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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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[tellshannon815.livejournal.com]

It is odd and the only way I can really make sense of it is with the argument that if the cure can only cure one person, if Damon took it and Elena drank from him that would do it. But since there are ways around that such as getting the cure from 1903 as well or Elena taking it and Damon drinking from her, or the writers just ignoring the history and tweaking the facts to suit them , it doesn't need to go down that way.

[12-12-12.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's petty at all, I think it hits on something very fundamental about fandom.

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?

Based on everything I've seen of fandom it's because people hate the cure storyline for another reason, and want to dismiss it as nonsensical, so they reach for this reason so they can have grounds for saying the story "makes no sense" that sounds like it's based on objective/factual grounds rather than whatever the real reason is (which is probably something much more subjective and/or petty.)

[sum1-different.livejournal.com]

This the CW. The writers probably can't keep the story straight either.

[lynnenne]

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

[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...

[next_to_normal]

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.

[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.

[maybe.livejournal.com]

I have always thought like you, that Katherine started aging rapidly due to Silas draining her. So, really, Elena should be fine. But given how the last episode went - I don't think Damon is going to become human anyway. I just don't see how a human!Damon would stay and not leave town with her, makes zero sense.

[woodycakes.livejournal.com]

it's not a petty thing to care about. i think you make a really good point. i guess the entire mythology of this show can get confusing. i don't understand what's happening half the time haha