laufire:
I feel like Qetsiyah/Silas was a goldmine wasted on Amara and Delena drama. Like there was so much entertainment there such as the fact Bonnie is a descendent of Qetsiyah meaning she had to have kids at some point. Does that mean there’s some random father or is it Solar and that’s why the Bennett line is so powerful. Having Qetsiyah actually perform some big magic that trumps Silas cuz we know she’s more powerful. Like honestly the drama of it all.
Just wasted on doppelganger shit
I feel u, and I do wish there could’ve been more focused on just them (Amara was especially meh, though I did like her scene in the cell with Qetsiyah), but I was actually enjoying myself so much with the Qetsiyah vs. Silas hijinks that the original trio drama even stopped bothering me at some point xD
(Sidenote: to this day I’m still surprised every time I remember Qetsiyah what’s only in four episodes o.0. Like, it doesn’t seem true? The actress was just so fucking charismatic)
I do mourn the lost potential the chosen focus for the narrative had on Bonnie’s storyline. Like, we had ONE scene between her and Qetsiyah, wtf. Maybe if the storyline had happened after the boost Bonkai gave her in s6 it’d been different, but I guess in s5 the triangle still had its claws in the show ¬¬
Also, I hadn’t really thought about it before, but from now on I’m gonna headcanon that Bonnie descended from Silas too, ‘cause I can LOL.
What I love about the storyline is that Qetsiyah won and Silas was trapped with her in the afterlife xD I have no idea how that could work in Hell/post finale (tho I wanna write something about it) but I like to think she was still victorious somehow.
That’s funny I don’t remember much about season 5 either because I didn’t watch all of it (I got about halfway through before giving up and only came back for season 6) and Qetsiyah are the only thing I remember in detail. And kinda the same thing with season 4, the only things I remember are Bonnie and Shane because those were the only thing that were interesting those seasons.
Amara’s scene in the cell, I don’t know if I like it or dislike it, but I do know in one line that told me everything I needed to know about her character. “My only crime was falling in love.” The level of self-centered ignorance that could only come from an Elena look-alike because aiding Silas in manipulating Qetsiyah and then taking the immortality elixr are all things falling in love didn’t need to entail. Maybe running away together, but not all that. And after 20 centuries she still couldn’t get that. But in all honesty I wish her punishment for Silas would have been more extensive because he was at most to blame.
But I did like that Qetsiyah won in the end just wished she had more goals because there was so much more that could have been done with her.