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We’ve had a lot of new actors on TVD these past few weeks but it’s still Nina Dobrev at the heart of the show. Watching her act opposite herself, toss out various accents in scenes that span centuries (she’s Bulgarian, she’s English, she’s an American teen, she’s a croaking partially desiccated vampire!), and bring two very different characters to similar emotional places at the end of the episode — both Katherine and Elena mourn the danger they put their loved ones in — it’s been said before but it bears repeating: someone give this girl a raise, an Emmy, a high five, and a hug. We’re lucky to watch an actress so on top of her game week after week.
The Petrova Fire: I never imagined that there would be a situation where I would cheer for a girl hanging herself but trust The Vampire Diaries to make that kind of awful amazing. Katherine’s a fighter. She refused to let someone else decide her fate, and she did whatever she could to escape it — taking advantage of Trevor and Rose, killing herself, using Proto–Ms. Gibbons as a shield and to feed on, and spending 500 years running from Klaus. “Better you die than I” is Katherine’s motto, and it’s that fierce sense of self-preservation that’s earned her the nickname “psychotic bitch.” But we also see that, just like Elena, Katherine cares deeply for her family; she lost everyone — her daughter, her parents, every other Petrova. Could she allow herself to truly love anyone again, knowing what their fate would be with Klaus’s taste for vengeance? Unlike Trevor and Rose, or Stefan and Damon, Katherine made the decision to survive alone but she isn’t completely heartless. With Katherine’s sorrow over her parents’ portrait, we see that what Rose says to Damon is true: that while the way to survive is not to care about anyone, there isn’t actually a switch a vampire can flip to stop feeling.
Katherine’s story, which Elena believes to be true, shows Elena the fate she faces — will she make the same choice Katherine did and value her own survival over others’? Like Stefan the Protector, Elena has always tried to protect her friends and family as best she could, often at the risk of endangering herself. But how can she do that in this situation? If she turns herself over to Klaus, Tyler and Caroline (or two other people) will die too in undoing the spell, and who knows what kind of chaos would result from a vampire-free-for-all. If she decides to run or turn into a vampire, her friends and family would suffer the same fate Katherine’s did. Though Katherine and Elena lament their fate at the end of Katerina, they share that Petrova fire — the unwillingness to give in to hopelessness. Contrast their can-do attitude with Rose, who has, since the 1490s, been crippled by the threat Klaus poses. Without Trevor, she’s crumbling, and while Damon has a certain amount of trust for her, she’s twice been willing to hand over a Petrova doppelganger in order to save her own life. While Rose did just lose her sole companion of half a millennium and the Originals are making their presence known by giving her a serious sunburn, I’m so accustomed to the keep-fighting spirit of our Mystic Falls gang that I found Rose’s multiple breakdowns off-putting. Hopefully the romp with Damon will help brighten her spirits.
We’ve had a lot of new actors on TVD these past few weeks but it’s still Nina Dobrev at the heart of the show. Watching her act opposite herself, toss out various accents in scenes that span centuries (she’s Bulgarian, she’s English, she’s an American teen, she’s a croaking partially desiccated vampire!), and bring two very different characters to similar emotional places at the end of the episode — both Katherine and Elena mourn the danger they put their loved ones in — it’s been said before but it bears repeating: someone give this girl a raise, an Emmy, a high five, and a hug. We’re lucky to watch an actress so on top of her game week after week.
The Petrova Fire: I never imagined that there would be a situation where I would cheer for a girl hanging herself but trust The Vampire Diaries to make that kind of awful amazing. Katherine’s a fighter. She refused to let someone else decide her fate, and she did whatever she could to escape it — taking advantage of Trevor and Rose, killing herself, using Proto–Ms. Gibbons as a shield and to feed on, and spending 500 years running from Klaus. “Better you die than I” is Katherine’s motto, and it’s that fierce sense of self-preservation that’s earned her the nickname “psychotic bitch.” But we also see that, just like Elena, Katherine cares deeply for her family; she lost everyone — her daughter, her parents, every other Petrova. Could she allow herself to truly love anyone again, knowing what their fate would be with Klaus’s taste for vengeance? Unlike Trevor and Rose, or Stefan and Damon, Katherine made the decision to survive alone but she isn’t completely heartless. With Katherine’s sorrow over her parents’ portrait, we see that what Rose says to Damon is true: that while the way to survive is not to care about anyone, there isn’t actually a switch a vampire can flip to stop feeling.
Katherine’s story, which Elena believes to be true, shows Elena the fate she faces — will she make the same choice Katherine did and value her own survival over others’? Like Stefan the Protector, Elena has always tried to protect her friends and family as best she could, often at the risk of endangering herself. But how can she do that in this situation? If she turns herself over to Klaus, Tyler and Caroline (or two other people) will die too in undoing the spell, and who knows what kind of chaos would result from a vampire-free-for-all. If she decides to run or turn into a vampire, her friends and family would suffer the same fate Katherine’s did. Though Katherine and Elena lament their fate at the end of Katerina, they share that Petrova fire — the unwillingness to give in to hopelessness. Contrast their can-do attitude with Rose, who has, since the 1490s, been crippled by the threat Klaus poses. Without Trevor, she’s crumbling, and while Damon has a certain amount of trust for her, she’s twice been willing to hand over a Petrova doppelganger in order to save her own life. While Rose did just lose her sole companion of half a millennium and the Originals are making their presence known by giving her a serious sunburn, I’m so accustomed to the keep-fighting spirit of our Mystic Falls gang that I found Rose’s multiple breakdowns off-putting. Hopefully the romp with Damon will help brighten her spirits.
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