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[frelling_tralk]

I wish they hadn't written Elena as a "mean girl sidekick" with the sass and the bitchiness, my favourite period was immediately after Jeremy died when you see Elena looking half-dead in the opening teaser when she goes and lies on the road to attack someone, says "I don't feel anything", and afterwards tells Damon that "I thought this was supposed to be fun" as she walks off still looking like an emotionless zombie. Nina did a fabulous job with that emotionally dead inside Elena who I could really believe in having all the emotion drained right out of her, but ever since it just feels like all the writers know what to do with switched off Elena is write her as a second-rate Katherine. I was really excited for the possibilites at first, but when they brought Katherine back into town at around the same time as well, eh I just didn't find myself enjoying the period of switched-off Elena as much as I thought I would

LOL The torture was just as confusing as I thought it would be with Stefan and Damon being all happy that Elena felt rage or that she was being "downright vindictive", even though that's exactly how she's been acting with the switch off all along. The torture didn't achieve much just as I'd expected, it was losing a friend that really got Elena feeling again. Just as torture never worked on Stefan in season 3, I don't know why the show keeps acting like torture does achieve anything. And I can't with Damon sat there nodding wisely as Elena talks about how she gets now that turning her switch off was a mistake, who was the one that told her to do in the first place, how come that doesn't even get brought up???

Oh and the episode was kind of hyped to me as a Stelena episode and heavy with the foreshadowing, but when I watched it I didn't feel it was particularly shippy for either couple? It seemed more like they were trying to avoid saying anything about Stelena or Delena by making Elena's emotion instead focus on her rage at Katherine she had better not kill Katherine though!

Caroline was so cute this episode with her Matt project hee and her loyalty to Elena, and FINALLY a Liz and Caroline scene :D

And I am so sick of how needy Rebecca constantly has to be around Matt. Like okay fine running them off the bridge was bad, I'm on-board with that, but it wasn't like she was doing it for giggles! She was trying to kill Alariac to order to save her family's life, you'd think that Elena and her friends of all people would understand putting your loved ones first. Elena is the one that killed thousands of vampires that she didn't even know in order to protect Jeremy :shrugs: I'm just tired of 17 year old Matt Donovan constantly condescending to a Original vampire who is a thousand years old, not to mention the way she puts up with it and seems to see Matt as her role model on how to be human again

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[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

I hate the sire bond so very much. It's not just because it's with a ship that I can't stand, but also because it's just gross and nasty, and half the fandom doesn't realize / refuses to acknowledge that Elena has had absolutely no free agency for most of the season.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

It's very confusing to me because it seems so badly thought-out. Like if Elena's free will has been taken away so that she has to do whatever would make Damon happy, that's actually a really really huge deal! But it's just kind of been hanging there all season and they still haven't really defined whether or not it actually exists. Some viewers argue that it doesn't of course, but all I know is that it's felt like Elena's voice has been missing for most of the season and it would be nice to have some kind of explanation on what is going on with that whole plot. The thing with her falling for Damon doesn't bother me as much actually because late season 3 did establish a clear attraction on Elena's part, it's mostly how quickly Elena lost all feelings for Stefan and found herself completely in love with Damon that confuses me. While the sire bond is hanging there it's really hard to know if that's meant to be a part of her actual characterisation or if it's just the sirebond affecting how she feels, but they really shouldn't have compromised their main characters POV for an entire season near enough and made it so that viewers aren't even sure how much free will she has

[lilbreck.livejournal.com]

I don't honestly see how anyone can argue that the sire bond doesn't exist... It's the reason she could only drink straight from a human and could only drink bagged once Damon told her to. That alone confirms its existence. Caroline gave a run down of the evidence, and Plec confirmed that it existed and that Elena only had the 'illusion of free will'.

Basically, I don't trust anything that came from Elena's mouth from the time she completed transition until Damon forced her to flip her humanity switch. This whole season was absolutely ridiculous.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yeah the blood bags convinced me that it existed too, but the way they developed it after that has been so half-assed that I don't know what the writers are trying to say with it these days