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The Vampire Diaries S5E4 - "For Whom the Bell Tolls" - UNCUT (Patreon)

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2023-03-10 02:01:30
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While Mystic Falls observes its traditional Remembrance Day to honor the dead, Damon and Elena try to help Stefan through a confusing time, a task that ends up taking Elena on an emotional journey of her own. A worried Matt tries to figure out the reason behind his mysterious blackouts, and Caroline makes an effort to get to know Jesse better. Jeremy makes a startling confession that hits Damon hard. Finally Dr. Maxfield puts a plan in motion that will change everything.

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Patpet

There are so many points to this episode that are like a go over again as a recap and a reconfirmation of what we already know, it’s a remembrance episode to us too. 1) Stefan’s problem with blood is due to his psychological problems, his non control of himself is due to his guilt, to the fact that all his human life he was considered "the good brother", the apple of their father's eyes. As younger son wouldn't have to be burden with the pressure of carrying the family name as the first born did, having to carry the family honourability in front of the town, or having to go to a war without believing in the principal of that war like Damon did, just to please his father, with all the traumas that taking part of a war carries with it, that Damon never shown to anybody. So once Stefan became a vampire having being so very sheltered, he is not prepared for the brutality of life in general, let alone for the vampire life. His good boy image he identify himself with, came harshly in conflict with the huger, he wasn’t prepared to deal with, therefore not strong enough to control. He is a case of "the first of the class" complex when someone usually always first of the class isn’t anymore one and to Stefan, reputation is everything. So as he said, in his little speech to Jessie, “what is the point of being good”, having a lack of memory of himself as a person, in a way made him to be rational and aware about his problems and his condition, in this case he chooses to act badly, because when he was happy a moment before with Elena he was in perfect control. Even when he switch his humanity off he is in control. So, he is a ripper out of choice or because to his psychological problems, due to his guilt, due to his care for his own reputation being destroyed, due to the harshness of life as a vampire life he was extremely unprepared for. He is a riper ONLY when his humanity is on, like when he was with Klaus. But when his humanity is off or he is without memories, he is a ripper out of choice because he is capable of control. 2) Stefan and Elena. This is another very obvious example of doppelgänger spell that is still in place. They are supernaturally attracted to each other but the true love, the free will love is strong enough to stop her from kissing Stefan. @MaribelHumble made me notice that in that moment, the producers decided to re-playing the same song of when they kissed for the first time, song talking about a kind of toxic love and we know that songs in this show aren’t casual, but are chosen very carefully because they are the voice over of the writers, or of the characters emotional state, or the characters unconscious feelings. The words of the song are a perfect description of Elena and Stefan relationship born out of a spell, and due to external circumstances they were going through at that time: “ Something always brings me back to you/ It never takes too long /No matter what I say or do/ I'll still feel you here 'till the moment I'm gone/You hold me without touch/You keep me without chains/I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love/And not feel your reign/Set me free, leave me be/ I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity/Here I am, and I stand/So tall, just the way I'm supposed to be/But you're on to me and all over me/Oh, you loved me 'cause I'm fragile/When I thought that I was strong/But you touch me for a little while/And all my fragile strength is gone/Set me free, leave me be/I don't want to fall another moment into your gravity/Here I am, and I stand/So tall, just the way I'm supposed to be/But you're on to me and all over me/I live here on my knees as I try to make you see/That you're everything I think I need here on the ground/But you're neither friend nor foe though I can't seem to let you go/The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down/You're keeping me down, eh ooh/You're on to me, on to me, and all over/Something always brings me back to you/It never takes too long”. I don’t think the writers could have been clearer on Elena and Stefan relationship. As the song explained their love it’s unnatural and unhealthy, he is the one that killed her, not because he respected her choices, because when her choices didn’t go his way he didn’t not respected her choice to be with Damon at all, and she was very clear about it. He was bitter and spiteful with both of them, even triggered for good Jeremy’s hunter marks, at the point that the two siblings couldn’t stay together without Jeremy wanting to kill Elena, not to mention the Wickery Bridge thing...so directly or indirectly Stefan’s love endangered Elena’s life and played a definite role in her recognise that Damon on the contrary would go to the extreme to keep her safe even at the cost of been hated and that to Elena is an element that at the end of the day, taken everything into consideration, she greatly valued a she said to Caroline in Damon's bathroom "he always been there for me". Stefan saved Matt because of his codependency problem that made him save someone that is unconscious, and for what he knew could have been already dead, over someone that is conscious; codependency that made him save a friend of his love, over the alleged love of his life. That from a rational, logical and from an emotional point of view is incomprehensible, unless the person in question value above all, the need not to cross the partner, the need to please the partner out of irrational fear of losing her respect and love, above even the value of her life, to his is worse to loose her love and respect than to loose her as a person. That isn’t normal love that is co-dependency, a very dangerous way to love someone, in this case lethal. That is what the song is telling you, while Elena that is Elena, compassionate, forgiving, kind Elena, tells Stefan, that is in a state of vulnerability because his memory is gone, “no you weren’t crazy, you were the perfect boyfriend that value my will” trying to minimise things. Obviously she is not going to tell him “yeah actually I am a vampire because you killed me” the writers let the song, the song of their first kiss, reminding us, the unfiltered true reality of their relationship, that Elena is now aware of, including the knowledge of the spell, but because of her kind and genuine caring nature, she chooses put that aside, buried it and move on. He is her ex and the brother of the love of her life, so Elena does what Elena do, turn a bad situation in a positive, choosing to have loving feeling for Stefan without being in love with him. 3) Damon and Jeremy always had a strange special bond that had nothing to do with Elena, but more to do with what they represent as people to the eyes of one another and the personal history they have, the moments of true honesty they shared that Damon had with him only first, and the guilt and compassion Damon feels for him. On the other hand Jeremy choose him as a older brother figure, as someone he looks up to, someone he things is a badass, someone he is looking up to for approval of, so, of course, Damon is the one he chooses to tell the truth about Bonnie first. Jeremy is very much like Elena and between Damon and Stefan, he chosen Damon because as Elena and everybody else, Liz, Alaric, Bonnie too, value in Damon his absolute honesty for how brutal it can be whatever situation, or about himself, you don’t get BS from Damon, never ever; Jeremy saw Alaric, his father figure, and Damon being good friends. Jeremy never had any close relationship with Stefan even when Elena was going out him; and because Jeremy is very much like Elena and share with Elena the circumstances of their family being decimated and her state of grief when they both met Stefan and Damon, he is the mirror of what relationship Elena would have had with Stefan, without the spell. If there were ever any doubt about Damon caring for Jeremy, even after the accident with Katherine, where Jeremy nearly died, here is the definite prove that he cares about him, not just because of Elena but because of their bond. Not only, here is prove of how Damon, that doesn’t like to show his vulnerability, is profoundly empathetic of others feelings. He imagined what Jeremy must have gone through by having hide the truth for months, having to lie to anybody and how sad he must have been dealing alone with the loss of Bonnie and the sacrifice she made for him and not saying anything, to leave Damon, Elena, Matt and Caroline to be happy. In that hug there was everything that Damon is, but hide from everybody but Elena and Jeremy and his genuine tender care for Jeremy.

Maribel Humble
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TVD writers did consider the historical facts and incorporated them into the story and its characters. Things like the civil war and the Atlanta fires did happen. The Salvatore family lived during the Victorian era when good social perception among peers and family was mandatory. It certainly was important to Giuseppe Salvatore that he killed his sons for being vampire sympathizers. Public opinion was more important than loving his sons. The difference between Damon and Stefan is that Damon stops caring what his father thought of him after renouncing being a confederate soldier. On the other hand, Stefan did care about his father's opinion. There is a reason why Stefan is like this with his father but more of that later. If we pay attention to the brother's body language around their father in season 1, episode 20, we can see how tense and angry and fed up is Damon with his father's “cryptic conversation" when all he sees is his father's hypocrisy. Stefan had a more relaxed but cautious demeanor around his father. Still, it was not enough for Stefan to stop and say that maybe there are good vampires to his father, even after Damon specifically told him that Giuseppe could not be trusted with vampire issues. One of the reasons Stefan told his father was a lack of experience with people's motivations. It is like Patpet said that Stefan was not prepared to face vampire life after being sheltered throughout his human life and didn’t have to carry the responsibility of a firstborn son. It must have been a drastic change from being scared of Katherine's vampiric face to becoming a vampire, especially when he did not ask for such a life but was compelled not to be afraid of vampires by Katherine. Regardless of his fears, Stefan did want a romance with Katherine. It is intriguing that after Stefan kills his father, it seems that all of Giuseppe's animosity toward Damon is transferred to Stefan. Damon going to the civil war to satisfy his father was no small task during that era in USA history. There are 68.3 miles between Charlottesville and Lynchburg in Virginia, where supposedly the fictitious town of Mystic Falls is located. Over 120 battles were fought in Virginia during the Civil War (1861-1865). Many of those battles surrounded these two towns. Among the ten bloodiest battles of the civil war, 5 of those battles were fought in the state of Virginia. So you see, I believe that the people of Mystic Falls's founding families were aware of the horror of war, but one thing is to be mindful of it, and another is to experience it as Damon did. The carnage, broken bodies, the smell of blood, and the constant threat of enemy attacks are experiences never to be forgotten. Now imagine experiencing all of these when you don't even believe in the cause but doing it for someone who doesn't care for you. That is what Damon did for his father. After deserting the war, Damon didn't care about his father's opinions. Still, Damon was ridiculed by George Lockwood and the founding families during the first Mystic Falls ball. Damon voicing his opinion against the confederate side takes him 100 years ahead of his time with the civil rights movement. It takes a brave soul to express your beliefs to individuals who strongly believe in a cause. The meaning of the song “Gravity,” according to the songwriter and singer, meant to her: “'Gravity' was born out of a high school relationship falling apart and me being a drama queen about it," Bareilles says, laughing. "I had a high school boyfriend who I was madly in love with, and we broke up my senior year and got back together. And then I went away to college, and every time I came home, he was just a magnet for me. I could not remove myself. I couldn’t move on, move out, move forward. It felt like a force that was bigger than a person. Of course, Bareilles eventually gets over the guy, but the song reflects her state of mind right in the middle of the situation. "It's talking about that first real heartbreak where you’re like, 'I don’t think I’m gonna ever get over this,' then of course eventually you do," she explains. You go past it and through it and grow from it." Although "Gravity" has soundtracked romantic moments in TV shows like Community and The Vampire Diaries, not everyone views it as a song about love. "I’ve seen people talk about it in terms of grief or addiction," says Bareilles. "It’s a very exciting thing as a songwriter when you get to watch a song take on a life of its own. It’s your hope for every single song, and it doesn’t happen every time." Reading the lyrics of this song tells the story of someone stuck in a relationship cycle they can't escape but wants to. Do Jeremy and Damon share a special bond? My answer is yes. Damon did things for Jeremy that had nothing to do with Elena. When Elena asks Damon to compel Jeremy about Vicki leaving town, Damon does more than Elena asks him to. He compelled Jeremy to stop using drugs, get back to his drawings, and take an interest in his education. When Anna died, Damon went straight to Jeremy to tell him what happened to her and apologize for his involvement in Vicki’s death and talk about life hardship as a human versus vampire with Jeremy. Damon didn't have to do any of these things for Jeremy, but he did them anyway, and it was not for Elena because the first time Damon compelled Jeremy, Damon was determined to get Katherine back. When Damon was saved by Stefan from being burned alive, none of the gang members knew that Damon went straight to Jeremy to apologize to him. When Kol was going to kill Jeremy, we can hear Damon desperately tell Jeremy to run away to safety. When Damon thought he died due to Katherine causing the car accident, we can see the anguish on Damon’s face and the relief when he saw Jeremy alive. Body language is an excellent source to find the truth of anyone but one must master the art of this arena. When Kol compels Damon to kill Jeremy, Damon repeatedly tells Jeremy to kill him, but Jeremy refuses to do it even though he has motives to kill Damon since Damon snaps his neck. Now do all these incidents only related to Elena, or is there something more?