And see, usually I love the bad boy/good girl pairings and hate the boyscout good guys. I went in to this series expecting to love Damon/Elena and hate Stefan/Elena, because that fit. And for awhile, I did. Well, I never hated S/E but I liked D/E for a time. And I think that has everything to do with the actors, who really are doing everything they can to sell it. They work well together.
But acting can't outweigh storytelling forever, and the way they're going about forcing these two together...bleh. I don't really get why they need to throw in things like Damon killing Jeremy, which makes him look completely psycho and out of control, to put off Damon/Elena. Couldn't they just not get together yet because, maybe, Elena really does love Stefan? Like, why isn't that enough? Why does Damon have to be such a goddamn prick to keep her away? That rubs me the wrong way, like Elena would be incapable of being monogamously in love with Stefan if Damon wasn't evil at least once an episode.
Because then, even if it was still painfully obvious they were going to go with D/E eventually (at least for awhile), it wouldn't feel so inorganic. Elena being able to love Damon because he's actually a good guy, or at least a guy sincerely trying to gain redemption and become a good guy, is a lot more convincing and less *headdesk* then her being made to hate him to keep him away, until all of the sudden she doesn't.
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Date: 2010-12-09 07:07 pm (UTC)And see, usually I love the bad boy/good girl pairings and hate the boyscout good guys. I went in to this series expecting to love Damon/Elena and hate Stefan/Elena, because that fit. And for awhile, I did. Well, I never hated S/E but I liked D/E for a time. And I think that has everything to do with the actors, who really are doing everything they can to sell it. They work well together.
But acting can't outweigh storytelling forever, and the way they're going about forcing these two together...bleh. I don't really get why they need to throw in things like Damon killing Jeremy, which makes him look completely psycho and out of control, to put off Damon/Elena. Couldn't they just not get together yet because, maybe, Elena really does love Stefan? Like, why isn't that enough? Why does Damon have to be such a goddamn prick to keep her away? That rubs me the wrong way, like Elena would be incapable of being monogamously in love with Stefan if Damon wasn't evil at least once an episode.
Because then, even if it was still painfully obvious they were going to go with D/E eventually (at least for awhile), it wouldn't feel so inorganic. Elena being able to love Damon because he's actually a good guy, or at least a guy sincerely trying to gain redemption and become a good guy, is a lot more convincing and less *headdesk* then her being made to hate him to keep him away, until all of the sudden she doesn't.