Posted by | September 17, 2012, 11:41 (EST) | 82 Comments
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Ready for a sneak peek of Growing Pains (401)? The CW has a clip for you, and it shows a rather important moment for Elena . . .

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  • http://twitter.com/HannahSuzanne3 Hannah D

    haha this is prob the first comment I have read on this post that did not make me want to yell at someone for hating on salvatore brother (I mean i cant be mad at either one of them for longer than two seconds) I personally am over the triangle (just my opinion) and I like how your comments about each of them were not bias….also LOVE that your comment ended with Elijah

  • http://twitter.com/HannahSuzanne3 Hannah D

    May I just say I love your comment! I agree with everything you have said completly and Im not even a Delena shipper (I prefer team Salvatore or Original myself). You put everything I was thinking! Everyone thinks their favorite character is undervalued. Jeremy is my favorite and i myself think he deserves far more storyline then he currently has but that doesnt mean I think he or any other character on this show is undervalued (*on that same note though Matt has never had his very own storyline, I think that he shoudl finally get one)

  • VAMPLOVER1973

    Wow, what a rude comment. I was actually agreeing with you….I just wanted to point out that Elena was only 18 years old. You’d think that he would have fought like hell to preserve her life instead of not doing so. It’s not like Stefan had to choose between saving Damon or Elena…he had to choose someone who wasn’t his family and the girl he loves…..

  • Miss_Annie

    Personally I think the star of the video was Damon’s hair. It hasn’t looked that good in at least a few seasons. 

  • Miss_Annie

    Also may I add that it seems like Damon is more devastated by the fact that Elena is technically dead than Stefan is? Interesting. His face when he said “he didn’t”, oh my god the pain. Also, now that Elena has chosen Stefan, Alaric is permanently dead *still crying*, and he’ll most likely be left alone to deal with the founder’c council, I have to ask – when is this man going to catch a break? He hasn’t had anything lastingly good going for him since, oh I don’t know, ever? However, I do understand that now is not the time for he and Elena to be together. She made her choice, and I think it would be awful if she didn’t stick to it for now. Although honestly, I’d rather just see her without either of the brothers for a while at this point. She needs that.

  • From Beginning To End

     Maybe after she woke up in the morgue they weren’t sure how to break it to her yet so they knocked her out. I’m kidding, but yeah it’s weird. Her hair is also dry and straight and her clothes have changed.

  • From Beginning To End

     I actually agree with you, I don’t really see the big deal about who’s blood it is. I understand the symbolism part of it people like but I don’t really share the excitement because it was Meredith who gave it to her, which I can’t help but feel makes most of what would be cool about it null.

  • Georgia_Peach

    A webclip already? Wow! This just made my day :)

    Poor Elena!  Elena just looks so pitiful in this webclip.  I don’t think she wanted to commit suicide. She just wanted her friend to be saved.  After all, she is 18 years old and during her panic to save Matt, she just didn’t put
    herself first, but no matter how it is sliced or diced, Stefan should have.  Thanks to Stefan…Elena’s human life has ended, but Matty Blue Eyes is alive. Of course Matty Blue Eyes being alive is a good thing, but there is something terribly wrong with this picture.  Certainly terrible choices were made.   Why would a guy leave his lady love at the bottom of a lake to drown and swim away with another guy?  It is not as though Elena had gills and could breathe underwater.  Does Stefan love Matty Blue Eyes more than he does Elena?  Just kidding…… but  his actions doesn’t relate to a guy in love with his girl.  I will be waiting for the explanation on why a vampire could not have saved two people, especially when one was alive, conscious and if given the chance could have swam to the surface on their own accord.

    At any rate it looks like Damon, who was 100 miles away, continues to be Elena’s guardian angel.   Meredith Fell used Damon’s blood to heal Elena from her brain injury so at least even after her human life is over, her life as a vampire will begin.  A second chance to live even if it is as a predatory species.  This has nothing to do with Elena being sired by Damon, or Damon being Elena’s maker.  Being the maker of a Vampire bloodline belongs only to the blood purity of the Originals.   However, I don’t think Damon will allow anyone or anything to threaten Elena’s vampire life  because that would mean her death forever.  I can certainly see why Damon will be much more ruthless in his actions and will absolutely not care about moral judgement and will answer to no one but himself.  He will no longer be playing by Elena’s rules or Stefan’s, nor will he ever trust Stefan again. 

    It is very obvious in this webclip that Damon has some serious pinned up rage going on inside of him over Elena’s death.  I would not want to be on the receiving end of that rage being unleashed.   Rebekah, Stefan and even Matty Blue Eyes…Damon is looking at you!

    Stefan will probably become even more guilt ridden than ever before and will probably be questioning himself at every turn.  He will definitely need an outlet.  I wonder if his guilt will bring out the darker side of him. It will be interesting to see just how he will deals with the choice he made.

    Looks like the entertainment journalist are heading to Mystic Falls (Atlanta) this week, which means there will be more teasers/spoilers released after their visit.
    All of this just makes October 11th even more exciting.  It won’t be long now….so stoked!!!!

  • I<3TVD

    growing pains is also equivalent to growing shipper wars. all over again. when will TVD fans grow up? painful.

  • Karin

    …and let’s not forget that the minute she become a vampire (by drinkin human blood and therefore completing the transition), she’ll remember every past compulsion. The authors themselves said that’s important in the future of the triangle!

  • Stevie1421

    I agree with you that Damon doesn’t seem to be able to catch a break but, in balance, none of the characters do. There’s always something bad going down, so they’re all always in some danger.
    Also agree with you that Elena should be Salvatore-less for a while.
     Maybe that’s my feminist side saying ‘she doesn’t always have to have a boyfriend’ but at the end of last season I had kind of hoped she’d want to be alone for a while…I wouldn’t blame her. But at the same time I get why she wanted to try again with Stefan.
    Or maybe I wanted her with neither of them because my heart has always had a soft spot for Elena/Elijah despite my never-ending love for Delena.

  • ihatepeople

    I know it’s awful that in his entire 170 year existance he hasn’t had anything good. I know both brothers have had a rough road since they turned but at least Stefan had his father’s approval and was chosen twice by the women he loved. Damon has never had that and to top it off he had to watch his only friend die twice leaving him all alone as the outsider yet again. I can’t believe one person’s life can be that tragic (Elena’s line to Ric). How strong is one person supposed to be? No wonder he’s done taking people’s crap. He might as well play by his own rules because no matter what he does he’ll never be good enough for the people he wants anyway. That just makes us love him more. :)

  • ihatepeople

    That is weird. I thought at first maybe Caroline helped her change but she wasn’t there as far as we know. I suppose Stefan could’ve changed her since it isn’t like he hadn’t seen her naked before. Or I’m wondering since he’d said she was in and out if she basically did things on autopilot like she was catatonic or in a daze without really knowing what was going on. The weird part about that is we didn’t see it with Caroline or really with the brothers when they were in transition. I don’t think we’ll get an explanation.

  • shila1307

    Exactly, all the spoilers and promos and web-clips. But then again, musn’t complain. Ah well TVD is an addiction. I simply love it!

  • shila1307

    This (yours) is a voice that should be heard. I’m getting tired of all this shipping too, but I don’t pay attention to it anymore. Simply love TVD and that’s it. BTW still mourning for Mr.Saltzmann -R.I.P.-, but since I adore Elijah and he will become series regular, I’m pretty cool with that.

  • Mari

    Does anyone care that Elena has woken up from the dead twice? tvd fail.

  • midnight

     I wasn’t bashing Stefan.  I was just sort of making a point about the fact that although he had every chance to save Elena, he didn’t, whereas Damon was not there, but he still played a part in saving her.  Nor did I say that Stefan has NEVER saved her before, because he has.  Like the time she ‘fell’ off the row of bleachers in 3×06(?).  And the time when he and Damon went to rescue her when Rose held her captive. And the time when she and Bonnie were kidnapped in S1.  I certainly never said that Stefan wasn’t good for Elena.  It just feels as if Damon is there to save Elena in all the big life and death crises.  1×11, 2×03, 2×08, 2×10, 2×21, 3×05…If anything, I think Stefan has over the seasons, shown that he would do whatever it takes to save his brother, but when it comes to Elena’s life, he suddenly becomes paralysed because he can’t disagree or say no to her, even if he doesn’t like her decision, like 3×22.  This was one time when he had the opportunity to save her when Damon was absent, but he didn’t.  Because he couldn’t say no to what she wanted him to do.

    How do I know that Elena chose Stefan because she thought she should?  From what she said to Matt in 3×22:

    “After the accident, I kind of felt like I didn’t know how to live anymore.  Like I didn’t want to.  But then being with Stefan…somehow I figured it out.  And that’s what love should be.  You should love the person who makes you glad that you’re alive.”

    Here’s what I deduced from this little speech.  Elena felt lost after her parents died.  Who wouldn’t after such a loss?  But then she meets Stefan.  He makes her feel normal again.  He brings her back to life at a time when she felt empty.  And that’s why she chose him.  Because “that’s what love should be.”  Notice that she refers to herself in the third person here.  She doesn’t say “I love Stefan.  He makes me glad to be alive.”  She says “You SHOULD.”  You and others reading my comment might not think anything of this, but I personally think it’s a bit strange.  Now, Elena very clearly does love Stefan.  I am not disputing that in any way.  I would have to be deaf and blind not to know this.   But there’s something vaguely unsettling about a girl who thinks love encompasses a list of what you should feel/do.  If I’m told I ‘should’ do something, then I probably won’t feel like doing it!

    As for the bit about Damon’s blood…well, as you said, it could have very easily been any vampire’s.  The writers could even have thought out a way for it to have been STEFAN’S.  I know other people are all: ‘It’s just Damon’s blood because of the triangle, so what,’ but it didn’t HAVE to have been Damon’s.  I’m wondering if people would be quite so blase about it if it HAD been Stefan’s blood, or if they would think it was actually quite meaningful and romantic.  Because, you know.   He couldn’t save her at the accident scene, but it turns out he DID save her even though he didn’t know it.  Like getting a second chance.   In the light of Elena’s choosing him in 3×22, it would have been especially poignant.  Damon turned Vicki out of boredom and he gave Caroline his blood because she was one of Elena’s best friends and he wanted to help.  He also gave Bonnie his blood to heal her after Ric attacks her.  But he loves Elena, and she would have died without his blood in her system, even though Stefan was there to save her.  I adore Damon and Delena, so that means something to me.

  • midnight

     As opposed to her lying in a freezer in a morgue you mean?

  • Jess

    ^Yeah but we’ve heard Stefan say she’d “been in and out for hours”, so it’s possible this is not the very opening scene of the premiere.

  • midnight

    Exactly.  It could have been any vampire’s blood, but it wasn’t. It didn’t HAVE to have been Damon’s, not by any means.  It could have even been Stefan’s blood that was used.  In fact, it could be argued that it SHOULD have been Stefan’s blood that was used to save Elena, given that he didn’t save her when he had the chance.  It could have acted as damage control to some extent, and it would have been seen as romantic considering that she had just chosen him too.  I suppose it would have been regarded as special then?

  • From Beginning To End

     Yeah, I just don’t get why she would be in and out in the first place since that isn’t usually what happens.

  • From Beginning To End

    I don’t think we’ll get one either, but at least this way it makes more sense than trying to figure out how they got away with a dead girl walking out of the morgue alive. I wonder if they had to break it to her multiple times while she was in and out. Maybe she kept fainting from shock.

  • From Beginning To End

     It was a rather quiet summer but it is indeed starting again…

  • From Beginning To End

     The very first inconsistency of the season is kind of a big one. 
     

  • Jess

    My theory is it’s something to do with her being a doppelganger, but then I could be wrong. Or maybe she’s just water logged? … I dunno. I just hope they show Stefan pulling the dead Elena from the water and realizing he was too late to save her.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1818562989 Agnieszka Ehlert

     The Originals storyline is also my favourite now. I’m a bit tired of the love triangle and annoyed with Elenas disability to make a choice between the brothers and committing. I feel like in 3rd season she became so whiny. 
    At the end of season 2 I never thought I would like someone who hurt the main characters so much and caused so many problems. But now I can’t imagine TVD without the Originals. My favourite one is Elijah(there’s just something about him), but I fell in love with Klaus and the rest of the Original family(maybe except for Esther).
    May I just say I absolutely love your idea of Damon coo parting with the Original siblings. However, I don’t think that he’ll take a ravage on Rebecca. I think he likes her in his own twisted way, he hold her back and then told her to escape when Alaric was “killing” Klaus. I think he won’t hurt her, but hey that’s Damon Salvatore “crazy, impulsive vampire, in love with his brothers girl”.
    I would love to see snarky Damon in action with Klaus and Elijah.

    P.S: Sorry for my English, I’m not native.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1818562989 Agnieszka Ehlert

    Apart from the webclip.. Does anyone miss Alaric so much too? When I think that Damon lost his best friend, his drinking buddy and partner in a crime it makes me wanna cry :( And moreover his brother made stupid decision letting the girl that they both love dying. I feel so sorry for him.
    Just for a second I was hoping that the Salvatore brothers will finally get closer( I’m so Team Salvatore from the day one) and now…it’s going to be very difficult to make.

    P.S: Sorry for my English.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/U42UWOLRXBTMSTIGISV6SRTT64 Annie

    I have no idea why they are so excited. So it was Damon’s blood, cool, I’m sure it’s just because he is the only one we saw Meredith blood-jack. It’s just logical.

    As for why Damon is making a fuss, he learned his lesson and he regretted it the minute he took her choice away from her. Damon knew deep down she didn’t want to be a vampire (no one needed to tell him that) he understands. And since then he’s been trying to keep Elena alive and human, hell I’d be pissed too.

  • marjen

    This is better than I expected!! Love this, love the show. I can not wait.

  • JordanC

    Damon definately doesnt deserve any credit for elena being alive!!!!! I mean, yeah it was his blood tht saved her but dr.fell really deserves the credit. If she hadnt given elena damon blood she would be dead. Its all thanks to meredith

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RGT6POGHLCP3CGQXU3WV32XSXQ Debby

    I shouldn’t have watched this! I started getting very excited and then realized we still have to wait! I think time has stopped.As for it being Damon’s blood, I thought the same thing simply because he’s the only one you see Meredith taking blood from.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/RGT6POGHLCP3CGQXU3WV32XSXQ Debby

    I watched all 3 seasons 3 times this summer (I’m a teacher so I’m off for the summer), I bought seasons 1 and 2, I’ve watched the conventions and interviews online (just because the cast is so funny), now I’ve watched this clip a couple of times. Shouldn’t it be October 11th by NOW!!

    The night this airs NO ONE and I mean NO ONE had better disturb me. A bolt of lightning might come down and strike them. lol :))



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