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[frelling_tralk]

I loved Katherine and all of the flashbacks and I was overall very happy with the episode, but it was hard for me to enjoy some scenes because Damon (and Matt!) were making me rage so much.

Okay first of all, Damon was never compelled by Katherine, he told Stefan this himself. He choose to learn from Katherine how to feed and kill innocent people when he was still human. Damon does have the right to dislike Katherine for messing him around when she clearly preferred Stefan, but blaming his entire life on her is just too much. Damon choose to develop a 150 year obsession with opening the tomb, that's why Bonnie's Grams was endangered. If anything Damon's obsessive tendencies were an inconvenience to Katherine when she was trying to fake being dead, she never asked for him to became completely obsessed with her when she'd just been looking for some fun. He has a right to be mad at her for playing him back in the day, but to blame Katherine for his own obsessions and failings, umm no. I couldn't stand the hypocrisy when they were all sat there blaming everything that ever happened ever on Katherine. Matt was doing shots with Damon (who killed Vicky purely for sport when he was bored), and Damon's going to raise a glass to Matt's saying that was all Katherine's fault?!?!?!??!

Both Klaus and Damon planning to torment Katherine on her deathbed was just really gross and sadistic, although at least Klaus never got there in the end. Stefan was the one brother who actually was compelled and mislead as to Katherine's true nature, but you don't see him blaming his entire life choices on Katherine and saying that she was the one who killed his father or whatever, the same way that Damon makes ridiculous analogies about all of his actions should really be owned by Katherine. I just couldn't stand him this episode, urgh when he was deliberately trying to torment Katherine by injecting her again so that he could keep going back to the flashbacks of her dead family, what a creep. And it was for the best that Elijah wasn't there frankly because he also tried to blame his rift with his brother on Katherine, and their arc in season 4 was mostly about whether Elijah can learn to trust Katherine after all of the terrible things that she's done, even though Elijah was the one hunting down human Katherine because of her not doing what she was told and agreeing to be sacrificed in a ritual by two men.

Really the other characters viewpoint of Katherine is so disturbing that I can never tell if we're meant to recognise it or not because in this episode especially they all seemed to see it that way when they were doing shots and tracing all of their problems back to Katherine ~the root of all evil~ Just as season 4 played it totally unironically when Elijah was having doubts about whether he could trust Katherine and how much he missed "my Katerina", and she had to prove herself by handing over the cure, yet there was no acknowledgment of their actual past and that maybe Elijah owed it to Katherine to give her that cure right back so that she could finally protect herself from his sadistic brother

There is just such a ridiculous double standard with Katherine. With both Katherine and Rebekah actually to an extent. Rebekah also constantly had it held over her head that she caused Elena's car accident and is therefore a bad and unforgiveable person, yet Damon's past deeds are almost forgotten and he gets to join in funeral rituals in 402 without the characters even acknowledging that he killed half of the people that they are mourning! (The characters do hold more against Klaus granted, but only for things that he's actually done like kill Jenna, while Katherine gets blamed whether or not she even played a direct role in what happened)

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[lisal825.livejournal.com]

OMG, this flaw-free post. 100% WORD TO EVERY.SINGLE.WORD.

Particularly the bit about Kalijah which just...UGHHHHHHHH. I still get mad over that nonsense.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me why I finally quit this show.

[silverusagi]

(not been watching)

So did Katherine actually die?

And ugh to character inconsistency. I saw a quote from Ian Somerhalder about Damon blaming Katherine for things that were clearly his decision when he was human, and it made me go ugh then.

[istne-pieklo.livejournal.com]

I guess Damon being such a bastard in this ep served to illustrate his point from the previous ep: that he's a baaaad person. Like we don't know that already O_o On the one hand, this is definitely not OOC for him, so I can make peace with him torturing Katherine (whoever says he has to be rational? he's mad at her, he blames her for everything, it doesn't have to logically be true), but ugh, that was such a low blow anyway. It made me want to snap his neck (which luckily did happen to him anyway XD).
Rebekah also constantly had it held over her head that she caused Elena's car accident and is therefore a bad and unforgiveable person, yet Damon's past deeds are almost forgotten and he gets to join in funeral rituals in 402 without the characters even acknowledging that he killed half of the people that they are mourning! This is sooo true, but apparently Damon gets a free pass now b/c Elena loves him. As much as I've always shipped D/E (originally b/c I just liked Damon more than Stefan, but now also b/c I found out I happen to like Stefan on his own but he turns into smth unbearable when he's having Elena-related drama), I feel that their ship is getting more and more unhealthy with each new ep. I understand that she can forgive the shit he did in the past. I don't even have a problem with that b/c well, love is a weird thing, etc. BUT he keeps doing shit! He's just told her he secretly killed some people while they were together! And her reaction was: ...that's ok, I love you? After that, it's really not all that strange that he gets pardoned for the type of things Rebekah or anyone else will never be forgiven for. *sigh*
maybe Elijah owed it to Katherine to give her that cure right back so that she could finally protect herself from his sadistic brother I have serious issues with Elijah in general. I want to like him because he often comes off as the sanest one of the Mikalesons, but GOD, his fixation on Klaus and family kills me! Yes, dude, we get it, family means a lot to you, but your brother is a major murderous selfish dickhead! Klaus is one of my top favourite TVD/The Originals characters, but I still don't understand where the hell Elijah's iron-clad faith in his redemption comes from. He's a douche, he doesn't want to change, so stop sacrificing everything for him. I feel like the show is going out of its way to set Elijah up as this noble, moral character but there is nothing noble about letting countless people die by Klaus's hand and then going all: Noooo, brother, this was baaaad, don't doooo that again.
LOL, sorry for the rant. >_< Anyhow, your post is great, the authors of this stupid show should see it and LEARN! :))

[havocthecat]

ALL OF THIS. YES. I have become disillusioned with the show lately.