Vampire Diaries: 3x15 - All My Children

[butterfly]

Okay some thoughts:

1) Klaus and Rebekah, back together again! \O/ There is not enough 'yay' to cover how I feel. Dream-team OrigSibs! And I loved the Klaus-Caroline stuff in this episode. She did a great job as the distraction and I like that he realized what had happened.

2) Alaric was just shot by someone that we have every reason to believe is not supernatural. I... wish that I cared more. He's just been such a jerk this season so far and thinking more with his, ah, lust than his brain. Like the only good thing about Alaric this season has been his relationship with Elena. So, yeah. I wish that I cared more about Alaric getting shot.

3) I was really fond of ruthless!Elijah. Then he got kinda okay-but-not-fantastic for me again at the end. But for about twenty-thirty minutes there, I was a huge fan!

4) Argh, Stefan. I hope that his last conversation with Damon served as some kind of wake-up call for him, but I expect him to continue to be a selfish ass.

5) Damon! ♥ Yeah, that's about it, really. All I have are ♥ ♥ all over the place. Keep on being you, Damon. You're the cherry on my sundae.

6) Elena was much better in this episode. At first, when she called Stefan and said they needed to talk, I was all, "oh, honey, no" but it got much better throughout the episode and all her stuff with Elijah and Rebekah was great.

7) All the plans tonight were clever, I think!

8) Poor Bonnie. I wasn't attached to Abby or anything, but I'm sure this will have an effect on the show, especially if she decides to turn. And Bonnie is very consistent in how she deals with this stuff - she withdraws from people. So, yay for consistent characterization.

Comments

[silviakundera]

I want Stefan to have a wake up call about Damon SO BAD. This is really bumming me out. Like, I might even need a break from this show for a while until Stefan stops being such an asshole. I just... I'm sick of Damon thinking Stefan is good enough but Stefan not making it clear that he thinks the same about Damon. How much does Damon need to HEAR THAT? And hear it specifically from his brother.

dear writers, this is NOT the way to prime me for the inevitable Elena/Stefan romantic reunion.

I do care about Alaric but idk what the hell is going to happen there.

[butterfly]

And Damon keeps being selfless about Stefan and everything Stefan/Elena while Stefan continues to be a petty jerk. I... argh.

[silviakundera]

And Damon keeps being selfless about Stefan and everything Stefan/Elena
and I'm REALLY REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. It is MADE OF YAY and I will cry if it ever stops and I'd glad we have that instead of nothing. But still desperately want it to go both ways and soon. And I am worried that the writers don't see it, how unpleasant this makes Stefan's character... (they either need to change it asap or have another character actually notice this bullshit and comment on it)

I know some of people take this as bitter D/E speak but I'm resigned that Stefan/Elena are endgame with the writers, so it's really NOT that. No plotline that ends with Elena picking Stefan is going to be a surprise for me. It's that when you have the 'let's emotionally and physically beat on Damon' show going on pretty regularly, it's really important to have Stefan reaching out occasionally and be generally supportive except in isolated moments of conflict. Because, yeah, otherwise Stefan starts looking like a petty jerk -- who's getting the girl and always getting talked up by various characters and yet can't spare some empathy and overt caring for his frequently reviled & rejected brother? I mean wtf? That's not the Stefan that I care about.

[butterfly]

And I am worried that the writers don't see it, how unpleasant this makes Stefan's character... (they either need to change it asap or have another character actually notice this bullshit and comment on it)

I worry about this, too. I mean, this kind of selfishness is basically what destroyed Dawson's character for me on Dawson's Creek. It happening a second time on a Kevin Williamson created show is just... I don't even know what that would say.

[scy]

And it happens often enough that it has to be deliberate, but I am heartily sick of it now.

[butterfly]

Exactly. They must be going somewhere with it, but I wish they'd just get there already so that it can stop bothering me.