Fans of The Vampire Diaries are still talking about last week’s
epic Damon and Elena kiss and the motel ogling scene that started it
off — which, regardless of whether they’re Team Delena or Team Stelena, they had to admit was hot.
“I can’t speak for everybody else in this world, but when we were
talking about what the scene needed to be in the writer’s room, we’ve
all had those moments where you end up laying in bed in high school with
a guy or a girl that you like, and you don’t know what’s gonna happen,
you don’t know what it means, but all you know is that you’re infinitely
aware of their proximity to you and every single move that they’re
making and every single breath that’s being breathed between the two of
you. We wanted that moment to be that experience,” exec producer Julie
Plec tells EW. “When we talked to [director] Chris Grismer, we just
said, ‘Milk every single beat out of this that you can. It’s so much
about what’s not being said. It’s so much about them just lying next to
each other, the beauty and intimacy and sexual chemistry of just being
near each other is what needs to be telling the story here. So take as
long as you want, and shoot it as much as you want, and we’ll put it
together from there.’ They definitely gave us everything we needed.”
By the end of the episode, Elena had pulled back from Damon, even
though the audience (along with Jeremy) had heard ghost Rose’s
passionate plea for why she should choose Damon. So where does that
leave us? With some hope for those rooting for Stefan. “Stefan was very,
very gracious to encourage her to go on this road trip with Damon. His
point of view, as he expressed to Alaric, is that all this work that
I’ve done to get myself to be worthy of her and how much I care for her
doesn’t matter if she has feelings for someone else. He’s allowing that
room for her to explore that, which is a fairly magnanimous gesture for a
dude, truthfully,” Plec says. “Elena, still being very confused about
her feelings for Damon — which obviously exist, it’s just how does she
want to define them — gets schooled by Caroline, who is proudly wearing
her Team Stefan T-shirt at the beginning of this episode, metaphorically
speaking. She’s basically saying, ‘You’re supposed to be exploring, so
explore both sides. You and Stefan, in my opinion, are meant to be. So
make sure that you explore him, too.’ That encourages Elena to reach out
to Stefan and say, ‘Look, I don’t know what’s going on with us, or if
anything can ever go on with us, but why don’t we give this one night a
shot to just spend some time together.” (Will Stefan find out about
Damon and Elena’s steamy makeout session? “Elena doesn’t keep it a
secret. What gets said about it is part of the episode. It’s addressed
but not addressed,” Plec says.)
The night that Stefan and Elena spend together is, of course, the
Roaring ’20s Decade Dance. “Damon comes in at an unfortunately
romantically inopportune moment to say, ‘Fun’s over. We’ve got a
problem.’ Damon is actually, like, a double c—blocker in this episode,’
now that I think about it,” Plec laughs. “There’s two moments where
Damon interrupts something romantic accidentally.” The problem has to do
with last week’s big Rebesther twist, in which Esther took over
Rebekah’s body to get to Alaric (or Evilaric), who fetched the white oak
stake that can kill an Original. “Last year at the decade dance, we had
Alaric being possessed by Klaus though a bodyswapping spell. It felt
poetic to bookend this year’s decade dance with the same trick,” Plec
says. “Earlier in the season, we actually talked about having Esther
take the form of somebody else, whether it be Bonnie or Rebekah, before
we met her in present day. And then we ditched that plan early on, and
came back around to it for this episode.” She doesn’t want to say too
much, but she will tease this: ”That story line takes instantly a left
turn right at the beginning of the episode. So everything everybody
thinks they’re gonna see is actually different.” We wouldn’t expect
anything less.
0 σχόλια:
Δημοσίευση σχολίου