You may be asking what the “She Said” is about, that’s because this is our female perspective review of the episode. You can read our male review of “The New Deal” by clicking here. No sexism intended.

Are four dead bodies really that worth it? Apparently to Klaus, yes.

The latest Vampire Diaries episode, “The New Deal,” featured an angry Klaus because of Stefan’s disloyalty after he broke his compulsion. Klaus accused Stefan to have stolen from him. What the ancient vampire wanted were the bodies of his family so that he could revive them.

Sounds creepy, but if we try to get Klaus’ point of view the reasons gets clearer. The problem is that so far we haven’t had the chance to fully understand the reasons why. I’m still wondering why the hell he wants his family back, however. I get that this show is mostly about couples, “ships,” but it is also about family. Maybe that’s the point. He wants his family back because it’s the only important thing of his immortal life. They say you can only trust your family, they will never leave you even if you hurt them.

Stefan shows Damon where he has hid the coffins, 3.10 The New Deal

Like Stefan and Damon, for example.

We all thought Stefan had became dark. In the previous episodes, he was compelled blindly followed Klaus’ orders as if he was his pet, which I highly hated because I liked him in free will. He was heartless and honestly too submissive for my tastes. I know he wasn’t his true self, but that is what I felt when I was watching that side of him.

He decides to hide Klaus’ property in an old house, and Bonnie helps him with a witch spell so that the four coffins will be hidden to everyone. Smart move.

Damon just wants his brother back, so he and Elena find him and we learn that Stefan was trying to protect them, that he actually saved Damon at the homecoming party. It’s a  gesture which showed how family bonds are more powerful than “ships” on this show. (Even if people are still accusing Damon of not being the “good” brother, and claim that Stefan is the only one who tried to save him.)

It’s clear to me that Stefan is the second most important person of Damon’s life other than Elena, of course. His brother matters a lot to him, more than some people think, even if Stefan sometimes doesn’t deserve it.

Like Stefan, hybrid Tyler Lockwood has changed a little after being sired by Klaus. He is shooting at beer cans with Jeremy. The two seem close friends, but Tyler somehow seems to be too confident now that he is a werevamp (?). He didn’t convince me much and I turned out to be right. Tyler’s actions were too weird and it was evident he was with Jeremy just for ulterior purposes.

I still don’t get their places in the story since everything seems to be revolving around the Salvatore brothers, Elena, and the original vampires. There is never enough space for the other ones. The CW basically pays actors to do nothing, some of them just seem like high-paid guest stars. Bad! My suggestion is try to use every character so that the show won’t turn into a triangle show à la One Three Hill or Dawson’s Creek.

Klaus threatens Elena by having her little brother take off his ring, go to the street, and stand in front of a speeding SUV. At this point I thought Jeremy was going to die. Apart from breaking up with Bonnie and seeing ghosts, this season he has done nothing (see the point of high-paid actors in the previous paragraph). But then… Alaric saves him and he gets hit by the car, showing that he is still worth something on the show besides being a history teacher at school no one ever seems to attend anymore.

He takes hours to wake up, and when he does, he spills blood out of his mouth. Elena and Jeremy are quick to get to the ER after Klaus’ buddy pretended to be scary and had his head cut off by Jeremy. Alaric seems to find the love of his life, guest star Torrey DeVitto a.k.a. Paul Wesley’s hot wife and Spencer’s sister on Pretty Little Liars. Once she meets Alaric’s eyes, he seems to have found another reason to stay alive on the show and to keep doing what he was doing before: absolutely nothing.

This episode highlights anything we didn’t know already.

Stefan is still torturing himself by trying to persuade his brother and Elena that he is a ripper. Which, by the way, is not clear because I thought after Klaus freed Stefan, he would also get back to his old self. There must be a few reasons why he decided to continue acting like the Ripper. He probably thinks he betrayed Elena and he doesn’t deserve her anymore?

Moments before the kiss in 3.10, The New Deal

Enter Damon…

He has changed a lot since the show started. He was quite like Stefan seems to be now. He was heartless, and heartbroken over Katherine’s unrequited love for Stefan. Then he found Elena. He didn’t start to care for her as his brother probably did, because she was Katherine’s ringer. He started being affectionate to her because he really liked her for who she is. It is true she and Kat are doppelgängers, but their personalities are entirely different.

Katherine is a b*tch, a confident girl who thinks she has everything in the palm of her hands, that everyone falls for her. That mentality started when she made the Salvatores become obsessed with her.

Elena, on the other hand, is the usual town girl with the problems every normal teen has. She doesn’t expect anything, she just wants to live a normal life and be happy.

What I understood more clearly during the last scene of “The New Deal” was that Damon had been keeping himself from the urge to kiss Elena for so long just because she was his brother’s girlfriend. I think he learned his lesson after Katherine. He did not want to steal his brother’s girl a second time, because his bond with Stefan is also important. He is the only family he has left, just as those four coffins and Rebekah is the only family left for Klaus.

As much as family is the most important thing in our lives, love is too. Damon can’t repress his own instincts and feelings towards Elena, in benefit of Stefan. There is a limit to that, and since vampires are immortal, Damon would regret not taking a risk and kissing Elena forever. As they say…

“Opportunity never knocks twice at any man’s door.”

In the previous episode, the two were standing in front of the fireplace mourning Stefan’s disappearance and “betrayal.” It seemed as if they were about to kiss then, but it didn’t happen. I really appreciate that this new episode built up the moment of their longtime UST (unresolved sexual tension) that was going on between Delena and sealed it with a kiss. It was a sweet moment of comfort the two needed to have, having lost their brothers.

Damon finally admitted that he was going to kiss Elena to at least feel guilty about something rather than wanting her. He finally made that step, and he didn’t compel her to make her forget, like he did with the “I love you” last year.

The question is: is this Damon and Elena ship set to sail now? You tell me.