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

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…..

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.

 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

 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.

^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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.