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you have no idea how literally i mean my "television is the love of my life" tag
+ I seriously just DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND. how Parks and Recreation can be so consistently wonderful and glorious and beautiful and sweet and joyous and delightful and happy. And I don't post reactions to it, because I would literally be repeating back every line or facial expression (I want to be BFFs with Aziz, y'all. He can go everywhere with me and make his big :O face because it brings me such delight). Because all of it is flawless. I watched this last episode with my hands clasped under my chin and a huge grin on my face--just like I watch every episode. HOW SO WONDERFUL? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
The only thing I will actually say about it (because if I get started, I won't ever stop) is that just when I didn't think I could love Ben Wyatt: Human Disaster (and yes, that is how I refer to him in my mind) more, HE TOLD TOM THAT HE WASN'T REALLY A FAN OF PETER JACKSON'S INTERPRETATION OF LORD OF THE RINGS. ME NEITHER, BEN! Visually, it's absolutely perfect, and I enjoyed all of the movies, and there were some characters who were beyond perfectly cast, but Jackson doesn't really get the influences--mostly Northern European epics and elegaic poetry--and it showed. And don't get me started on what he did to Faramir. Shutting up now.
+ Well, Matt Davis had a good time filming this episode, didn't he? I was really happy for him--he was having a blast, and it showed.
Mine and Lil Sis' viewing went something like this:
(Ten minutes in)
Me: If they kill of Bonnie, I'm never going to watch this show again.
Her: Me, neither. She's my favorite. I really think she's my favorite. And she's so pretty. I have a woman crush on her.
Me: Me, too. She's awesome. But I hear they're going to kill lots of characters soon. Matt's going to bite it, I know it. And probably Jenna.
Her: Oh, I like Jenna.
Me: Me, too. They could actually do something with her character, and that would be good.
Her: Yeah, that would be good.
(Five minutes later)
Me: Seriously, they can't kill Bonnie. They can't.
Her: They better not.
(Ten minutes later)
Me: If they kill Bonnie, I'm going to hunt someone down.
Her: ... [She's getting bored with my fear by now]
(Ten minutes later)
Me: SHE ISN'T DEAD. SHE CAN'T BE DEAD. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE SHE'S DEAD. THERE ARE TEN MINUTES OF THE EPISODE LEFT. IT'S LIKE IN A PROCEDURAL--IF THEY THINK THEY'VE FOUND THE KILLER, BUT THERE ARE STILL FIFTEEN MINUTES LEFT, THEN THEY'RE WRONG, AND IT'S SOMEONE ELSE. SHE ISN'T REALLY DEAD. IT'S A FAKE OUT.
Her: [giant eyes; speechless]
(Ten minutes after that)
ME: I KNEW SHE WASN'T DEAD! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!
Her: Well, that's good. I want to watch her make out with Jeremy some more.
Little Sister: proving that sometimes she actually has good taste.
Anyways! This episode will henceforth be known as the Bonnie Is a Badass episode. I mean, this should really be called the Bonnie Is a Badass Show, but she was especially badass this episode. I adore her so.
The part with Katherine and her leg was DISGUSTING, but OMG I LOVE KATHERINE and I like that Klaus doesn't seem bent on killing her off just yet.
Jeremy remains hot. Call me, Steven R. McQueen.
Looking forward to seeing what they do with Matt and the Sheriff. This is actually interesting stuff!
The ending made me super angsty because it looks like we're getting closer to the inevitable Damon/Elena romance. NOOOOOOO PLEASE NOOOOOOOOO. And to think that I wasn't initially against that! Way back in S1 when it looked like he might have actual character development! But he's still the same guy he was, and the preview for next week's episode make him look like he's just doing the same thing over again--"OH IT'S SO ANGSTY BEING MEEEEEEEE. NOW I'LL RIP A FEW GIRLS' THROATS OUT AND THE FANGIRLS WILL WOOBIEFY ME." Seriously, somebody needs to sit the writers down and make them watch Series 3 of Being Human to show them how to write a vampire character.
+ I have yet to see Community. Honestly, if it weren't for my mad love for Troy, I might have given up by now? This season is a major slump, especially compared to how much I enjoyed the first season. I keep hoping they'll recover. And true, there are moments of brilliance (YOU CAN'T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE!!!!), but this season is missing some of the luster. It makes me sadface.
The only thing I will actually say about it (because if I get started, I won't ever stop) is that just when I didn't think I could love Ben Wyatt: Human Disaster (and yes, that is how I refer to him in my mind) more, HE TOLD TOM THAT HE WASN'T REALLY A FAN OF PETER JACKSON'S INTERPRETATION OF LORD OF THE RINGS. ME NEITHER, BEN! Visually, it's absolutely perfect, and I enjoyed all of the movies, and there were some characters who were beyond perfectly cast, but Jackson doesn't really get the influences--mostly Northern European epics and elegaic poetry--and it showed. And don't get me started on what he did to Faramir. Shutting up now.
+ Well, Matt Davis had a good time filming this episode, didn't he? I was really happy for him--he was having a blast, and it showed.
Mine and Lil Sis' viewing went something like this:
(Ten minutes in)
Me: If they kill of Bonnie, I'm never going to watch this show again.
Her: Me, neither. She's my favorite. I really think she's my favorite. And she's so pretty. I have a woman crush on her.
Me: Me, too. She's awesome. But I hear they're going to kill lots of characters soon. Matt's going to bite it, I know it. And probably Jenna.
Her: Oh, I like Jenna.
Me: Me, too. They could actually do something with her character, and that would be good.
Her: Yeah, that would be good.
(Five minutes later)
Me: Seriously, they can't kill Bonnie. They can't.
Her: They better not.
(Ten minutes later)
Me: If they kill Bonnie, I'm going to hunt someone down.
Her: ... [She's getting bored with my fear by now]
(Ten minutes later)
Me: SHE ISN'T DEAD. SHE CAN'T BE DEAD. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE SHE'S DEAD. THERE ARE TEN MINUTES OF THE EPISODE LEFT. IT'S LIKE IN A PROCEDURAL--IF THEY THINK THEY'VE FOUND THE KILLER, BUT THERE ARE STILL FIFTEEN MINUTES LEFT, THEN THEY'RE WRONG, AND IT'S SOMEONE ELSE. SHE ISN'T REALLY DEAD. IT'S A FAKE OUT.
Her: [giant eyes; speechless]
(Ten minutes after that)
ME: I KNEW SHE WASN'T DEAD! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT!
Her: Well, that's good. I want to watch her make out with Jeremy some more.
Little Sister: proving that sometimes she actually has good taste.
Anyways! This episode will henceforth be known as the Bonnie Is a Badass episode. I mean, this should really be called the Bonnie Is a Badass Show, but she was especially badass this episode. I adore her so.
The part with Katherine and her leg was DISGUSTING, but OMG I LOVE KATHERINE and I like that Klaus doesn't seem bent on killing her off just yet.
Jeremy remains hot. Call me, Steven R. McQueen.
Looking forward to seeing what they do with Matt and the Sheriff. This is actually interesting stuff!
The ending made me super angsty because it looks like we're getting closer to the inevitable Damon/Elena romance. NOOOOOOO PLEASE NOOOOOOOOO. And to think that I wasn't initially against that! Way back in S1 when it looked like he might have actual character development! But he's still the same guy he was, and the preview for next week's episode make him look like he's just doing the same thing over again--"OH IT'S SO ANGSTY BEING MEEEEEEEE. NOW I'LL RIP A FEW GIRLS' THROATS OUT AND THE FANGIRLS WILL WOOBIEFY ME." Seriously, somebody needs to sit the writers down and make them watch Series 3 of Being Human to show them how to write a vampire character.
+ I have yet to see Community. Honestly, if it weren't for my mad love for Troy, I might have given up by now? This season is a major slump, especially compared to how much I enjoyed the first season. I keep hoping they'll recover. And true, there are moments of brilliance (YOU CAN'T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE!!!!), but this season is missing some of the luster. It makes me sadface.
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Like, he's ripping some girl's throat out, and I'm supposed to be OH POOR DAMON HE'S IN SO MUCH PAAAAAAIN.
Yeah, I get that. I was just complaining to
Your ideal D/E scenario is mine, too! I'm not in any hurry at all to see them getting together anytime soon. The only way I would buy that, actually, is if Elena got turned. Or got seriously shady in some fashion. I seriously question the sanity of anyone who thinks Damon is remotely capable of sustaining a functional, equal relationship at this point. Actually, history shows he's never been able to do that, so.
I will say that Damon's recent controlling behaviour is purely for the sake of consequentialism. With this current Klaus situation, he genuinely believes his methods are the most likely to be successful (unlike Stefan and Elena's "save everyone" approach). So, in a typically twisted Damon way, he's doing what he thinks is the right thing. I also genuinely don't believe he's doing any of this with the aim to win Elena over. I think he's quite resigned to the fact that it'll always be Stefan. Like, if Damon already had Elena, he wouldn't need to be this ruthless about trying to save her life - because he wouldn't be so lacking in power in their relationship. Does that make sense? At this point, he thinks that playing "the bad guy" and pissing her off is necessary to do what needs to be done. I'm not so sure he's got the right idea - but I imagine that that if they do beat Klaus, it'll be because they all compromised and combined their different strategies. Actually, one thing I really respected about the writing in "The Last Dance" was how it was impossible to completely side with either method.
So, idk, I feel like the actual direction they're taking Damon in is accurate, and sense-making. But, like you said, the tone is what's making it dubious.
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Yes! I never thought I would say this back in S1 (when Lauren's ideal scenario was totally mine, too), but now I kind of want Damon/Elena to be S6 Spuffyish - in the sense that the relationship brings out Elena's darker nature and is not intended to be something healthy and stable.
The problem I have with Stefan/Elena (we have discussed this) is that I don't think they do enough to acknowledge Stefan's darkness. In a lot of ways, he's actually not all that different from Damon. I think Elena needs to confront that, but she and Stefan work so hard to keep darkness out of their relationship, it's almost a kind of denial. Damon would let her explore it - probably with catastrophic results, but Elena would understand Stefan better for having experienced it, I think.
~shippy musings
OMGMETOO. Haha, which is funny, 'cause I've seen a lot of people hoping that it doesn't go that way, and I'm like, BUT IT CAN'T HAPPEN ANY OTHER WAY. (Or, idk, maybe the writers will surprise me.) I mean, I LIKE that D/E is now that pairing, the one the writers don't pull punches with. (Because they don't pull punches with Damon.)
I've been contemplating on how Stefan/Elena seems to be based on the light in the other person, and how they're together because they help each other to be better people. Elena loves Stefan (romantically) for the good in him, and doesn't dwell on the bad -- but she seems to love Damon regardless of whether it's right or wrong. Like, in a weird way, I think Damon has something from Elena that Stefan doesn't have - because, Stefan goes out of his way to do right by Elena, but Damon fucks up constantly, and she still won't give up on him? Yeah, I definitely don't blame Stefan for being threatened.
And I mean, if Katherine is Stefan's ~dark shadow, then Damon must be Elena's. They can bring out the best in each other, but they're just as capable of bringing out the worst. Elena's done a lot of nurturing for Stefan in his bad moments, but... what about Elena's bad moments? I somehow can't see her being able to let that all hang out with Stefan, because she's already been established as his savior or whatever (by convincing him to keep living, etc.) - but it's not the same with Damon, because the one thing that's become clear is that she can't save him. So, if/when Elena goes off the deep end (and it's gotta happen eventually), it'll be Damon she turns to for understanding.
Re: ~shippy musings
I've been contemplating on how Stefan/Elena seems to be based on the light in the other person, and how they're together because they help each other to be better people. Elena loves Stefan (romantically) for the good in him, and doesn't dwell on the bad -- but she seems to love Damon regardless of whether it's right or wrong.
YESSSSSSS. Exactly. I am getting whiffs of Buffy/Angel/Spike again, which I don't like to say because I like Stefan, lol, and I think their relationship is way more grounded than Buffy/Angel. But Stefan and Elena both have that same burden of feeling like they have to be good for the other. There's a responsibility in that, pressure to hide the less appealing parts of yourself, to be worthy of the pedestal the other person has put you on. Buffy never felt the need to do that with Spike, because he's evil, so who is he to judge her? And I can definitely see that happening with Elena and Damon.
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