[ SECRET POST #1562 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1562 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

17. http://i53.tinypic.com/14ad4c5.png

[(Anonymous)]

I don't care about how the fangirls see him (I like him because as a fictional character, I find him interesting and entertaining) but I disagree with you on the "sucking the life out of the show" part.

[karate0kat.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It's not that he's not, at least occasionally, entertaining. But if you're going to take someone who was introduced as the main antagonist for half a season, and redeem him, you actually have to, you know, make him grow and stuff. You can't have him be a romantic lead and still act like an asshole who rapes women and kills people whenever he likes (except when his stalking victim/love interest knows about it, because she wouldn't like it).

Redeemed, romantic hero. Asshole with great one liners, whom we love to hate. Pick one.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

+1

[miakun.livejournal.com]

Well put.

[ibroketuesday.livejournal.com]

Yes. This. This is why I've been annoyed with Damon's storyline lately; it's like the writers want him to be the bad boy everyone loved in S1 and a redeemed hero, as you say. And it just isn't working. The personality traits that make each archetype palatable don't mesh well when forced into a single character, and Damon just ends up flopping back and forth episode to episode and it's getting kind of irritating. :(

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen much of Gossip Girl so I can't comment on the comparison but Damon's behavior is disgusting and if the show keeps writing him this way, they need to make it clear that he's the villain. Otherwise, they're asking us to root for/empathize with a serial rapist & murder who feels no remorse for his actions and blames everything he does on his great 'love' of Elena. Which just...no.

[unifilar.livejournal.com]

I watch Vampire Diaries for fun and try not to take it too seriously, but it definitely bugged me that Elena ended up moving past the fact that Damon essentially raped and physically tortured Caroline, one of Elena's closest friends. I know he's done a lot more than that since then, but that was my first moment of thinking, "Wtf? She's ok with that?" and since then I can't really let it go.

Definitely see your point, anon.

[ibroketuesday.livejournal.com]

That has always bugged me. If someone had done that to one of my best friends, it would be near impossible for me to forgive him -- and yet they never directly addressed what he did. I can't really understand Elena moving past it without working that out. At least Caroline tossed him down a hallway.

[paperscout.livejournal.com]

I love Ian Somerhalder, and I love Damon's tortured character thing, because sometimes I think he really truly wants to change. The stuff with Rose? Lovely.

But I 100% despise the fact that he did ALL that shit to Caroline and it basically hasn't even been acknowledged. It's disgusting. For a character to redeem himself at all, he has to at the very least admit and apologize for his misdeeds. Not just to Elena, because he *wants* her. To Caroline. But more than that, I think it's a huge failing on the writers' parts, and I'm really disappointed.

[countess-k.livejournal.com]

Whenever I see this character (or anything else about TVD) I can't help but to mourn the lost opportunity of a great redemption story. Instead they bombarded us with one unrelated, quickly resolved plot twist after another while the characters stayed exactly where they were in the beginning (with the exception of Caroline of course,) until I finally got board and stopped watching.

[ibroketuesday.livejournal.com]

ngl, as much as the unresolved Damon-is-a-rapist thing bugs me, the eye thing bugs me EVEN MORE.

SOMEONE TELL THAT BOY TO TONE IT THE FUCK DOWN.

/raeg

[jewelia13.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, I find it odd how Stefan has ADMITTED he did worse things than Damon, and this is completely glossed over. Not to mention Matt's abysmal treatment of Caroline, and Bonnie's (albeit temporary) stint as a... well.. witch. Does this mean I approve of Damon's actions? Oh, HELL to the no. I'm just sick of people saying he's the only one who's done bad things.

[yourlivewire.livejournal.com]

this, thank you. i especially hate that bonnie has gotten off scott-free for turning her back on her friends (more than once), lying about deactivating the device, and copping a high and mighty or wishy-washy attitude 90% when decisions she's consciously made have lead to a lot of people getting killed.

[kaczurda.livejournal.com]

Yes, IA, Damon is so excused for his horrible behavior. But so is Stefan, it's just that most of Stefan's evil ways haven't been shown (only alluded to through dialogue) so it's not as obvious. I'd like to say that some of the reason it's "excusable" is because, well... they're vampires. They're supposed to be deranged, evil, and do evil things. The only problem is that humans are sympathizing with them (characters and viewers alike) and I think that is where the problem lies. Not the fact that they do it, but the fact that the show wants you to sympathize with them.

That being said, Damon is still my favorite character... some part of me always becomes extremely interested in the twisted/tortured souls. *shrug* And I don't think he is draining the show, either. He is funny, despite his douchebaggery. And there is a small part of him that is redeemable. And I say he is an exception and redeemable because he's a vampire, not a human, and I don't think they have the same standards.

[yourlivewire.livejournal.com]

i don't disagree that damon's a nasty, bad person and that the writers need to figure out whether they're going the redemption route or the i'm bad and i don't give a fuck route. that having been said, i think that the rest of the character's misdeeds going unpunished is just as egregious.