She closed the chapter (which is why I actually like that Elena and Stefan are acting as if s3 never happened? They had a problem. They put it behind them without solving it. Now it's behind them, aka in a perfect position to bite them in the ass).
lol ok. Well put. And I love everything you say about Stelena. Let's hope this is how things go down. I have more faith after this episode, but better not to have any faith at all where this ship is concerned, so whatever.

I love the visual of Elena being all girly, sexual and smiling with Stefan, being the Perfect Girlfriend, undressing him, kissing... and then running away to vomit. THERE IS NO WAY THEY DON'T WANT ME TO READ IT AS A METAPHOR. She throws up right in the middle of living up to All The Expectations. She literally can't stomach being The Good Girl.
YES YES YES YES YES. And it's consistent with her vomiting in church, too, right in the middle of trying to be the perfect beacon of compassion for April. (lol, and then she almost KILLS her at the end, and finally has to compel her in order to "erase" her own sin.)

Shoot me, but the blood sharing scene was a bit disappointing? Something was off for me. I really liked the writing, but something went wrong with the visual. Either Nina and Ian overdid a bit with the facial expressions, or it is just that everyone looks ridiculous while biting into someone's palm, and I should get over it ;).
LOL, same. I felt uncomfortable watching it. But I think it was supposed to be kind of confronting to watch? Because it was so deeply intimate and ~personal. My first instinct was to giggle at the blissed-out expression on Damon's face. But now that I think about it, I'm glad they went there.

Blood sharing is not a vampire thing, it's a Damon thing. Feeding Elena is personal, because when he was human, he used to feed Katherine, and it means something for him: it means surrendering himself, it means sharing his body, it means expressing love.
I can buy it. Though, I hope the show explores this more, just so the world-building is clearer. Like, if Elena feeds from Stefan, would the experience be similar? (lol nope.)

Damon and Elena both talk about loss in this episode, and they tell essentially the same thing: when you love someone, and then you lose them, it hurts like fuck. Thank you, show, like I needed even more D/E parallels to fuel my obsession.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! I was struck by how Elena-like the line "all you have left is a hole where the person used to be" was. It just seemed like a very Elena thing to say? ABANDONMENT COMPLEXES 5EVER.

I didn't love how Stefan punched Damon while he was freshly shot. With wooden bullets. Halfway through helping him to get up.
LOL I LOVED THAT. I have a bizarre affection for Stefan being a petty dick, okay, let it be~~~

Also, was it just me, or was Elena on the fence with the whole lantern thing? She was the last to speak, and she only did after Stefan gave her a long, intense look. Like she had half a mind to go away with Damon, but eventually she chose not to (lalalala, shippers gonna ship).
lol but this is true though. Elena has always preferred to deal with her grief and issues privately. She was there because of Stefan.

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I have more faith after this episode, but better not to have any faith at all where this ship is concerned, so whatever.

I knoooooow. If S/E gets fucked up again now, I will never recover :(. I JUST CAN'T HELP HAVING ALL THOSE FEELINGS OKAY?

And it's consistent with her vomiting in church, too, right in the middle of trying to be the perfect beacon of compassion for April

OMG YES. Elena is having a psychosomatic reaction to blood, y/y?

Though, I hope the show explores this more, just so the world-building is clearer.

Yep, we definitely need someone to comment on it.

ABANDONMENT COMPLEXES 5EVER.

Save me from my teenage feelings :((((((((.

Elena has always preferred to deal with her grief and issues privately. She was there because of Stefan.

He organizes a show for her sake and she participates in it for his sake. Relationships are about communication...