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butterfly We've got something going on with these powerful Damon scenes showcasing his emotional journey - in "The Return", overcome by powerful negative emotions, Damon snaps Jeremy's neck. In "Rose", Damon confesses his love to Elena, but doesn't want her to keep the memory. He doesn't feel like he's worthy of her. Now, in "Descent", he admits out loud that he misses his humanity but that it's pointless to feel that because he can't get it back. How he sees it, he's been making the best of a bad situation.
He said it to Jeremy - "Life sucks either way."
He was the son that wasn't loved as much, he was the lover who wasn't enough by himself even though he was willing to do anything that Katherine wanted (and part of him knew it, whether or not he was willing to admit it - he might not have realized that Katherine didn't care at all, but he knew that she was with Stefan, too, back in the day - and we have Damon saying "I've been in love. It's painful, pointless, and overrated" in "Lost Girls", while he still thinks that he can get Katherine out of the tomb). Then he let Stefan (and his own hunger) convince him to turn, even though the only reason that he'd wanted it in the first place was (he believed) gone forever. And now there's Elena and he fell in love with her and it's horribly painful for pretty much everyone involved (and people like Jessica, who aren't involved but were just in the wrong place at the wrong time).
In "Rose", he admitted that he doesn't feel worthy of her. In "Descent", he admits that he doesn't think he can ever be worthy of her. "I can't be what she wants me to be." And for a man who was willing to transform himself into a monster for his last ladylove, the actual inability (or believed inability) to do that for Elena eats at him.
The thing that made being a vampire work for him was that he could turn off caring that life sucks. And he can't do that anymore. He cares and he can't quite handle that.
Not yet.
Stefan came to the show prepackaged as someone who had decided not to kill any more innocent people for the sake of his own hunger. With Damon, we're seeing all the steps, in ugly and bloody detail.
Speaking of Stefan, whoa, check out the lack of empathy for Rose. Someone suggested (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arabian?) that this might be stemming in part from his resumption of drinking human blood. Regardless, I found it intriguing because it was acknowledged in universe (by Alaric) which means that it's intentional, not bad writing. And that means that it might be going somewhere, which I await with interest.
He said it to Jeremy - "Life sucks either way."
He was the son that wasn't loved as much, he was the lover who wasn't enough by himself even though he was willing to do anything that Katherine wanted (and part of him knew it, whether or not he was willing to admit it - he might not have realized that Katherine didn't care at all, but he knew that she was with Stefan, too, back in the day - and we have Damon saying "I've been in love. It's painful, pointless, and overrated" in "Lost Girls", while he still thinks that he can get Katherine out of the tomb). Then he let Stefan (and his own hunger) convince him to turn, even though the only reason that he'd wanted it in the first place was (he believed) gone forever. And now there's Elena and he fell in love with her and it's horribly painful for pretty much everyone involved (and people like Jessica, who aren't involved but were just in the wrong place at the wrong time).
In "Rose", he admitted that he doesn't feel worthy of her. In "Descent", he admits that he doesn't think he can ever be worthy of her. "I can't be what she wants me to be." And for a man who was willing to transform himself into a monster for his last ladylove, the actual inability (or believed inability) to do that for Elena eats at him.
The thing that made being a vampire work for him was that he could turn off caring that life sucks. And he can't do that anymore. He cares and he can't quite handle that.
Not yet.
Stefan came to the show prepackaged as someone who had decided not to kill any more innocent people for the sake of his own hunger. With Damon, we're seeing all the steps, in ugly and bloody detail.
Speaking of Stefan, whoa, check out the lack of empathy for Rose. Someone suggested (
arabian?) that this might be stemming in part from his resumption of drinking human blood. Regardless, I found it intriguing because it was acknowledged in universe (by Alaric) which means that it's intentional, not bad writing. And that means that it might be going somewhere, which I await with interest.
Re: Stefan meta
Date: 2011-01-30 06:45 am (UTC)Part of what makes me like Damon more than Stefan is that Damon wants to think he's WORSE of a person than he really is, while Stefan wants to think he's a BETTER person than he is. And I find the former less annoying than the latter.
Re: Stefan meta
Date: 2011-01-30 06:50 am (UTC)Just so! That's precisely how I feel about it.