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Okay, last night's episode ended the seemingly interminable Olympics hiatus.

1. A black vampire. It is about time. I feel like someone finally listened to my complaint that all Vampire Diaries-world vampires are white and that all black people are witches. If Harper turns out to be a witch-vampire or something, I'll have to amend my "someone finally listened!" stance. In the meantime, with his return, I'm really looking forward to learning more about what the heck happened in the 1860s that allowed so many vampires to live in (and later be captured in) one small town. (The creation of those magic walk-in-sunlight rings, perhaps?) Why would Emily have done so much for so many vampires?

2. Alaric's ring. Is that one of those magic vampire rings? Is some sort of immortality the natural effect of a human wearing the vampire-intended bespelled ring? Or something else? And did his chest heal, or did he wake up with a problematic giant hole in his chest?

3. I fucking hate the Bing search engine crap. Never has a product placement seemed more obvious and heavy-handed.

4. So. Let's think this through. Isobel got pregnant as a teenager. She disappeared, arrived in Mystic Falls, gave birth and gave the child (Elena) away. She then, years later, shows up again at Duke where she's feverishly researching Mystic Falls vampires and married to history buff Alaric. Their marriage doesn't look so great and she's keeping suspiciously vampire-like hours. Well, she gets some magic ring, who knows how, for the man as a keeping-him-safe apology or something and then disappears into her new much-anticipated life as a vampire. Interesting how, like Katherine did to Damon, Isobel doesn't mind leaving her husband to agonize for years about her seeming demise. But if she's so cold, why give him the ring at all? Why go to so much trouble, including ordering the killing her high school best friend, so that Elena stops looking for her? Is it even possible that Isobel is acting from some more noble place--finding a way to become a vampire so she can investigate that society and/or have the power to kill a bigger baddie among them? And yet...

5. The Compulsion. Wow. Instead of the, "you will listen to me" parlor tricks, Isobel has seemingly stepped it up to creating disposable human servants. Could human armies of compelled people be next? How terrifying. It seems like, if she treats random humans as being so disposable, that she must be evil-evil-evil. She seemed so bland and scholarly and nice as a human--could vampirism have made her change that much?

6. How the hell are Katherine/Isobel/Elena related? I've always assumed that Isobel had sort of an accidental pregnancy. What if that wasn't the case? What if she got mixed up into some weird vampire politics thing? What if she was fulfilling an obligation to have another living descendant of Katharine created? Damon said that vampires can't reproduce--did Katherine, perhaps with a witch's help, find a way around that? Is Isobel her evil little daughter protogee?

7. Stefan has a lot of secrets. You could have a drinking game revolving around every time he says, "I wanted to tell you but...". He seems to reveal only what he's forced to, a piece at a time, on a need-to-know basis. Elena has to be the one to figure all this out on her own and then confront him with it. How long before she gets fully pissed off?

8. Matt and Caroline seem to be from some other show. Are they the token uninvolved humans? I'm not sure what to think there. Same, too, with Aunt Jenna. At what point will they all be weaved into this supernatural show?

What did you think? What struck you? Are you happy with where the show is going and the pace the writers are taking it there? Let's chat! :D

Date: 2010-03-26 07:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radshaun.livejournal.com
No product placement beats the Subway placement in CHUCK.

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