when you wake up in the morning and your first thought is ‘what would’ve been kai’s fate/life if damon hadn’t done what he did in 6.22 ? would he have found a way to redeem himself with bonnie ? would’ve bonkai happened or maybe he would’ve fallen for one of the heretics ? would he have become an ally to the gang at some point ?’
i still think liv and jo should’ve been turned into vampires. i am still upset with damon for so many reasons, one of which being how selfish he was – his best friend was there crying out for help and damon couldn’t spare a few vamp seconds to help jo ? really ? season 7 would’ve been so epic if kai was there … if liv had stayed but … no 😢😦
I think more about if Kai had been in character in 6×22 Damon never would have been in a position to kill Kai because as mad as I am that they killed off Kai I will never be mad at Damon for choosing Bonnie. I’ll be mad at Damon for a looooot of things but never for choosing Bonnie without a second thought.
But back to Kai in 6×22. Like I said he’s not in character and not just because the writers threw the whole empathy plot out because he’s even out of character for his sociopathic self. I mean seriously, you’re telling me the guy who dreamed about nothing but becoming the Gemini coven leader and destroying them for 18 years would just give that up. He got the destroying his coven part but giving up Gemini leader to become a heretic? That’s quite a downgrade and he knows it. That’s not something sociopathic Kai would do. Kai always wins and what he did at the wedding, no one wins, not even him.
Then there’s who his revenge plot targets. Everyone but Bonnie. Sure she’s becomes a victim of the things he does, but her role in his revenge plot is mostly as an afterthought, collateral damage. He even says “I guess this is all your fault”. I guess? He makes it very clear who he’s disappointed with when he’s left in the 1903 PW. He stares at Bonnie, calls out for her, she is the one he feels betrayed by, so when he plots his revenge logically she would be his main target. Not Damon, not Jo and her twins, and definitely not his coven who should have been miles away from his mind because his issue wasn’t them not giving him a chance it was Bonnie not giving him one. I would get it if he did all that a little bit if he did all that to put all their deaths on Bonnie’s conscience, but he makes it very clear that it’s not with I guess because as shown she’s an afterthought in his plans, the pawn, a piece he moves around for the bigger picture which isn’t her, it’s Damon of all people? Reminds me how in 8×13, when they wasted Kai by pairing him with Damon, and Damon tried to get Kai to help him with Elena so that he could be redeemed with him. Why would Kai care about anything having to do with Damon? He’s never cared about him before. Kai’s interest lied soley with Bonnie and his family. Damon was always the true afterthought when it came to Kai just someone he had to endure when he got in the way. So targeting Damon for revenge makes little to no sense (it even made no sense in 6×11 but I let it slide for the information we learn about him and of course him mentioning Bonnie when there’s no reason to but that he wanted to).
The biggest issue is the throwing out of the empathy plot. When we first see him, the real him, after they leave him in the PW with all the bite marks my first thought was, well my poor baby what have they done to you, but my second thought was that he would come back psychologically scarred and pissed at Bonnie and we get neither. With empathy he has the emotional capacity to truly be affected by what the heretics did to him to the point that he should have had some real PTSD, and been deranged during the finale but we don’t get that. Murdering Jo, her twins, and his entire family was extreme but not deranged by his standards. In fact he kills them for the exact same reasons he killed his siblings 18 years before, to make a point. Did I expect him to come back changed? Yes. Did I expect him to come back with his character completely regressed? No, a new layer should have been added, everything that built his character shouldn’t have been just taken away. And that’s the real issue, Plec & Dries didn’t know the character, they spent most if the season on other characters and left him to other writers to the point that when he came back in the finale the wrote him essentially like Enzo—the character that does whatever the script says and not what’s consistent with his character. In one fall swoop the ruined an entire season’s worth of development and all because they didn’t care about his character they just wanted him out of the way so Damon could take his place back in the spotlight that Kai had taken away.
To sum up because I’ve rambled too much, 6×22 was a mess for Kai’s character all around and I’m more made at that and the writers for doing that than I am at the fact that Damon killed Kai because the real Kai would have never been in such a position had Plec known how to do her job and the character.
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