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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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LOL meanwhile I have been wondering the opposite, which is why don't they just do a round-robin draining each other so everyone gets the cure? Stefan and Damon would be a problem, they couldn't both take it, but anyone who's been turned in the last few years... Elena, Caroline, Bonnie's mom, could all be human if they wanted to, and even one of the older vampires, as long as they're the last one in the line.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

There's only enough for one, so the impression I get is that if say Elena took on the cure and then got drained by Damon, that Elena then loses the cure for immortality and it passes into Damon instead as two people can't physically share the cure? Although I suppose that could still sort of work for Elena as she wouldn't age like Katherine did, so she could still live a full human life either way

And I did wonder why Bonnie didn't think of giving her Mother the cure!

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[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Bonnie had a throw-away line in the episode where she gives Damon the cure about how her mom is actually pretty happy being a vampire so I guess she brought up the subject with Abby at some point, albeit off-screen.

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Well at least they mentioned it anyway! It seems like a bit of a stretch that Abbie wouldn't even consider taking the cure though, however much she's adjusted now, after the big deal they made about how hard it was for her to lose her connection with nature and witchcraft

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[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I feel like they did it to be able to justify Bonnie giving it to Damon instead of using it for herself/someone she loved and also so they didn't have to mention anything about the connection between witches and vampires since they just re-wrote their own canon to say that, actually, witches can become vampires without losing their magic! Like, the whole point of Damon turning Abbie was that you couldn't be a witch and a vampire but now that's totally a thing.

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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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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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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