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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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[bm-shipper.livejournal.com]

Hm... I was actually pretty sure it was mentioned that Katherine died because of her "natural age" after she took the cure and therefore only "newer" Vampires could take it... but I haven't paid THAT much attention to the show anymore after Alaric died I have to admit and "just" watched it actually... It never occured to me that she died because Silas sucked the cure out of her actually... wouldn't have that turned her right back into a vampire? I totally feel like it was mentioned somehow that her natural age was catching up to her, but I could totally be wrong with that... I feel like Katherine tried to stop it by talking to someone and that someone told her that, but it could have been a lie or I could be wrong...

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Okay you guys are confusing me now lol, because if the cure is supposed to make older vampires age fast, then in that case it really doesn't make a lot of sense that Damon plans to take it?

Katherine's age did start catching up with her and it was explained to her that that was what was happening, but that was always only after she lost the cure to Silas from what I remember? I guess you could argue that, in a roundabout way, having and then losing the cure did kill Katherine, because that was what caused the ageing process to be accelerated, but she would have continued living as a human and being physically healthy if not for Silas draining her