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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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[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah it definitely makes more sense for the plot to keep the cure as an issue for Elena and Damon, but in character terms you'd think that Bonnie's Mom would be the one to get the cure after Bonnie found it. Although, then again, it is very Bonnie to always put Elena first in her life before thinking of herself :/

And I'm hoping that they're going to explain more on how those particular vampires managed to stay witches, it doesn't make a lot of sense otherwise after the emphasis that the show gave that with Abbie's plot.

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[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I hope they come up with some explanation for why this happened because otherwise, I'm going to assume they just forgot everything they set up with Abbie's transformation. Which wouldn't surprise me, honestly.

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[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Maybe it will be related to the specific coven that they're from? They did emphasis how that coven is different from your average witch, and the fact that they are both witches and vampires was obviously meant as a really big scary deal, unusual enough for the coven to trap them in a prison world. Idk lol. They do usually come up with some plotty explanation to tie things together though, so I'd be surprised if they just left it with no further explanation