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The Vampire Diaries S2E12 - "The Descent" - UNCUT (Patreon)

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Indre Duobaite
>>73793902

Really? Is it revealed in the later seasons since I haven’t seen seasons 7&8 in 7 years

j-l

YAY im so excited

Indre Duobaite

OMG yess!! I was waiting for ages for you to comment about the literally non-ending events in this town haha. It really is ridiculous.

Patpet

Damon, poor thing, can catch a break. Every time he has an opportunity to feel good, to have someone in his life that cares even a little, distracting him from loving Elena, he gets crushed. He cared about Rose because she was a sweet person with a tragic life. But, if anything, she made him realise how much in love he is with Elena, how he is conflicted about wanting to care, how tragic and wasted is a life without love, family, roots, she made him think hard about his life. We caught a glimpses of what he is behind the facade of tough and rough, badass, selfish persona he likes everybody and himself, to think he is. We saw it in Liz and Caroline situation, when he tried to patch up things between Elena and Stefan about drinking blood and when he declared his love to Elena, how much he loves her and his brother and selflessly made her forget. An we saw him here were he gave a dream to Rose so that she could die in peace and happy and be forced to kill her costed him a lot. Stefan loves Damon because he remembers who Damon was as human and keeps hoping he would get to see that side of him again. Becoming a vampire was the biggest misfortune that could have happen to someone as sensitive and broken as Damon is. The two sides of who he is as human and who he is as vampire are clashing so harshly, that he had to buried down his humanity not to be crushed by the pain of who he cannot be anymore and who he has became. Life events keep pushing his humanity out with overwhelming conflicting results that he cannot possibly reconcile. “I cannot be who she want me to be, because I’m not human, and I miss it more than anything in the world...There is only so much pain a man can take” it summarise his life and that is shattering to hear and see. His final kill to that poor unfortunate girl is the visual representation of the violence of the inner conflict, the existential crisis he is enduring, alone, because he doesn’t burden anybody he cares with his troubles. He burdens a stranger and by killing her he makes sure that his secret remains secret. The last shoot on his vampire face is incredible, he just killed his pain, he killed it with rage the unbearable unfairness he feel his life is. That, in a way, is how Damon writes his diary. I cannot marvel more to the level of the depth that the writers were capable to give to this character. Damon has an effect on me that never any other character ever did. Ian Somerhalder performance is outstanding. At first he fought against Damon showing that much level of vulnerability. I guess when you play a character for long time, you became a bit that character and Damon would die before showing others vulnerability. But Kevin Williamson made him realize that this would give his character another level of depth. He realised that and got on board with it. To bring truth to the performance, he had to go psychologically in a place he didn’t want to go and afterwards he was depressed for two days. But the result, for us viewers though, it’s magnificent and hearth shattering. On a nice note...oh yes... Stefan/ Paul shirtless is very distracting....and yes both of them are still so freaking handsome... https://www.instagram.com/p/CT-r4c3lBmz/ The werewolves’ thing. Usually the wolves go in pack, and no they are mortal, in the sense that they age and die, even if small injuries don’t affect them much, they heal quickly. The problem is that in this universe we know that they are not many, so probably when they find someone they didn’t know about it is a person to recruit. Number is power. And that is what Jules is doing with Tyler, by telling him a partial truth, mixed with some convenient lies, like that is Caroline that killed Mason, because Caroline is friend with Tyler and Jules is trying the divide and conquer technique. And Tyler is just in the middle.

Archna

This episode makes me sob like a child and it's my most favourite episode of the season because of how much I was able to look deep inside Damon's turmoil. I am not at all happy that Rose didn't survive but she left in a such heartbreakingly beautiful way that I cannot complaint. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Damon's journey in this season so far is his struggle to reconcile his newly resurrected emotions with his habit of masking everything behind detachment and sarcasm. As the season has progressed, it’s become increasingly more noticeable that his old tricks for hiding his humanity are no longer working for him. In part because his switch is firmly in the on position and in part because of Elena’s continued presence in his life, Damon has been forced to reacquaint himself with his emotions after decades of numbness and distance. The man has been friendless for years. By choice. He made his first concession in that regard by allowing himself to get close to Elena. His friendship with Elena is without question the most important relationship he’s ever cultivated. But Rose is near the top of that list. Because of what she did for Damon. Because of what she represents at this juncture in his journey. His ability to love. His capacity for compassion and selflessness. None of which are his obvious character traits, at least not to the outside world. And yet they exist. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, despite the walls he tries to erect, Damon is loving and compassionate and selfless. He isn’t just learning to cope with his emotions again. He’s recognizing, soul deep, how he is like Elena at his core. How he is truly capable of being a good person, a compassionate vampire, a hero. Rose was simply the tool of these personal discoveries. She was the means by which he started to examine himself and his character, the reason he was able to put his new emotions to the test after accepting his love for Elena. What I find curious about these emotional growing pains of Damon’s is how the other people in his life recognize his struggle. Try as he might to deflect, Stefan and Elena pick up on his changes in demeanor once he begins to embrace his humanity. And again, it is all about Rose .In a short space of time she’s managed to tug on the pieces of his heart that have not already been claimed by Elena. He isn’t in love with Rose. That was never the intention for her presence in his story. She is meant to represent his ability to do the right thing, to be the right person when he genuinely cares for someone. She is his opportunity to prove to himself that he can be a good friend even after what he might have done in the past or how he snapped Jeremy’s neck at the start of the season and earned Elena’s hateful ire. Rose is part one of Damon’s redemption. Elena set Damon on an emotional path, put him in the mindset to begin his journey from villain to hero. But Elena began as inspiration. She was unattainable, an impactful force over Damon and his humanity for no other reason than her natural affection for him even when he didn’t deserve it. But Elena isn’t giving Damon enough in season two to carry him to the next step. He needed someone else, someone he could connect with who had no connection to his brother or Katherine or his past in any way. Someone untainted by the darkness that is his life. And Rose fit the bill perfectly. Because she understood Damon right off the bat. She saw right through his bullshit, recognized his love for Elena and his determination to fight it for the right reasons. But she also understood that no matter how he fought his feelings they would never go away. Rose was entirely attuned to Damon’s overwhelming ability to love. That is why he let her in. He could be himself with her, differently than with Elena. Rose easily penetrated his facades and he respected and embraced it rather than running from it. A monumentally important step in his evolution. Like I can’t even express just how important it is, how important she was to his emotional development. Rose may be the one who is dying, and Elena may be the one who is giving up instead of fighting her impending sacrifice, but everything that is happening here revolves around Damon and how these events affect him. Even more than her powerful impact on Damon emotionally, Rose also represents a side of him that we don’t see often. Rose is a clever amalgamation of Damon’s vampirism and humanity rolled into one. She’s much older than him so she understands his love/hate relationship with vampirism better than most. Including his own brother. But she also recognizes the value of humanity and the pain that comes from losing it for too long. That’s her real purpose here. That’s why she was crucial to Damon’s story at this particular stage of the series. She forced him to look at his newfound humanity differently. To truly accept it and the positive influence it could have over his life rather than caving and running from it as he had so many times in the past. Elena was the reason he flipped the switch back on. That much has been made obvious ten times over in this show. But she was human while Damon was struggling to rediscover his emotions. She could encourage him to be better and to fight to hold onto his humanity, but she couldn’t sympathize with his struggle. Rose was the best of both worlds. Someone who understood why he turned it back on, why he pretended to everyone else that he hadn’t, and why it was so important to him that he fight the sweet release of oblivion. Her commentary as she’s dying about how she misses her human life and how centuries as a vampire warped her happiness and memories in a haze of bloodlust and survival instinct were meant for Damon’s ears and Damon’s enlightenment. They were things he needed to hear. He spent a significant portion of season one and up till this point in season two straddling a line between humanity and non-humanity. At any time, he could’ve chosen to fuck it all and shut his emotions off. He didn’t. Even though most of his reacquaintance with his humanity was pain on top of more pain, he held on and continued to feel more rather than less. Starting with the fact that he even thought to ease her pain in this way. Stefan is constantly praised for being sweet and thoughtful and all around good. It’s been said so many times, especially by Caroline and Elena. Damon, by contrast, is consistently painted as exactly the opposite. No one expects thoughtful or romantic behavior from him. Especially not right now. Yet here he is, holding a dying Rose in his bed, coaxing her to sleep and providing her one last moment of peace and relief before she dies. He constructed an entire dream for her based on what Elena had told him about Rose’s childhood home. And that is just about the sweetest thing anyone could ever do for another person. He gave her a slice of her own personal paradise as she lay in physical agony. And then he staked her in her sleep the moment she told him it didn’t hurt anymore. He spared her the pain of a truly horrible death by putting her out of her misery amidst a happy dream of better times. Damon has been so selectively emotional for so long that seeing him cry is thousands of times more visceral than anything that comes before this scene. This man was never an enemy of his own emotions and humanity. That was never the issue. He has always felt too deeply, too powerfully. The man loves and cares and hates and despairs too much. And that is why he fights it. This is the part that really gets me. Even before I witness Damon Salvatore in tears, this portion of the scene is what drives the point of this episode and this season home.

Archna

Now let’s take a moment to rejoice over the second Delena hug. Like the first one in 1x14, this hug is given purely out of comfort and friendly affection. And like the first one in 1x14, this hug goes unreciprocated. But the similarities stop there. Because Damon has changed significantly since he opened that tomb and discovered Katherine wasn’t in it. When Elena hugged him for the first time it was in sympathy and apology for his pain. And Damon didn’t return the hug because he was feigning stoicism and fighting devastation. When Elena hugs him this time it is out of love. Not romantic love. But it’s in her eyes before she puts her arms around him. She does love him. She does feel for him and his pain and his struggle and his guilt. She feels it all. Much like the first time, Damon lets her. He doesn’t stop her from embracing him. He allows her to support him briefly for this moment. The difference here is that Damon is almost overflowing with too much emotion. And because he is still learning how to cope with his humanity, he needs an outlet. And hugging the girl he’s in love with who doesn’t reciprocate those feelings is not going to do it. So, he doesn’t return the embrace. Instead, he stands stoic as before, fighting tears. His lip even trembles. It’s plain to anyone paying attention that he’s about to implode from the onslaught of his heightened emotions. The importance of this scene, especially at this moment in time, is that is reminds Damon on the heels of a tragedy why he is willing to suffer through the hell of his resurrected humanity. For her. Because at the end of it all, even after everything he’s done and all the mistakes he’s made, she still cares. She cares so much that she came back to check on him, made him a glass of bourbon, and insisted she was there for him. He could pretend all he wanted, but there was no denying that her decision to come back and make sure he was okay was his tipping point. Regardless of how he closed this episode, he needed that show of support from Elena. Because he’s done nothing this season but support her, whether she knew it or not. And she’s done nothing but fight him every step of the way. In this moment, they finally met in the middle. She’s begun to give in a little. She doesn’t deny their friendship anymore. And that needed to be made clear to everyone. Especially Damon. She needed to vocalize it, to prove that she still cared. The end of the scene; Here we are. The entire purpose of this episode. The turning point. And possibly one of Damon’s best scenes ever. It is just wrought with emotion and intensity and personal strife. The first is his declaration that he’s lost. Because that couldn’t be more accurate. He was set adrift in the middle of season one when he found out Katherine never gave a damn about him and he’d waited for nothing. And things only grew more complicated for him from there. Now almost a full season later, Damon recognizes he’s at a crossroads, and he has no idea where to go. Or at least that’s what he’d like to believe. This is Damon’s manifesto for season two. His whole existence is in a state of flux and he doesn’t know how to handle it. He’d spent the better part of 145 years with a single-minded purpose: open the tomb and get Katherine out so they could be together forever. Until she ripped the rug out from under him. And now he has no purpose, no reason for being or living forever. Except that he does. He does have a purpose. He does have a reason for having lived the last 145 years in limbo. He does have a reason to live forever. Elena. This right here is probably Damon’s most powerful scene in the series’ history. Because you can feel everything. All of his pain, all of his uncertainty, all of his struggle. And even all of his love. This is one of the reasons why I love him. Because he is so realistic about everything under the sun. Except himself. His view of himself is entirely flawed. MAKE him good. Because he thinks he’s irredeemable, that after everything he’s done wrong, he isn’t good any longer and can’t ever be again. He’s wrong of course. Dead wrong. He is still good. His actions throughout the entire episode proved that. Even Elena recognizes it. He’s the one who doesn’t see it. He can be what other want him to be. In fact, in some ways, he already is. Because he’s more than what they might want from him. He’s what they need. He’s what Elena needs. But he only sees how he’s failed her. And how he’ll continue to do so. That’s why he emphasizes her pronoun. Because SHE is the reason behind all of his angst to begin with. SHE is the one who prompted him to turn it back on. And SHE is the one who continues to insist that he keep it on. She is why he fights. And he believes he’s let her down. That he’ll never be anything better than he is no matter how much she pushes him. He doesn’t understand that the very things he’s struggling with in this scene, this episode, are what make him good. He’s TRYING. He’s trying to be better, thinking it through, second guessing his impulses and instincts, fighting the numbness of non-humanity. He’s in crisis now. He has been for a while. But this is his tipping point. This is where he starts to truly change. Consciously rather unconsciously. All in all a masterpiece of an episode!!

Maribel Humble
>>73798534

I feel the same about Damon Salvatore. No other fictional character has ever touched my heart as deeply as Damon has.