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The Vampire Diaries S5E9 - "The Cell" - UNCUT (Patreon)

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2023-04-22 00:55:00
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Stefan continues to offer Katherine his support while trying to mask his own pain, until Caroline shows up with an unusual form of therapy. After trying to make amends with Caroline, Elena grows so concerned about Damon that she turns to Aaron for help. Later, when Damon tells Elena about a terrible ordeal in his past that he has kept secret for decades, she shares the disturbing information she just learned about her own family. Finally, Aaron decides on a desperate course of action after a conversation with Dr. Wes.

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Patpet

Connecting the bits and pieces of the story. Damon is the owner of the Salvatore estate. So his relatives from his father Giuseppe side, were permitted by Damon to stay in the house to keep the estate together and to have a human in the contract, so that others wouldn’t take the estate. Zac’s (season one) grandfather, Joseph wanted to get rid of him once and for all, because as Damon said to Zac in season one when he was imprisoned by Stefan, “you are like your grandfather, he didn’t like when I visit” and Zac answered:” you didn’t just visit, you reminded us that you permitted us to live here” and Damon:”somebody had to moan the loan”. Damon was a constant reminder that the estate wasn’t theirs. So Joseph decided to take the matter into his hand to get the hands on the estate and some more money by getting rid of Damon and Stefan once and for all, by selling them both to the Augustine society he got to know most probably through the council of Mystic Falls. Damon arrived first, he got tricked, by one of his family, again, but he managed to kill Joseph. Stefan arrived late in the house, to find the police taking is relative body to the morgue and the journalist outside his house, Franklin Fell filming and covering up the story of Joseph Salvatore being killed in 1953 at the boarding house. And that was the footage Elena saw in season one in the archive of the local news network that made her to see Stefan, in the 50s. Stefan arrived later and find all of this happening and assumed that Damon killed Joseph just for sport, not knowing what have actually happen and that if he arrived earlier would have been capture too. Next thing, Damon as being capture and tortured for 5 years, something that would make anybody going insane, thinking also that a vampire feels more intensely and that they never use anaesthesia. The amount of trauma that must have caused him, is measured by Stefan response to his trauma, due to something only went on for 3 months. Damon was tortured for 5 years!!! He manage not to turn his humanity off, thanks to Enzo, and thanks to the fact that Damon experience horror before, he went to war, and his love for Katherine kept him wanting to hold on to is humanity. Also the chance that Stefan would search for him and rescued him and that didn’t happen either. The scene of him having to leave Enzo behind to save himself is heart breaking. He switched his humanity off for 50 years, having nobody to help him to wanting to switch it back on again. Imagine in the mist of all of that, Stefan not showing up at all and sending Lexi to try to help him, because he was going to far and rumours of his behaviour arrived to Mystic Falls too , he was becoming an inconvenience. So instead of Stefan Lexi showed up, the very person responsible for keeping the brothers apart in the 40s, using her draconian methods on him, torturing him psychologically as if he needed further torture, when all he needed was his brother. The Whitmore family survivor to that night continue to find the Augustine society, As Aaron parents did, as soon as his parents were killed by Damon, his untie Sarah, became the legitimate trust founder, so she was the one deciding how to manage the trust money, so she must have known and kept money flowing in that direction, until Damon got to her too, and that is when Wes stepped in to keep the money flowing in that direction becoming Aaron legal guardian. The punch Aaron gave him was the result of the horror of finding out what his money was founding, the rage of making him feel like a freak all his life not knowing why people were dying around him and being kept in the dark, and the involvement in his friends murder. Damon was convinced that Enzo died that night, and his revenge plan, carried out through the years is also the pledge he made to Enzo to revenge him too, with the family that kept finding the Augustine society, generation after generation. The revenge was his way to express loyalty and gratitude to Enzo too. Damon doesn’t burden anybody with is traumas, he deals with it solo, because nobody cared for him that much to find out what happen to him ever, not even his brother that sent Lexi instead of showing up himself, adding even more resentment and misunderstanding between the two brothers. All the disappointment and betrayal he experience in his life, from his family, from the people he loved, made him giving up of people, and not wanting to show his soft, kind side to anybody exposing him as it did for a good part of his life to abuse and exploitation. No wonder Damon snaps when someone hurts him and cannot handle it, “...there is just so much a man can take” he said to that woman he killed in the street after Rose died and Elena was pressuring him to be a better man, the only two people showing him kindness and care, since ever. No wonder he though for long time he is the only one he can count on, to survive whatever he went through, and in all of that he still manage to act like the big loving brother, that doesn’t burden Stefan with his trauma, even though when he find his way back to Mystic Fall, still with his humanity barely on after having it off for 50 years, was still full of resentment for what his very own loving brother put him throw by turning him into a vampire and let him live with the consequences of it alone and loveless, holding on to the memory of someone in the past he tough loved him; Imagine now going back, knowing what we know now, that the only thing that kept him seen a glimpse of hope that someone actually cared for him and didn’t wanted to hurt him, was the very one telling him she never loved him and Elena repeating that too the same night, it breaks my hurt so much more.

Patpet

Now Stefan and Katherine. Well Stefan needs a distraction to deal once and for all with is PTSD. This is a case of killing two birds with a stone, addressing Elena’s break up, with the very person that sparked this in the first place and dealing with the love/hate of Katherine. Therefore sex, between the original dopplegangers meant to be together by the spell.

Tina

I love this episode because it tells so much about Damon's past. When Damon is just lying on the floor after being tortured, it breaks my heart, it's so sad to see Damon like that. To be tortured for five years with no end in sight and still retain his humanity is just heartbreaking. The amount of pain he and Enzo must have experienced is beyond imagination, so the fact that they would be vengeful makes perfect sense. Those years of torture left huge marks on Damon's soul.

Patpet

My friend made a comment that is very interesting to read: “I wanna talk about something very important in this episode, we see both Stefan and Damon are dealing with their traumas and how Stefan is dealing with his PTSD but writers very cleverly are talking about Damon’s CPTSD in this episode too and they actually leave it to the audience to figure this one out. Both PTSD and CPTSD have some similarities and also differences, both refer to some significant symptoms you experience after going through a horrible emotional and mental damaging incident like trauma but PTSD is more likely to happen after one singular trauma and it’s much simpler and it’s easier to be treated it usually contains flashbacks of the trauma, feeling hopelessness and unsafe and makes you lose your touch with reality, but CPTSD( complex PTSD) just like its name, it’s much more complex to deal with so let’s talk about CPTSD that has been rarely talked about.There are multiple things that could cause CPTSD but usually if the trauma is repetitive and prolonged that involves different kind of abuse like emotional, physical and psychological abuse, these are more likely to cause CPTSD, like being kidnapped and being tortured for a long time with no hope of ever being rescued is very likely to cause CPTSD. CPTSD can have all the symptoms of PTSD and more but they’re usually more subtle and that’s why people with CPTSD could be very misunderstood by others. They might not have the actual imaginal flashbacks of the trauma but they have emotional flashbacks every time their CPTSD gets triggered, and because it could also cause emotional dysregulation, they’re not gonna be able to control their emotions when this happens. It’s like they get to experience the feelings of the trauma that they had experienced like it’s happening all over again, it’s like the triggers open the gate to all the pain and suffering of their past trauma. They feel the pain, the hopelessness, lack of control, rage all at once without even knowing why because it’s usually very intense and it doesn’t give them time to think and process their emotions properly, so they might lash out and end up hurting people around them specially their loved ones and they immediately regret it because they can’t even believe what they have just done, it was completely out of their control and they start feeling unworthy of their loved ones. Emotional flashbacks could be very intense for humans to deal with let alone a vampire who feels things on a much more higher level now knowing more about Damon’s past give us much more insight about his character and now we can understand him a lot more specifically his actions in earlier seasons. We have to remember that Damon was without his humanity for more than 50 years and he didn’t turned it off because of the torture, but he did it because he was not gonna be able to leave Enzo without turning off his emotions. That’s another trauma for itself for him, when he arrived at mystic Falls in season one his humanity was on a dimmer switch so he was slowly regaining his humanity, getting back your humanity is hard enough for any vampire let alone for someone who has CPTSD. This was the first time Damon was letting himself feel after going through such a horrific experience so he had to deal with all the pain he experienced in his life that he kept shutting off all these years and also all the guilt of everything he has done when his humanity was off so now it makes sense why he had such a hard time adjusting to his newly humanity in earlier season for example the incident happened in season 2 episode1 when Damon tried to turn Jeremy, now knowing more about Damon’s past makes us look that scene from a complete different point of view. When both Katherine and Elena told him that they don’t love him and it’s only Stefan, that was the last nail on the coffin that it totally triggered his CPTSD. now we know he wasn’t only feeling of the heart break of Katherine and Elena at the moment , this open the gate to all the suffering and pain of his past trauma like it was happening all over again, the feeling was so intense that he lost his touch with reality for a second there and he did what he did. He was even shocked about what happened, that show us how he had little to no control about it at the moment.He made a huge mistake but it was an inevitable mistake and that’s why he’s such a realistic character. TVD talk about traumas in the most realistic way it doesn’t sugarcoat it and make it look like it’s nothing. It shows you exactly how damaging a trauma could be to a human psyche. Damon had to make that mistake and had to be faced with the consequences of his actions that how much damaging his lack of emotional control could be to his loved ones, so he could start to change, because of his protective nature the last thing he wanted to do is to hurt his loved ones, this is his worst fear so because he is driven by love, he would do absolutely anything for love so he statred to work on himself to have a better control of his emotions even tho it was really hard for him to do so. And you are right Harry, the fact that he still is carrying his revenge plan even to this day shows us how sever the trauma was for him and how fresh his CPTSD really is. People with CPTSD are also very resilient and it’s because after surviving such a horrible trauma they build up a mentally that they can survive anything”if I can get though that I can get through anything”and that’s why Damon is usually the calmest during a crisis situation and usually comes up with brilliant plan to get them out of the crisis, he became more resilient and wise due to the hardships he had to endure in his life but no matter what he still carries the scars of his past traumas that he still needs to deal with.There’s more about Damon character to discover that is related to what I’m talking about but to avoid spoilers I’m gonna talk about it when you have also caught up with the storyline. Just as always I absolutely enjoy your reactions and I can’t wait for you to get to the later seasons so we can discuss this topic more in depth.”

Maribel Humble

As Patpet, Martha, and Newmoon said, this episode explains the Damon we saw in earlier seasons. No wonder Damon said, how much more pain can a man take? I want to point out that the doctor experimenting on Damon and Enzo is a true psychopath. He had no facial expressions that normal humans display. His coldness and cruelty are palpable. We can see more humanity in Klaus and Katherine than in this doctor. The way the Augustine doctor told Damon why his experiment on vampires is like he was talking to a roach. There was no kindness, love, hope, or an end in sight to Damon's horror in that cell. It is inconceivable even to ponder it. Enzo was the only glimpse of hope for Damon in that cell. Enzo was one of the few people who genuinely was a friend who helped Damon up to that point in his life—so leaving Enzo behind wounded Damon’s spirit. Leaving Enzo was not easy for Damon, so much so that he had to shut down his humanity, something that Damon didn't do while imprisoned in that cell. Even under that doctor's cruelty, Damon' wanted to keep his humanity because starting with it required Damon not to care for Katherine. Damon’s action during those five years is a testament to how profoundly Damon loves someone. When Damos helped someone in the previous seasons, it is not all due to impress Elena. Leaving Enzo behind also has something to do with it. Damon would help someone like Bonnie, who has helped her friends numerous times. It is also Damon's protective nature that he helps those he loves and cares about. Some fans were disappointed with how Damon told his experiences to Elena under the Augustine society. Still, Damon will not be dramatic or make a big deal about it. Damon spoke about his experiences the way he feels - unworthy. The way Damon told his story to Elena is accurate to his psychological profile. Some fans were disappointed with this season, hoping or expecting something else and missing the beauty this season gives us. It shows us what is what and who is who, among other things.

Kitty Underwood

When Lexi found Damon in New York with his switch off in the 70s, he told her it'd been off since the 50s because of "Leave It To Beaver"

nostalgicgirl
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Ok, I was not gonna say anything because its been a while but this comment: "The amount of trauma that must have caused him, is measured by Stefan response to his trauma, due to something only went on for 3 months. Damon was tortured for 5 years!!!" is actually really icky. You can't measure trauma like that. It's like you're implying Damon's trauma is more valid because it lasted longer. Like Stefan is overreacting because he was only tortured for 3 months. I get what you mean about the mirror but the way you phrased it made me uncomfortable. I commend Damon for not turning off his humanity and what he went through was awful. But what Stefan went through was also awful and it doesn't matter if it went on for a shorter period of time. Damon's lasted longer but at least he was not going through it alone. He made a friend, gained an ally, had someone to vent to, had moments of reprieve. Stefan had none of that. He spent 3 months in constant agony with nothing but his memories to keep him company and holding on to hope that someone would find him too. I praise Damon for not turning his humanity off, but Stefan didn't turn it off either and he was actually desiccating and drowning. I get that people want to focus on Damon because he is their favorite character but its unfair to disregard Stefan's struggle and trauma and compare it to Damon that way.