I don’t know, you guys, I just had a lot of fun with this episode. That’s really it. With Klaus and Elijah in New Orleans, The Vampire Diaries was able to focus in on our core characters… and I just had a ton of fun. It was a bit of good ol’ fashion TVD thrills, and Katherine was there. So it all worked out.
Sure, some things don’t make sense. I mean, what is Bonnie even trying to do? These days, I’m very confused about everything Bonnie is doing. And it’s not really Bonnie’s fault. This entire season has been written as everyone taking action without ever having to actually claim any of it — the main one of them all is Elena, who the first half of the season was insufferably sired and now has turned her humanity off. Then, Jeremy became a hunter and couldn’t control his urges to kill every vampire in sight. And now we have Bonnie, who was controlled by Creepy Professor and then by Silas and then we thought she had taken his side in this entire ordeal and now… I don’t even understand what it is she’s doing. But when she and Katherine made a deal and grinned, I was grinning along with them. So I suppose it really didn’t matter that everything that was happening was confusing. And it doesn’t matter that Silas becoming everyone is tired.
Okay, maybe that matters a bit. It’s getting challenging to watch every scene and second-guess whether or not that person is actually Silas. As soon as Klaus popped up on screen, I pegged him for Silas. Same with Matt. And then we had to see that annoying Serious Face that everyone makes when Silas is like, “You are annoying me do what I want ughhhh.” Ugh. The only time this has actually felt fresh was during this episode when it was either Bonnie or Sheriff who was Silas. And even then…
Well, anyway, this episode, the Salvatore brothers (which is how they shall be addressed now; they’re like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) decide to torture the humanity back in Elena. But she calls their bluff and proves that they wouldn’t actually harm her (duh). What’s most infuriating about this story line is that it simply shows quite plainly that these characters serve no purpose but to hover around Elena. And the sad thing is that they’ve proven their worth in the past whenever they were given stories of their own to confront. It makes you wonder what the endgame for this sire/no-humanity story line will even be. There are two episodes left and I still don’t see the pay-off for it, yet. Even if it’s some cheesy, after school special message that there’s always something to live for, then so be it. But mostly this season, The Vampire Diaries has just had our main characters running around, trying to tame Elena like she’s some wild animal. Or maybe I just want to give Vampire Diaries more depth than it wants to serve us, but had this related to a more universal message then perhaps it could have been more compelling. Or if The Vampire Diaries had defined its universe more, then perhaps it could have been so as well.
Thus far, it’s been fun in bits and pieces, and I guess that’s fine too. It certainly was this episode.
What makes Elena finally decide to turn on her humanity (drink! seriously, we need to develop a finale drinking game, who’s down?) is Matt’s supposed death. We all know what’s wrong with this, right? Well, there are two things: (1) This was one of TWO non-deaths that happened this episode, which cheapens it. (2) Really? Matt? Elena was prepared to kill both Bonnie and Caroline and Matt is what brings her “back”? Well, okay, then. Regardless, I’m rooting for Matt to get the hell out of here — not in a I don’t like him way, because I do. It’s just that this place sucks. Go run off with Rebekah! Get far away from here! It’s just like Caroline said to her maybe-dead-mother: “I’m going to get you far from here” (paraphrasing). Please do. Mystic Falls sucks. I have no idea why anyone has stayed there this long.
This town is seriously the center of a witch and an ancient old vampire’s plan to tear down the fabric that separates this world and the dead world. Well, at least it’s an interesting town.
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Remember boys and girls - if you ever find yourself in court for chaining your gf to a chair and setting her on fire - try to justify it with "It was intervention, not an abuse~". because that's suuuurely how real life morality and laws work....
And from what I hear they gave Silas the role of book Klaus? Here's my biggest pet peeve with this show - WHY?
- Why did we need completely pointless S2 and S3 that accomplished nothing.
- Why did writers completely mess up Katherine, then introduce Becky for same role and then suddenly remember they have Katherine and want us to believe she matters or is interesting?
- Why did writers ignore and neglect doing ANYTHING with the cardboard doormat Elena Gilbert for three seasons and then suddenly decide she's best everrr? Surely THEY HAVE to realize that majority of people don't give a shit about Elena anymore, riiiiight? She's a characterless braindead mary sue and pretty much one of major reasons I quit this show - she is just not interesting. She has no motivations. She never messes up. Has no flaws. CARES SO DAMN MUCH to the point of conversing with birdies and animals of the forest and everyone around her acts like she is freaking center of the world....WHY? Why should anyone care about her when writers gave absolutely no reason to do so? And now she is the best everrr and everyone focuses on her suddenly? Seriously, if Plec wrote a book, the damn lead character would be introduced in the epilogue...
- Why did writers completely screw over Klaus as villain only to decide to rehash the book-Klaus as Silas, while ripping off The First Evil at the same time? Why not do it right the first damn time?
Everything in this show just feels so disjointed, impulsive and pointless.
Writers keep throwing shit at the viewers(and yes, latter seasons actually increase the level of immersion in that you actually feel and smell it)
- Plots make no sense. Everything just feels slapped together with no connection in between the plots.
- Twists have been utterly predictable.
- Every episode is more of the same old boring love triangle, same old expressionless boring goodie two shoes elena, same old "plot tweeests"
- Villains are laughably boring and wimpy.
- Characters are lower than one-dimensional in terms of development.
And people are wondering why reasonable people like me have dropped the show and ratings keep falling.
exactly.
or reasonable people like us wonder why the hell you're still here commenting,when you don't like this show.btw for a person that doesn't like a show and says that ''they have dropped the show'' 2 seasons ago,you know awfully well details from seasons long past.every single time i read a ''tvd'' post,there you are bashing the show!drama queen syndrome?or something else?
I thought Bonnie regressed this episode Michael. I mean last episode we saw her in, she was laying the smackdown on Elena and biting off the Stefan's head and in the end talking all tough to Silas. This episode she's hiding from him, and basically being threatened by Silas to do his dirty work or he'll kill her friends (basically what Klaus does). Isn't Silas just a vampire? So Bonnie shouldn't feel threatened or compelled to do his bidding unless she wants to. She's got more power in the situation; HE needs HER, she doesn't need him. So what am I missing?!
I thought the scene where they "killed" Matt was quite touching, it was actually the only scene that made TVD worth watching last night.
Apparently Kol is back next week, so I'm happy about that but I'm sure it won't be for forever or long enough for him to be shipped off to "The Originals". I do wonder who he is talking to though (the Kennett shipper in me hopes it's Bonnie haha).
Who all thinks that the 1st thing Elena should do with her emotions back on is to kick the Salvatores out of her life and get her agency from season 1 back?
I don't think Kol will be in the Originals, only Rebbekah, Klaus and Elijah.
At least that is what the promos show. It will be fun if he joined the cast.
Caroline's mom and Matt's supposed death was touching for me. I kept wondering if they are both leaving the show.
I liked matts return, but caroline without her mom could make her character a little tougher and maybe a little evil.
I am afraid I can't join for the drinking game....my liver failed within the first 5 episodes of the season when Stefan said humanity like 50 times each episode...sad...
LOL, you know I have noticed something, Elena without humanity, actually has a witty brain....Elena with humanity has no brain at all....otherwise why would she blame Katherine for all the shit that happened to her....logically, its Klaus who in his plan to become a hybrid decided he would kill a young peasant girl just because he wanted something....and when she decided to save her life, he decided to track her down and well, you watched the show....I mean, yeah Kat did turn Caroline and trigger Tyler's werewolf gene...but aside from Jeremy, Elena should be taking it up with Klaus for ruining her life...then maybe Katherine for ruining her town's life..oh wait, this is not the books, this is the show...sorry.
Also priorities. Elena, do you have them? Why do you suddenly think that now is a great time to kill Katherine when Silas is about to force Bonnie to open the veil? Esp if she winds up killing Katherine, not like she could do it herself, before the veil is lifted it's likely she'll just come back. The show would have you believe Katherine is worse than both Klaus, and his family by extension, as well as Silas who is now essentially Klaus 2.0. But I guess they're trying to build her up, as evidenced by the haphazard plan she and Bonnie have. Personally I feel like she had no reason to kill Jeremy, and technically Silas delivered the final blow, so that was faulty writing. Everything else I can certainly see the role she played but her behavior doesn't occur within a vacuum. And without her Elena wouldn't exist.
Ridiculous episode.
This might be the episode i most enjoyed since, well as long as I can remember this season really.
I loved it! The humans finally have purpose,I liked seeing Damon be bad (even though it was just a trick with the whole matt thing).Stefan still doesn't have much purpose, me no likey. I didn't hate bonnie, I get it silas is strong so it's better to make him believe you're on his side.I just love how powerful and confident she is lately.And katherine, well she never fails us , does she? Even Elena, I've enjoyed. I really live off those mean things she tells people.It's like she read the comments section of your reviews haha! But the whole "I'm going to kill katherine was very random" .I heard that that's what happens in the books and I feel like it's just a clumsy way of doing it.The writers really ought to step their game up!
I'd give this ep a c plus. It was better than last ep only because last episode was the backdoor pilot of another show. This episode to me was so boring and It made me realise TVd is, after all, just a show for teenagers. This is something i didnt feel back in s1 to early s3. I did know the premise of the show was a bunch of highschool kids but the writing at that time was much more mature. It was amazing then and i was so addicted to this. Now everything doesnt make much sense. Their relationships only serve one purpose that is to please fans. Random hookups/ pairups happen every episode just for people to tweet about it. Matt and Bek was fun the first time. They had potential to be an interesting couple if they could take the current storyline and apply to them back then. But no, they just had to make her sleep withDamon randomly for some cheap twist, then looked like she fell for D, then a pathetic random threesome with one the most boring but overrated character (by the writer, fans hated her). Their whole fling was completely forgotten for a very long time. Then she hooked up with Stefan, which i think could turn out to be interesting as well should it last a little longer, but no, after about 2-3 eps, it was ignored completely again after serving its purposes of 1. Surprise 2. Twitter 3. So that Stefan has sth to throw at Elena. And now suddenly she came back and Matt is the most humanly beautiful thing in the world. Yeah, ok, whatever.
Fail to care and understand whatever is happening with Bonnie. Caroline wen from being awesome to being boring, whiny, very loud, and repetitive. She went in thd room to help Elena, i thought she had something special, but no, all she did was saying the same shit everybody else and their mother have been saying to elena then got insultrd by E some more, then stomped out. This felt like a filler to meas it had no purpose whatsoever.
I'm glad at least Silas wont be joing thr gang at the Grill next season because he looks too ugly to hook him up with any of the girls.
Still dont buy that Matt is the reason Elena turned her humanity back on. Very weak logic. Shewas fine with killing two of her best friends herself bug somehow couldnt stand watching matt get killed by Damon. She was fine with feeding on him to death but not fine ith him getting his neck snapped by someone else. awesome!
The brothers had nothing better to do with their lives besides running around Elena. And even though Stefan is my favorite here, i feel like killing someone if i hear him say humanity or i've been through this stage etc. the writers have a tendancy of making him repeat himself all the times. Back then it was "it's gonna be ok. It's my fault. I will fix this" then it was "i dont care" the a bunch of humanity stuff and u didnt give up on me urgggghhhhb. Paul Wesley is an amazing actor please give him better material.
That killing Katherine thing is so random and out of the blur. Again, it was anothrr cheap surprise
Creo q Matt es la única conexión que le queda a Elena con su lado humano, ya que todos son sobrenaturales, por eso si me pareció creíble aunque me recordó a la escena de Willow y Xander donde el único sin poderes es el que salva el día.....Saludos Michael!!!
That's possible, since Matt is the only remaining human. But the writing didn't really indicate that being why Elena would be affected by his death. Also it's indicative of another flaw of the writing that being human is always linked with goodness despite the fact that Caroline and Bonnie are two of the best and most responsible characters on the show. So much of what they do is generally about preserving Elena's humanity as well as trying to protect other people, human and supernatural.
I thought this ep has been most fun to watch since....Klaus was introduced. Ever since the weight/twists/excitements of the plots has been on Klaus or the Originals. This ep reminded me with the feelings of watching season 1 good old fashioned TVD. It is a good move a necessary move indeed to give the Mikelsons their own show. When every Thurs night, as a viewer, all I can't wait for TVD is to watch how Klaus wreck havoc in Mystic Falls AND rooting for him? That's not good for TVD... :)
I was also hoping that Matt ran off with Rebbekah.
He should get with her and adopt a baby.
Elena finally is back and it seems like yeeeeeeeeessss, finally Katherine will be gone for good sometime this season or the next, but will be gone. There is no way that she will get the power that Klaus has. Caroline should get it, maybe her character will become a lot more interesting.