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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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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