he was (a) not romanticized, but not so demonized that his hold over his family was ignored, (b) called out by the BAMF nerd Ric, and best of all, (c) actually KILLED WITH FIRE by one of the show's decent fathers.
Oh hell yes. Richard Lockwood was the kind of mundane, human evil normally glossed over or worse, given priority by most typical dramas - but this show dealt with him the way he deserved to be dealt with. It's one of the things that earned my respect early on.
...that to turn abuse into power, the way we always tell people to, they have to escalate and become what they abhor. And it turns them into something dangerous; something that chips away at their humanity... We romanticize this sometimes, but it really is a curse, isn’t it?Wonderful insight. It's one of the reasons I sympathize with Tyler so much - he takes his curse and does what he can to mitigate it. He rejects the escalation as much as it's within his power to do so. He can't keep himself from being a monster, but at least he can try not to hurt anyone
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MY PUPPY. I agree about the sad lack of Tyler talk!
He makes some bad calls, and errantly runs off with Jules and the wolf pack, looking for reason. To his credit, he turns back, and chooses Caroline's healing influence as the thing to give him weight.
Yeah, I don't even know that that was...so bad? I think he was making the only reasonable call he could make for his own and everyone else's safety. Given that he'd just found out Caroline was helping to cover up Mason's death - I don't blame her for lashing out after what she'd been through, but Team Salvatore does not have a leg between them to stand on with the *loyalty* argument as far as Tyler was concerned. And then I do think he got some answers and skills from Jules that he couldn't have gotten from the vampires. It really is okay for him to need someone who understands, and Caroline might have some idea about the existential issues there, but she has no idea about a lot of it.
I have wondered a lot about what Mason and Richard's lives were like as kids; what sort of
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Oh hell yes. Richard Lockwood was the kind of mundane, human evil normally glossed over or worse, given priority by most typical dramas - but this show dealt with him the way he deserved to be dealt with. It's one of the things that earned my respect early on.
...that to turn abuse into power, the way we always tell people to, they have to escalate and become what they abhor. And it turns them into something dangerous; something that chips away at their humanity... We romanticize this sometimes, but it really is a curse, isn’t it?Wonderful insight. It's one of the reasons I sympathize with Tyler so much - he takes his curse and does what he can to mitigate it. He rejects the escalation as much as it's within his power to do so. He can't keep himself from being a monster, but at least he can try not to hurt anyone ( ... )
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He makes some bad calls, and errantly runs off with Jules and the wolf pack, looking for reason. To his credit, he turns back, and chooses Caroline's healing influence as the thing to give him weight.
Yeah, I don't even know that that was...so bad? I think he was making the only reasonable call he could make for his own and everyone else's safety. Given that he'd just found out Caroline was helping to cover up Mason's death - I don't blame her for lashing out after what she'd been through, but Team Salvatore does not have a leg between them to stand on with the *loyalty* argument as far as Tyler was concerned. And then I do think he got some answers and skills from Jules that he couldn't have gotten from the vampires. It really is okay for him to need someone who understands, and Caroline might have some idea about the existential issues there, but she has no idea about a lot of it.
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