The Vampire Diaries 7x10 - "Hell Is Other People" FULL REACTION
Added 2022-11-19 14:00:07 +0000 UTCComments
No I don't.. :(
Marie-Ève Vignon
2022-11-23 17:56:44 +0000 UTCDo you remember seeing Henry is season 2 ?
xbowalex
2022-11-19 23:51:44 +0000 UTCSuch an amazing episode. I think Paul directed this one too, if I'm not mistaken
Ahadou Alemu
2022-11-19 22:44:16 +0000 UTCThis episode couldn’t have happened before, because the brothers where busy in the other seasons to overcome their rift, to straighten out their love lives, to settle down and have roots again in the form of loved one, and to make their friends their family, the town their town, only after that when their lives had finally settle, they could start to tackle their inner problems. This is the brothers’ season, where all the roots of their psychological problems and traumas get addressed to come to full circle in the end. This Damon centric episode is such a masterpiece on so many levels, and the special combination of the brilliant writing and Ian outstanding acting that makes it so compelling. This episode is all about Damon subconscious, how he perceive himself, how he thinks others perceived him, Bonnie, Caroline and his brother. Every single conversation he has is him talking to himself, his fears, his doubts, what he suspect people think of him, that Bonnie think that he see her as not Elena been there, that Stefan think that he needs Elena to guide him through good and bad, all his insecurity are exposed, because we have an unfiltered access to his subconscious. How genial is that. But what happen during the war was real. Stefan, left alone with his father, write a letter just like a kid would write a letter to his only point of reference. Not like, how are you brother? Are you well? Are you still alive? No, instead it’s “I need you brother without you I’m miserable”. And Damon, injured Damon, in the middle of the horrors of war Damon, being always the only person taking care of his brother, act like a concern parent/big brother would, realising also two thinks. One, Stefan is alone with their drunken abusive father, two he is there not because he believe in that war, he is on the wrong side of history, being a confederate soldier in the American civil war and Damon is there only because being the first son and the one that should inherit the family estate and carry the family legacy and name, he is there only because of his father and he his father respect isn’t as important as his self respect and that is when Damon start to rebel. So the guilt of being involved in that family massacre is his first, outside the family life, trauma. It is where he learns to buried inside all his pain, and use humour as a band-aid to cover up his emotions. He had to, he had to take care of Stefan. Damon never had anybody to confide in when he was a young man human, and even less when he became a vampire, leaving his life alone, apart from his brother. He never burden anybody with his pain, traumas, specially Stefan, like when he got tortured for 5 years, he never burden Stefan with any of it, just buried all inside and got on with it. The point is that all he buried inside had to surface before or after and an event had to be the trigger to bring back the Damon that is buried inside, the child he was never allowed to be, vulnerable, hurt, and alone, in need of a mother that cares and love him. That sentence he says at the end, the careful choosing of the words the writers makes Damon saying is so incredibly heartbreaking, such genial powerful writing, “give me the chance to let you love me” as if it was his fault his mother didn’t had the chance to love him because HE didn’t let her. He is crying like the child he was, thinking that is his fault if their parents didn’t give him love, he is crying for the lost chance of feeling loved by his mother and the fact that deep inside he think is his fault is so sad. As an adult rationally he knows is not his fault, but that abused child in him still think he was the cause of his parents abuse, because he was bad and unworthy of love so he never give them the chance to let them love him and isn’t that how Damon thought of himself all his life? How wonderfully written is this season!!
Patpet
2022-11-19 19:48:45 +0000 UTC
