TVD quick thoughts
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jedi_of_urthI doubt I'll do a full review, but I did want to get my immediate thoughts on the episode out there.
I can’t depressed or angry after this episode. I suppose the answer could be both.
At this point if the season DOESN’T end with Elena having a complete nervous breakdown I’m going to feel cheated. I don’t care how strong she is, you can’t pile this much crap on a character and not have a payoff to that story. This is my main concern.
I don’t know that I want to go into it a lot, but all the Stefan/Elena stuff felt WRONG this episode. Basically it felt like Caroline and the show were using the same logic, it was Stefan’s “turn.” Never mind the way he’s been written up til now, especially including the last couple episodes, it was his turn so all his reconciliation arc was crammed into one episode. But it felt completely false because it hasn’t had any lead up, it felt like we were supposed to pretend everything else away rather than being the climax of a redemption/reconciliation arc.
Why do I get the feeling the very same people who got mad at Elena for making Bonnie’s pain over her mom “all about Elena” are not going to throw the same accusation at Stefan? And FOR THE LOVE OF JEEBUS, WHY WAS STEFAN THE ONLY ONE WITH ELENA AT THE SCHOOL? It is totally unreasonable that Jeremy and Matt and Caroline and Bonnie ALL were like “later Elena, we’ll catch up one Ric’s dead everything cool.” If the writers actually cared about the Elena-Bonnie relationship it would have been the perfect time to address that, since it paralleled Abby’s death (and Bill’s for that matter, WHY WEREN’T THE GIRLS TOGETHER?).
I would like to point out that Elena has now been present for the deaths of every parental figure she’s ever had and that’s SIX of them now (for the moment counting Alaric is that frame even if he never really acted like it). Seriously, Stefan, if she wants to flip out for a bit I think you better let her. When KLAUS is allowed to have a better realized emotional reaction than Elena I cannot support it. (Although why didn’t Esther go and stab Rebekah with the stake as soon as she got it made? I’m not complaining, but that would have been logical.)
Yes I do feel bad for Alaric himself, but I’m really not sure what to say. I do like the implication that evil-Alaric wasn’t so much his dark side as the part of him that Esther groomed to be her weapon. And that actually works with the 1912 aspect of the story that what’s-her-name Gilbert was being groomed the same way around the time the white oak was originally cut down. I always thought there needed to be a stronger connection between them and I guess I can settle for this one.
Holey namedropping Batman. We got Jenna, Mikael, Elijah, Abby, reference to Rose though not by name. It also reminds me that Alaric got turned into a vampire exactly a season after Jenna did, though what exactly that says about the show’s pacing I’m not sure. If it does fallow pace with last season, the climax will be next week with the finale for a coda/set up for the start next season.
The other consequence of the name dropping is that I think Elijah is going to be back before the end of the season; and I can’t believe I’m going to say it but I hope I’m wrong about that. The first is that we’ve gotten Elijah namedrops two weeks in a row, which is about as many as we got before the last time he came back into the story. The second...I’m not sure what purpose he would serve in the climax except to die and I really don’t want that. If I had my way he’d only show up at the very end, to offer Elena the chance to get the hell out of MF for a while and they’d run off to Europe. They can take Jeremy I guess, he’s entitled to an emotional meltdown too I suppose, just not as much as I feel Elena is.
Because Elena NEEDS one at this point.
I can’t depressed or angry after this episode. I suppose the answer could be both.
At this point if the season DOESN’T end with Elena having a complete nervous breakdown I’m going to feel cheated. I don’t care how strong she is, you can’t pile this much crap on a character and not have a payoff to that story. This is my main concern.
I don’t know that I want to go into it a lot, but all the Stefan/Elena stuff felt WRONG this episode. Basically it felt like Caroline and the show were using the same logic, it was Stefan’s “turn.” Never mind the way he’s been written up til now, especially including the last couple episodes, it was his turn so all his reconciliation arc was crammed into one episode. But it felt completely false because it hasn’t had any lead up, it felt like we were supposed to pretend everything else away rather than being the climax of a redemption/reconciliation arc.
Why do I get the feeling the very same people who got mad at Elena for making Bonnie’s pain over her mom “all about Elena” are not going to throw the same accusation at Stefan? And FOR THE LOVE OF JEEBUS, WHY WAS STEFAN THE ONLY ONE WITH ELENA AT THE SCHOOL? It is totally unreasonable that Jeremy and Matt and Caroline and Bonnie ALL were like “later Elena, we’ll catch up one Ric’s dead everything cool.” If the writers actually cared about the Elena-Bonnie relationship it would have been the perfect time to address that, since it paralleled Abby’s death (and Bill’s for that matter, WHY WEREN’T THE GIRLS TOGETHER?).
I would like to point out that Elena has now been present for the deaths of every parental figure she’s ever had and that’s SIX of them now (for the moment counting Alaric is that frame even if he never really acted like it). Seriously, Stefan, if she wants to flip out for a bit I think you better let her. When KLAUS is allowed to have a better realized emotional reaction than Elena I cannot support it. (Although why didn’t Esther go and stab Rebekah with the stake as soon as she got it made? I’m not complaining, but that would have been logical.)
Yes I do feel bad for Alaric himself, but I’m really not sure what to say. I do like the implication that evil-Alaric wasn’t so much his dark side as the part of him that Esther groomed to be her weapon. And that actually works with the 1912 aspect of the story that what’s-her-name Gilbert was being groomed the same way around the time the white oak was originally cut down. I always thought there needed to be a stronger connection between them and I guess I can settle for this one.
Holey namedropping Batman. We got Jenna, Mikael, Elijah, Abby, reference to Rose though not by name. It also reminds me that Alaric got turned into a vampire exactly a season after Jenna did, though what exactly that says about the show’s pacing I’m not sure. If it does fallow pace with last season, the climax will be next week with the finale for a coda/set up for the start next season.
The other consequence of the name dropping is that I think Elijah is going to be back before the end of the season; and I can’t believe I’m going to say it but I hope I’m wrong about that. The first is that we’ve gotten Elijah namedrops two weeks in a row, which is about as many as we got before the last time he came back into the story. The second...I’m not sure what purpose he would serve in the climax except to die and I really don’t want that. If I had my way he’d only show up at the very end, to offer Elena the chance to get the hell out of MF for a while and they’d run off to Europe. They can take Jeremy I guess, he’s entitled to an emotional meltdown too I suppose, just not as much as I feel Elena is.
Because Elena NEEDS one at this point.
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Date: 2012-04-30 03:09 am (UTC)