So, I liked this episode a lot. It wasn’t nearly as epic as last week’s episode, but you can only have so much “OMG OMG OMG!”’s in one season, and damn, TVD, needs to save some for the mid-season finale. And the season finale…so I’ll forgive them for not having this episode quite as crazy good. There were still some really fantastic elements, and I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again…a good episode of TVD is better than a great episode of just about anything else.
Katherine/Mikael~ Hurrah, Sebastian Roche!!! I’m soooo excited that he’s on my show. I’ve loved him ever since he was on Roar with Heath Ledger, and when I got to meet him at an event-that-shall-not-be-named-publicly. He’s such a great actor, and he’s been on so many of my shows, and he always brings his awesome A-game. It’s a coup for TVD to get him…really it is. Granted, he spent most of the episode unconscious, but I’m excited to see just what craziness he’s going to bring to Mystic Falls. The fact that he’s with Katherine right now is an added bonus.
I loved how annoyed she was that Mikael wouldn’t wake up even when she was dangling tasty little morsels in front of his catatonic face. Her frustration was hilarious. Katherine is not one to wait for anything.
Then he woke up and fed on her!
AHHHHH! They better not kill her! She deserves a much better send-off!
Like…fire…or…an atom bomb. Something equally as epic as she is.
Perhaps a typhoon.
Ripper!Stefan/Rebekah/Damon~ Ha! I loved that the first shot of Damon that we get this episode is him stepping over two bodies at the bottom of the stairs. I like the fact that he’s not so much bothered by Stefan’s eating habits as he is about how messy Stefan is when he does eat. It speaks to his character, and the fact that Stefan on animal blood was the anomaly in the vampire world, not the rule, and Damon’s treating it as such. If Stefan could actually hold his liquor and not turn into a crazy person, well…he wouldn’t be such a douche.
And that’s really all he is. So far, he’s not doing much ripping of anything. Which is disappointing. I was sold a pack of lies, apparently, and by Ripper!Stefan it just meant he was going to be snarky a lot. And gorge on brunettes. And snark. And push Alaric into some lockers. And snark. And push down a random extra. And snark.
Bored. Now.
Sigh.
Basically…I’m not impressed.
As an aside…calling Elena a human blood bag? Not really an insult so much as stating the obvious. I mean…since she’s human…she’s got blood running through her veins, and, granted you could feasibly say Elena looked a little baggy under the eyes from having to wake up so early, or say, her skin houses all of her blood (and bones and innards) making her a bag…but it’s not really an insult.
Ripper!Stefan isn’t even clever.
Double Sigh.
I did think it hilarious, however, how fastidious Damon is about his house. The idea of “crazy, out of control, snap-a-guys-neck-if-you-look-at-him-wrong” Damon as a neat freak is HIGH-LARIOUS.
I loved the look the brothers exchanged when Rebekah mosied her ass into their house and into their lives. The fact that Klaus left her there…is really kind of insulting for the poor girl. I mean, damn, dude. He was able to spare enough time to tell Stefan to protect Elena, but not enough time to grab his sister?
Yeah…aside from daggering them and sticking them in coffins…I can kind of see why his family doesn’t like him much. He’s kind of an ass.
Caroline/Tyler/Rebekah~This is going to get interesting. I like that TVD brought in the whole “siring” business from the books, mainly b/c it makes me a little more certain that, at some point, Elena’s going to become a vampire and she’s going to have Damon’s blood in her system. Like it happened in the books. And that will offer a whole new type of fun to this show.
I also loved the exchange between Damon and Caroline after Damon vervained Tyler for his Klaus is Awesome shenanigans. “How do I fix him?” “Get a new boyfriend”. Caroline’s face when Damon said that was hilarious.
Also, Caroline going all Mean Girl on Rebekah as they fight for the top dog spot at Mystic Falls High is going to be good times.
Matt~…is boring and stupid. Christ on a crutch, die already.
Vicki/Matt/Bonnie/Jeremy~ I kind of felt bad for Matt that he’s so lonely that he’s willing to let his crazy ghost sister come back to the “real” world by doing some crazy, scary blood ritual.
Which is why, really…he should die.
Don’t even get me started on Bonnie and her complete psychotic-ness this episode. Seriously…what the fuck was her deal? She does realize that the whole reason that Jeremy can see ghosts now is b/c A)He fucking lives in Mystic Falls, and this kind of shit is the norm, and B)She brought him back from the dead, going against the balance of nature…AND HE HAS NO FUCKING CONTROL OVER THAT. Jesus Christ, she was a horrendous bitch. Her whole reasoning for being mad at Jeremy makes no sense at all.
This is just like when she got all pissy with the Salvatore brothers b/c she and her grams thought they were some kind of high-class, bad ass witches and could open the tomb with their namby pamby powers and her grams died after breaking the spell.
It wasn’t the fact that apparently after Emily, the Bennett witches kind of suck, oh no…it’s all the Salvatore brothers fault b/c they are vampires.
The fuck kind of logic is that, bitch?
It isn’t logic. I swear to god, I want you to die.
No wonder Jeremy is turning to a ghost to get some kind of loving…bitch…YOU ARE A CRAZY PERSON.
Just to spite Bonnie, I want Anna and Jeremy to make sweet ghost love and have a shit ton of ghost babies and have a ghost marriage and ghostly grow old together.
Take that, you bitch witch.
Take it and eat it.
And then choke on it and die.
(/rant)
Ripper!Stefan/Elena~ Like I stated before, I’m not really impressed with Ripper!Stefan, but I do like how it’s changed the dynamic between him and Elena. There’s no more schmooping, and drooling and “You’re the best!”/”No, you’re the best!”-ing between them. It actually made their interactions interesting again, which is something they sorely needed.
Him teasing and taunting her was kind of fun, and I did like Elena wandering around drunk and him being like, “Uh, time for bed, drunky McDrunk Drunk.” Of course…the fact that even in his ripper-ness, he’s still all “Look both ways before crossing the street! Wear your seatbelt!” just proves that deep down, Stefan is still boring and not really a rule breaker.
Plus…he’s done no ripping.
Triple Sigh.
Anyway…I laughed when Elena toppled off the bleachers and he caught her, and she was all “I knew you’d catch me” and he looked at her like “Wait…this was your plan? You crazy, girl” only to get vervained in the back. Ha.
Then she saved him from Alaric’s burning car (“Bummer.” Heh.), he taunted her about her pathetic-ness of still having hope that he’ll come back, and then she staked him in the stomach.
Using the technique Damon taught her earlier in the workout room.
Ha!
Speaking of that workout scene…
Damon/Elena/HolyShit, TVD!~That pretty much sums it up, doesn’t it?
*flails*
Okay…ahem. So I loved that he called her at the beginning of the episode to warn her that Stefan was making a mess of the house and not to come over…and then when she was like “No seriously, how’s Stefan?” he didn’t want to upset her by saying “He’s eating a lot of people” instead choosing to not so artfully dodge her question by hanging up on her.
Ha! Hilarious.
Then, after NotMuchOfARipper!Stefan called her the most unclever nickname in the world, Elena called Damon over to an unspecified workout room.
As an aside…this scenario is what adult films thrived on FOR YEARS.
But I digress.
I loved Damon teasing Elena about her new found warrior skills (“Come on, Buffy!”) and Damon striking the classic Buffy With A Stake pose was hilarious. As a longtime Buffy fan, I appreciate these little things.
Usually, I get mad when Elena pulls out the whole “Do it for me, Damon” stuff, b/c it’s his weakness, he knows it’s his weakness, she knows it’s his weakness, he knows that she knows, and she knows that he knows that she knows…and she still uses it anyway. HOWEVER…I loved how she used it here, and the reason that she used it here. It wasn’t to manipulate him into behaving “right” but in an effort to make him understand just how much NotMuchOfARipper!Stefan bothered her. It worked for me, and as usual, it worked on Damon.
Of course, then he pulled her hand to his chest, and started speaking in that soft voice about his sternum and I pretty much didn’t hear what he said because I was squeeing so much it was ridiculous.
Of course, then I died when he whipped her around, pressed her back against his front, touched her stomach and then said “I’ll do whatever it is you need me to do, Elena.” in a voice made for the bedroom.
I’m pretty sure he wasn’t talking about helping her lock up his brother.
He was talking about sex, y’all.
*fans self*
Damn, TVD.
And if Elena wants ANYONE to believe that she doesn’t have feelings for Damon, she needs to stop looking at his mouth and leaning into him in the hopes that he kisses her.
Just sayin’.
Then, later, when he was giving her first aide, and she revealed that she was kind of jealous with how flirty he got with Rebekah earlier, and he teased her about being too drunk to notice, she admitted that she wasn’t that drunk, and he admitted he wasn’t that flirty and they exchanged those smoldering looks…
…only to be completely cock-blocked by Ric?
*fans self*
Damn, TVD.
This is what you call a slow burn, folks.
I’m totally along for the ride.
Nerd .5
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