The Vampire Diaries

 The Sire Bond wasn't a "romantic obstacle." It was a complete violation of Elena's consent and the writers gaslit us.

Okay, I know I am walking into a minefield with this one, but I’m rewatching Season 4 and the Sire Bond plotline is actually horrifying.
​We are supposed to view this as just another dramatic hurdle in the love triangle, but look at what is actually happening. Elena’s brain was supernaturally hijacked. She couldn't even drink blood without throwing it up unless Damon explicitly told her what to do. She changed her clothes, her morals, and her entire personality just to please him. She literally had zero free will.
​And the show’s response to this? They have Damon sleep with her.
​He knows she is biologically programmed to do whatever makes him happy, and he still crosses that line. If this happened in any other show, it would be treated like a psychological horror movie. It is textbook predatory behavior. But because it’s Ian Somerhalder with his shirt off, the writers just threw some moody music over it and told us it was "true love."
​The fact that Elena’s big transition into a vampire was stripped of her own choices just to force Delena together is the grossest writing decision in the entire series.