SPOILERS: Vampire Diaries, to Date.

[windinthemaples]

1. I am a non-fan of cliffhanger endings. I've waited all week for *this* episode and now I'm waiting, yet again, for another week. They string you along, these television folks. :D

2. Is the actor who is playing Ben, the vampire bartender, gay? I'm thinking "yes" and this makes me all kinds of uncomfortable for him when he's macking on these girls. Maybe that's just me and maybe that's just what acting makes one do (kiss people you'd normally not be interested in) but still. He's not convincing me.

3. Okay, I'm confused. I thought that Anna(belle) was supposed to be Pearl's 'daughter'. Pearl is a vampire, so my first wonder is if Anna was a vampire in 1864 or actually Pearl's biological daughter? Yet, when Katharine and Damon were kissing in the store, Pearl warned them that Mrs. Fell was coming (Honoria Fell?) and that Annabelle walked up. What? Was she Mrs. Fell? Was she a vampire? Or was that Mrs. Fell comment kinda a throwaway and they couldn't be bothered to actually cast someone for that part?

4. I like the flashbacks in that I like getting to see (and not just hear) about Katharine and how the brothers became vampires and had all this happening to them. I hate the flashbacks for all the cultural/historical slip-ups. It seems they aren't attempting anything more than costume dress-up and there is only so much suspension of disbelief I can manage.

5. What I *did* love about the flashback was seeing Damon as an entirely different creature. He left the Confederacy for moral reasons? (There were a ton of hearty, healthy young men in that town, weren't there?) He was tentative and seemed like the shyer, younger brother in the past. The fact that he put so much trust in his little brother? And later, when both Stefan and Elena betrayed him--how heartbreaking was that? It is one thing for Bree, some chickadee to do it, but for the two people he probably *most* wants? He has an invite into the Gilbert house, he seemed to actually relish the fun of being inside a family home, and I believe he was sincerely hurt by the betrayal. (Again.) I think he wasn't the "evil" brother to begin with. I think he was the more naive, the more prone to Katharine's control, and ultimately the one who lost more somehow. His search for her is pretty single-minded but maybe not so surprising afterall. She is the one person he hasn't seen as betraying him. Brother, yes. Father, yes. Katharine human doppelganger, yes. Bree, yes. Everyone and everything, but this evil little bitch of a vampire.

6. I look forward to watching Ben and Anna die next week. I also am in awe of how fast Kevin and Julie are pushing this story along. Never resting on their laurels or regrouping, are they?

7. Did you see the preview for next week? When Damon tells Stefan he would like to see Elena die or wouldn't mind if she did or somesuch? Damon is usually so cool and snarky. Not in that line. Dare I say that was hard for him to say? And why? What is it about her that he doesn't want to kill? Is it just that she's the image of Katharine? Is it that he suspects she's related to Katharine? Remember that scene, episodes ago where he had finaggled an invite into Elena's home and late at night was watching her sleep, touching her face? Did he see Katharine there or something else? And, how interesting that the first thing the two brothers found to agree on in 140+ years was in protecting Elena from the vampire who'd been invited into her home. He was totally onboard with helping there. Why?

8. At what point will Stefan feel the need to kill his brother since Damon, too, has been invited in?

Comments

[sihaya09.livejournal.com]

See, I loved Spike up through season 3. His snarkiness was fresh, and tempered by his "I'll do anything" love for Dru.

Damon just seems bored most of the time.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I think Damon has existed too long with nothing to live for. Like, he's so bored he'd actually kill people (and change them) and torment his brother because of it. Like, how often do you see him *feel* anything? Only a few times in the course of the show, I think. I'd like to think that's Damon--needing something to reconnect, some reason to continue to exist forever.