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shadowkatEh, sort of hard to do without spoilers. Although I'm guessing everyone who watches this thing, which is about ten people on my flist....has seen it already.
It's soapy folks. Like True Blood. But takes itself more seriously. And is therefore, oddly, funnier and lot hotter at times.
* Elena breaks up with Stefan. Or did Stefan break up with Elena? It's hard to tell at this point.
I wouldn't worry too much about it Stef, she'll come back to eventually...like a bloody boomerang, with fangs or not...as the case may be. Seriously how many times have they broken up now? I've lost count. They break up at least three or four times a year. Enough to give one whiplash.
Stefan is upset and calls Caroline towhine commiserate.
Caroline: I just don't understand it, she's not acting like herself at all!
Stefan: Yes, she's all different...she has feelings for Stefan now.
Caroline (while batting her eyes in Klaus's direction - he's not there at the moment, but she does do it, albeit later): Is revolting. How can she not see how epic you are! That you belong together! And Damon is...just...Damon.
(Well to be fair, it would make sense that Caroline would dislike Damon considering he is partly responsible for her being a vampire. But considering he did save Tyler's life at great risk to his own along with her life, you'd think she'd let bygones be bygones...particularly now that she is all chummy with Klaus who put both of their lives in jeopardy. But whatever.)
* Stefan decides along with Caroline that they must cure Elena at all costs. Klaus overhears and is understandably annoyed. How is this going to stay a secret if you tell the entire town? (Caroline tends to be a bit on the gossipy side.)
So Klaus informs Stefan that he better find another vampire to kill, and right quick, or Klaus will have Jeremy kill Stefan. (Yeah, right, we should be so lucky. Stop teasing us show. We all know you'll never kill Stefan. )
Damon, however, is trying to find a vampire hunter substitute because as he tells Stefan, it is a really bad idea to use Jeremy...because Jeremy will just become Connor 2.0. But Stefan ignores him and troops off to find another vampire for Jeremy to kill. Apparently there's a shortage, because Stefan decides to make his own vampire. He finds a convicted murderer, who gets off on killing people, and sires the guy. Then he coaxes Jeremy to his and Klaus' lair, where the newly made vampire is chained up. He makes the guy become a full-fledged vamp by giving him Jeremy's blood, then he tells Jeremy - who is protesting this turn of events big time - to kill the vampire.
Jeremy is understandably freaked out.
Meanwhile, Elena, Caroline, April, and Matt are worrying about Jeremy's whereabouts. He's supposed to be escorting April to the Pagent, where she's trying out for Miss Mystic Falls. But he's gone AWOL. Matt tells Elena that Jeremy's been having nightmares about killing vampires and in particular urges about killing Elena. And it is getting harder and harder to control them. Elena gets worried and wants to find him. (Okay, does the girl have a death wish or what? Because, let's think about this for a minute...Jeremy is missing, Jeremy is having nightmares about killing Elena and urges about killing her...maybe it would make more sense for someone else to hunt down Jeremy? Just a suggestion.)
Not to worry, Damon says he'll find Jeremy. He calls Stefan and asks..."what are you doing? Please tell me you don't have Jeremy with you and you aren't trying to turn him into a vampire hunter so you can see the tattoo?"
Stefan replies..."I've no choice, we have to find the cure."
Damon: "not a great idea. He's having dreams about killing Elena..."
Stefan: I got it under control. (Yeah, right. Like you got your blood addiction under control, Klaus under control, etc? )
Stefan goes all Cruxciuam (which I can't spell and oops wrong show, where's Giles when you need him or Buffy for that matter? Poor Jeremy, instead of Giles and Buffy, he has Stefan and Matt.)
At any rate...Jeremy having no choice goes all Connor on the vamp's ass (should be noted that unlike Buffy, this poor vamp is never given a sporting chance - he remains chained up throughout)- which succeeds in unsettling Stefan a bit. Particularly when Jere tells Stefan he no longer trusts him. Stefan tries to compell him or at the very least fight him - but we now have super-Jeremy, who can lift two kegs without a breaking a sweat. Jeremy wisely decides to stake Stefan, but, alas
his heart isn't really in it...because he fails to kill Stefan. No worries, Stefan fans, Stefan lives to brood and whine and pout another day...although that may just be all the heavy eyeliner he is wearing...seriously he's starting to look like a racoon. But he is down for about twenty minutes...or at the very least long enough for Jeremy to head back to the party.
* Damon has found out from Atticus Shane that there is no other vampire hunters. They are basically stuck with Jeremy. He's also discovered that when they find whatever it is Jeremy's tattoo allegedly leads them to...it is sealed and only a witch can open it. A special witch.
Damon forces Shane to tell him what kind of witch. Seriously Damon, you disappoint me, I thought you were brighter than this? Shane thinks much the same thing.
Shane: You don't know? Guess?
Damon: No...it can't be, don't tell me..."a BENNETT WITCH!"
Shane: And there's only one left and she can't access her magic, without me! She only trusts me.
[Sigh. Is it just me or are the women in this series incredibly shallow in regards to men? Pretty bode and their brains just leap out the window? Even I can tell that something is off about Shane.
As can Damon...]
Tyler: Paranoid much?
Damon: Well let's see...he comes to town, he knows everything about everyone along with the cure, and was in contact with the council before they died...so, yes, paranoid.
Tyler: Okay, maybe you have a point. (Tyler looks back at wolf girlfriend Hilary who is busy chatting up Shane)
* Jeremy has popped back up at the pagent. And Elena approaches him alone. After he's advised April that vampires are bad news. April doesn't quite know what to make of this. And she's wearing a red dress - any guesses as to who is going to die in next week's episode or whichever episode they decide to kill another character in? Hint? It's not Elena. And of course Damon told April to wear the red dress, after Caroline and Elena told her to wear blue because it is safer...and since Elena suddenly changed her mind and agreed with him...this is clearly evidence that something is up with Elena, because why on earth would she agree with Damon that the red dress is prettier than the blue - when Caroline obviously preferred the blue and has the better fashions sense! Elena has changed and is just not a good friend any more! She no longer agrees with Caroline. How dare she1
Caroline calls Stefan and whines about this...because you know, they must do whatever is necessary to turn Elena human again - this cannot continue! We must get back Elena's good fashion sense and stop her from agreeing with nasty manipulative Damon.
Meanwhile Jeremy is stalking Elena. They fight. He stakes her in the neck. Because as a newly minted vampire hunter with relatively no training he is obviously quicker and stronger than poor weak Elena. But not to worry, he doesn't kill her. Big strong Stefan saves her. Yes, they've managed to find a way to turn Elena into the damsel again. Those crafty little writers. And a way to have the mighty Stefan save her no less. Course...Stefan must tell Elena now that he turned Jeremy into a violent vampire hunter craving his sister (and all vampires for that matter) demise.
Stefan: We need him to cure you - make you human.
Elena: We can't strip Jeremy of his humanity to save me. How could you think I'd be okay with that?
Stefan: It's the only way to get you back..
Elena: So you don't have to love me this way...no, Stefan, I won't have Jeremy turned into a monster...the Elena you knew, died on that bridge, you need to let her go.
(I wouldn't worry...it's not like you haven't had this conversation before after all. Just last year you, Stefan, were telling Elena pretty much the same thing. Also, she doesn't tell you she doesn't love you any more, just that she can't be some innocent nitwit with a death wish. I know, the damsel was more fun...but hey, look on the bright side, you just saved her...so still a damsel. Don't really see much difference, well outside of the heightened attraction to Damon, which wait...was there before too. Again, not seeing a difference here dude.)
I don't know about anyone else but I'm feeling rather sorry for Jeremy. Not like he chose this. No, Stefan chose it for him. Also Jere's looking rather hot. Giving good ole Stef a run for his money. Jere decides to leave, and somewhat sad and lost, packs to go...but not to worry, when it comes to being a martyr, Elena is five steps ahead of you. She took off first. Matt has volunteered to be Jere's wing-man. I'm human, he tells him, I can keep you in check. You won't kill me. (Hmmm...nice they are giving Matt something to do other than look forlornly at Elena. Who found him too boring. Methinks the lady has a type.)
* Elena decides to move in with Damon and Stefan (like there's no other place in town that will take her? She always goes to live with them...you'd think she'd get a drawer or something, save on the packing). Stefan tells her to pick a room - meaning which boy she wants to sleep with, I'm guessing. Seeing her bat her lashes at Damon, he takes the hint and bugs out, so to speak. He's such a sore loser...Damon took it better than he has.
* And yes, while all this is going on...we have the Caroline/Klaus/Tyler/Hilary quadrangle.
Which is all about siring.
While Caroline is keeping Klaus busy, Tyler is helping Hilary break the sire bond of all the hybrid vampires. Hilary leaves Tyler to do the rest and has a nifty and secret tete-a-tete with Shane.
Hilary: Got another one. But I don't want Tyler to be part of this. I want him kept out of it.
Shane: Not until we get them all. Then...we'll talk about Tyler.
And Klaus hints to Caroline that there may be something else behind the heightened feelings Elena has for Damon....all while she's batting her lashes at him and is turned on. (Honey? You complain about Elena and Damon, while you are getting into it with Klaus? Alrighty then.)
* Elena and Damon have possibly the hottest sex scene the show has ever done. Lots of skin, lots of heat...enough to make one wonder why she bothers with Stefan. No offense, but the guy playing Stefan sucks at sex scenes. He's too bloody stiff. You can tell he's cold and has a lot of cameras on him. Which granted is the case. Sex scenes are not fun for actors, folks, they hate them. Not everyone can do sex scenes.
While this is happening...Caroline and Stefan commisserate and Caroline figures out why Elena wants Damon. Clearly it can't be because he has a hot bode, loves her madly, has no desire to change her, isn't trying to strip her brother of his humanity to make her human, hasn't been lying to her about it...no that's not it, clearly not...no..it's the sire bond! Wait, what? Oh that's right...it's Damon's blood that Doctor Meredith used to save Elena's life in the hospital before she got run off the bridge by Becky, and Stefan decided to save Matt over her...that's why!
It explains so much...like why Elena can't drink animal blood or blood from a bag and only from the vein, why she wants Damon, why she agrees with everything Damon says...he's sired her! Of course let's ignore for a wee bit the fact that Katrina can't control anything Stefan and Damon do, yet she sired both of them, nor can she really control Caroline without compelling her, and
Damon couldn't control Bonnie's mother...but hey, it's clearly the whole siring thing! Apparently if you don't sire someone directly, you can control them? Or was it when he had her drink from him?
But wait that doesn't work because, you know, she did that because she kept throwing up the animal blood...
See, this is the problem with tv shows and convoluted mythologies, the writers forget their own plots. And the audience thinks...huh? Let the fanwanking begin. I'm sure someone out there has rewatched every episode fifteen times and can find enough plot loopholes to make this one work.
Anyhow, the show has once again managed to find a way to turn the leading lady into a victim and a damsel. Kudos. Forgetting that for the last three years she's lusted after Damon, but oh no, I won't sleep with him because that would be bad.
Makes no sense. Elena doesn't seem that different to me. She's still wishy-washy, still a victim, still has a martyr complex, still can't decide between Stefan and Damon (keeps jumping between the two...it's enough to give someone whip-lash.)
Serve Caroline and Stefan, if Jeremy ended up using Tyler to kill Elena. But no, not to worry. Never happen. Although, I'm willing to bet they tease us next week with the possibility.
I do have a theory regarding where all this is going - the cure is actually making Shane immortal or freeing Silas, one or the other, or both. Or freeing some woman Shane/Silas wants. Feels a lot like The Mummy story to me. There are no new stories after all. Unfortunately.
And undoing the sire bond is a bad thing...just as making Elena human would be. In short, I'm willing to bet all of this is going to blow up in Stefan's face. At least I hope it does.
Show? Do you want me to despise Caroline and Stefan? Because you are doing a bang-up job of it. I I was actually rooting for Jeremy to slay their asses this week...but no, he went after Elena, because of course, Elena must play the damsel again. It's getting tiring. I know she won't die. And it's predictable.
Their goal - I'm rooting against. Stefan and Caroline want Elena human. DO NOT WANT! I'm with Damon...let's try something new. Also, why didn't Caroline offer her digs to Elena? Or offer to help Elena figure out vampirism? Why hasn't she offered her services at all? This makes no sense to me. Any more than it makes sense that Damon would manipulate the sire hold (which just popped up out of nowhere..ex deus machina, anyone?) I mean, here's a guy whose angsting after her. Who compelled her to forget he loved her. Who doesn't want to take her away from his brother. Who is willing to help his brother cure her of her vampirism. And doesn't want her to choose him unless she's sure. Plus he had to be second-fiddle to Stefan with Katrina. Why would he do that? What would it serve him? If he never compelled her to have sex with him while she was human, why manipulate the sire bond? Seems a bit off. I mean Damon can be and often is a manipulative ass, but this doesn't quite work. It's all very contrived and poorly done. The writers are getting lazy.
I can't quite decide if the writers are serious or trying to be ironic? I can argue it either way.
Because the whole speech Caroline gives about Elena and Stefan being epic soul-mates is so over the top, it's almost not quite funny. I found myself rolling my eyes. Was it supposed to be serious? I can't tell. And her whole bit about clearly Elena is under a sire bond and can't help herself...also felt like it was taken out of a very silly fanfic. And it made no sense - it doesn't fit with the rest of the story. Up until now - only Klaus could do that - and with his hybrids. Katrina couldn't. If she could, Stefan and Damon wouldn't have been able to fight her.
Plus...they are having her do this speech, while Elena is enjoying hot sex with Damon - not only enjoying it - initiating it. Taking control. Usually, Stefan initiates, and it's all traditional and sappy.
Don't get me wrong...I'm not an Elena shipper, nor an Elena/Damon one - although I find Damon/Elena more palatable than Stefan/Elena( which admittedly is not exactly hard. I call Stefan/Elena - the martyrdom from hell.) I don't do that in tv shows any longer. Ship romantic relationships. Because it's an unwritten rule in these types of series that neither ship wins. And the people chosen to write tv shows tend to be sappy traditionalists who go for tired overdone romantic tropes. Sad. But true. Daytime soap operas are actually more satisfying in this regard. But they are also on a heck of a lot longer, we're talking 50 years here...so sooner or later everyone sleeps with and/or has a wild romance with everyone else, even if they were allegedly related at some point. The writers run out of characters...and it all gets frighteningly incestuous. This why tv shows shouldn't last more than 5 seasons...well unless of course you are a daytime soap opera. Vamp Diaries desperately wants to be a daytime soap opera...but it hasn't quite made up its mind yet, it's still on the fence.
Suffice it to say, romantic ships are losing bets on tv. TV writers can't figure out how to write a sustainable relationship and make it hot. So they just put them together, then break them up, put them together, break them up. It's endless. And aggravating. So to protect myself? I ship sibling relationships and friendships on these shows far more satisfying. Damon/Stefan, Damon/Alaric, Caroline/Elena (well until this episode, that is...now I'm not shipping Caroline with anyone, except maybe Klaus, who I think sort of deserve each other and besides that would be fun to watch, very daytime soapish.). Jeremy/Matt. The male relationships on this series are better written than the female relationships. I do not know why this is so. Also the men are written better. Again, no clue why. Except that it's more proof that our cultural media is insanely sexist and unbalanced in gender/race dynamics. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are clearly burying their heads in the sand. De Nile being a rive and all that.
So funny episode and great up until the second half when it went off the rails and became ludicrous. Note to writers? Stop reading bad vampire fanfic. It's not good for you.
It's soapy folks. Like True Blood. But takes itself more seriously. And is therefore, oddly, funnier and lot hotter at times.
* Elena breaks up with Stefan. Or did Stefan break up with Elena? It's hard to tell at this point.
I wouldn't worry too much about it Stef, she'll come back to eventually...like a bloody boomerang, with fangs or not...as the case may be. Seriously how many times have they broken up now? I've lost count. They break up at least three or four times a year. Enough to give one whiplash.
Stefan is upset and calls Caroline to
Caroline: I just don't understand it, she's not acting like herself at all!
Stefan: Yes, she's all different...she has feelings for Stefan now.
Caroline (while batting her eyes in Klaus's direction - he's not there at the moment, but she does do it, albeit later): Is revolting. How can she not see how epic you are! That you belong together! And Damon is...just...Damon.
(Well to be fair, it would make sense that Caroline would dislike Damon considering he is partly responsible for her being a vampire. But considering he did save Tyler's life at great risk to his own along with her life, you'd think she'd let bygones be bygones...particularly now that she is all chummy with Klaus who put both of their lives in jeopardy. But whatever.)
* Stefan decides along with Caroline that they must cure Elena at all costs. Klaus overhears and is understandably annoyed. How is this going to stay a secret if you tell the entire town? (Caroline tends to be a bit on the gossipy side.)
So Klaus informs Stefan that he better find another vampire to kill, and right quick, or Klaus will have Jeremy kill Stefan. (Yeah, right, we should be so lucky. Stop teasing us show. We all know you'll never kill Stefan. )
Damon, however, is trying to find a vampire hunter substitute because as he tells Stefan, it is a really bad idea to use Jeremy...because Jeremy will just become Connor 2.0. But Stefan ignores him and troops off to find another vampire for Jeremy to kill. Apparently there's a shortage, because Stefan decides to make his own vampire. He finds a convicted murderer, who gets off on killing people, and sires the guy. Then he coaxes Jeremy to his and Klaus' lair, where the newly made vampire is chained up. He makes the guy become a full-fledged vamp by giving him Jeremy's blood, then he tells Jeremy - who is protesting this turn of events big time - to kill the vampire.
Jeremy is understandably freaked out.
Meanwhile, Elena, Caroline, April, and Matt are worrying about Jeremy's whereabouts. He's supposed to be escorting April to the Pagent, where she's trying out for Miss Mystic Falls. But he's gone AWOL. Matt tells Elena that Jeremy's been having nightmares about killing vampires and in particular urges about killing Elena. And it is getting harder and harder to control them. Elena gets worried and wants to find him. (Okay, does the girl have a death wish or what? Because, let's think about this for a minute...Jeremy is missing, Jeremy is having nightmares about killing Elena and urges about killing her...maybe it would make more sense for someone else to hunt down Jeremy? Just a suggestion.)
Not to worry, Damon says he'll find Jeremy. He calls Stefan and asks..."what are you doing? Please tell me you don't have Jeremy with you and you aren't trying to turn him into a vampire hunter so you can see the tattoo?"
Stefan replies..."I've no choice, we have to find the cure."
Damon: "not a great idea. He's having dreams about killing Elena..."
Stefan: I got it under control. (Yeah, right. Like you got your blood addiction under control, Klaus under control, etc? )
Stefan goes all Cruxciuam (which I can't spell and oops wrong show, where's Giles when you need him or Buffy for that matter? Poor Jeremy, instead of Giles and Buffy, he has Stefan and Matt.)
At any rate...Jeremy having no choice goes all Connor on the vamp's ass (should be noted that unlike Buffy, this poor vamp is never given a sporting chance - he remains chained up throughout)- which succeeds in unsettling Stefan a bit. Particularly when Jere tells Stefan he no longer trusts him. Stefan tries to compell him or at the very least fight him - but we now have super-Jeremy, who can lift two kegs without a breaking a sweat. Jeremy wisely decides to stake Stefan, but, alas
his heart isn't really in it...because he fails to kill Stefan. No worries, Stefan fans, Stefan lives to brood and whine and pout another day...although that may just be all the heavy eyeliner he is wearing...seriously he's starting to look like a racoon. But he is down for about twenty minutes...or at the very least long enough for Jeremy to head back to the party.
* Damon has found out from Atticus Shane that there is no other vampire hunters. They are basically stuck with Jeremy. He's also discovered that when they find whatever it is Jeremy's tattoo allegedly leads them to...it is sealed and only a witch can open it. A special witch.
Damon forces Shane to tell him what kind of witch. Seriously Damon, you disappoint me, I thought you were brighter than this? Shane thinks much the same thing.
Shane: You don't know? Guess?
Damon: No...it can't be, don't tell me..."a BENNETT WITCH!"
Shane: And there's only one left and she can't access her magic, without me! She only trusts me.
[Sigh. Is it just me or are the women in this series incredibly shallow in regards to men? Pretty bode and their brains just leap out the window? Even I can tell that something is off about Shane.
As can Damon...]
Tyler: Paranoid much?
Damon: Well let's see...he comes to town, he knows everything about everyone along with the cure, and was in contact with the council before they died...so, yes, paranoid.
Tyler: Okay, maybe you have a point. (Tyler looks back at wolf girlfriend Hilary who is busy chatting up Shane)
* Jeremy has popped back up at the pagent. And Elena approaches him alone. After he's advised April that vampires are bad news. April doesn't quite know what to make of this. And she's wearing a red dress - any guesses as to who is going to die in next week's episode or whichever episode they decide to kill another character in? Hint? It's not Elena. And of course Damon told April to wear the red dress, after Caroline and Elena told her to wear blue because it is safer...and since Elena suddenly changed her mind and agreed with him...this is clearly evidence that something is up with Elena, because why on earth would she agree with Damon that the red dress is prettier than the blue - when Caroline obviously preferred the blue and has the better fashions sense! Elena has changed and is just not a good friend any more! She no longer agrees with Caroline. How dare she1
Caroline calls Stefan and whines about this...because you know, they must do whatever is necessary to turn Elena human again - this cannot continue! We must get back Elena's good fashion sense and stop her from agreeing with nasty manipulative Damon.
Meanwhile Jeremy is stalking Elena. They fight. He stakes her in the neck. Because as a newly minted vampire hunter with relatively no training he is obviously quicker and stronger than poor weak Elena. But not to worry, he doesn't kill her. Big strong Stefan saves her. Yes, they've managed to find a way to turn Elena into the damsel again. Those crafty little writers. And a way to have the mighty Stefan save her no less. Course...Stefan must tell Elena now that he turned Jeremy into a violent vampire hunter craving his sister (and all vampires for that matter) demise.
Stefan: We need him to cure you - make you human.
Elena: We can't strip Jeremy of his humanity to save me. How could you think I'd be okay with that?
Stefan: It's the only way to get you back..
Elena: So you don't have to love me this way...no, Stefan, I won't have Jeremy turned into a monster...the Elena you knew, died on that bridge, you need to let her go.
(I wouldn't worry...it's not like you haven't had this conversation before after all. Just last year you, Stefan, were telling Elena pretty much the same thing. Also, she doesn't tell you she doesn't love you any more, just that she can't be some innocent nitwit with a death wish. I know, the damsel was more fun...but hey, look on the bright side, you just saved her...so still a damsel. Don't really see much difference, well outside of the heightened attraction to Damon, which wait...was there before too. Again, not seeing a difference here dude.)
I don't know about anyone else but I'm feeling rather sorry for Jeremy. Not like he chose this. No, Stefan chose it for him. Also Jere's looking rather hot. Giving good ole Stef a run for his money. Jere decides to leave, and somewhat sad and lost, packs to go...but not to worry, when it comes to being a martyr, Elena is five steps ahead of you. She took off first. Matt has volunteered to be Jere's wing-man. I'm human, he tells him, I can keep you in check. You won't kill me. (Hmmm...nice they are giving Matt something to do other than look forlornly at Elena. Who found him too boring. Methinks the lady has a type.)
* Elena decides to move in with Damon and Stefan (like there's no other place in town that will take her? She always goes to live with them...you'd think she'd get a drawer or something, save on the packing). Stefan tells her to pick a room - meaning which boy she wants to sleep with, I'm guessing. Seeing her bat her lashes at Damon, he takes the hint and bugs out, so to speak. He's such a sore loser...Damon took it better than he has.
* And yes, while all this is going on...we have the Caroline/Klaus/Tyler/Hilary quadrangle.
Which is all about siring.
While Caroline is keeping Klaus busy, Tyler is helping Hilary break the sire bond of all the hybrid vampires. Hilary leaves Tyler to do the rest and has a nifty and secret tete-a-tete with Shane.
Hilary: Got another one. But I don't want Tyler to be part of this. I want him kept out of it.
Shane: Not until we get them all. Then...we'll talk about Tyler.
And Klaus hints to Caroline that there may be something else behind the heightened feelings Elena has for Damon....all while she's batting her lashes at him and is turned on. (Honey? You complain about Elena and Damon, while you are getting into it with Klaus? Alrighty then.)
* Elena and Damon have possibly the hottest sex scene the show has ever done. Lots of skin, lots of heat...enough to make one wonder why she bothers with Stefan. No offense, but the guy playing Stefan sucks at sex scenes. He's too bloody stiff. You can tell he's cold and has a lot of cameras on him. Which granted is the case. Sex scenes are not fun for actors, folks, they hate them. Not everyone can do sex scenes.
While this is happening...Caroline and Stefan commisserate and Caroline figures out why Elena wants Damon. Clearly it can't be because he has a hot bode, loves her madly, has no desire to change her, isn't trying to strip her brother of his humanity to make her human, hasn't been lying to her about it...no that's not it, clearly not...no..it's the sire bond! Wait, what? Oh that's right...it's Damon's blood that Doctor Meredith used to save Elena's life in the hospital before she got run off the bridge by Becky, and Stefan decided to save Matt over her...that's why!
It explains so much...like why Elena can't drink animal blood or blood from a bag and only from the vein, why she wants Damon, why she agrees with everything Damon says...he's sired her! Of course let's ignore for a wee bit the fact that Katrina can't control anything Stefan and Damon do, yet she sired both of them, nor can she really control Caroline without compelling her, and
Damon couldn't control Bonnie's mother...but hey, it's clearly the whole siring thing! Apparently if you don't sire someone directly, you can control them? Or was it when he had her drink from him?
But wait that doesn't work because, you know, she did that because she kept throwing up the animal blood...
See, this is the problem with tv shows and convoluted mythologies, the writers forget their own plots. And the audience thinks...huh? Let the fanwanking begin. I'm sure someone out there has rewatched every episode fifteen times and can find enough plot loopholes to make this one work.
Anyhow, the show has once again managed to find a way to turn the leading lady into a victim and a damsel. Kudos. Forgetting that for the last three years she's lusted after Damon, but oh no, I won't sleep with him because that would be bad.
Makes no sense. Elena doesn't seem that different to me. She's still wishy-washy, still a victim, still has a martyr complex, still can't decide between Stefan and Damon (keeps jumping between the two...it's enough to give someone whip-lash.)
Serve Caroline and Stefan, if Jeremy ended up using Tyler to kill Elena. But no, not to worry. Never happen. Although, I'm willing to bet they tease us next week with the possibility.
I do have a theory regarding where all this is going - the cure is actually making Shane immortal or freeing Silas, one or the other, or both. Or freeing some woman Shane/Silas wants. Feels a lot like The Mummy story to me. There are no new stories after all. Unfortunately.
And undoing the sire bond is a bad thing...just as making Elena human would be. In short, I'm willing to bet all of this is going to blow up in Stefan's face. At least I hope it does.
Show? Do you want me to despise Caroline and Stefan? Because you are doing a bang-up job of it. I I was actually rooting for Jeremy to slay their asses this week...but no, he went after Elena, because of course, Elena must play the damsel again. It's getting tiring. I know she won't die. And it's predictable.
Their goal - I'm rooting against. Stefan and Caroline want Elena human. DO NOT WANT! I'm with Damon...let's try something new. Also, why didn't Caroline offer her digs to Elena? Or offer to help Elena figure out vampirism? Why hasn't she offered her services at all? This makes no sense to me. Any more than it makes sense that Damon would manipulate the sire hold (which just popped up out of nowhere..ex deus machina, anyone?) I mean, here's a guy whose angsting after her. Who compelled her to forget he loved her. Who doesn't want to take her away from his brother. Who is willing to help his brother cure her of her vampirism. And doesn't want her to choose him unless she's sure. Plus he had to be second-fiddle to Stefan with Katrina. Why would he do that? What would it serve him? If he never compelled her to have sex with him while she was human, why manipulate the sire bond? Seems a bit off. I mean Damon can be and often is a manipulative ass, but this doesn't quite work. It's all very contrived and poorly done. The writers are getting lazy.
I can't quite decide if the writers are serious or trying to be ironic? I can argue it either way.
Because the whole speech Caroline gives about Elena and Stefan being epic soul-mates is so over the top, it's almost not quite funny. I found myself rolling my eyes. Was it supposed to be serious? I can't tell. And her whole bit about clearly Elena is under a sire bond and can't help herself...also felt like it was taken out of a very silly fanfic. And it made no sense - it doesn't fit with the rest of the story. Up until now - only Klaus could do that - and with his hybrids. Katrina couldn't. If she could, Stefan and Damon wouldn't have been able to fight her.
Plus...they are having her do this speech, while Elena is enjoying hot sex with Damon - not only enjoying it - initiating it. Taking control. Usually, Stefan initiates, and it's all traditional and sappy.
Don't get me wrong...I'm not an Elena shipper, nor an Elena/Damon one - although I find Damon/Elena more palatable than Stefan/Elena( which admittedly is not exactly hard. I call Stefan/Elena - the martyrdom from hell.) I don't do that in tv shows any longer. Ship romantic relationships. Because it's an unwritten rule in these types of series that neither ship wins. And the people chosen to write tv shows tend to be sappy traditionalists who go for tired overdone romantic tropes. Sad. But true. Daytime soap operas are actually more satisfying in this regard. But they are also on a heck of a lot longer, we're talking 50 years here...so sooner or later everyone sleeps with and/or has a wild romance with everyone else, even if they were allegedly related at some point. The writers run out of characters...and it all gets frighteningly incestuous. This why tv shows shouldn't last more than 5 seasons...well unless of course you are a daytime soap opera. Vamp Diaries desperately wants to be a daytime soap opera...but it hasn't quite made up its mind yet, it's still on the fence.
Suffice it to say, romantic ships are losing bets on tv. TV writers can't figure out how to write a sustainable relationship and make it hot. So they just put them together, then break them up, put them together, break them up. It's endless. And aggravating. So to protect myself? I ship sibling relationships and friendships on these shows far more satisfying. Damon/Stefan, Damon/Alaric, Caroline/Elena (well until this episode, that is...now I'm not shipping Caroline with anyone, except maybe Klaus, who I think sort of deserve each other and besides that would be fun to watch, very daytime soapish.). Jeremy/Matt. The male relationships on this series are better written than the female relationships. I do not know why this is so. Also the men are written better. Again, no clue why. Except that it's more proof that our cultural media is insanely sexist and unbalanced in gender/race dynamics. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are clearly burying their heads in the sand. De Nile being a rive and all that.
So funny episode and great up until the second half when it went off the rails and became ludicrous. Note to writers? Stop reading bad vampire fanfic. It's not good for you.
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Date: 2012-12-02 08:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-02 02:32 pm (UTC)That said, I did find the first half to be hilarious...the whole let's turn Jeremy into a vampire hunter, no wait he'll go after Elena...oh I'll just worry about that little wrinkle later - had me on laughing my head off.
Plus...Damon lurking in the background questioning the sanity of this plan. LOL!
I honestly am beginning to think the only character in this series with half a brain is Damon. And possibly Atticus Shane.
But other than that...the show is a mopey mess. What I initially liked about Vamp Diaries was it was steering clear of the stupid sire bit, which plagues many a bad fanfic. There's a lot of Buffy fanfic and vampire gothic fiction I can't read because of that stupid story plot, which takes me right out of the story every single time. While stealing from Stoker makes sense, let's not steal his bad Victorian ideas...shall we?
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Date: 2012-12-02 01:33 pm (UTC)"Hybrids are loyal to Klaus and will seek his acceptance because his blood created them - this is called a "Sire Bond". Every hybrid is very loyal even when acting out of free will they can't stop doing what Klaus says. It appears that this bond is not exclusive to Klaus and his hybrids, as Damon Salvatore commented that it existed with vampires also, but it was very rare."
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Date: 2012-12-02 02:17 pm (UTC)Of course in the third season they were able to explain that away with it being an "original" bit...but now, apparently they've had Damon comment on how it existed with vampires also...even though no one does it until Klaus pops up because that works best for the plot.
And people say this isn't a daytime soap opera. ;-)