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[frelling_tralk]

This is SUCH a petty thing to care about, but lately it's been bothering me how many people talk about what the cure did to Katherine in The Vampire Diaries, and why would Damon want to take it when that would surely mean him ageing rapidly the way that Katherine did. Katherine didn't die because of the cure, she started ageing rapidly because Silas sucked the cure out of her blood. It wasn't in a blink and you'll miss it moment even, there was a whole cliffhanger build up around Damon feeding Katherine to Silas, yet even critics reviews for the last episode are talking about how it's the cure itself that will cause rapid ageing with older vampires?!

I just don't get why do so many viewers seem convinced that the cure was what somehow killed Katherine, Silas forcibly draining Katherine of the cure was a fairly important plot point?

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[12-12-12.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's petty at all, I think it hits on something very fundamental about fandom.

I just don't get why do so many viewers seem convinced that the cure was what somehow killed Katherine, Silas forcibly draining Katherine of the cure was a fairly important plot point?

Based on everything I've seen of fandom it's because people hate the cure storyline for another reason, and want to dismiss it as nonsensical, so they reach for this reason so they can have grounds for saying the story "makes no sense" that sounds like it's based on objective/factual grounds rather than whatever the real reason is (which is probably something much more subjective and/or petty.)

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Hmm true, it does feel like everything that the writers come up with gets automatically dismissed these days as nonsensical and contradicting past continuity, even though the in-show logic does track most of the time from what I've seen