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Hmm that wasn't too bad, Elena's grief was handled better than I was expecting from the trailer. I still wasn't a huge fan of it tbh, mostly because I'm not really a fan of Delena oops, but Nina did a nice job with it and I was happy that Elena's feeding on people didn't come off as quite as bad in the context of the episode. It was more Elena being out of control with blood lust, rather than her feeding on humans because of ~issues~ as I was fearing. (Not sure about Elena planning to be a Doctor though lol, other than the obvious with the easy access to blood, where did that motivation come from!? Yeah her father was a Doctor, but I always thought that Elena wanted to be a writer?)
I actually found myself more bothered by Matt, Caroline, and Sheriff Forbes trying to cover up Elena's assault. It's almost strange to look back now at the beginning of the series where the humans viewpoint would take priority, now it's all about it being a bad thing that Mystic Falls is free from vampires, it brings to mind Alaric's words in season 3 about Liz and Carol being so compromised now that they're putting their own family, the 'monsters', ahead of the innocent citizens that they had once sworn to protect. I actually thought that it was super-creepy when Matt practically kidnaps that poor girl, and then Caroline pops up ready to compel her. I just wonder if we're supposed to recognise the creepiness, and whether the show plans to explicitly address it, or if it's supposed to be recognised as not being that big a deal as the characters were all acting to protect Elena from discovery? I guess there must be some part of the show that wants us to recognise that the characters we are following are the monsters now though, as the opening teaser did have the classic horror movie opener that we got with Damon in the early days of season 1, only with Elena as the predator this time
Oh and I wasn't sure what to make of Elena asking Alaric to compel her being presented as one of the cliffhangers, I guess that means that Alaric is going to agree to do it? And then no doubt that Damon will return just as Elena no longer loves him, cue all the angst. It could even be a way of bringing the triangle back and having Elena fall for Stefan again, after forgetting about her love for Damon, although perhaps that's a bit of a stretch! Anyway, I just feel like the characters should know better at this point, it feels like a retread of emotionless Elena from season 4 obviously being a terrible decision even as Damon was choosing to do it, and I hope that Alaric would know better :( But we'll see how they handle it I guess!
I kind of liked the return to the douchier season 1 version of Tyler if I'm honest lol, and hmm he seemed to spark with Liv. I'm not opposed to that at the moment, although it does make me a little sad that it seems like the show is very definitely done with Tyler/Caroline, I get the feeling that the show is gearing up to be more about Stefan/Caroline now... Oh and it did strike me as rather odd for Alaric to warn Tyler about possibly retriggering his werewolf side. Yeah he's got a hot temper, but it's not like it's going to be that easy for him to accidentally kill someone again?! He only triggered the curse because of Katherine's influence back in season 2, same with Mason, and Tyler's dad never triggered it at all, even though he clearly didn't work much on trying to control his temper. Werewolves being as rare as they are would make sense with that curse actually being a pretty difficult one to break, yet Alaric seems to believe that Tyler's likely to activate it again just a few months after becoming human again? Not showing a very high opinion of Tyler there! :P
I'm REALLY bored of Jeremy's character, he did do the whole moping thing back in seasons 1 and 3 though, so I guess that was about time to bring it back around again for season 6! Lately it feels like his character is going nowhere, I wish they'd just let him stay dead as I really don't think that he brings enough to the show to justify the ridiculousness of bringing him back to life after months of being dead.
Umm not much more to add really I don't think, I really enjoyed Caroline's scenes, it's always nice when she gets a scene with Liz, and her scenes with Elena were great too. And the ending with Damon and Bonnie was nicely surreal lol, Ian looks surprisingly good in flannel :P Also I enjoyed having Ric back, although I'm not that into the show already setting up a new relationship which him which I'm probably not going to care about again, although heh I did appreciate the throw-away reference to what happened with Meredith!
And I found Doctor Who..confusing this week
I mean I'm not the first person to mention it, but it really did come across as having a weirdly pro-life agenda with the Doctor trusting the three women to do the right thing and save the baby no matter what, even though they didn't have the information that he did on whether it was going to be a threat to the Earth. It seemed to be very emotion-based and 'it's a baby!!!' that they should be drawn to protect above all else, but oops I'd kind of been leaning more towards the astronauts POV :P It was probably easier for Clara to trust deep down that the Doctor wouldn't have just taken off if there really was a chance of the Earth's destruction if they made the wrong choice, but I'm not sure how the astronaut was supposed to know that
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Date: 2014-10-05 07:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-10-05 09:18 pm (UTC)I guess that it can be read either way but, even with the Doctor leaving them to make the decision, he basically admits to Clara that he did so just knowing that she would make the correct decision in choosing life. It made me a little uncomfortable because there was such a heavy subtext of that egg being a baby and you can't just kill a baby
Also it bothered me when the Doctor took off, he didn't have to make the actual decision for them, but he could have been idk hung around and been a little supportive :( Clara has always been there for him in the past, in moments like the 50th special when he had to make the tough job of whether to pull the level or not, so I could understand her finding the Doctor's attitude paternal and condescending in abandoning them to make the decision in the belief that it would be the right one