the word you’re looking for is slavery. Bonnie’s story on TVD is a modern day slave narrative set in a plantation town with plantation power dynamics. i dont usually make transparent analogies of this nature but the show has spent 8 seasons insisting on its own nature so all i’m doing is naming that.
BOOM! I’ve always thought it was strange as he’ll that NOBODY has noticed that, or commented on it. Everyone on the show has lost people, but they died by either enemies, or genuine accidents (Elena’s parents)
But Bonnie? You can trace ALL her losses back to her circle of friends and their actions. I don’t understand why she’s still there! I mean I know why, (show reasons) but the closest anyone has come to verbalizing it was Caroline to Elena after Abby was turned.
And come to think of it, has Bonnie ever asked for an apology? No sane, self respecting person would hang around after that.
“…so technically you’re a walking reminder of the horrible things that happened to me.”
I honestly will never forgive Elena or Plec for that line. I wonder what seeing her face does to Bonnie since everything she’s lost always comes back to Elena.
And what makes that line even worse is that Elena doesn’t even say because something Bonnie did got Jeremy killed, no she says it because Bonnie couldn’t bring Jeremy back. They were all so entitled to Bonnie’s help back then that when she fails a difficult task it’s all her fault for their pain and suffering. She didn’t have to do shit to begin with and no one can even be the slightest bit grateful that she even tried.
I mean her rl with Enzo. It just seemed DEish. Especially before he died. In s8 she just acted weird. Saying she wants to die if she can’t be with him. It just sounded Elena!DEish. Then her thinking of being a vampire when Bon we know never wanted that??? I mean even Care pointed it out which I agreed cuz it seems weird but also disagreed to some extent cuz Care acted like Bonnie didn’t change (but she was going thru her no humanity thing during s6 😂). Bonnie just seemed ooc cuz they tried make this new DE to satisfy a certain audience (they even kept comparing it to DE).
It’s sad tbh cuz you would think Bon dating a vampire would be 🔥but really it’s bland and she just acted weird , especially in s8. Rather they just did Bonnie x Nora but ofc she just had to die 😩😩😩😩. They were adorable.
Instead of s8 Bonnie acting like Bonnie I feel they made her act like how Elena would act in a lot of situations from what I saw.
Earlier seasons I just remember her finding out she is a witch, her grams dying, trying to kill Damon, and just going thru IT. Also her and Jeremy.
I have disliked Bonnie until season 8 and it’s for the exact reasons you described. She was Elena 2.0 and I hate Elena and characters like her to the point that I hated my favorite character when they turned her into her.
Moping around, I can deal with, getting in the way of plans to do something completely idiotic and will accomplish nothing is not only un-Bonnie like, but if that ain’t some Elena bullshit–they officially made Bonnie as useless as Elena in S8 without all the perks of everyone fawning over her and no consequences for her actions. Like, if they were going to turn her into Elena she should at least get the perks.
yeah, that was one of the big problems with s8 Bon. some stuff i was like girl what are you doing??? makes no sense??? could i see elena doing it? sure she always been doing that especially for damon but bon doing it just seemed odd. there was other ways? bon is a witch. she would think of something else, she always do .
i was screenshoting a scene and Bon was gushing over Enzo giving her a necklace with his blood in it and i was like???? what twilight bs is this??? then she seemed offended when care said you never wanted to be a vampire. ik care maybe didn’t notice bons change since s6 but you know bon even THINKING changing into a vampire for a guy just sounds weird AF.
lmao of course bon wasn’t getting perks when she finally filling that elena role , it’s plague. they even had to kill her bf and not have him come back to life somehow 😂😂😂 (i hate that ship but YOU KNOW they could of done some crazy bs and bring him back to life has a human , so she could be more happier but nope.)
I mean, of course she wasn’t going to stick with Benzo, she had Delena back. Notice how short his lifespan was the moment Nina was announced to return for the finale.
Although the way she ended it, that was just classic petty Plec. Benzo wasn’t really all that popular outside of DE fans, and the same with Beremy, and her reaction to the fandom’s dislike for the lazy work she puts in with Bonnie ships is always begrudging. She doesn’t not like Bonnie, does not like her fans, and most of all she doesn’t like the criticisms she gets from us because she can’t deny it, so if she puts any effort with Bonnie it’s always to screw us over.
did anyone else think it was a little disturbing when elena walked over the anti magic border to try and nearly kill herself to get her damon memories back?
Oh most definitely. Her desperation to get memories back of someone she hates is, for lack of a better word, extra.
Name a time she isn’t that extra about Damon. Because I’m seriously curious. This was right on par with her desperate crying at the end of S5, hallucinating at the beginning of S6, everything in S4 and S5 pre and post sire bond, constantly putting herself in danger because she knows Damon will save her S1-4.
Is it disturbing? Yes. Is it OOC for her? Not in the slightest.
I mean her rl with Enzo. It just seemed DEish. Especially before he died. In s8 she just acted weird. Saying she wants to die if she can’t be with him. It just sounded Elena!DEish. Then her thinking of being a vampire when Bon we know never wanted that??? I mean even Care pointed it out which I agreed cuz it seems weird but also disagreed to some extent cuz Care acted like Bonnie didn’t change (but she was going thru her no humanity thing during s6 😂). Bonnie just seemed ooc cuz they tried make this new DE to satisfy a certain audience (they even kept comparing it to DE).
It’s sad tbh cuz you would think Bon dating a vampire would be 🔥but really it’s bland and she just acted weird , especially in s8. Rather they just did Bonnie x Nora but ofc she just had to die 😩😩😩😩. They were adorable.
Instead of s8 Bonnie acting like Bonnie I feel they made her act like how Elena would act in a lot of situations from what I saw.
Earlier seasons I just remember her finding out she is a witch, her grams dying, trying to kill Damon, and just going thru IT. Also her and Jeremy.
I have never disliked Bonnie until season 8 and it’s for the exact reasons you described. She was Elena 2.0 and I hate Elena and characters like her to the point that I hated my favorite character when they turned her into her.
Moping around, I can deal with, getting in the way of plans to do something completely idiotic and will accomplish nothing is not only un-Bonnie like, but if that ain’t some Elena bullshit–they officially made Bonnie as useless as Elena in S8 without all the perks of everyone fawning over her and no consequences for her actions. Like, if they were going to turn her into Elena she should at least get the perks.
there are so many things about the scene with jo pulling the knife out of her gut that confuse me
why did kai knife her, leave her there, and then not check the room next door to see if the twins were there? it’s not like they were hidden, really? you’d think he would’ve found liv and luke first, and then killed everyone else..?
edit: also, how was she able to pull the knife out and have a gaping, profusely bleeding wound like that without passing out or dying? bonnie passed out immediately upon being stabbed in nearly the same place
From what I recall, Jo wakes up from being stabbed, so she more than likely passed out and woke up to dead siblings and more being killed.
He didn’t go to Luke and Liv first because he was trying to make a point. It wasn’t about eliminating the competition, it was about hurting his parents, and making a point about how the Gemini coven treat kids in their coven. If they aren’t twins they don’t matter, so their death doesn’t matter. He then moves on the Liv and Luke killing the ones that do matter and forcing Joshua’s hand while also completely breaking him.
He didn’t check the room to find the twins because he wasn’t looking for them yet. He was saving them for last.
yeah, i mean, that’s fair. jo even says he did it to “make a point”, so the narrative tells you why he killed them. i guess i’m just like.. he could’ve killed liv and luke first and it still would’ve been more practical? while also still making the same point killing the rest?
also it’s not clear that she’s waking up, because in the shot she’s just laying there crying, but yeah i guess that makes sense
I always interpreted it as he stabbed Jo first to get her out of the way from stopping him, she was obviously put out of commission for a while if he killed 5 of them by then.
Logically, yes, kill the competition first, but Jo even says he snapped, by that point it went way beyond wanting to merge, if I had a guess he was probably going to wait until Joshua got home to kill the twins in front of him which is why they had to be last.
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