Special snowflakes...

[astri13]

Okay, does anyone want to punch Stefan and Caroline in the faces, like lots and lot and lots?

After being bitchy, judgemental and self-righteous as fuck for the last two episodes, they both seemed to make some headway at the end of the last one. However, no we`re having them back in all their obnoxious glory when they wax poetic on how they just can`t hate KLAUS. Because hey, they`re all murderers.

While the second part is fair point, though Caroline technically isn`t in the same league as Stefan is (or Damon or Klaus or anyone) and likely never will be with her one out-of-control feeding-kill. Neither is Elena really. But basically, it is nice that they may acknowledge how neither of them is a moral person. Not even before the vampirism really. Anyone out of the group is expendable. Always has been, always will be.

So that didn`t bother me. But both are still aparently on their "Damon getting together with Elena is the evilest evil that ever eviled" kink, with Caroline cheerleading Stelena`s epicness and Stefan "Damon is so WRONG for her" Salvatore.

You can do all this and can still have fuzzy warm feelings for Klaus? K.L.A.U.S.?

I have no words and I LIKE Klaus in all his hybrid-ripping, special-snowflake painting glory. At least he isn`t a bloody, fucking hypocrite.

Also, Stefan was shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn how "together" Damon and Elena really were. What the hell was his dramatic flouncing at the end of episode 7 supposed to mean then? Stefan breaks up with her because she has feelings for Damon now (she had them for ages but apparently he can`t handle that anymore but whatever). Then Stefan does a dick move with Jeremy which makes it so Elena can`t live in her own home anymore, prompting her to show up at the Salvatore mansion with her suitcase. Stefan and Damon both answer the door, cue fraught looks all around and then Stefan snittily does a big martyr flounce.

I did assume he expected the hook-up and well, wanted to do a martyr flounce. Like, on purpose. Instead he just left and what, thought Damon and Elena had a little night-cap? Stared each other longingly all night? Played chess?

Normally, I might feel bad for him but the Stefan and Caroline fanclub of "how Stefan is awesome, Damon sucks and Klaus is kinda okay" sucks so much, I can`t.

Right now I feel very bad for Damon. And even Elena. Because irony of ironies, she is more free, more fun and more assertive with Damon than she ever was with Stefan. All this while the show is trying to sell me on a plotline that says she has to literally obey Damon`s every command in the most incosistent and wonky-written way ever.

Also, are we back on Beremy? Or is it Jonnie? While I never particularly disliked them as a couple (though my Jeremy OTP is with Anna), that seems odd.

But of course Damon will stay behind right now so that he can`t learn of the hybrid massacre of 12!!! and figure shit out. Because lets be realistic, he is the only of the group who always figures shit out. I mean, he gets ignored when he does but at least he does. When he says something is iffy, it usually is.

At least I like the dynamic with Jeremy because it always cracked me up that despite Damon snapping Jeremy`s neck, Jer always seemed to like Damon better than Stefan. He treated Stefan as some dude who banged his sister and whose "orders" he`d ignore but he often acts like a younger brother trying to impress a cooler older brother with Damon and despite huffing about it does something when Damon tells him to. Haha.

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[astri13.livejournal.com]

And whether or not the writers will be brave enough to follow through on their own set up.

That`s the big question. Julie Plec is a Stelena stan so if it`s up to her alone, no dice.

Also, it depends on if they want to go opposite of the book stories. I was really weirded out to read that the author of the books was fired and replaced by a ghostwriter (since unfortunately the original author had also only been hired as a writer to write from a publisher`s pre-existing concept) because she wanted to go with a Delena ending but the publisher insisted on Stelena. Yikes.

Now it would make sense to have the show be opposite and I assume the rights to the show are completely separated from the book rights so they could do it. But again, difficult to say.

I read it`s conceptionalized for 6? years so this would be kinda half way point. Season 1 and 2 were pretty much Stelena, Season 3 worked to get a move on with Delena and now Season is exploring them. So they need to throw in another wrench for Seasons 5 and 6.

It`s hard to believe in show-time it`s not even been two years. At least that`s what I`m thinking. Season 2 picked up right where 1 left off so there was no "summer break". But between Seasons 2 and 3 we had one while 4 picked up right after 3 again. And they were juniors at the beginning of S1 but seniors only at the beginning of S3.

So basically, everything that has happened so far happened in one and a half years. If you go by that, Delena got together pretty quickly. :)

[mangokulfi.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't know about the books. That's a shame. I really hope the show goes it's own way then and stays true to its own mythology rather than the book series.

I haven't read much about Julie Plec, but from the little I've seen this season, she seems to be presenting D/E as a legit couple in their own right, as opposed to just a roadblock on the way to S/E.

In fact, I feel like they are actually pushing Damon over Stefan with all the conditional/unconditional love stuff. But if and when someone gets cured, I guess that could change the game again.

I would assume D/E is the more popular couple given Damon's runaway popularity on the show. But that doesn't really seem to mean much in the larger scheme of things.

However, if both Nina and Ian are pushing for D/E, that could affect things in our favor. We all know how much BTS politics plays on screen. I guess we will just have to wait and see.