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অনুরাগী are rapidly losing patience with the writers, the development of the প্রণয় triangle, and how DE are progressing for a number of reasons.
1. They're irritated with Elena. Never has this been আরো apparent than the aftermath of 4x04. Now, I don't think the episode was that bad. There WAS progression on Elena's part. I'll discuss this আরো fully later on in the article, but অনুরাগী are mad at her for constantly gravitating towards Stefan and not admitting how she feels for Damon, whilst Damon continues to প্রণয় and support her. They feel that Damon is always getting the short end of the stick from Elena, and some are so annoyed at her that they want Damon to find someone else just to make her find out how much she really needs him. I don't think this will happen. Damon is beyond the spiteful 'sleep-with-another-girl-so-Elena-will-walk-in' revenge mode we saw in 3x15. His প্রণয় for Elena is unconditional. He's not just going to ditch her in a bid to make himself feel/look better. He's done it before - with Rose, Andie and Rebekah, and neither of those girls helped the situation he was in.
2. They're disappointed with the lack of any progressing feelings on Elena's side. They're indignant that দ্বারা being with/turning to Stefan, and thereby giving Damon the brush-off, that she's hurting Damon's feelings. Especially when she ব্যক্ত she didn't want to be like him in 4x04. Actually, that's not what she said. What she ব্যক্ত was "When আপনি tell me what a vampire should be, deep down I believe you. I think that you're right. And I hate that feeling because I don't wanna be..." Damon chips in "You don't want to be like me." Before Elena can answer, Stefan (who has probably been listening to the exchange on the other side of the door) makes his entrance, and people just assume that that's what Elena was going to say.
Now, I am probably in the minority, but I don't think it would come as a huge shock to Damon that Elena would be apprehensive in wanting to be like him. Being like Damon isn't, I repeat, ISN'T a bad thing at all. But Elena has seen the darkest corners of his soul. Can আপনি really blame her for not proclaiming loudly "Sure! I think being a vampire who is able to switch his feelings off and kill people impulsively is a swell thing to be!" I definitely think Damon would understand why she would be apprehensive, and I don't think what she ব্যক্ত broke his heart. But it is sad that Elena's fear and guilt is out-weighing her ability to appreciate all the good things he's done, not just for her but other people, especially প্রদত্ত the new memories she has of him during her transition.
However, এল-মৃত্যু পত্র have to disagree with the অনুরাগী who say that this episode was a joke অথবা that we're back to how it was in S1, অথবা that it's proof of a Stelena endgame. Watch the scene on the porch with SE and you'll realise you're wrong on both counts.
When Stefan asks her how it went, Elena tells him it was "Awful. আপনি were right, I got caught up in it." Elena is lying. Because before Bonnie showed up, she was ENJOYING herself. There was nothing 'awful' about it. She learned to feed without killing anyone, and she had fun, so I would say the evening was a success. But rather than admit this to Stefan, she feels she has to spare his feelings/judgement দ্বারা telling him what she thinks he wants to hear: that she nearly হারিয়ে গেছে control etc. What she's alluding to is not the feeding, it's the discoveries she made about herself in the course of the evening.
1. Elena discovered she's আরো like Damon than she would like to admit. This scares her because she realises she actually likes it and it's not a bad thing to be.
2. She discovered that her feelings for Damon are much আরো intense now, and she let herself get caught up in the moment. But she knows she SHOULDN'T be feeling that way অথবা doing those things. She chose Stefan after all. Stefan is her boyfriend, she should have been dancing sexily and drinking blood with HIM. Instead, she's doing those things with Damon, and she's ENJOYING IT.
3. She knows that Damon brings out another side of her - a carefree, spontaneous side that people haven't seen much of since her parents died - without trying. Stefan has to try to make Elena excited about life, and he has to try to make her enjoy the good parts of being a vampire. But Damon doesn't have to try. Because somehow, when she's with him, the defences she puts up come down and she can be herself in a way she can't be with Stefan.
4. She knows - whether she can admit it অথবা not - that Damon accepts her as a vampire in a way that Stefan struggles with. She doesn't have to tip toe around Damon's feelings in case she does something that will horrify him. She knows that Damon won't be put off অথবা look at her funny অথবা see her differently if she makes a mistake.
Elena's tearful confession to Stefan that she "can't live like this. I'm feeling things that I don't wanna feel. I'm becoming someone that I don't wanna be, I don't think I'm going to survive this" has much আরো to do with the emergence of her new vampire self and what that's bringing to the fore than her feeding from people. In short, these new feelings and new discoveries about herself terrifies her আরো than the feeding, which she can handle quite well. The problem is, the 'old' Elena Gilbert is at odds with the newly turned vampire Elena. The newly turned vampire Elena knows she's আরো like Damon, but the 'old' Elena Gilbert doesn't think she should be. Moreover, the 'new' Elena Gilbert has intense feelings for Damon, that are much stronger than before she became a vampire, that would have repercussions on her relationship with Stefan. So Elena is dealing with a lot of conflicting feelings: desire, denial, guilt, and fear. What she's telling Stefan is only half of the story.
DE'ers feel like they're running out of time and they're fighting a losing battle. It doesn't help that they have to গেলা the spoonfuls of cheeSE the writers keep dishing out to them. For some, I fear that 4x04, rather than being a necessary stepping stone in the triangle, merely served as a confirmation of their worst fears about it. One such অনুরাগী told me in no uncertain terms that দ্বারা continuing to hope, I was only setting myself up for আরো disappointment because DE and the অনুরাগী have just become a pawn in the cruel game the writers are playing. She believes that the writers and producers are only using DE as a gimmick to sell the show, and they never intend to give DE to us. The sad thing is that it seems a lot of other অনুরাগী would agree with her. Do I? NO.
I've looked at this from every angle, and I can see no good reason - অথবা indeed, any reason - why the writers would keep plugging Delena if Delena are destined to go round and round in circles and ultimately end up where they started from. Maybe the প্রদর্শনী needed a gimmick at the start, but with the consistently good writing, drama, action, and the cast, the producers don't need a fake প্রণয় ত্রিভুজ to sell the প্রদর্শনী anymore. They've got Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley. They've got Klaus and Forwood and Klaroline and witches and hybrids and even the off-screen romance of Nian. The producers would have to be utterly corrupt and cold-hearted to think they could get away with লেখা DE as a প্রণয় story/one half of the ত্রিভুজ for 6 years but then refuse to make Delena into a reality দ্বারা the end of it. Who does that serve exactly? The ratings? Nope, because people would see what they were doing and stop watching. There may be short-term benefits to be had from 'selling' Delena to profit the show, but the long term consequences are far আরো serious and out-weigh anything good, because there comes a tipping point when অনুরাগী wouldn't believe them anymore. And then TVD would get a backlash where people would stop watching. So unless Julie and Kevin WANT to make অনুরাগী mad and stop watching the প্রদর্শনী (who knows, that may have already happened), then it is in their and everyone's best interests to give us Delena. If they DON'T then not only are they not very bright, they have proved that they are completely without moral principles. A salesperson doesn't sell something they know আপনি want but then give আপনি an empty box. They want আপনি to be happy with your purchase. A 'fake' প্রণয় ত্রিভুজ doesn't do anything that will benefit the show. It just creates problems.
And just think: IF DE really is for nothing (worst case scenario), what's it for, in the end? Why do it? Why spend all these years on them, when the writers could have spent that time and attention elsewhere, like on Stelena? If SE really is the producers' chosen ship, then isn't that the logical thing to do? We're talking about what roughly amounts to 133 episodes in all here, so they sure spent a lot of time, work and money in creating something they didn't give a ডুমুর about. Why would the writers spend so much time in making DE epic, if they didn't care, and they never had any intention of DE being together? How can DE be আরো epic than SE, when the writers want SE to be endgame? How can Stelena, the endgame couple be LESS important and LESS জনপ্রিয় than Delena, the 'secondary' ship?? It's just absurd! I've never heard of such a thing on TV ever. There are other অনুরাগী out there who are so desperate for DE to happen, they've let their worst fears overwhelm them, and would rather stop watching and give up than wait and see it through. But I know what's real. And I can't walk away.
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