3x15 Damon/Elena/Stefan Scene Analyses

I really should give this more time, but I’m on a deadline and I really want to get my thoughts out before I explode:

Scene 1: Elena Calling Damon/Coming to the House:

Poison and Wine… Really?!  One of the most perfect songs that our fandom had adopted as one of our own and they use it for a triangle cop-out.  Granted, the lyrics work for the triangle, but I honestly would have respected it more (in the long run) if they’d used it for just one couple.  Plus that song is SOO not a cold-open song.  My heart was basically broken when it was used for that scene that basically shows complete apathy on BOTH SIDES of the Delena relationship.  Just disappointing since it could have been used in so many other incredible moments (such as when Elena realizes her true feelings for Damon…just an example).  Wasted, wasted, wasted.

Although I am grateful that Elena called Damon so many times (that seems apologetic to me), the fact that she was such a horrible person on the phone to him… well I’m not going to do it justice like Carina did so read this because it explains it perfectly.

The “run-in” scene and confrontation… I’m pretty sure the only word I have for that is ugh.  Everyone was saying how jealous Elena was in this episode and I really didn’t see it.  Yes, she talked about it a lot, but he slept with the girl that tried to kill her… she would still have a reason to talk about it even if she had zero feelings for Damon.  

I also was incredibly pissed off how casually it was treated.  I was begging for a huge confrontation towards the end of the episode (although the ending scene with Stefan/Damon was probably the only one I liked), not the crap that this one was.  Elena saying that Damon was compelled?  Are you that naive that sex-crazy Damon wouldn’t want to sleep with someone after the months he apparently hasn’t?  Especially after your cranky little attitude the night before that once again you have YET to apologize for… God.  

Besides, I just think that Elena should have shown far more emotion than she did about it.  Season 2?  Yes, I would expect this.  But after everything that happened, I just couldn’t buy it.

Scene 2: Stefan/Damon’s conversation in front of the fireplace

Will say more on this in the next scene, but it honestly isn’t affecting me too much since I saw it before the episode aired.  

Scene 3: Stefan/Damon’s conversation in Damon’s room

Welp, no shame but this scene made me cry like a baby.  Damon freaking Salvatore needs to be given some kind of award for how amazing he was. 

This is one of those times I’m reminded that if Elena were able to hear or walk-in on their conversations (even half of their conversations), she would be acting a heck of a lot differently towards the two.  

“All is right in the world again.”  This is the line that KILLS me.  To Damon, the world is only right when everything is working against him.  Because that’s been the base line for his entire life.  When he is miserable, when everybody is at peace BUT him, that means the world is right.  Elena isn’t in danger, the Originals have scattered (for now), and (although he hasn’t addressed it yet) Stefan and Elena are back on track to be together again.  On top of that, he thinks the world isright because Elena is going to hate him.  It’s been basically his dream come true that Elena has been kind to him and that they’ve been allies and the KISS but because he was happy, that was wrong to him.  It’s like he’s been waiting for his hopes to be crushed.  It started when Elena shut him down last episode, so he “fixed” everything so he can now just walk away from it.  God, Damon Salvatore, stop breaking my heart.

I was glad about the coin thing.  I was actually pretty surprised Damon did the coin toss in the first place, because I was hoping he would just offer to do it himself.  Because this action is just another form of proof that Damon is better.  Yeah, I said it.  If Elena needs to make a choice, she is fooling herself if she thinks Stefan is remotely the better option.  Was Stefan the better choice at one point?  Of course.  But now… Again, moments when I wish Elena could hear their conversations.

Miscellaneous things I’m pissed off about: Stefan should be in a much more visible, painful detox with the human blood thing.  What happened there?

A lot of people are pissed off that Stefan said the “You still love her” line but it doesn’t exactly anger me.  Stefan basically said the line for himself, not because he’s an idiot.  It’s just his whole “cause myself pain” martyr thing.

And then of course the most god-awful line yet.  ”I tried to win her fair and square, but she didn’t want me.”  This was when the tears started pouring out of my eyes.  The fact that Damon thinks this kills me (mostly because he’s wrong.)  He thinks that even without all the obstacles they’ve faced (Stefan, her friends, the guilt, etc.) she STILL can’t love him.  And I swear to JESUS if Elena Gilbert does not have the best “I love you” speech that convinces him up, down, and backwards that she’s in love with him, she will be dead to me.  Because after all of this, there is nothing Damon deserves more.