Dirascorpio

Stefan was hanging on by such a very tenuous thread for the first half of the season. Then he lost his mind for a nice chunk in the middle. He’s been terrified of opening himself back up and letting those feelings in. Seeing [Elena] at her most vulnerable, and needing to give her the support that she’s been trying to give him all season — It’s finally him saying, ‘It is okay to feel. I heard you, all of those times that you told me that it’s okay to feel, and it’s okay to have hope. I heard you. Now let me give that back to you.’ I think that this is illumination for [Elena] in this point of her life, with these two men who are so important to her. She has no one — she’s lost everyone who has ever mattered to her. How do you choose, in a moment like that? The two episodes of the season that follow are really going to be about her asking herself that question and trying to understand how she could possibly let one of them go, when she’s already lost so much.