Vampire Diaries (Spoiler-rific)

[windinthemaples]

HOLY SHIPOTLE! Are you kidding me?!

1. Am I supposed to suspend disbelief about the fact that Katherine somehow picked up Elena's speech patterns as well as found a way to appropriate an identical outfit to hers? Doesn't that make you shiver and wonder just how long she's been stalking Elena, following her around shopping malls, and messing stuff up in Mystic Falls to begin with? And doesn't it also make you wonder how much Parent Trap identical twins shenanigans there will be next season if Katherine sticks around and keeps impersonating Elena at inopportune times? Doesn't it drive you mad that Elena and Damon *finally* kiss and it is a bait and switch? At the time of the kiss I was thinking, "Wow. This can't be happening. Elena wouldn't do this without a fight or some uncomfortable mood-killing dialogue." And albedamned, it was Katherine!

2. How uncomfortable will it be for Elena to be left with a blood-soaked kitchen, a knife-block filled with weapons, and her dead uncle's body? (I'm assuming Katherine will have done the vampire-swoosh out the window thing.) Um...do you think she's got heavy duty garbage bags, bleach, and a shovel handy? Good thing that Jeremy is out of his mind on those sleeping pills, because that'll take some doing to clean up and avoid the murder rap.

3. It was sad to watch Anna die and I wasn't even a fan of her. It'll be interesting to see if Jeremy survives his suicide attempt or becomes a vampire. Can you imagine him as a vampire? He'd give even Stefan a run for his mopey-money.

4. Mayor Lockwood dead? That's priceless. Am I to assume that now, just like Bonnie, there is no older mentor to help Tyler ease into his full powers as a (let's assume) werewolf? Isn't that fascinating, how the teenagers in this town are pretty much all by themselves? Aunt Jenna is like a figurehead of permissive, absent parenting. Elena is trying to save everyone. Bonnie has the book but no Grams. I mean, really. They've got nobody to rely on but themselves and they've really no idea what lays on the other side of their transformations.

5. Will Caroline die? What role does she play on the show, really, and is it necessary? I just hope she doesn't need any sort of blood transfusions because we *know* the hospital is running a little short.

6. I'm glad they didn't kill the Sheriff.

7. New episodes in September. Gah. True Blood and Top Chef is my only hope of sanity. Or, you know, going on a television hiatus of my own.

8. Fascinating, isn't it, how the new town council stole the idea, wholesale, of rounding up all the vampires, putting them into a building, and lighting it on fire. Don't they know how badly that turned out the first time? And didn't Uncle John seem not as intent on finding/killing Stefan as he'd promised to do with Isobel?

What did you think?

Comments

[radshaun.livejournal.com]

The Elena bait and switch was great. I was thinking all episode about when we were going to meet Katherine, and when John was at the knives, I was yelling at the screen for Elena to cut off the finger. I was NOT prepared for the switch though. Holy cow!

I'd like to state for the record that what Jeremy took was hydrocodone, and he didn't take very many, so it's not likely to kill him. Also, you're right, if he does become a vamp, he and Stefan can have mope-offs.

Speaking of mopey, I do not like my Damon all depressed. It's cool to see him have a conscience and try to do the right thing, but when he acts all melancholy it feels ugh.

I did enjoy the way the Mayor croaked. A victim of his own medicine, so to speak. I don't really like the actor or character of Tyler, so I'm not really psyched to see his wolfy woe next season.

That season was way awesome. Can't wait for season 2.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I thought Elena was going to stab him, with the ring on, just as a "fuck you" gesture. I thought that was extreme enough, but didn't expect him to be killed quite so quick. Why would Katherine have wanted him dead? Why would she have sent Isobel and John on this fools mission with "the device"? Did she want to protect the town from the vengeful tomb vampires? (Doubt it.) Did Isobel go against Katherine by ordering Stefan and Damon's deaths, too? I just don't quite get why she is killing him.

You know, in the books, as I recall, Tyler was a meat-head date rapist type. Real scumbag. So I think it is okay if you don't like him. :D He may earn that even more.

[lilith42.livejournal.com]

yeah, thoroughly surprised about the Elena/Katherine switch. I actually thought "man, Rachel was right, Damon and Elena do look pretty hot together" lol

Why do they always have to bring werewolves in the vampire mix these days...are they really following the Twilight angle that closely? I like the way True Blood does it and just makes them shape-shifters in general.

Clean up, aisle 5...we are going to need a lot of mops.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

"Why do they always have to bring werewolves in the vampire mix these days...are they really following the Twilight angle that closely? I like the way True Blood does it and just makes them shape-shifters in general."

The books the show is based on were written in the early-90s, way before Twilight, and they had an asshole boy werewolf. So I don't know why they always go together, but they aren't stealing anything from Twilight.

[lilith42.livejournal.com]

Ah... never knew it was a book before; makes everything so much clearer :)