#tbh wasn't really 100% happy with this result

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Ok but that so called de endgame, what was THAT?Really?? I don't know if it had to do with Nina and Ian's status off screen (i.e. them breaking up, but say they're friends etc) or what it was... but that reunion wasn't much a reunion (not the one the shippers had hoped for) like when they walked down the street, they (especially) Ian couldn't even smile properly like it looked like he wasn't even trying... it was just AWKWARD and if I was a de shipper I would be pretty disappointed tbh

It was definitely because of Nina and Ian’s relationship off-screen and nothing can convince me otherwise. I understand that the media and fans are likely to exaggerate the truth and make up plain lies regarding Nina and Ian and things probably aren’t as bitter or hateful as people try to make out they are, but it’s just a fact of life that when two people break up those two people are likely not going to be the best of friends. And if they have to work together on a day to day basis and play a romantic relationship, it makes it even more strained and awkward. I’ve said it before, but I 100% think Nina’s decision to leave the show was because of Ian. Not because she hated him or because they couldn’t stand to be in the same room together, but because they had broken up and he was married to someone else and she needed a clean break from being around him. It’s only natural to want that when you’ve split from someone you love. You have to hit the reset button and completely cut that person out of your life so as to rediscover who you are and build a new life without that person who you shared everything with. Ian made it clear in the Comic Con interview how he felt about Nina’s return, he was unbelievably sharp and dead set against it. He basically told Julie “I thought we discussed this and it’s not happening” and was so rude to her when she suggested that old cast members might come back for the finale. 

The way Delena played out in the finale just confirmed that the way Ian was in that interview was a clear reflection of his feelings about co-starring alongside Nina again. In every single scene, as you said, his smile was strained and he looked so uneasy. Plus, you could just see that the writers deliberately toned down the Delena scenes as much as possible. I’ve never known an episode of the show to have so little Delena, except maybe some of the episodes in season 1. But since they got together in season 4, every single episode has been Delena heavy and pretty much every scene they’ve ever had has always had a lot of physical intimacy and huge declarations of love. Yet in the finale, when it was probably the most important time for them to have big romantic scenes, there was nothing. After being apart for months and months there was hardly any emotion at all and that kiss was the most pathetic kiss I’ve ever seen. Compare that to their first kiss in 3x19, that had so much build-up and was executed brilliantly in terms of the tension that was built up and how Elena just ran at him and the explosion of music just as their lips collided. Or even in 5x12 when Katherine was a passenger in Elena’s body and Elena managed to fight her way through and ran into Damon’s arms. There was so much more emotion and desperation in that scene than there was in the finale and in 5x12 they’d been apart a day maybe two at the most, but the finale they’d been apart for years. Everything about that reunion was deflating and disappointing. The smile on Ian’s face is a smile you’d give an old lady passing by you in the street, the way they ran to each other was slow and the kiss, don’t even get me started. You could actually tell in one shot that their lips weren’t even touching, Ian’s mouth was at the side of Nina’s and it lasted for literally a second. It was essentially a peck on the lips and even the hug was just as pitiful, the hug between Stelena was so much more intimate and emotional in every sense. And the fact that Damon and Elena are supposed to have spent this happy life together until they died but we saw none of it, just them strolling down the street holding hands with Ian doing his strained smile that looks like he has trapped wind. We didn’t get a single “I love you” or any kind of real payoff for them being endgame. I’m still struggling to understand why the writers even included a Delena endgame that was so unconvincing. They could’ve just had Damon leave town after Stefan’s death because he was grieving and needed to find himself or whatever. They didn’t have to choose a Delena endgame. It’s just kind of weird to me that if they could see Ian and Nina were that awkward filming together why write them as being endgame at all. 

I’m not a Delena shipper, but to me the Delena we saw in the finale were not the Delena we’ve known for the last 8 seasons, they just felt so alien to me. In fact, Elena in general felt alien to me. I don’t know…it just didn’t fit to bring Nina back like that for the finale and have her play Elena and Katherine, it was too rushed and I think after so long without seeing those characters we needed to be eased back into it. The vibe of the show had changed so much from when Elena was in it and for her to just magically wake up and walk right back into it, it was just too strange. In that aspect of things, I do kind of criticism Nina’s acting as much as Ian’s. I don’t think she delivered very strong performances of Katherine or Elena, but that’s a different subject. I do completely agree that if I was a Delena shipper I’d be majorly disappointed. I mean, obviously there’s still going to be a level of happiness because their ship was still endgame and got to essentially have their happily ever after, but I’d imagine there’s probably still a level of annoyance because even I can see that they deserved more than that. But to be honest, so did all of the characters and ships. There just wasn’t enough time to fit in everything that was necessary and it resulted in so much being left out. 

#answered #anti-delena #i mean it's not really but im tagging it to be safe #my meta #tvd meta