anti damon

I’ve always find Damon very stupid. He likes to think he’s smart but he’s not. I’m not surprise he didn’t go for Bonnie in season 1 and he had a deal with Emily Bennett. Despite being a vampire, Damon is an embodiment of toxic masculinity and sexism. His victims are mostly women and you can see his way to think when he teached Elena to hunt (always choose the insecure blond girl). There is a lot of incoherences. It’s like Klaus, his interest should have been Bonnie not Caroline.

November 30, 2018 — Leave a comment

You see, you have to realize the very racist context of Damon not going to Bonnie instead of Caroline. This is season 1 pilot, the episode of the show that actually followed the book closely which is why you have the fog and the crow. Stefan can’t read minds, but TVD was always meant to be the anti Twilight so that was no bueno in that department.

In the books Damon tries to weasel his way into Elena’s social group, much like the show, but instead of Caroline he uses Bonnie. In the books he doesn’t use Caroline because she’s barely a friend if at all and the show actually set up for this dynamic, so from a narrative perspective it doesn’t make sense. Using Caroline didn’t make anything better especially when the original character from the book is there so what changed about show!Bonnie for them to give Caroline book!Bonnie’s plotlines.

The real answer is nothing, but as far as the writers and the network were concerned changing her race was a significant enough for the network to put a “Bamon ban” as early as when the show started which in return purposely ruined a lot of logical narratives because like I keep saying Caroline doesn’t help his end goals, Bonnie does and that early all the character is, is their motives and when those don’t align with their actions that set a presidence for an inconsistent character (which is what happened).

And this kind of crap happened constantly throughout the show where Caroline is given not only storylines that would fit Bonnie kore, but have her invade Bonnie’s storylines, i.e Abby in season 3.

I get with all the stupid crap Damon does how it’s not surprising that his poor planning is what’s the downfall, but here it’s not quite the case because it’s usually his impulsiveness that ruins everything, like he never executed plans fully because he had a temper tantrum of some kind in between. Here it’s just plain illogical planning. I’d understand him feeding on Caroline like he dis Vicki because as we learn in season 4 it’s always “snatch, eat, erase” he doesn’t stick around for anything else, he surely didn’t stick around for Vicki, so why Caroline. What did she have that he needed more than blood? The answer is nothing, but again, the writers would have you believe there was.

in wiki they said emily is katherine’s handmaiden… i’m confused, i thought she was a slave.

November 30, 2018 — Leave a comment

She was but if you notice TVD completely negates slavery in general. If you go back to the 1864 flashbacks it’s not mentioned once, when Alaric is going over the Civil War in class it’s also not mentioned, and when Bonnie was talking about her ancestors from Salem again it’s not mentioned that they were slaves or even free slaves. It also makes no sense that Emily would travel from a free state to a slave one. Plus Damon was a Confederate soldier who left because he “didn’t agree” which was vague af and probably an opportunity to save the implications of that but chose not to because as far as Plec and Williamson were concerned slavery never existed and was a fairy tale.

TVD chose to set it’s show in Civil War era Virginia and completely ignore the context of that which is why Emily ended up being called “handmaiden” even though we knew she was anything but. Just look at how Katherine treated Emily, that’s not how you treated a handmaiden.

In fact, the only time Slavery is acknowledged is in TO with Marcel, but that was just to serve the “white savior” complex and even ignored the context of that from there after. When Marcel talks about his past it stopped being about slavery and about daddy issues to make Klaus seem like a good guy for letting Marcel have basic human rights. Which is very telling to Plec’s mindset.

damon choose to go after caroline over bonnie because he’s a coward and he wanted a sex toy. bonnie is a witch, she can’t be compell. his explanations are bullshit. there thousand guy like him going after insecure or disable women and taking advantage of them. like his relationship with andy wasn’t useful but he liked to take away her free will.

November 28, 2018 — Leave a comment

Look I’m not denying Damon is a sexual predator, but narratively it makes absolutely no sense. Rapist don’t make sense but stories do. Him being a rapist makes no sense because it served no purpose to the plot or the character motives the writers established. And because his behavior is never framed correctly doesn’t even serve as an allusion to sexual assault–it’s just there and it’s random. Meaning it’s gratuitous.

Him not being able to compel Bonnie doesn’t really even factor in because that’s not his only form of manipulation. As I said in the “Damon has always been Random” post he had an in with Bonnie through Emily that due to the fact that they did nothing with it is also random.

You can explain it with the logic of real life but it doesn’t apply because the logic of real life aren’t applied in the series. In its current form just contributes to rape culture due to the way it’s ignored and framed as though it’s alright–that’s pretty much the only way it applies to real life logic.

We can discern certain things about his personality due what we see the same way we discern certain things about but Bonnie but the fact of the fact of the matter neither of these characters are well developed. Bonnie due to the lack of development and what is shown, Damon due to inconsistency.

Also they kept making him worse and worse and kept trying to frame it as “redemption” but the fact of the matter is what we see is the only characterization we have to go. Like trying to say Elena is compassionate doesn’t really work due to her never really showing these traits. So yes he is those things, but he’s also a bunch of others that you can’t make heads or tails of so the only consistent thing is abuser and rapist.

August 14, 2018 — Leave a comment

TVD 2×13 Review: Getting annoyed again

I’m not going to quit just yet but it’s getting annoying. If I were to rename this episode I would call it “So Naive”. First with Caroline, then with Stefan, then with Elena, and then back to Caroline again. But before I get to that I would like to say I like that killing Mason is starting to blow up in their faces the icing on the cake would be that it gets brought to Damon which it never does because we know what show this is. I did like the confrontation between Tyler and Caroline and I like the development Tyler was showing by walking away when he was angry instead of hitting someone.

So back to the naivety of Caroline, she asks Stefan to talk to Tyler which I get the motivation, what I don’t get is a) why send Stefan, and b) what the fuck does she expect him to say that’ll convince him not to be angry about his uncle being murdered and everyone covering it up. That’s just stupid but the end of the episode kinda gives me the answer with her line, “you help your friends,” which I will get into why this annoys me later, but it all basically amounts to what I said in the 2×12 review which is that they don’t do family relationships well because they don’t find value in it which is a glaring issue.

Then there’s Stefan’s naivety. I get that he’s Stefan and willing to always help what I dont get is his approach which was a) very threatening and b) not empathetic at all which was both Caroline and Stefan’s issue from the jump when it came to Tyler. Caroline at least apologized but then immediately went to covering her ass more. All Stefan did was cover his, or more importantly, Damon’s ass, but what bothered me the most about it was he was quite apathetic throughout his whole encounter not to mention he basically trapped Tyler in a room with him.

Stefan is easily the better brother, but what this episode was showing me is that he wasn’t better by that much because he’s the one who is supposed to have more emotional maturity which he does in comparison to Damon, but there was no Damon for him contrast, so he seemed mostly self-centered and disinterested. All he did was tell Tyler to stay quiet while not answering a simgle one of Tyler’s questions which is almost a Damon move except he didn’t threaten or kill anyone. In any case I don’t understand what Stefan thought he could say to make it right especially with that approach. I also don’t understand how with Caroline or Stefan expected Tyler to listen to them when they haven’t explained shit to him and just keep telling him what to do, but I digress.

Then there’s Elena’s naivety which while annoyed me, annoyed me less because if there’s one thing she’s showed time and time again it’s that she doesn’t know any better, or better yet doesn’t want to know any better which is weirdly an argument for DE because he often suffers from the same syndrome.

I get that she’s wary of John, what’s annoying and naive about it is that she’s wary for all the wrong reasons which is basically an Elena trait. She’s mad at him for trying to kill Stefan and Damon in the season 1 finale which I get to a point but at the same time how does she not understand why he doesn’t give 2 flying fucks about Stefan and Damon, or why he thinks their dangerous and need to be killed. All they did in season 1 was get people killed or kill people, you’re the teenage girl who’s in love with them, so why would he take your opinion about them seriously in any sense when you ignore so much already. But again that’s Elena in a nutshell.

What she should be angry with him about is lying about being her father and that’s what the focus of their tension should be which it does come back around to by the end of the episode which I’m proud of them for BUT I know it goes mostly nowhere until the season finale when he dies for her (who is honestly the only person I have ever understood dying for her).

And on the John Gilbert note I don’t understand why no one trusts John to help save Elena, he’s the one with the most vested interest in her survival due to being her father which circles back to TVD and their lack if value in family relationships including the ones the emphasize so much like Defan, and Klaus and [insert sibling].

There’s this friends first mentality that doesn’t make sense because they don’t build up the friendships enough for such devotion. They try to build this “choose your family” dynamic that never hits home because they don’t seem like that good of friends. They make sure there’s absent parents and family, but don’t replace it with anything sufficient for a friendship bond so strong they’re like family. Also they continue to call each other friends which just brings home the fact that they friends not friends that are like family. The best you get is Bonnie saying she and Elena are like sisters which makes sense from Bonnie’s end as she treats her like a sister but not Elena because it’s never reciprocal. Bonnie’s always there for Elena, but Elena continues to always be absent when Bonnie’s going through something (or more like Bonnie is because that’s when she’s shoved off screen) or she make it about her problems and that’s something that’s been going on since the beginning.

This entire episode is a glaring example of this tone deaf approach with their “friends first” mentality. It was so bad that when Caroline is yelling at Tyler at the end of the episode I couldn’t muster up much sympathy because she said the wrong things and Caroline went through something that was worth sympathizing. It kinda reminded me of 4×06 when she’s just as tone deaf when she gets Chris killed. In her mind your supposed to help your friends no matter what, she doesn’t realize that there are more important things like trust–something she broke, in both instances, and didn’t bother to repair, in both instances, so she’s baffled as to why he’s wary of her. I think this episode made me realize that not only was Elena the exact same season 4-6, but so was Caroline–there is no character assassination they were always this dense. (It’s also making me wish there was Tonnie this season because Bonnie is a way more empathetic character.)

Anyway Bonnie comes back for exactly one scene that honestly could have been a deleted scene. It added nothing to the episode or Bonnie’s development. Seriously, this is her most deus ex machina season because she goes missing and then can do a whole slew of advanced spells and this episode is part of the reason why–because they don’t bother to show her magic improving she’s either missing or having meaningless interactions. It was probably there just to build Beremy which makes sense since that’s the only way characters have value in this show. At the same time they suck at developing romantic relationships especially this one. Also when she and Elena come to Caroline’s to cheer her up I couldn’t help but think where was this for Bonnie when Damon bit her, when Ben kidnapped her, or better yet, when her Grams died. This is the season where Caroline’s character gets more prominent but also for no reason when Bonnie–the one who actually saves the day gets shoved more into the background.

Although weird sidenote: I did not realize how skinny Kat used to be back then, it almost made me worried about her health like get some food into you.

I’m not really going to talk about Damon other than he annoyed me most of the episode. Also, not a great episode acting wise for Ian, it’s almost as though he knew that he was speaking complete bullshit so he decided his emotions were going to look like complete bullshit. Honestly I didn’t realize until now that the only time I find his acting genuine is when he was on screen with Kat meaning it’s going to be a long time before his acting gets even remotely good because he doesn’t have many scenes with Bonnie.

I don’t know if I’ll continue to review every episode it’s just that they annoy me so much I have to talk about it. Also I’m really worried, this is the good season of TVD, the one where Kevin Williamson was still a show runner and yet I find it almost as awful as the later seasons where it’s just Julie Plec. Has this show just always been bad and I just didn’t notice? I’ll keep you posted.

August 14, 2018 — Leave a comment

TVD Episode Review: Got through 2×12

Honestly it was meh, but it didn’t make me want to pull my hair out…most of the time. There was actually a SE moment I did enjoy at the beginning and Elena wasn’t annoying until the end with Damon when she was stating out loud Damon’s feelings and doing that thing she does where she inserts herself into people’s problems without being self aware enough to know she’s being hypocritical which is why I had to take a break from season 2.

No Bonnie again but not surprising. It wouldn’t be a TVD season if Bonnie wasn’t missing from a bunch of episodes. Oh, and to add to that, the only black character in the entire episode, an extra with a speaking role, is killed because it also wouldn’t be an episode of TVD if the only black characters weren’t brutalized.

I do not like Jules which is weird since I prefer werewolves as they are the underdogs, but she was a little too flippant about murdering an entire camp and an officer. For me, in order for a character to have the moral high ground they need to better than who they’re criticizing. It’s why Elena annoys me so much and why I latch on to Bonnie and Tyler so much–they criticize but they’re coming from a position where they can. The only anomaly I guess is Matt, but my issue is that he just criticizes but never takes any action. He’s often so passive that he makes Elena look like an action star.

Watching Tyler learn the truth was nice and almost made me excited to see the havoc he and the werewolves were going wreak on the MFG for Mason until I remember it’s TVD and they’re all just going to die uneventfully as though they never existed because that’s how werewolves are treated on this show–they’re they Native Americans of the show.

I remember being a lot more interested in Caroline’s love life when I first watched the show but right now I’m just bored and wondering why I’m watching Caroline instead of Bonnie–someone actually useful to the plot.

And on that note I also remember this episode being a lot more emotional with Rose’s death but again I found the episode a little short and it also bored me. And back to Bonnie, as much as I hate how much they use Bonnie I’m also curious as to why they didn’t try to use her in this episode to help with the werewolf bite. Hell, she would have been more qualified to watch Rose than Elena which is another instance where Bonnie’s more important to the plot than the main character to the point I’m always wondering why she isn’t the main character.

I don’t remember how long ago it was but I remember reading some Damon stan’s comment on how they felt so bad for Damon at the end of this episode while he murdered that woman. I always knew they were delusional by default but I don’t know how someone can be so delusional as to feel bad for Damon as he unnecessarily murders someone. And here’s the weird thing, it was kinda hot for a second to me which isn’t surprising as a Bonkai fan, especially dark Bonkai fan, I find dark murderous men sexy, but it stopped being hot the moment he started whining about his man pain because that was also the moment it stopped being dark and turned into a temper tantrum, something he’s had many of. Nothing turns me off more than a temper tantrum, it’s why I’m rarely attracted to Damon and Klaus.

I lied when I said that was the only time Elena annoyed me, there and the end with Stefan. I honestly never thought she could annoy me in a new way but I found it–she narrates the plot which would be all fine and well if was a voice over or something (And even then I’d be a little annoyed) but it’s not. In that moment with Damon and later in that moment with Stefan she’s explain the plot to me instead of letting disern that my self. I don’t need Elena to explain to me that Damon has feelings and is feeling guilty in that moment–I want watch it. I don’t need Elena and Stefan actually to explain that he called Isobel when I watched a 2 minute discussion about it in the beginning– already know. Plec, stop explaining your plot to me! Just show it! And with that in mind the John Gilbert reveal could have been so much better but due to this explain the plot to me nonsense before it was just utterly underwhelming.

So those are my thought on the episode. For something that I felt meh about there sure are a lot of things I dislike. I’ll keep you guys posted for the next episode which I’m kinda excited about because I’m one of those rare few actually likes John Gilbert. But I know I’ll be disappointed TVD does not do family relations well and that’s actually the only capacity I find Elena interesting in, but I so rarely get to see it. I’m hoping there are enough Elena and John interactions to tide me through the episode. Also I hope they bring back Bonnie because I miss her as well.

You know something I will never get as a person who doesn’t hate Damon and likes Bamon—shipping him with happiness because at what point in time is he NOT happy? And when does he NOT always get what he wants? Shipping him with happiness is redundant because by all means he’s the happiest character there.

April 8, 2018 — Leave a comment

thefudge:

religionputa:

damnbamon:

Damon is the happiest character on the show? Are you serious? Damon is literally almost constantly in a puddle of self-loathing, self-hate, and feeling as though he’s not good enough. On top of it, people are always feeding into that, telling him everything is his fault, even when 99% of the time it is not his fault, but he cleans up after it anyway. 

For Gods sake, Damon coffined himself because he felt he was only hurting Bonnie, that her life was better off without him in it. When he got back, Alaric told him he was worthless, only caused problems, and he should have stayed in the coffin. Not to mention in season 7 when all Damon wanted was to spend Christmas not thinking about Lily, and not getting revenge on Julian, Stefan constantly called Damon horrible, and made him feeling guilty for not wanting anything to do with their emotionally and mentally abusive mother.   

Damon was far from the happiest character on the show. He was just the only character who didn’t let the fact that he and everyone around him, saw him as worthless, and horrible keep him from living life, saving people, and cleaning up messes that often had nothing to do with him.

Damon did the most to save not only Elena, but Bonnie and Stefan. Yet no matter what he did he was always the one the blame got put in. Staying Damon needs hard work, and not peace and contentment? Bullshit. Damon has been busting his ass since season one. He has kept Bonnie and Elena both safe since season 1, and constantly did what no one else was willing to do, but were willing to let Damon take the heat for. 

Everyone literally says Stefan is the most miserable, but Stefan’s problem is that he’s miserable because he refuses to be himself. Stefan is repulsed by vampirism and has been since Katherine, and can’t deal with that. True Stefan is unfortunately the Stefan that  Stefan hates. 

Stefan doesn’t need contentment and peace. Stefan needs acceptance. 
Damon doesn’t need hard work, he needs people who actually care about him like Bonnie used to be before Enzo got in her head. Not people who are constantly putting him down, even when he’s literally saving their asses blind folded and broken. 

THIS PHENOMENAL TEA IS SCORCHING HOT😋it’s really just facts wow

ha, someone liked this old post just now and by god, if it doesn’t prove the whole “damon is sacred white fave” stance from that small section of bamon fans i mentioned

you’ll notice in my reply i didn’t say damon is genuinely happy – merely that he lives in a hollow state of gratification but…check out this person’s reach, that “He has kept Bonnie and Elena both safe since season 1″….oh lord….

i mean yeah girl, damon is not irredeemable, he’s done plenty of good shit depending on circumstances but this…pontification on damon’s martyr role in tvd??? spaaaaare me 

thefudge:

lmao 

i totally get u 

it’s hard to feel for damon’s whole “i’m living in my brother’s shadow” shtick when 95% of the time it’s stefan who’s miserable and damon is having a blast

i think bamon folks ship him not with “happiness” but with “growth”. cuz this dude is always fake!happy and hedonistic, but he ultimately feels empty inside. what he needs is someone like bonnie to make him move past this vicious cycle. all of damon’s development in the last 2-3 seasons was due to bonnie. the show thinks his “happiness” is with elena, but it’s not and it’s not what he needs. 

stefan’s the one who needs contentment and peace. damon needs hard work (he’s at his best when he’s busy) and self-actualization. 

Damon is literally almost constantly in a puddle of self-loathing, self-hate, and feeling as though he’s not good enough. On top of it, people are always feeding into that, telling him everything is his fault, even when 99% of the time it is not his fault, but he cleans up after it anyway. 

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Damon’s issues with himself are caused by exactly that, himself. Only he is the person who can change that, not Bonnie, not Elena, not Stefan, HIMSELF because ain’t nothing going to change unless he wants to and he has made it abundantly clear on multiple occasions that he doesn’t. Damon may not be happy 100% of the time, but he’s completely in charge of that–there are no outside circumstances making sure he’s miserable, Plec made sure of that.. 

April 5, 2018 — Leave a comment

p-tonkins:

I still can not believe after Damon killing Tyler, that Eléna went back to Damon

Can you really?

• Season 1: After witnessing the marks left on Caroline and him nearly ripping out Bonnie’s throat, she befriends him a few episodes later.

• Season 2: After snapping Jeremy’s neck because she rejected him she forgives him a few episodes later.

• Season 3: After turning Bonnie’s mother for her and thus causing a wedge between her friends she forgives him in that same episode.

• Season 4: Sire Bond, but still forgives him for making her turn her switch off (and yet doesn’t take any responsibility for any of her actions while it was off).

• Season 5: THE ENTIRE FUCKING SEASON

• Season 6: After losing every good memory of him absolutely nothing changes.

Damon has threatened and killed people she loved and cared about and she’s never really cared then, why would Tyler be any different to her, it’s not like she cared that much about him to begin with? If it’s out of her sight it’s out of her mind.

March 21, 2018 — Image — Leave a comment

bonniethewitchtown:

Confession #2

• Rose was the first person we actually saw Damon caring about, people underrated her death so much. Damon actually care for her in such a large scale, he tear up when he ended her pain but he tried to hide his feelings so hard, what bugs me is that they didn’t know there was actually a cure!

– Agreed or Disagree?
• Confessions are OPEN!
Send your confessions.

Again, agree and disagree.

Agree that her death is pretty monumental in the development of Damon, but it goes absolutely nowhere and his pain from her death is made about Elena as does his entire relationship with her, so in the long run it’s a vehicle for D/E angst that I have never been there for. 

March 6, 2018 — Image — Leave a comment

fuckitimfangirling:

scorpio-karma:

fuckitimfangirling:

scorpio-karma:

bonwhynot:

scorpio-karma:

Bonnie’s Alternate Wardrobe: Season 1

The New Year

I predict this year is going to be kick ass.

Imagine if Bonnie was allowed to look this fly and didn’t have to wait 7 seasons for it. 😒

Yep for the next 5 days I will being doing these posts about the AU where Bonnie gets to not only dress dope, but what clothing phase she’d be in since they didn’t even let her clothes say anything about her.

And like the real travesty is that in the books Bonnie M. actually liked fashion a lot, so that they stripped Bonnie of even these little girly quirks to make her deus ex magical negress makes me so angry. She had little to no “personality” to express outside of adjectives used to describe dogs like ugh.

And like the real travesty is that in the books Bonnie M. actually liked fashion a lot…

That’s one of the many things that the writers chose to give to Caroline. I understand meshing characters together especially if they’re excluding characters from the books, but Caroline is actually a character in the book and if there’s anyone’s personality that they were going to mesh a personality with hers it should have been Meredith. But as such they give Bonnie’s stuff from the book to Caroline and have been doing it from episode one with things like Damon.  

I mentioned in a post that Damon’s actions in season 1 were random and quite counter-intuitive to his agenda when he even approaches Caroline. But it’s even worse when you consider the fact that first person Damon kisses when he gets to town in the books is Bonnie. She’s the one he uses as his in and though I don’t quite like the idea of Bonnie being used (although I doubt she’d be abused the same way as Caroline due to witches not being able to be compelled) it makes more sense for Bonnie to be the one he first approaches like in the books. But the writers very adamant about keeping Bonnie in her place and like always her screen time, her development, her book traits are given to Caroline.    

It really was counter intuitive. Even without that gross ass Daroline SL in s1, considering that Damon ALREADY had an in with Bonnie by virtue of his promise to Emily, he didn’t even have to act like a complete trash bag to worm his way in. He could have popped up all flirty and bug-eyed and like “I just want to protect you” from the jump and it would have made more sense. And it was an SL easy to play the dark way to establish Damon as a villain. Preying on Caroline was just a bad move done in completely poor tastes and catered to rape culture.

The way they interpreted the book characters was just…so trash. Bonnie’s significant story lines got divested to everyone else, then when Meredith does pop up she’s 1) way older and 2) not at all like the books and then 3) disappears back into the abyss of ghosts of Alaric’s past gfs. Klaus’s character was neutered for the worst. So I’m really not surprised by the same being done to Bon in a racist and dehumanizing way.

And the thing that drives me insane even more is that they already establish Damon as the big bad villain with Vicki. She gets randomly attacked by him multiple times and he attacks her in a way the vampires are supposed to be dangerous. Everything he does to Caroline is unnecessary and drives me insane every time he gives the excuse of “it’s what vampires do” when justifying what he did to Caroline. Vampires need blood to survive so drinking from Caroline I get, raping her…vampire doesn’t explain that and I’m very sure that’s not the kind of scary they were going for.

And all of this is really sad when you consider this all happens in the KW years of the show, the often reveired years, but the show was always bad with it’s plot just not horrendous.

January 6, 2018 — Leave a comment

Damon has always been random as fuck

When I reflect on Damon’s first appearance in season 1 and what he did to Caroline I always get confused as to why he did that to Caroline. It’s not so much I don’t understand why he would rape someone or even Caroline, he’s a predator. He explains exactly why he picks her in 4×04. It’s just that it doesn’t match up with he motives for coming to Mystic Falls.

He’s there for the comet to get Katherine out of the tomb. For such he needs Bonnie, but he doesn’t even approach her until Caroline gives her Emily’s talisman, something he didn’t plan for. He makes it clear that he’s using Caroline to accomplish his goal, but she’s literally useless to him. She’s not a Bennett witch, she’s barely friends with Elena, and while she is closer to Bonnie that friendship isn’t that strong either, at least for anything he planned for.

So again why Caroline? As much as I hate the idea, Bonnie should have been his target. Granted she’s a hell of a lot harder to manipulate, but manipulating Caroline wasn’t getting him anywhere and nor was it ever going to. Damon is a lot of things, but stupid isn’t one of them. It’s part of what makes everything he does so awful because he’s fully aware of exactly what he’s doing.

And if we want to delve deeper why didn’t he actually keep his end of the bargin with Emily knowing he’d need one of her descendents one day? It’s a lot easier to get something from someone when you’ve built a rapport with them and that’s actually something he knows. It’s never really been a new concept that his actions don’t match his motives, but you’d think they would try to have some consistency in the first season.

So honestly, what the fuck was Damon doing in season 1? Now keep in mind this is one of the better seasons, the one ran by Plec and Williamson, and it’s things like this that make me wonder why Williamson gets a lot if praise when it comes to TVD. Is he better than Plec? Yes. But is his overall writing better for the show? No, he’s contributed to a lot of the problematic aspects of the show and they start as early as the pilot because in general Caroline should have never been raped because Caroline doesn’t even fit in the plot there. It’s bad enough that it’s never acknowledged, but the fact that it was completely unnecessary to begin with just makes it even worse.

She doesn’t even fit into the idea in showing how brutal vampires can be because that’s what Vicki was for and the way she’s brutalized is at least consistent with necessary vampire behavior. The way Caroline is treated was unnecessary from the jump because again in 4×04, his usual routine does not involve raping them. Physically and mentally abusing them? Yes, but rape no. “Snach, eat, erase.” There’s nothing about Caroline for him to deviate from this. I know rape isn’t about logic, but storytelling is, especially for what impact you’re going for and this doesn’t serve for anything. It’s not impactful because Damon is never held accountable for it and it makes no sense to the plot. It’s just simple bad writing.

The show would have been better off with Caroline and Matt from the start and her living her normal because that was the one thing I liked about season 1, that they didn’t live in a vacuum where only them and the supernatural exists. That there were people in the dark simply living. It provided a nice contrast to the chaos of everything else.

I know I’ve veered off from my original point of Damon having always been random, but seriously how did anyone buy him as a character past the first season when he literally has no motives or objectives? He was essentially a random character doing random shit and has never had consistency.