I totally agree with this. I don't get why anyone would side with Tyler. He wasn't treating her right from the very beginning. He obviously liked her but was still dating other girls because he wasn't willing to put himself out there to be with her. Then they get together and she puts him first about EVERYTHING! She puts him first with her friends, she puts him first when he needed to deal with wolves and leaves her for months on end and never complains, she feels bad when she puts her friends before his pack (Klaus' hybrids) etc etc etc. She supported everything he did. She saved his life multiple times when Klaus would have killed him and when she couldn't take it any more and told him not go after Klaus, he chose revenge over her. I even kind of understand his decision, because he was really messed up over his mother's death. But what was doing was at best a suicide mission and at worst was going to cause the death of his beloved Caroline plus untold other vampires. She was RIGHT to want to stop him from doing something so self destructive and she was entitled to her own feelings about their relationship. She gave him an ultimatum to save not just their relationship, but also to save him emotionally and to save his life.
So I don't know why some fans didn't sympathize with Caroline. She obviously loved him and was doing the only thing she could to try to help him, but it didn't work. He wanted revenge more than he wanted Her. On TO, we found out he was only there to get Klaus to kill him (suicide by original) so that Caroline would never ever be with Klaus and that was how Tyler thought he would get his ultimate revenge against Klaus. That's pretty disturbing and very manipulative on his part, to try to take away her choices.
Then Tyler shows up and she's been with Klaus and he's so angry not just because she slept with Klaus but because he didn't succeed in being a puppet master of the situation. Again, I understand he doesn't want the girl he loves to get with a guy who's abusive and evil, but he didn't go about it in a rational way. He also has no right to slut shame her about it when he was the one who left her. She didn't sleep with Klaus to hurt Tyler and wasn't thinking about him. The very fact that fans think she SHOULD be thinking about how her ex is going to feel about her acts months after they broke up is ridiculous.
I don't dislike Tyler, IMO the story arch with Caroline and Tyler vs Klaus was really great to watch. It was like the early seasons of Elena and Stefan vs Damon steroids. He was so much better than Stefan ever was because he doesn't have the baggage of being a ripper and Klaus was so much worse that Damon ever was because he's lived longer and also did all his atrocities with his humanity on, unlike Damon who did the worst stuff with his humanity off. But just like I found Stefan self-righteous and obnoxious in early seasons, Tyler suffered for the same thing. And just like Damon could act out, be childish and push away and hurt the woman he wanted most, Klaus does the same thing. It's the basic essence of the romance on the show condensed to it's most volatile and dramatic.
I do think the writers kind of "fell" into this storyline but it also worked really well because it gave the audience what they wanted. If you wanted Elena with Stefan you were probably rooting for Caroline to be with Tyler and if you wanted her with Damon you were probably rooting for Caroline and Klaus. I prefer both Damon and Klaus because I prefer a guy willing to fight everyone, even his own nature to earn the girl he loves than a guy who feels entitled to the girl he loves, but that's just me. And before anyone disagrees yes, Stefan does fight his ripper nature. But he never did it for Elena, he did it for himself, while Damon changed his behavior for Elena and for no other reason.
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