It seems like the difference is whether characters prioritise Elena or not.... Elena will get prissy with Damon for a few episodes when he kills Bonnie's mother, but she never really stays mad at him when he does those things for her, and so neither does anyone else in her social group. But characters like Klaus, Rebekah, and Katherine who have tried to personally harm Elena, now they are REALLY bad and are forever thought of that way (and I don't even like Klaus particularly, but at this point is he really any worse than Damon?)
Look at how the show was totally un-ironic in presenting Elena as being justifiably furious when Damon sleeps with Rebekah in season 3 after 'she tried to kill me', and I remember being surprised at the time at the double standard because the show never made a big deal of Elena standing by Damon and Stefan when they hurt her friends (especially season 1 when Damon was an out and out villain to characters like Caroline and Bonnie, yet around that time Elena was hugging him in sympathy over Katherine and bargaining for his life), so I always assumed that it was something that you just overlook as part of the premise of the show, that when vampires are involved we should overlook a little more and not take things like murder and assault so seriously. But the show made a huge deal of it being a personal betrayal of Elena when Damon was the one to get involved with Rebekah after she harmed Elena, yet if Caroline or Bonnie say anything against Damon or Delena after what he's done to them in the past (and their love ones in the case of Bonnie) then it becomes about judging Elena's relationship and how unfair not to be happy for her when she was so excited to share the news
I'm never sure if we are we supposed to pick up on any of that?
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Date: 2014-01-26 11:16 am (UTC)Look at how the show was totally un-ironic in presenting Elena as being justifiably furious when Damon sleeps with Rebekah in season 3 after 'she tried to kill me', and I remember being surprised at the time at the double standard because the show never made a big deal of Elena standing by Damon and Stefan when they hurt her friends (especially season 1 when Damon was an out and out villain to characters like Caroline and Bonnie, yet around that time Elena was hugging him in sympathy over Katherine and bargaining for his life), so I always assumed that it was something that you just overlook as part of the premise of the show, that when vampires are involved we should overlook a little more and not take things like murder and assault so seriously. But the show made a huge deal of it being a personal betrayal of Elena when Damon was the one to get involved with Rebekah after she harmed Elena, yet if Caroline or Bonnie say anything against Damon or Delena after what he's done to them in the past (and their love ones in the case of Bonnie) then it becomes about judging Elena's relationship and how unfair not to be happy for her when she was so excited to share the news
I'm never sure if we are we supposed to pick up on any of that?