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The Vampire Diaries S1E20 UNCUT (Patreon)

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Patpet

This episode is so important to understand the brothers dynamic and personality, but not for the apparent reasons. The scene between Damon and Stefan at the end is not as obvious as it seems. Damon knew everything, he wasn’t compelled by Katherine, he knew about Stefan and Katherine, and as we saw in the quarry scene when he tells Stefan that he thought Katherine was killed, he was fine with Stefan being involved with her too, being tuned too, he wasn’t pissed off with him at all. He just thought that Stefan was a distraction and he was the real deal. After all he didn’t have a problem of being turn into a vampire to be with her for eternity, why wouldn’t he have a problem with her indulging in “distractions” knowing that he is the one she loves, or so he thought. So going back to that scene between the two brothers. Damon has his own issues, and by showing weakness, showing to care he thinks he expose himself to danger and to hurt . He lived all his life alone and you saw how easy a vampire can get killed. He had to put a wall to protect himself from hurt and not to give away any weakness in such a dangerous world, so he has this facade of “big bad ass brother” determined to keep. But he does cares far more than he would like to show, and it is true Elena can read him like a book. So when Damon saw that his brother had suicidal thoughts, as the big brother that he is, he wanted to unburden him of the guilt about being forced by him to be turn and the consequences of it. Damon is very intelligent and in order to do that and make it believable, he tells him that the real reasons he hates him is not the fact he forced him to turn, but that Katherine turned him too, which isn’t true, we saw that in the flashbacks the only time Damon was pissed off with his brother was after he forced him to turn and promiss him an eternity of misery. And being good at deflecting and doing a good deeds without anybody realising it, is such a Damon thing to do. He unburden his brother guilt while retaining his bad brother facade for the sake of his brother mental health. That scene explain who Damon really is. The switch, vampire in this universe feels emotions, pain, love, grief, guilt etc. much more powerfully then humans and sometimes they get way too overwhelmed. So they have to learn to adapt and fight it, until they learn to control it. But they have this option to shut it all off, to turn the switch off and not feel anything anymore. As they can turn it off they can turn it back on again but obviously they need a big incentive, a powerful reason. It can come back at once or gradually. When Damon arrived in town he had his humanity switch off and gradually, by starting to live with his brother, to care about Elena, his humanity started to get back on again. If you think about it you could tell a shift in Damon’s actions and behaviour from the begining to now. So the question is what happened to Damon that was so unbearable that he had to switch his humanity off? Stefan as well didn’t chose to be feed vampire blood, but the choice to give in to blood was entirely his. Remember what Stefan said about Vicky. When you are in transition you any compelling wears off and you are well concious of what your choises are. He turned when he was seventeen, an extremely naive and spoiled young man, that lived, up to that moment, a sheltered life, he never experienced, as Damon did, war or any harsh life, he was daddy favourite, until he realised what a monster their father was. That is why Emily told him that his heart was pure and discovering the harshness of a vampire life, craving for human blood and most likely ending up killing people, will be his curse, because from the kind of human life he experienced to the experience of being a vampire, the difference will have a strong traumatic impact on him, specially. Being so young and as human heavily rely on his big brother Damon, he couldn’t bear the idea to face this alone. So as a scare kid, he did a dreadfully selfish thing, forced his brother to turn not to be alone. From Stefan point of view is understandable, but from Damon point of view, it was such a brutal abuse. By becoming a vampire Damon was condemned to live alone, without the purpose of becoming a vampire in the first place, which was to live with the love of his life for eternity. No wonder he waited all his life to get Katherine back, it was all to make sense of this life he never wanted without his love. And from his sad face and the sarcasm in the sentence “ I guess I should thank him, it was a hell of a ride” we can tell that his life so far has been terrible and he uses sarcasm as a band aid. None of the two brothers is bad, they both have traits that are bad and good as everybody, their fraillty, their issues and their traumas, to which they try to cope the best they can, or the best they know. The characters of this show have such an incredible depth and the nuances are so settle and so extraordinarily compelling. Elena is a badass crazy human, but her courage, intelligence and compassion made her such a great character. And now you know that also Elena has issues, she is living with survival guilt. There is so much to say about this episode....

Patpet

The last two episode are impossible not to be watched together I agree. But you will want to watch the season two episode one too. I don't know if you will be able to wait....😂

Archna

What a fabulous episode! ‘Blood Brothers’ is really just an opportunity for us to revel in Damon and Elena’s friendship, which has solidified considerably in this latter half of the season. Their combined effort to help Stefan his cravings for human blood was also a picture perfect glimpse of their dynamic as partners in crises mode. One of the more compelling aspects of their friendship is the way Damon and Elena challenge each others facades openly. Damon wears a mask of detachment and sarcasm, plays the role of the bad guy to avoid the pain that comes from wearing your heart on your sleeve and caring about other people. His façade is one of general indifference to the plight of others, even those he should care about (i.e. Stefan). Elena wears a mask of expectation and obligation, plays the role of the good girl to avoid the judgement that comes from indulging her more reckless inner desires. Her façade is one of naïve innocence and righteous moral outrage, even though she’s surrounded by people with questionable pasts, questionable intentions and even more questionable principles. The beauty of their relationship is that they force each other to meet somewhere in the middle. To stray away from these dangerous extremes of aloofness and ignorance and exist in the gray area of acceptance. They force each other to question every little thing, every thought, every action, every emotion. And it starts in moments like this. Like Elena knowing and insisting that Damon does care about Stefan regardless of how he pretends otherwise. She looks deeply offended at the implication that she and Damon aren't friends. It's written all over her face. And its another example of how she doesn’t take his bullshit at face value. She knows better, sometimes even better than he does. She knows he cares, knows he loves, knows he is capable of doing the right thing in his own way. He’s the one who refuses to see it. Who makes grand claims of being a lone wolf and not forming any emotional attachments when he’s so clearly invested with several people in Mystic Falls by this point. Elena isn't the only one that he's developed a bond with this season. He and Alaric are in the not so humble beginnings. He and Liz Forbes have a stellar working type relationship that is a friendship below the surface already. And you better believe that Elena knows it. She doesn't buy his 'I don't have friends' nonsense for a second. And it's obvious that writers want us to know he's full of shit because of how they end this conversation. Damon can claim not to care and not to have any investment in his relationships all he wants but when he says things like 'he won't be long', that façade of his gets shot to absolute hell. He's leaving her alone at the boarding house with a hungry, depressed Stefan and he warns her to keep away from the basement because he won't be there to protect her if she needs it. How blind could anyone be not to see the character development in this conversation. It was only six episodes ago that he was telling Stefan he hoped Elena died. And here he is worrying for her life, concerned for her safety in the presence of his little brother. Even though she isn't his worry to about. Even at this juncture in their friendship, he is anxious for her to remain intact and unharmed, so much so that he warns her away from her own boyfriend and his brother because he doesn’t trust Stefan with Elena right now. And she subconsciously understands those intentions, even if she doesn't know what they stem from. She knows he cares about her and if he was truly worried she was in danger he wouldn't leave. Damon returns from his errand with Alaric and nonchalantly saunters over to the couch, lifts up Elena’s booted feet, sits on the couch, and places her feet in his lap. This is another moment of theirs that has the power to render me speechless. Not because he has the audacity to do it. It's completely in character for him to not so subtly place himself in her personal space. But because she freaking lets him. It's like the moment when he gives her the rose at the founders party. Its such a simple, ostensibly irrelevant moment, an action so small and unimportant that people naturally overlook it. And when Elena starts to question Damon and his intentions for his brother, he doesn't hold back from telling her the truth. Again he doesn't tell her the truth to make things go against Stefan but because he didn't like being the bad person in all of this. At least not with her. This was a big moment in his life and he shares it with her. Damon did everything he did as a human when with Katherine solely for her and love. He didn't want to be a vampire for any of the other perks but simply because he wanted to be with his love for eternity. He has spent all these centuries without love and at the same hated his brother for it. He could see that Stefan was drowning himself in guilt over the past and he didn't want to add to his burden so Damon decided to tell him in simple straight words that 'I own my actions'. And that is the truth Damon does hold himself accountable for his actions. Yes, he is upset/angry with Stefan because he was forced to turn but at the same time he also knows that he willingly drank from Katherine.

Archna

The biggest revelation this episode was how Damon was the one who wanted to die and Stefan was the one who was thinking otherwise. Given the present day, it would seem the opposite happened but no it is not what we would be expecting at all. Stefan chose to become a vampire. Yes, he did go home to say goodbye to his father because he also was going to die with his brother or so he thought. But once he saw the blood he chose to go ahead. Now in this moment, it wasn't the compulsion. The compulsion only was working for him to drink Katherine's blood as a human but once he was in transition mode it was all him. Damon tried to fight it and he truly wanted to die because his reason to want to be a vampire was no longer around (Emily told him about the tomb vampires later he turned). Now from Stefan's pov I know that it was wrong but he just wanted his brother around so he won't be alone. As a younger sibling and the spoilt/most pampered child of the house he must be very dependent. Therefore it makes sense that he chose to force his brother to turn. Damon has two solid reasons to say that he hates Stefan but the main reason is him forcing to turn him and not so much Katherine. Why? We will figure out more slowly but it would all make sense. Elena is always taking huge risks with Stefan. It is true that he could have hurt her but she takes that risk because she wants to make him believe that he isn't going to hurt her because he is better than this. Of course logically it seems very stupid but that is what helps Stefan pull himself out of his self pity/guilty mode. And Damon also tries to help him get rid of the guilt by telling him that he doesn't need to carry his share of guilt. The switch is very interesting. It shall be explained further in the next episode but yes it helps them turn off emotions. But in what circumstances and how? all of this be explored. But in the flashbacks, no Stefan's emotions aren't turned off but because he turned they heightened. Therefore the need to feed from his father and turning his brother is going to make sense. The layers and depth of the characters in this show is mind boggling and it is always keeping the audience hooked. No one is black and white. They all have demons and questionable actions and morals.