"For three months he killed so many people, he ripped them apart. And now suddenly his love for Elena gets in the way?!? Suddenly he has to be compelled to shut off his emotions? Oh, wait, so his humanity was still on when he ripped all those people. Okaaayyy. Noble would be staking himself not to kill all those innocents, but who cares, right? TheyH're not part of the epic loooooove that is Stelena :P "-HaleyDewit

HUGHSDUIGSUISDNFFFFFFFFFF I agree! I was so mad DX,at one point I didn't even care if Delena was endgame as long as Stefan chose Klaus and Rebekah over them. I mean they're friends! Like seriously, he actually did have feelings for Rebekah, when he remembered everything those should have and would have come back. Ugh.

in every freaking interview all they said is we will see A WHOLE NEW stefan a stefan that is much worse than damon A TRUE RIPER.

and not one episode passed by,and the writers have disspointed us,they didn't even gives us ONE freaking episode without showing us that their PRECIOUS stefan is still "good" i mean SEROUISLEY NOT EVEN ONE EPISODE REALLY???? where the hell is our riper story

and now the writers complled him so it WOULDN'T BE HIS FAULT fucking liaris,they promised us REAL RIPER WITHOUT ANY TRICKS OR FREAKING COMPLLUTION

but NO how can they give their PRECIOUS "SAINT" stefan a bad side

um... hello stefan was a riper A LONG TIME BEFORE he ever met klaus or anybody

"the MOMENT stefan had his first teast of human blood, HE WAS A DIFFRENT PERSON"-damon to elena 1x20

THE MOMENT he drunk HIS OWN FATHERS BLOOD he WAS/STILL a riper nobady forced or complled him TO SHUT OUT HIS HUMANITY HE DID IT ALL BY HIMSELF,and he did it FOR A 100 YEARS and now ALL OF SUDDEN he needs some on to do it for him i don't think so

I don't think they messed it up, but they could have done it ALOT better.

@bdavis98: Thanks for quoting me! No, seriously, Stefan's a pathetic excuse for a ripper, and for a vampire.

A lot of people want to see Stefan go completely bad so that he is irredeemable; making their couple look good. Won't work. An "endgame" couple should be able to stand on it's own without relying on another charater's actions to prop them up.

Stefan worked very hard for a long time to suppress his ripper urges. It would be OOC for him to just give that all up without a fight. The compulsion was the most realistic way to go.

So agree. They promised that we would be seeing dark stefan but what did we get just more and more attempts not to ruin his holy ness and make him the saint even in his ripper mode oh wait - > fake ripper mode. What a waste
@haley stefan is a lame excuse for a vampire. Half the time i confuse him for a human

i agree with daenerys, i want Delena to be endgame but no because Stefan is suddenly unfixable or something and i actually love how they are developing the whole Ripper story

2 words:: FAKE RIPPAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They completely ruined it in my opinion. Stefan never-in my opinion anyway-fully went to the dark side & when he becomes "himself" again no one will blame him for anything. Everything will be the same as it usually is with Stefan never taking any responsibility for his actions 'cause that's basically the law in Mystic Falls. :P lol

I agree with lizzie_jo5! and I hate that Stefan moved back in to keep watch because hello! It's the year of DELENA.

I don't know why people are bringing Damon & Elena into this. It has nothing to do with them. I'm just tired of Stefan being such a saint all the time. He's a VAMPIRE! More than that, he's a RIPPER for crying out loud! They're supposed to have an uncontrollable bloodlust! It doesn't matter if he has worked for a long time to suppress that side of him, once he started feeding from humans again he shouldn't have been able to control himself. But no, his love for Elena his so powerful that it overrides his basic instincts? GIVE ME A BREAK! *eyeroll* I was looking forward to seeing his dark side surface on it's own, not be forced out. I'm really disappointed.

He was compelled to turn his emotions off because he couldn't KILL Elena. He was compelled to kill the love of his life, I suppose he would fight that as much as he could.
Yes, he's a ripper but he also remembered the love he had for her. If it had been the '20s ripper I'm sure he wouldn't have had a doubt.
I just don't believe that he would've given up without putting a fight. He didn't give up without a fight.

He's now a "bad ripper" because he was compelled. But truth is, people would still complain if he had gone all ripper by his own, without any compulsion. People would say "if he truly loved Elena he would've resisted" or something like that.
Saying that the writers compelled him to be a true ripper as an excuse to keep him "good" is NOT valid. Because he still killed and Elena knows what he did, and he feels, or felt before he was compelled, remorse.
It's not like Klaus one day woke up wanting to compel Stefan to be the ripper he knew he could be. Klaus thought through all the summer that Stefan was his friend the ripper again. He was compelled because they, Stefan and Klaus, reached a limit.
And it's not an excuse for the writers because knowing how stefan is, he will be the first one to blame himself. Elena now knows, TRULY knows, his most dangerous side and what he's capable of and what he's done. He freaking killed someone in front of her, she will not forget that easily.
But of course, the problem here is always "why does Stefan get this and Damon doesn't". ALWAYS.
I notice that many people, and I'm not talking about the comments above or anything, in general, rate an episode or season depending on the scenes their ship got or why Stefan this and Damon that, etc. and they don't put ANY attention to the actual storyline of the show.

It's just lame. I don't want a ripper who deason't want to be...I don't want him to be forced to do something he don't want to. This compulsion is so ridiculous!

We don't need Stefan to be evil for Delena to look good :P They already look way better than Stelena.

@iandamonfan - Once again (for me at least), this has NOTHING to do with Damon. It's ALL about Stefan. His bloodlust is so fierce that he literally rips people apart when he feeds, yet he can somehow control himself with Elena? LAME! Should he want to resist? Of course. It would be out of character if he didn't. But considering how much they've been emphasizing that Stefan is more dangerous than Damon, it SUCKS that he had to be compelled to turn off his emotions, that he didn't give in to his killer instincts on his own.

mmmmmmm Stefan is excellent as ripper he is not a fake ripper Damon was. Damon was the good brother ( according to DE fans) and Stefan was hiding his bad side ( which has been showed all this chapters, Stefan killed without remorse) But PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE Stefan really loves Elena as Damon really loves Elena and both cannot hurt her, so Stefan was trying his best for not facing Elena with Klaus but unfortunalety it happens, and Stefan's love for Elena is strong and real.

Many people complains about this because they want Elena hates Stefan, they want Elena stop loving Stefan so Delena happens and how Stelena was show in that chapter it was beautiful, real and painful ( Not the bored couple that many people said) and this is getting on the way of Delena because it seems Elena still loves Stefan deeply but it was too easy if suddenly Stefan doesnt feel nothing for Elena so Delena can happens.

For me that would be ridiculous if Delena happens if Elena really will love Damon I want her love him above her strong love of Stefan and I want her love Damon even if Stefan is still the good brother ( although it would kill my heart poor Stefan) but that is true love not a love based in ruined the relationship of stelena with lies and blood nooooo Elena has to love Damon beyond that and if she cannot do it well it will show that Stelena is the best

@Jereimy You said it well...there is nothing we can add to this :)

Yes @Jereimy said it all lol.