Vampire Diaries: Our Town Thoughts
- Stefan is breaking my heart. We normally hear his internal monologue, but being removed from it—it sells the potentially evil thing so well and yet dammit if Paul Wesley doesn’t play so many layers that you have no doubt he still loves Elena.
- Stefan’s fight with Elena—perfect. The place of the birth of their relationship is chosen as the place of its death. And then to throw the one thing he has been so adamant about—keeping Elena’s choice about her humanity paramount—out the window…angst has never been better. I have no doubt this was also his final desperate attempt to make Elena hate and forget him.
- OH MATT. This is the Matt I always wanted to see. Book!Matt who is so freaked out by everything that’s going on that he wants no part in it yet cannot help but help his friends. (Now if only I got my S1 retcon where Stefan/Matt are BFFs.)
- Matt/Elena—God, I could read unlimited amounts of pre-show with them in it. And Matt/Caroline. And just every single member of TVD’s Non-Judgmental (Totally Judgmental) Breakfast Club.
- Go Bonnie for saying what we were all thinking! This is why I like Bonnie. She doesn’t coddle anyone. Although I wish she and Jeremy had had a more touching goodbye or, you know, any scenes dealing with their breakup.
- I’m sorry, I can’t ship Klaus/Caroline. His “sweet moment” was because HE TRIED TO KILL HER. Yes, through Tyler, but HE TRIED TO KILL HER. That is not something that is rectified with jewelry. Caroline deserves better than to be manipulated by vampires yet again.
- I still am ambivalent on Delena. I didn’t like Damon kissing her last week (not even because of his relationship with Stefan, but because it’s hella rude to kiss a girl who is still very in love with her ex-boyfriend and shaken to the core emotionally), but I am cautiously optimistic about this arc. I just really wish it focused more on Damon’s character growth OUTSIDE of Elena—he shouldn’t become a good guy because SHE needs him to be that guy; he should become a good guy because HE wants to be that guy. And the role reversal with Stefan is a great first step to that story.


