I'm disappointed because, like I said, the opening teaser for 416 made it look like it was going to be really interesting, but to just have her as a snarkier version of herself and wanting to hurt her friends seems like a weird way of handling a character having no emotion, shouldn't she just not care about those people one way or the other if she feels nothing? Then once they brought Katherine back all of the appeal of switched-off Elena was lost to me. It's a shame because Nina did a really good in in 515/516 and, through no fault of hers, this plot ultimately didn't end up showcasing her range so much as making it look kind of limited when two individual characters were played exactly the same almost.
516 seemed so promising with having Elena not herself but still distinctly different from Katherine as a vampire, there was just something subtly off about her when the writers were first trying to trick is into thinking the sire bond worked on getting her to school and being normal, you could hear the deadness her voice which made a brilliant contrast to Katherine, but then once she got all mean girls with the cheerleaders it was all over
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Date: 2013-05-03 08:55 pm (UTC)516 seemed so promising with having Elena not herself but still distinctly different from Katherine as a vampire, there was just something subtly off about her when the writers were first trying to trick is into thinking the sire bond worked on getting her to school and being normal, you could hear the deadness her voice which made a brilliant contrast to Katherine, but then once she got all mean girls with the cheerleaders it was all over