So much more, he gets drunk and we see a sort of repeat of episode one of the series - with Damon lying in the road, a lone woman stopping, he springs up and yet, instead of just killing her - he talks instead. An existential rant. He wants to kill her - he feels he should kill her. It would feel better if he dead. He wants to go back to being the killer who doesn't care, who feels nothing - the way he's been for 100 some years. If he kills her, will it work? Won't it? He does and unlike Julie, you can see that he's torn up about it - his eyes blood-shot and haunted like Rose's after she killed those three people. Torn at regret, wanting to go back to not caring to not feeling. It makes me think of the drunk or addict - who wants to escape. To feel comfortably numb. Also reminds me a little of Spike and Angel and Darla in Angel and Buffy, who go through similar journeys - wanting to forget, not feel, not hurt.
And yet he's going to have to feel because trouble is coming; in the form of Klaus and also in the form of more werewolves.
And you're right about the bad habit of killing off the interesting women, I would have liked Rose to stick around at least until the end of the Season.
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Date: 2011-01-28 08:50 am (UTC)And yet he's going to have to feel because trouble is coming; in the form of Klaus and also in the form of more werewolves.
And you're right about the bad habit of killing off the interesting women, I would have liked Rose to stick around at least until the end of the Season.