History Headscratchers / TheVampireDiaries

*** Watch that scene again,Stefan(despite what he tells Elena) totally was going to drive Elena off that bridge if Klaus hadn't given in first. Also season 1 Damon may not have cared about Elena's family and friends,but now? He does,infact,seem to care in his own Damony way considering that he does go help/rescue the others without being asked or prompted(or THANKED for that matter). In seasons 1 and 2 this behavior could certainly be interperted as him trying to please Elena but now he seems more genuine in his interactions with Jeremy/Caroline/Bonnie and helps because he himself wants to(although he will never,admittedly,be bffs with any of them). He's also only took Elena's free will once(when he forced her to drink his blood before the sacrifice)and though he states that he would've saved Elena over Matt,we'll never actually know the truth of that because he wasn't there. For the record Damon has done terrible things but who on this show hasn't by now? I personally don't belive that either brother is "better" or "all wrong" for Elena,in fact I think both make good partners for her for diffent reasons. Stefan was good for her in the beginning when she actually needed someone to play white knight and sheild her from the big bad vampires,but now? Now she's strong enough to walk on her own and doesn't need Stefan or anyone else coddling her,not that Stefan realizes this. He assumes that she'll never survive being vampire,never survive killing someone,and never survive turning her switch off and yet she does survive all of that(Sure,the road was really bumpy at first but what vampire/wrewolf/hybrid DIDN'T experiance a few hiccups at first?) but Stefan can't seem to understand this. Further more when he discovered that Elena was sired and that a cure for vampirism existed he imidiately set about trying to "fix" her,out right saying that he didn't like her as a vampire because she'd changed too much(despite the fact that Elena and everyone else has continued to grow and change since the freaking pilot). Damon on the other hand states that he likes Elena either way and never tried to change her. Is Damon selfish with her? Yes,sometimes but he has also been very unselish with her and proved that he is worthy of her affections(Remember how he actually backed down to let her be happy with Stefan?),not to mention he helps her be a whole lot freer with her emotions than she was with Stefan. So there for at this point Damon is better for her than Stefan.

** I think Damon has been embraced by the fanbase for the same sorts of reasons as Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera and Rochester from Literature/JaneEyre. EvilIsSexy aside, he is one of the most complicated, well-developed and ''entertaining'' characters in the show. Yes, Stefan may be a nice guy and probably a good friend in real life but he honestly seems like a cardboard cut out compared to his older brother (and it doesn't help that Ian Somerhalder is a vastly superior actor). Plus, he's constantly the RomanticRunnerUp, with both Elena AND Katherine. That's something most people will be able to relate to, far easier than Stefan who has girls running round after him. To be fair, lots of the other characters are killers too. Plus, he's never going to get Elena. ''Ever.''

** What this troper finds irritating is how Damon is EasilyForgiven within that fandom or his actions are justified because he's an vampire and vampires are ''suppose'' to act this way yet an certain [[Literature/{{Twilight}} vampire]] gets condemned daily even though he's an far better person than Damon is.

*** Having just finished a Vampire Diaries Marathon,I can state with certainity that Damon NEVER uses compulsion to get sex(he doesn't need to anyway)so that throws the whole he's a rapist thing out the window.

* Why is Julian treated like he's so powerful, and such a huge threat? In fact, why is he so powerful and such a huge threat, on the personal level? Yeah, he's decently old, but the Salvatore brothers briefly killed Elijah, an ''original'' at one point. And have fought other powerful, ancient, vampires on even terms besides. The Heretics were certainly a threat, especially as a group, but Julian specifically shouldn't be nearly as dangerous as he was, when compared to the other opponents they've gone up against.

* Why is it in this show they treat 13 hour drives like they're one hour. For example, Elena driving with Damon to Georgia would be at minimum an eight hour drive and yet is treated like two to three hours. I get Damon is a vampire and if he gets pulled over, he could just compel the cop to pardon him, but he would have to stop eventually, for gas and likely rest, which would add on another few hours.