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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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[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I'm so confused about this whole thing. Like you, I remember Silas draining Katherine and that she started rapidly aging/dying right after that. But I also remember a talk she had with someone (Wes, maybe?) that the cure was killing her because her natural human age was catching up with her. So I don't know if what that person told her was BS or if the writers just forgot/changed their own canon (it's happened before.) But it's all very confusing.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

When I wrote this entry I thought that it was really straightforward, but now the comments have started confusing me as well lol. I would argue that the show never treated the cure as being something that automatically makes older vampires age though, hence the other characters still considering it as an option if they want to become human, so the writers must have meant Silas draining Katherine to be the cause of her ageing and losing her immortality

Maybe they intended for the talk from Wes come across as saying that Katherine was dying from the cure because of originally being cured of being a vampire, and so that was what started the ageing process once she was drained of the cure?

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's just...too confusing :) If I didn't hate season 5 so much, I'd do a rewatch and try to figure it out.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I liked the first half with human Katherine and with Silas, it was after Katherine died and the Travellers because the focus that I started getting really bored with that season, although season 6 has been a huge return to form for me thankfully. Probably the first half of season 5 wasn't that great either actually lol, human Katherine just sucked me in so much that I skipped over a lot of its faults in my mind *g*

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

The first half was definitely better. I liked human Katherine and the stuff they did with Bonnie/Jeremy but I loathed the Silas-Amara-Qetsiyah stuff so that kept me from really enjoying a lot of those episodes. In fact, in the entire season, I think the only episodes I truly enjoyed were 5x04 (Bonnie's funeral) and 5x22 (season finale).

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Qetsiyah as a villain, as well as Katherine adjusting to becoming human and meeting Nadia, so that probably helped the first half stand out in my mind more, but yeah a lot of the actual plot did get pretty convoluted and messy that year

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I love the actress who played Qetsiyah but I didn't like the character. And I really enjoyed the Katherine-Nadia stuff but considering how it ended, it all feels rather pointless.