#tvd 3x07

[forbescaroline]

11k celebration: top 50 m/f friendships (as voted by my followers) #02. stefan salvatore and lexi branson - the vampire diaries

[msanonships]

Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett on The Vampire Diaries

[tangleddd]

Louise came out of the closet to see Bonnie and Caroline at Damon's nightstand looking at a photo frame. "Who knew Damon was so soppy?" Caroline flipped the picture to reveal a picture of Damon kissing the side of Louise's head and she wore the biggest smile. Bonnie and Caroline began to tease her, acting as if they were making out. Louise's cheeks flamed red. "Oh, my God! Put that back or Damon will kill you for snooping through his stuff!" Tangled Diaries 3.07 'Ghost World'

[zalrb]

Hello Zal,

I was rewatching season 3 of TVD and noticed how Elena watched Stefan fought for her and his humanity and still there was no mention by her of him trying to fight compulsion. She was mad at him later as if he turned off the humanity by choice.

You don't think that's a bit of an oversimplification?

You don't think Elena seeing Stefan do this in 3x05

had any bearing on what she does in 3x06?

why does she have so much faith in him? We can't infer that part of it is because of what she witnessed in 3x05?

or 3x07

It has to be directly stated in dialogue?

The lengths she goes to in 3x08-3x09

Sure, she says they'll let him go by the end of the episode but she does anything but that in the episodes that come after.

You don't just see how this is all reciprocity? How it all goes back to what she said in 3x02?

and how she saw Stefan not give up on her so she's now not giving up on him? She needs to verbally refer to 3x05? Why?

[the-shadow-of-your-heart]

not bonnie saving the whole town while having to come to terms with the fact her boyfriend's cheating on her with a ghost 😞

[bossiegifs]

Rebecca Breeds as Aurora de Martel and Oliver Ackland as Tristan de Martel in the Originals (2013 — 2018)

[eg515]

this episode really was just a reminder that Lexi, Anna and Pearl all deserved better

[kai--parker]

Legacies 3x07

[handonhaven]

People calling Hope’s grief an obsession is ridiculous, not to mention messed up. If we’re comparing her reaction to Landon’s death to other characters’ reactions to loss throughout tvdu, that would make Elena, Caroline, Bonnie, Stefan, Damon, the Mikaelsons, and countless others, all obsessed because they all happened to love people and fought to save them and were grieving and struggling after their deaths. But apparently it’s not okay for characters to feel or to love anymore. Apparently there is a time limit on how long you can grieve (and apparently that time limit is about a week).

[gilbertstelena]

I forgot how much i used to care.

I didn’t.

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 41. jeremy gilbert and anna zhu - the vampire diaries

[thoughtsfromaclutteredbrain]

KARAMEL HIATUS PROJECT: UNDERRATED SCENES

[tangleddd]

"Can I ask you something, Jer?" The hesitancy in her tone put him on guard instantly. "Um...do I have a choice?" "Excuse me?" "Historically, nothing good has ever come from the question 'can I ask you something, Jer'," he replied. "So, why don't you just rip the band-aid off and ask?" Struggling to suppress a grin, Louise scoffed. "Alright, smartass." she said, dropping her gaze and picking up a French fry. "Do you like Damon?" Tangled Diaries 3.07 'Ghost World'

[zalrb]

So SCrs have a post comparing 3x07 with 8x10 and saying that Elena made everything about her, about Stefan feeling anything or he'd lose her, but Caroline makes it about him regardless of their relationship... I know you didn't watch the episode, but what do you think?

I watched that scene and here is where context comes into play.

In 3x01 we learn that Elena has been searching for Stefan all summer, like literally for two or three months basically all she’s been doing is chasing leads.

and she’s been fighting everyone about searching for him:

and in 3x02 she faces werewolves for him:

In 3x03 she hid in a murder closet while Klaus the Original Vampire who thinks she’s dead, is right outside so she can see Stefan and bring him home:

and then Stefan breaks up with her after all of that:

and then in 3x05 she is hit by Klaus:

she watches Stefan tear apart her classmates:

and she’s still there like:

telling him to fight and he just needs to want it bad enough and he’s compelled to bite her which puts her in the hospital:

but in 3x06 she’s right there like:

and then 3x07 comes around and before that moment that the SCers are comparing to 8x10, Elena spends the day learning from Lexi on how to get through to Stefan, it’s about her methods and the things you have to do to get him to feel again:

She watches him suffer, listens to him talk about how he wished her never met her and she just has to take it , like it’s exhausting being there and going through that while at the same time her brother is cheating on her best friend with a ghost, Klaus is trying to make hybrids, like the world is coming apart at the seams and she’s needed elsewhere so she goes where she’s needed and Stefan asks her if she’s giving up, the one person who has been his cheerleader, who has been relentless in getting him back, who has been there no matter how hard he’s tried to push her away:

and she says:

Like no, I’m still here, I’m still your cheerleader, I’m still stubborn and she also says:

which is fair because she’s done everything, she’s risked her life for him, she brought his dead best friend to help her get through to him, tortured him, pleaded with him, but he needs to want it too, which is a line very much about him as is this:

and this line:

is an appeal to his humanity which makes absolute sense because it has been established and re-established that his humanity is directly linked to Elena.

In 3x01, she’s the one he calls, not Damon, not Caroline, it’s Elena:

In 3x05 he freaks out when Klaus hits her:

he told her she was what kept him from giving up:

Klaus marvels at the love he has for her:

and he fights compulsion for her:

So why wouldn’t Elena appeal to his humanity by threatening to give up on him? After everything she’s done for him why wouldn’t she realize that she’s spent so much of her time and been consumed with getting him back?

When 8x10 rolls around, what has Caroline done for Stefan by that point? Nothing. She’s talked at him.

In 8x08 they haven’t even interacted, she hasn’t been searching for any plans or any methods to help him out of his deal.

In 8x09 she talks at Damon about Elena and dances with him then talks at Stefan then stakes Stefan and throws a ring at him.

In 8x10 she manages to get him chained up and talks at him some more:

She didn’t risk her life for him, she hasn’t spent months searching for him, she’s a vampire so she has eternity on her side while Elena was a human who was being hunted by original vampires, Caroline is just getting started when Elena was invested by the time 3x07 rolled around. They are in two very different places and frankly Elena and Caroline mean two very different things to Stefan. Give me 3x07 over 8x10 any day.

[the-shadow-of-your-heart]

jeremy's 100% one of those girls who thinks they can't function out of a relationship so he's always on the rebound. he wasn't over vicki when he was with anna and he wasn't over anna when he was with bonnie. he needs some alone time to reflect on himself.

[itachi86]

wait anna could hear caroline through the phone but caroline couldn’t hear anna?