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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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[lynnenne]

I honestly don't even remember that happening. I must have blocked everything Silas-related from my memory.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

It does seem like season 5 merges together for a lot of people *g* That cliffhanger was always one of the ones that stood out to me though, mostly because it was so cold how Damon held Katherine down and Elena silently watched him do it, especially after the earlier season 5 episodes had suggested that they were both softening towards human Katherine a little bit....

[lynnenne]

Ok, this is vaguely coming back to me... Silas was lying unconscious on a couch in Damon's living room, or something? Why did they feed Katherine to him? * checks wiki*

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Yep, it was Damon's plan to cure Silas so that he could bring back Bonnie for Elena. You think that Katherine is a goner at first, then it ends with her waking up with the classic moment asking if she's in Hell *g* The grey hair and the tooth falling out begins in the episode directly after that, but oddly a lot of viewers have drawn the conclusion that it was the cure itself which caused that? I guess the widespread belief seems to be that human Katherine started the ageing process simply because she has been alive for so many years as a vampire and it was her time, but she really died (well eventually anyway!) as a direct result of Damon feeding her to Silas and actually losing the cure to him

[lynnenne]

I seem to recall Katherine seeking out some witch or other, and the character telling her that the cure was responsible for her aging. But since I don't even remember Silas eating Katherine, it's clear that my memory is not the most reliable! :P

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Hmm I don't remember that at all, just that the ageing started right after Silas drinks the cure from Katherine. Perhaps we would both benefit from a refresher on season 5 lol

[nrgburst]

Yeah, it was evil professor Wes with that theory.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I remember Katherine learning that she was ageing faster because of everything starting to catch up to her, but I always got the impression that she would have continued being physically healthy if Silas hadn't of drained her of nearly all of her blood and passed the cure into himself. That would fit with the cure only having enough for one, and two people not being able to both take the cure and survive, otherwise Elena could take the cure and let Damon drink some of it from her

I would have expected the characters to discuss the cure in terms of it having a catch and it was a good thing that none of them took it, something like that, if the cure was supposed to be what was at fault for Katherine's ageing, instead it is still being seen as a viable option for them, so I would imagine anyone taking the cure would be fine just as long as it remains in their system