Your Heart Is An Empty Room

[redbrunja]

Nina Dobrev is so good. She says one line and we know she's Katherine and not Elena. So good.

Also, that dream was fantastic - and totally fanservice for all the Damon/Elena, Katherine/Stefan fans.

Can I just say that the toast that Damon gave to George Lockwood was weird? It felt like they'd forgotten that Damon also fought in the Civil War  (and that it would have been expected and almost beyond comment) or like they couldn't decide if they wanted to do something pointed about Damon deserting (which I would love more details on).

I am loving new, hardcore Stefan.

Ha, ha, Elena's 'awwwkwaaarrrrd' face when Jenna said, "I'll like Damon when he learns to keep his paws off you" was priceless.

Damon is hysterical when he's playing nice guy. I love his unnecessary 'she doesn't like me very much' regarding Jenna.

Oh, Caroline, please don't confuse Edward Cullen with Stefan. Seriously, it's not that hard and you're not that blonde. Oh, wait, nevermind, she'd projecting.

Katherine, sweetie, if you had to compel him after he realized you were a vampire, he didn't really love you, he loved the idea of you in his head. Damon, now, he really loved you, Katherine Petrova, the poor bastard.

Speaking of Damon, I think he's finally getting over Katherine. Which is kind of bad timing, considering that ELENA AND STEFAN ARE SETTING NEW RECORDS OF AWESOME.

THEY FAKED A FIGHT! THEY FIGURED OUT CAROLINE WAS A SPY! STEFAN'S CRAZY JEALOUS EX COULDN'T COME BETWEEN THEM!

(That said, it's looking like they might really go to the 'Katherine loves Stefan and that's why she's doing this' place and that makes me sad).

The seven days between each episode seem to take are really long time to pass, but I kind of love that because it stretches out the enjoyment of this show. Everytime I think about how I have eighteen episode left of this season, I become so happy.

Comments

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

Katherine and Damon are the same level of evil, arguably, yes. However, Damon's actions and evilness are being blamed on Katherine. The characters point to Katherine as the reason he's flown off the hinge, and Damon expects Elena to take that into consideration when making his case. Katherine, at least, is not going around blaming her evilness on others, and the text isn't blaming others for it. It's the consistent handwaving of Damon's evilness that makes it worse.

We *know* that Katherine will, at some point, have to pay for her evilness by dying or something worse while Damon is there to stay. Katherine is evil, the characters understand that she causes them issues, and they're doing something about that problem. I honestly don't get why Damon has been allowed to live thus far, if we're viewing them at the same level on the scale of evilness. If anything, Damon has more consistently hurt people close to Elena and Stefan (and on purpose, with the intention of hurting/punishing them, when Katherine's motives seem to still be a bit more complex than that, and her evil is more of the Machiavellian kind where she does evil things for her own ends, and not impulsively with the intention of hurting people like Damon) than Katherine has thus far.

But Katherine is clearly our villain and Damon is our anti-hero (who will be redeemed), so while it can be argued that they're both equally evil, the text is not showing that at all. Which, on a metanarrative level, makes Damon much, much worse.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

I see your point, but this assumes Katherine's going to die/pay for her crimes.

I'm not sure she will be killed. It's a possibility, but I think the writers need her there to play out the triangle. That'll get old (LOST-alumnae here) but it's the more likely path than Stefan and Elena killing Katherine to get rid of her while giving Damon a chance to redeem himself.

Of course if Katherine dies and Damon remains the anti-hero, yes. There's a problem. But then, the show would be over pretty quickly.