TVD THE DEPARTED:where Damon Salvatore broke my heart...because it hurts how much he loves.

[x5vale]

I haven't cried over a TV Show since I think the finale of SPN S3...and today I have cried...a lot..more under the cut.



Alaric
I knew he would have been the one to die, but I can't realize it.I mean it's Ric, Damon's best friend and he died, in Damon's arms...no more bromance, no more friendship. I can't even...
RIP RIC.

Rebekah&Eljiah
They broke me when REbekah toldto her older brother that Klaus was dead. You could see what family meant to them, even though Klaus has betrayed them on so many levels I can't even count them. I want them around and safe forever. I just love these two.

Klaus
It was pretty obvious to me that he wouldn't have stayed dead for too long. Now he inhabitates Tyler's body...does it mean that Joseph Morgan won't be back? Unless Bonnie has somehow saved Klaus body, it should have been burned...so I am very curious about this.
Anyway I am glad he is not dead. This character has a great potential and I want to see it developed.

Matt
Oh Matt, I so love this guy. He was the only one who could have given up on everything and left town, but he stayed there because that is his place, his home. I loved how he tried to help Elena in every possible way, even with her choice and I do really hope he is not gone.

Jeremy
Much love for him too. When Ric asked for his help, I was afraid he was going to betray all the others, but he didn't. He was honest and he helped with the plan. I do really think Elena should learn from him how to handle very hard decisions.

Bonnie
Love for her too. She decided to stand up for herself and what she wants and not to obey to others orders or desires. She went dark when she decided to save Klaus, but she did to save her friends. I loved how Bonnie was aware of the consenquences of her choice and I appreciated that she was finally able to admit that sometimes you have to make questionable decisions for the greater good.

Caroline&Tyler
I have never shipped them and I don't, but I really enjoyed the two of them together..even if they looked a little bit disconnected from all the others.
Loved Caroline with Elena though.

Stefan
I don't have much to say about him...he was there, letting the others to decide and to organize. He was not pro-active and this is very Stefan,I can't blame him for this. I liked how he was around Elena and I felt his pain when he was speaking to Damon. I could see the brotherly love.
Let me just add this: Elena wasn't enough for Stefan to fight his desire of revenge. Elena was enough for Damon to fight Ric back and live...just saying'

Elena
The flashbacks broke me. How she is still alive surprises me. Her life was normal, maybe not exciting, but safe and now..now she is not the same anymore.
Did she make a choice? Yes, she chose Stefan as I have been thinking for a while. She chose Stefan by default. She didn't choose him because of him. Because of his qualities, of his personality. She chose him because it was safe, because Stefan is her bond to her previous life. He is her last connection to her parents, Stefan is the guy who helped her to live again. She can be happy with him...but she won't ever feel the fire. Not the fire of passion, which is something that passes, but the fire of true love. The one which consumes you.
So I do think Elena will feel it eventually and I am not sure we are going to have Elena and Stefan living happily so easily. She will remember when she first met Damon, she will remember what Damon told her in 2.08? She will...and she will have to deal with it and with her magnified feelings (because there is no doubt that she will turn, otherwise she will be dead)
What about her with Damon? She was in denial. She didn't say she loves him, she said she cares about him and this is denial, but I'm not mad at her. I feel sorry for her because she's depriving herself of something intense and pure that she deserves to feel. I think her journey to fully accept Damon in her life is not complete, not yet. This triangle couldn't be over with Elena picking Damon now...because they have spent 3 seasons to build up their relationship, but Elena has never explored her feelings for Damon for real. She relies on her love for Stefan, because Stefan was there when she needed someone the most and now, in desperate times, it's easier to get back to him (I don't even want to talk about the fact that everything Stefan has done has been forgiven -bad characterization- but I do think that everything Damon has done too has been forgiven...)...so yeah I am not disappointed by Elena choice. It's about getting there, falling in love with Damon eventually. She is still getting there.

Damon.
All my tears were for him. Serioulsy. He broke me in every possible way. Give me a fucked up character, the character who never wins, who is never allowed to some happiness, who wears his "I am unbreakable" mask all the time and then breaks and feels much more than everyone else, who is vulnerable and loves as none else and I am doomed.
Dean Winchester and Damon Salvatore are the only two characters I have fallen so hard for...and both of them are two tortured souls who can't ever have what they deserve.
I loved that when Ric was beating the crap out of him, he was remembering the first time he saw Elena and it kinda gave him the strenght to react and fight. When Ric attacked him, after Elena told him she was setting him free, he was giving up, he was almost surrending then exactly when Elena had the car accident, he remembered his first encounter with her...and he told her what she wanted and it was exactly what Elena told Matt about Damon. A love that consumes. How prophetic! This gave him the strenght to fight Ric back..Damn he loves her so much it hurts....
How about the fact that while Elena was dying, the focus was Damon's reaction to it? He had Ric in his arms dying and he immediately realized that Elena was dying too and you could see all the horror and the pain on his face...so even though Damon and Elena were not together in this episode, imo they were way closer than Stefan and Elena.
Damon broke me because once again his hopes were shattered and his heart was wounded, his vulnerability showed but despite all of this, he was able to put himself together, get back to MF to see her...and his face when Meredith told him she had helped her? Broke me again, because if there is something that Elena didn't want, was to lose her human status...and now...everything is about to change. For Damon too.


Random thoughts:

-I loved how Damon protected Rebekah from Alaric and told her to run.

-I enjoy more and more the interaction between Damon and Meredith.

-I loved how Carol and Liz tried to protect their kids.

Comments

3x22 review: part 1

[roselani24.livejournal.com]

Right, so first off I was not that impressed with this finale, much less how the second half of the season has gone. I loved everything from 3.01-3.13 respectively and then it just started falling apart. But that’s a rant for another time.

My focus here is on the scenes I really enjoyed in the finale and the characters involved in them. I will undoubtedly wander a bit, but I’ll try to stay on track. :)

Foremost, I love how Jeremy took matters into his own hands and immediately took Elena to the hospital after she collapsed. Hooray for common sense!! Also liked how he called the Salvatores and if I were to guess, I’d say it was Damon he called from the hospital even though it was on speaker phone. Wasn’t it? I can’t remember exactly and for the first half of the episode the CW channel was having issues. Oh well, moving on. It was also really enjoyed the interaction, even via phone, between Damon and Jeremy. Damon points out the obvious that vampires have blood that heals around and Jeremy countering how when his sister collapsed for unknown reasons, getting her to the hospital was the smartest thing. Of course, there’s the little issue of Evil Alaric on the loose and Orignals who would want Elena dead since her life is bound to Ric’s and so Damon orders Jeremy to get Elena home quickly and says they’re on their way. And Jeremy obeys. Have I said how much I love the bond between these two? Cause I really, really do! And Jeremy was really grown up in this episode, imo and it makes me so proud! :D

There is a lot more I have to say about Jer, but I’ll save it for later when I get to the relevant scenes. :) Gonna talk about Meredith now.

Meredith has been slowing growing on me and I appreciate what she is bringing to the show in her last few appearances. This episode was no exception. She only had three scenes, but each one is important in its own right. Her first is with Jeremy outside Elena’s room. Don’t know about anyone else, but I immediately picked up on her lying to Jeremy about how badly injured his sister was. Jeremy was suspicious too but, unfortunately, Elena has continued to keep Jeremy out of the loop and so he has no idea that Meredith used vampire blood to heal his sister. What this scene tells me, however, is that Meredith like everyone else save Matt sees Jeremy as a kid still. One could argue Damon doesn’t see Jeremy as much as a kid as some of the others, but he also tells Jeremy the truth and was the first to accept Jeremy taking action and being a part of the shenanigans going on in Mystic Falls in S2. Anyway, back to Meredith. This scene nicely contrasts with Meredith’s final scene with Damon. There is no lying to Damon, no deception. Like Sheriff Liz Forbes and Mayor Carol Lockwood, she has respect for Damon as another adult and someone who could be considered a friend. There was a similar scene several episodes back when Liz gave it straight to Ric about why he was in jail with Damon present. Damon is clearly viewed as an adult, while the rest of the Mystic Falls gang are viewed, and view each other, as kids still. And it’s become painfully clear, especially through Jeremy, Matt, and surprisingly, Bonnie’s respective character arcs this season. Everyone else is in denialville.

Re: 3x22 review: part 1

[x5vale.livejournal.com]

You are right. S3 has been awesome until 3.13, then things got all mixed up and a little bit all over the place...so yeah I am with you.

SO MUCH THIS TO EVERY SINGLE WORD IN THIS FIRST COMMENT OF YOURS!!!

I don't remember who Jeremy called, but of course the interaction was pretty much just between him and Damon. Have I mention lately how much I do love these two together?

Yes yes yes on everything you said about the status Damon gained among the adults in MF. Carol, Liz and Meredith know Damon can be trusted and can actually act and make decisions for the best.
I so love that outside the gang, Damon has owned so much respect and even affection (from Liz for istance).

Meredith has grown on me so much now...I just want her to stick around and actually become Damon's friend.

I'll keep replying soon....btw I posted some more thoughts and I'd like to know what you think :)