sunbaak:

You know what I realized tonight? This is a big ass house. I live in a freakin’ mansion. My parents are dead, the girl that I love slept with my nemesis, and I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to do with the rest of my life. Which, get this, lasts forever. But I got a big ass house. Why don’t we get out of it for a while? You know, just go somewhere, be anywhere but here. Klaus put me through hell in New Orleans, man. He crushed me and just when I thought it was over, that he couldn’t destroy anything else, or do anything worse…

Klaus put me through hell in New Orleans, man.

What drives me insane about this line is that it’s too specific and doesn’t quite ring true because while it’s been forever since I watched TO I semi remember that episode and I mostly remember the episode fizzling into nothing on both ends (but that could be my faulty memory).

The line that needed to be there was, Klaus put me through hell, period. Because he did. The show has a way of framing Tyler’s revenge as a petty endeavor and almost completely ignores the amount of pain Klaus inflicted on him in seasons 3 and 4. His pain doesn’t get ignores to the proportions Bonnie’s does, she never gets a speech like this until season 6 and it’s directed at the wrong person kind how this speech ignores a good chunk of what actually broke him.

Anyway, it’s things like this that translate into how the fandom views him because as toxic as this fandom can be the content of the show accounts for a good chunk of it. A casual viewer can only interpret what his given as it is presented, it takes deeper thought to truly see how fucked up the show is.

Because of how he is framed the audience interprets him in a bad light that often has to demonize him to make Klaus, Caroline and even Hayley. Reference the first half of this post. 

There’s also the clear misunderstanding of his character like the person in this post

Because he’s a character not seen outside of Caroline because the writers don’t write for him unless he’s with her they don’t realize that his lack of screen time is the reason for this. He has a lot of development off screen and while I can easily see why he wouldn’t care about the other hybrids since he was sired to Klaus, his loyalty was to Klaus and Caroline and didn’t quite understand how much of a slave he and the rest of the hybrids were until after he bites Caroline.

Not the point, but Tyler’s pain is largely ignored by the fandom and the show and this scene is a blaring example of it. It’s a touching scene, but still doesn’t quite capture everything it should have.