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7x22 wes the moment I saw 1864 Damon. Then Sybil took control, which made him difficult to see. I think they wanted to repeat certain things with Damon's character in such a way that Sybil was meant to reflect Katherine. It's not a surprise to me that Sybil was stuck in the armory vault for years as Katherine was meant to be sealed in the tomb for 145.

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Fans can see Damon and Katherine through Lily and Julian... it's just a matter of perspective. Lily kills herself as Damon was planning to die and become a vampire... and Damon died when he died. I consider 8x16 his resurrection even though I see 1864 Damon far sooner.

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Hannibal (2013-2015)

3x09 - “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun”

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When Elena was bitten in 2x22 she felt pure pain but was able to walk away without needing vampire blood, as with many cases in the show. So I think Caroline would made her first attempt escaping the night Damon bit her and that is true to her character and would've been mobile enough to go into another room and change into a nightie because she wouldn't have time to pick through a bunch of clothes. If she were to escape she couldn't have left in a bra and the nightie she got was more modest. Damon is about the element of surprise so I think as she tried to escape he would have snuck up on her that night when she didn't expect it like he did in the morning and gotten a hold of her, continuing to drain her of her blood until she was unconscious. They didn't show enough to tell exactly what happened but that is my guess. The writers didn't intend for the situation to be viewed as sa, as they denied more than once (during the earlier seasons and during season 6 are some times that I can think of) that they unconsensually slept together. Obviously his actions like the actions of other characters would be viewed worse in real life, but in the show perspective it's normalized. Caroline also said she was better than the "skanks" he slept with as she only slept with him when she didn't know he was a sociopathic narcissist in season 4, indicating they didn't sleep together after she found out he was a frightening vampire. I think that scene was included as a response to fans at the time who spoke ill of the show and believed they did. In season 6 when his treatment of her was spoken of it was reduced to forcefully being his personal juicebox and nothing else forcefully. In season 2 when Kevin still wrote the show Damon and Caroline grew to be on more netural terms than in season 3 where she was more vocal about her dislike for Damon. After 5x8 aired people were criticizing Caroline for criticizing Elena for killing Jesse to save Damon and herself, and Elena antis were saying she is a terrible friend for not letting him die because of the way he treated her friend, and later Julie said criticizing Caroline was strictly off limits which she never said about any other character, but people accuse her of being a blind to Damon unlike Kevin and defend the way Kevin wrote Damon saying he was written badly because Stelena was supposed to be endgame. When Julie was asked on Twitter during season 6 if he'd apologize to Caroline because of his season 1 treatment she didn't answer the question but said the past had tropes that didn't translate well on screen and that their show evolved past that and later included Damon's speech at her mom's funeral where he contradicts all the harsh things he said instead in 1x8. I don't get why fans expect him to be the only one to apologize cause while I'd be good with it other characters have done the same without apologizing. Klaus even got peace without apologizing to the women he abused. It's my belief that Damon apologized after 8x16 and before he got peace. A lot of people in the fandom like Katherine better than Damon and while they say things like Caroline should cut his dick off and make gifsets of her kicking Damon's ass they never say Stefan should mutilate Katherine in that way or make gifsets of him kicking her ass. Some of them even ship her with Stefan.

That's because Damon stopped feeding on Elena. He didn't stop feeding on Caroline. He fully admitted to using her as a human blood bag. Caroline wouldn't have escaped the night Damon bit her. She would've passed out. Damon wouldn't risk it. He's feeding on Caroline in the home of her vampire-killing mother.

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Do you think Katherine would've died for Nadia like Lily did for Valerie and Damon? I didn't like Lily at first but season 7 made me like her character. I don't think Damon was obligated to forgive her on her deathbed since not only did she harm and not care for him she acted like that towards his loved ones. It seems he regretted not forgiving her when he had the chance on her deathbed in the Phoenix Stone. I think when she died he should've been silent about how he felt if he couldn't forgive her.

I don't know if it's the actress or the writing or if mothers acted like Lily back in that era, but I hate her character. Even when she dies for Valerie and Damon, she comes off too cold for me to relate to her as a mother. She feels like Damon's complete opposite even though they have a great deal in common.

Here, have the mother-son mirror shots...

"Don't you see? She was toying with you."

"You were right about Julian. I'm sorry I didn't see it sooner."

While Katherine has her moments, I don't believe she'd die for her daughter. imo, she wouldn't die for anyone but herself. While I do feel Damon genuinely regretted not forgiving Lily when he had the chance, I agree with how he handled his hgoodbye to her. If Stefan wanted Lily buried with respect, he should've buried her alone. He told Damon to say something even though he knew Damon needed time. Damon isn't Elena... he's the darkest parts of her. He wouldn't forgive someone simply because they're dying.

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Full context.

"So basically it's like Atlanta has burned. And yet, in spite of everything, we persevere."

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This comment about Delena's first sex scene makes me laugh, claiming it felt more like frantic sexual tension than taking time to get to know and love the other's body. Elena never smiled as widely when having sex with Stefan as she did Damon in 4x7, 4x8, and 5x1. I love her smile in 4x7 since she's actually enjoying her body instead of feeling suicidal and viewing it as burden (Stelena's first sex soundtrack is about self harm) or a bargaining chip. Also I love the gentle first kiss when Damon is on top and the fact that he looks spellbound when she's on top and isn't insecure in his masculinity to not let her top. The way she kisses his arm is sweet as well. Also in their sex/kissing scenes they always make it a point to pause and look lovingly into each other's eyes. When Damon had sex when Rebekah they didn't do that since they weren't in love. They often hold hands in their sex scenes as well:

Elena was attracted to Damon, but the sex they had in 4x07 wasn't the same as Stelena's first love scene in 1x11. Delena's first sex scene was basically "let's finally fuck these feelings out" after a lot of sexual tension had built up (as well as "Let's see how many walls we can smack ourselves into" and "how much stuff we can break"), not "I want to take time to get to know you, know your body, and I want you to be comfortable with me" and about two people who love each other so passionately finally coming together. That is the difference. None of it felt like love. It just felt like "let's fuck our feelings out". She loved Stefan until Julie Plec wrote her own fanfic.

Uhm, they already know and love the others body. I know fans like to pretend they haven't seen each other half naked before, but they have. Elena takes a great moment at the motel in Denver to study every inch of Damon... literally from boots to face. Their 4x7 sex plays out as it does because Elena has a season of pent-up sexual energy for Damon. While fans may feel it's rushed, it's not. They're literally picking up where they left off in 3x19. I've put this to gif before because every Delena sex scene tells a story just like every dance they have. Delena is allowed to sex how they want because they spent 3 seasons building what they have, and fans can trust what they have is quite powerful. They're written to be unbreakable by anything. That's why I love Caroline's line in 2x22. "So basically it's like Atlanta has burned. And yet, in spite of everything, we persevere." It's all Delena.

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That's why the rest of season 3 and the beginning of season 4 feels so awkward. It's gross af to watch Elena be so manipulated and desperate to remain with a guy that nearly killed her.

The writers would've done a better service making her single at that point. As far as I'm concerned, they made Elena look like a typical DV victim with Stefan.

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I'm rewatching with you, but I was reading about 5x17 where Elena won't let Damon drive her to college, so I decided to rewatch the episode. It was jarring, shocking, and so disappointing to see how the writing had turned downhill for that season. You can't really see it unless you take a season 1-3 episode and put it up next to a season 5 episode. I guess S4 was the bridge from excellent to S5? Except for sire bond, I liked S4. Kinda.

Anyway, I realized that the storyline of Elena falling back in love with Damon was something I want to love SM! But it feels so rushed and I was never into it. Regardless, S6 is one of my favorites.

Can you gif Elena falling back in love with Damon? I imagine this would have been similar to Elena falling properly the first time. I'd like you to fix all the writing errors by showing what they meant to/should have shown us.

The scene where Elena won't let Damon drive her to college... if you put it up next to 1x10, you can see what I mean about Stefan. If he truly planned to leave Mystic Falls, he wouldn't have allowed Elena to drive him home. He intentionally put her in Damon's 5x17 role so that him staying was on her rather than on him. I didn't like much of season 5, but I consider season 7 worse. Perhaps that's partly why I hate how short season 8 is.

While the storyline of Elena falling back in love with Damon feels rushed, it should feel rushed because Elena is already a vampire... so she didn't go through the same fear of loving him like she did in season 3, nor is she worried about losing her friendship with Stefan because he's hooked up wtih Caroline. This allowed them to run through her season 3 fall faster. The only fear Elena has of Damon is her initial fear of him. Another reason season 6 is faster than season 3 is because they hid Delena in season 3 and only put Stefan in partial parallel with Matt. Season 6 put Stefan in full parallel with Matt to show the difference. The end of 6x13 belongs at the end of 4x1... that's why Elena sleeps with Damon in 4x7. She literally died to be with him.

I'll gif the parallels as soon as I can, but I should point out the reality of their compulsions on Elena. Her refusal to be compelled of Stefan in 3x6 is different than her refusal to be compelled of Stefan in 1x7. Different in the fact that she refused to forget Stefan as someone who wanted to hurt her... as they put her in Jeremy's 1x7 shoes. A girl who un-falls wouldn't want to forget why she un-fell, lest she risk falling in love with him again... lest she risk death again. Klaus gave them a romantic moment, then killed the romance. Pairing Stelena again would be like putting Caroline back with Damon.

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I wanna get a dog.

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Dentists have become a pain in the ass these days. Our hospital is a teaching hospital, so we're trying to get my son's widsom teeth extractions done with one of their oral surgeons. If I can't get him in with this oral surgeon, then we have to drive nearly two hours just to get it done.

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I really ought to buy The Mentalist on dvd.

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omg I must be dreaming... hulu is playing The Mentalist!!

I love The Mentalist, I just hate re-watching it on my pc.

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When a sneak peek of 4x8 before the episode aired came out with Elena meeting Bonnie and Caroline at school where Caroline makes a comment about there not being a blow dryer at hotel Salvatore Carina promoted it as Elena having sex hair in it. Do you think Caroline suspected something happened between her and Damon based on that comment about her hair? I don't think Elena would've had sex with Damon in 3x19 though. I think they almost would have but that it would be Damon pausing like he did with Katherine in 2x1.

lol... I'm pretty sure Caroline suspected it. A blow dryer at the Salvatore house speaks to Elena bathing/showering at the Salvatore house. Caroline is all about the shower. That's why she flips when she finds out Katherine/Elena got a motel with a shower in season 5. People generally shower after sex.

I think they would've had sex in 3x19. Damon had no reason to pause, so Jeremy had to interrupt. A lot of their dialogues in seasons 5 and 6 overlay seasons 3 and 4. "I thought you wanted to start over. Because, FYI, this is exactly where we left off."

Vampires make their own rules. As Alaric said, they will take what they want... so Elena takes what she wants, no human conventions about it lol

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Currently in a debate with a Damon hater. I'm gonna state this as simply and clearly as possible... Damon keeps Elena updated moment to moment according to what he himself sees of Stefan in season 3.

In 3x1, he gifts Elena the necklace because he has hope of saving Stefan. The difference between the two women in Memphis and Andie is clear... it's all about compulsion and humanity. In Damon's mind, his hero brother wouldn't rip an innocent unless 1. He was compelled by Klaus to rip them or 2. He flipped his humanity switch, so he didn't care if he ripped them. When Stefan killed Andie in Klaus' absence, Damon was left with one conclusion: Stefan flipped his humanity switch. Thus, Damon took away Elena's hope when he returned home. That's why he flat-out told Elena that Stefan flipped his switch and went full-blown ripper.

In 3x2, Elena tries to give Damon hope by telling him about Stefan's phone call. Stefan's silence during that phone call was every reason Damon had no hope at the start of the episode. By the end of the episode, he still believes Stefan is without his humanity, but is willing to save him despite not having his humanity. That's why he flat-out tells Elena even in his darkest place, Stefan still won't let him die. Stefan's darkest place is without his humanity. Thus, Damon ends the episode having hope. He informs Elena that he was wrong, that Stefan can be saved because he truly believes that. Like I said, moment to moment.

This moment to moment updating continued even in 3x9 and 3x10. Their comforting each other is like this... it's Damon's brother in 3x9 with Elena comforting him and Elena's brother in 3x10 with Damon comforting her. In 3x9, Stefan literally saved Klaus by stopping Damon from killing him. It's because of this, Damon truly believes he lost Stefan. In 3x10, Stefan tells Damon why he saved Klaus. It's at that point when Damon informs Elena... Stefan saved Klaus to save him, so Damon was basically informing Elena that Stefan can be saved... and he informed her of this before he kissed her.

Every time Damon took away Elena's hope, he had reason to according to what he himself saw of his own brother of 145 years, and he rectified it every time he realized he was wrong. He never took away Elena's hope without reason, so I don't wanna hear it. Season 3 is written a certain way so that Elena is giving Damon hope and Damon is giving Elena hope. That's what relationships are... they're give AND take.

It's easier for Stefan to lose hope in Damon than it is for Damon to lose hope in Stefan. Unlike Stefan, Damon didn't need Elena to remind him that Stefan was worth loving. Unlike Stefan, Damon didn't need Elena to tell him that Stefan was worth saving. Unlike Stefan, Damon didn't even need Elena to stop him from killing Stefan. Because unlike Stefan, Damon never actually tried to kill his own brother. I stand by my belief that Damon is the better brother... he just isn't the better man until the end of the show.

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Julie said in an interview that Kevin wrote 1x3 and she referenced the scene where Stefan tells Damon "These are people Damon. They aren't puppets," and I believe in that interviewe she also said he thought it was a good way to juxtapose Damon's humanity surfacing at the end of the episode after he sees Elena sleeping after the events of the episode. Kevin also wrote 1x2, 2x1, 2x13, 2x19, and is responsible for the storylines he had with Caroline and Andie but Julie is overly hated and people accuse her of treating Damon like the golden boy even though it was Kevin and not Julie who said Damon was his favorite to write for and Julie's favorite was Caroline. Also Stefan didn't care what Damon did as long as it wasn't in a town he's trying to start over in, as is pointed in 6x4. I also thought it was weird how in the first half of season 5 before Katherine got into Elena's body Caroline was getting along with her better than she did Damon despite the way Katherine treated Stefan and Elena. Caroline was also trying to date Jesse after compelling him and before she found out he was turned into a vampire, with her specifically talking about wanting a cute guy in her life after breaking up with Tyler and constantly called Jesse without knowing that Wes turned him. I don't think she ever apologized to Matt for compelling him while they were together. She never apologized for trying to kill him in season 6, but people hate Matt because he wasn't comfortable with her being a vampire in season 7. Also before she compelled Liam after she tried to take their make out session outside the bar she slams his face really hard against his glass wall before making out with him. I also thought it was weird how Stefan said compulsion was what he missed most after becoming human when Damon asked him if being less physically healthy and strong was what he found lacking as a human. Stefan says "Nothing more important than free will," to judge people but uses compulsion and is sad to have lost that ability after becoming human. I also thought it was weird how in 6x17 he creepily barges into the room of one of the female students at Whitmore without knocking and touches her chest to turn her around when he could've touched her anywhere else.

I love the end of 1x3 because it shows their direction with Damon's character as it pertains to his relationship with Elena. But that was also the first time I saw him act in response to something someone said. He's often affected by the words of others, and Stefan's words sent him to Elena's room. The necklace was all about Damon seeing his humanity, so it's all introduced in that episode.

You're right about Stefan not caring what Damon did as long as it wasn't in a town he was trying to start over in. Such is the case with his comment to Damon in 1x9 and the reality of his comment being shown through Silas in 5x2.

Damon: I'm on edge. Crash diet. You know, I'm trying to keep a low profile. Stefan: You could always just leave, find a new town to turn into your own personal Gas 'n' Sip.

Literally what Stefan does when he leaves town with Klaus in 2x22... he turns the entire eastern seaboard into his own Gas 'n' Sip.

Caroline is hilarious with Katherine because she loves being a vampire, so it's hard to hate the person that turned her into one. I suppose there's a certain level of love there that wouldn't be had Katherine not turned her. A lot of these characters have hypocritical moments whereas Damon is more honest and less hypocritical

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I'm bothered by the fact that Dunkin' Donuts now charges nearly $14 for a dozen donuts. But I did enjoy finding out how strong espresso is. I never had it before.