No. She’s saying that Elena is going to have to pick somebody soon because this wishy-washy lack of decision-making is getting on everyone’s nerves, but she’s also saying not to get too up in arms, shippers, because “end game” won’t happen until the end. In other words, if Elena decides to start dating Damon at the end of season 3, Stelena shouldn’t give up hope for the future, and vice versa. Whoever is together can always break up again between now and the end of the show.

So I’d say the writers are going to milk the triangle in some way until the series concludes, or at least until Nina, Ian, and Paul are no longer acting on it.

Endgame does not mean the end. TVD got to endgame a long time ago – Elena and Stefan hit that point pretty much beginning of Season Two. Yet the drama has gone on.

 Well it´s purely speculative but Stefan said that he let the human Stefan go for good. On the other hand he is back to his bunny diet and both brothers say that Elena is better off without them. Besides both men said that they loved her. There has never been a romantic relationship between Elena and Damon so actually it should be his turn now, while Stefan should be the one to fight for Elena´s love. And in this case with one girl and two boys there aren´t so many possibilities. She will chose Stefan or Damon or none of them (like in True Blood) Whatever it will be we have to live with it… ;)

 Everything looks so much like Stefan and Elena are getting back together so I am sure that’s what’s NOT going to happen. Everytime this show makes us believe something it always turns out to be wrong

If Delena aren’t endgame, then I have one question for Julie: what was the POINT of their story?  They’ve taken 3 and-a-half seasons (most likely, it will be 3 by the time Elena realises she’s got to make a decision), to ‘build’ this relationship, which is longer than any ship on the show.  Including Stelena.  With Stelena, it was a case of ‘they met, they talked, it was epic’, but they never got anything like the level of continual suspense that we got with DE.  And so many people love Klaus/Caroline, but that too, was a pairing that happened within a few episodes.  If they were as gratuitous with giving us DE as they were with SE, and if SE got the same level of build-up that DE have been given, then I don’t think it would come as a huge surprise to me if SE were endgame.  But as it stands, I cannot buy it.  I’m sorry.  Whoever heard of an ‘epic’ couple’s journey being EASIER than a couple who are not?  If Elena doesn’t choose either brother, or if she chooses Stefan, then the ending of the series will be hugely unfulfilling on so many levels.  What’s next for Damon?  Is he just going to go back to being ‘bad’, because that’s more ‘fun’ for him?  Is he going to shack up with a ‘hot’ vampire girl or leave Mystic Falls behind him forever?  Without a proper conclusion for Damon, then the writers have put him through all that pain for nothing.  Because without Elena, then his journey as a character might as well be worth nothing.  What he needs most is true love.  I think the writers have demonstrated that pretty well.  He’s always giving Elena up for the greater good because he loves her so much, and stepping aside for Stefan, but what about HIM?

I made a joke that Damon and Elena got more action in their EW magazine spread than they ever did on the show, lol!!!

Does anyone else think it would be awesome if she chose neither? Both of them have been kind of unappealing to me lately. I think it would be interesting if she chose someone entirely different altogether. It’s not as if she doesn’t have a deep relationship with any of the other characters other than the Salvatore brothers. This past episode, along with multiple interviews, has proven that Elijah certainly has deep, complex feelings for her. I don’t know. It’s just a thought, lol. I’m also kind of in love with Elijah myself so I might be seeing things that aren’t there because of my devotion and fascination with his character ha ha :)

Interesting. I don’t really know what I want as a Delena fan. Yes, I would love to see Damon and Elena get their proper chance as a legit couple like Stelena had for two seasons, but I would probably have doubts of them being endgame. Am I willing to sacrifice my happiness for at least a season’s worth (or two) of Delena for them to be endgame?…

You know what? Yes. Yes, I am. 

I really don’t care how torturous the wait will be, as long as my couple survives as the last one standing. Because if you think about it, if they continue to go through so much together, their moment of realization and giving in will be that much more epic. And I don’t want a bull**** ending with, I don’t know, Stefan dying as being the catalyst for them being together? Then all the Stelena fans would claim that she only picked Damon because Stefan was gone, and Delena deserves the acknowledgment of being a couple with true love. I don’t even know if Stefan dying will happen, but I just tried to think of a justifiable reason Stelena fans would add to their list of “DELENA ISN’T AS REAL AS STELENA BECAUSE…”

You know? 

Maybe I’m just overanalyzing things. 

Anyway, I noticed something interesting from the last episode. Well, not something interesting as much as it was tragic.

In 3×02, Damon promised Elena that he would drag his brother back from the edge and deliver him back to her. 

In 3×15, he did.

He knew that if Stefan would’ve been the one to kill Abby, the guilt would’ve made him “go off the edge” again and made Elena hate him. It would’ve been the perfect opportunity, but he sacrificed his happiness so that his brother and Elena could have theirs. Again. 

I don’t know, I feel like the writers are trying to tell us something. Damon is always going on about being the bad guy, and most of the characters in this show as well, but some of the most selfless acts have been committed by him. The noblest acts. It’s easier to be the person everybody loves than it is to be the person that everybody needs but hates. That, along with many other things, makes me respect Damon’s character. 

Why all this build up of the dismission of Selfish Damon’s selfless acts (and in Damon’s case, the denial that he is the better man) if he isn’t going to get acknowledgment in the end? 

D: This is starting to remind me too much of Spike’s transformation in Buffy and that did not end well…hopefully I’m wrong on what I’m currently thinking…

if it will always be stefan then why did she fall for damon, that makes no sense elena said that in 2×01, and since then a lot happened and when damon in 1×22 told her it s always going to be stefan, she didn’t say anything she just cuddled them to him, she didn’t even care what was happening with stefan at that moment, as katherine said….elena still loves stefan but she also loves damon as much , she just thinks falling for him is sooo wrong becos first he is the brother of stefan and secondly she doesn’t want to be katherine as she pretends to be the better person and finally because everyone see damon as the bad vampire, and she feels it s wrong if she loves him…

The second she chooses the show will end. That is why it will never end. With the triangle in place they keep both groups of followers hooked. But since it is getting old they may try to create a new triangle with other characters to liven things up. But to do so they have to change the characters a bit. Can you guess who they are?

Well if we’re waiting for endgame for DE to happen we’re going to be waiting another 3 seasons at least because they said they expect it to go that long.  That’s a LONG flipping time to wait.

I wasn’t telling you not to argue your side. I was just asking why you thought endgame didn’t mean end. I don’t know about you, but when someone makes a statement that confuses me, I would like some backing up of that statement with reasons other than “Because I said so.” 

And I agree with you on the whole love triangle thing. I don’t see one either.

There’s no need for hostility or attitude. Jeez. 

In the episode Dangerous Liaisons  Elena made her choice.  She chose Stefan. Damon tried to win her fair and square, but Elena did not choose him, instead she rejected his love by throwing it back in his face.  Now it is time for him to move on. Who knows what will happen by season 6, but for now that non existent D/E  romantic voyage has sailed and they are not on that ship together.

In order to have a love triangle there has to be a love story between Elena and Stefan and then a love story between Elena and Damon and then a love story of Elena loving and being with both Damon and Stefan,  and finally a choice is made, or Elena takes herself out of the equation completely because she cannot choose.  What is still being told…. in season three…. is the Stefan/Elena love story.  There is no love story between Damon and Elena, which means there is NO love triangle.   This love triangle was D.O.A in season one.

I hope the writers does the right ting…
Like klaus said: That kind of love never dies!