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[frelling_tralk]

Erm yeah this is gross



Damon was the one that turned Elena's humanity off in the first place, and NOW he and Stefan are torturing Elena to try and force her to turn it back on again wtf??! But it's totally okay because it hurts them way more than it hurts Elena!

And since when does Damon believe in this kind of stuff anyway? I buy it more from Stefan wanting to follow the ~Lexi method~, but Damon was the one who disapproved of Lexi and broke Stefan out in season 3 because he couldn't leave his little brother in there to rot. His idea of getting Stefan back in touch with his feelings was to take him out drinking, so surely it would be more in character for Damon to try and get through to Elena through bonding in New York or something?


This is a show with some very...odd views. With Caroline and her father in season 3 it seemed to be presented as a bad thing that he wanted to torture his daughter out of being a vampire, but then that came in the same season as Elena and Lexi were trying out torture and starvation on Stefan as a form of conditioning that supposedly works, and even Caroline's father was sort of shown to be right as he was apparently strong enough to resist mind-control and his tactics could help Tayler overcome the sirebond.

Really though what a bizarre message for any halfway normal show to push

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[nrgburst]

According to Damon it is supposed to elicit fear. Thing is, we've seen her display a full range of emotions despite this supposed switch anyway- jealousy, vindictiveness, desire, satisfaction, disgust. It's bugging the crap out of me- it's just not consistent. She's acting like a psychopath or a toddler, not like a robot. Which means she only lacks empathy, not all emotion. Really stupid case of tell not show, IMO. :/

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Which again makes me wonder how merely feeling physical pain, not even emotional pain, is supposed to get through to Elena. It's been pretty clear that she has frequently felt vindictive at the very least lol, and there's often emotion threatening to break through such as her jealously of Stefan and Caroline at the party, or even hints that Elena's dance with Stefan might be getting to her or that looking at photos of Jeremy and her old life make her feel *something*, so why is Stefan not continuing on that plan of trying to get Elena to feel those feelings and remember how she was. Instead let's just forcibly remove her ring, burn her with the sun, and stand there making with the concerned faces.