I feel like screaming when someone says that Matt helped her become a better person.
LOL! Yeah no, all Matt ever did was make the insecure part of Caroline worse by making it clear in subtle ways that she would never measure up to Elena for him, and then constantly made her feel like crap by complaining about her jealousy and her flaws. I haven't forgotten either how he never said one word in Caroline's defense when his mother insulted her to her face and called her the rebound girl. And the thing is that if he gave the sense that he really valued Caroline then he could easily have shut that down, just as Tyler did with Carol when she called Caroline a prostitute in early season 2 and he quietly but firmly made it clear that he expected his partner to be treated with respect. Buut Tyler didn't say anything in defense of Vicki being called "trash" by his mother in 104, and that's pretty similar to how Matt handled the conflict with his mother and Caroline when he just looked uncomfortable and said probably not when she asked if he was really serious about lezzie Forbe's daughter being the one. I bet he would never have stood for it if Elena was the one being insulted
And yeah the way Originals are handled can be odd, sometimes the writers are all gung-ho about what an incredibly close family they are, yet when Finn and Kol are killed off after hundreds of years of them all being a family there's not nearly the reaction that you would expect.
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Date: 2013-05-03 04:53 pm (UTC)LOL! Yeah no, all Matt ever did was make the insecure part of Caroline worse by making it clear in subtle ways that she would never measure up to Elena for him, and then constantly made her feel like crap by complaining about her jealousy and her flaws. I haven't forgotten either how he never said one word in Caroline's defense when his mother insulted her to her face and called her the rebound girl. And the thing is that if he gave the sense that he really valued Caroline then he could easily have shut that down, just as Tyler did with Carol when she called Caroline a prostitute in early season 2 and he quietly but firmly made it clear that he expected his partner to be treated with respect. Buut Tyler didn't say anything in defense of Vicki being called "trash" by his mother in 104, and that's pretty similar to how Matt handled the conflict with his mother and Caroline when he just looked uncomfortable and said probably not when she asked if he was really serious about lezzie Forbe's daughter being the one. I bet he would never have stood for it if Elena was the one being insulted
And yeah the way Originals are handled can be odd, sometimes the writers are all gung-ho about what an incredibly close family they are, yet when Finn and Kol are killed off after hundreds of years of them all being a family there's not nearly the reaction that you would expect.