I'm having an "Oh fuck, do I really ship this???" moment XD.
Also: I caught a flu or something, so I'm stuck at home and I can finally do my re-watch properly! And I've just finished 2x10, where an interesting thing happens. When Damon catches Elena in Richmond and tries to bully her into going back to Mystic Falls, there is some weirdly sexualized body language going on, and when I was watching it for the first time, I sort of waved it off as gratuitious. Well, it's not. Damon is consciously using sexual innuendos to make Elena feel uneasy, to put her off-guard and make it easier for himself to make her do whatever he wants. I'm going to pay attention to this scheme, because it looks very similar to the "Buffy training session" in s3: Damon consciously tries to make Elena feel uncomfortable. I wonder how often he does it in s2. This was the only way he could manipulate her, and he lost it in 3x08, when Elena was comfortabe enough around him that the bed scene could happen. Up to 3x08 manipulation could go both ways, but now it seems that Damon's lost his leverage. Damon is generally off-guard, don't you think? The way he acted out in Disturbing Behavior? He's done things like that before, but he was always very careful for Elena not to see. In s3 Damon is getting sloppy (because he worries about Stefan so much he has too much on his plate? Because he got used to work with his brother as a team, and now that he's alone again he starts making mistakes?) and he lets Elena see things he'd never let her see before (feeding on Caroline's dad, angry outburst in 3x09). Looks like someone is giving up A LOT OF POWER over here.
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Date: 2011-11-30 09:22 am (UTC)Also: I caught a flu or something, so I'm stuck at home and I can finally do my re-watch properly! And I've just finished 2x10, where an interesting thing happens. When Damon catches Elena in Richmond and tries to bully her into going back to Mystic Falls, there is some weirdly sexualized body language going on, and when I was watching it for the first time, I sort of waved it off as gratuitious. Well, it's not. Damon is consciously using sexual innuendos to make Elena feel uneasy, to put her off-guard and make it easier for himself to make her do whatever he wants. I'm going to pay attention to this scheme, because it looks very similar to the "Buffy training session" in s3: Damon consciously tries to make Elena feel uncomfortable. I wonder how often he does it in s2. This was the only way he could manipulate her, and he lost it in 3x08, when Elena was comfortabe enough around him that the bed scene could happen. Up to 3x08 manipulation could go both ways, but now it seems that Damon's lost his leverage. Damon is generally off-guard, don't you think? The way he acted out in Disturbing Behavior? He's done things like that before, but he was always very careful for Elena not to see. In s3 Damon is getting sloppy (because he worries about Stefan so much he has too much on his plate? Because he got used to work with his brother as a team, and now that he's alone again he starts making mistakes?) and he lets Elena see things he'd never let her see before (feeding on Caroline's dad, angry outburst in 3x09). Looks like someone is giving up A LOT OF POWER over here.