"You want love that consumes you. You want passion and adventure and even a little danger."
The day has finally come, Elena Gilbert is a vampire. In a shocking season finale, which felt more like the end of Vampire Diaries forever, each characters life was changed forever. Aided along by flashbacks from Elena's sophomore year, we as an audience were allowed to understand a little bit of what drives the characters into being the people that they are now. It was in fact tragic to see how simple life once was for Elena, Matt, Tyler, Caroline and Bonnie, and how difficult it is for them to even know what normal feels like. 
Klaus has said it before and he has proved it now- he is indestructable. With Bonnie's help (shocking that she did something out of her own free will), Klaus made sure that when Alaric killed him, he would take over Tyler's body. This spell helped save not only Klaus, but every other vampire on the show (since they all descend from Klaus). The question is, did Damon have any idea what Bonnie was up towhen he left her alone with Klaus?? Probably not. Either way Klaus's death brought on so many other events in Mystic Falls it is hard to keep up. The question of whom Caroline is going to end up with remains a mystery. Caroline and Tyler delivered an outstanding performance as they professed their love to each other and than were forced to say their goodbyes. But now both Caroline's "lovers" have been smashed into one body, which might make it weird for her at times. 
In last weeks episode, Elena hit her head pretty hard when she was breaking free from Klaus's control. This resulted in her loosing consciousness and Jeremy brining her to Dr. Fell, whom diagnosed Elena with a hemorrhaging in her brain. In order to save Elena, she fed her vampire blood, ultimately leading to Elena's transistion. The writers sure pulled one on me. Whenever I thought about how Elena would turn I always thought it would be because of her love for one of the Salvatore brothers. In this case, it was her only option. She technically could have avoided the repercussions by avoiding death, but come on we are talking about TVD here.
As soon as Elijah and Rebekah realized that no one else, besides Tyler, was dying they decided to take matters into their own hands. To get their revenge for the death of their beloved brother they turned on their deal with Stefan. In order to kill Alaric, they had to kill Elena. As Matt swerved to avoid hitting Rebekah he lost control and their car dove off the bridge and into the water. The scenario was literally a play-by-play of the tragic day Elena lost her parents. As she saw flashbacks of that night, she forced Stefan to save Matt instead of her. It was an interesting angle the writers took as they showed us that history is doomed to repeat itself, and shined a light on Stefan as the hero for us, once again. Sadly, Elena's bravery resulted in death. The girl really has a tough life. First, she lives a life where she is in danger 24/7. Plus, she has also had her share of tragic life occurences. If that isn't enough she now has to re-live those events. It was just painful to watch. Although in all honesty, everything bad that happened in this episode could be blamed on Matt and Jeremy. As the two humans on the show, they tried to do go but got stuck screwing everything up.
In between all the chaos, Damon was isolated as he was fighting Alaric to the death. When it seemed like all hope was lost for Damon, he had a flashback that pertained to the conversation he just had with Elena. As fans waited for Elena to make her choice between the Salvatore brothers, I am inclined to say that I was not satisfied with her choice. Elena only picked Stefan because she "met him first," he was the one that saved her family from the drowning car. It seems like she feels like she owes him. But really, the twist came when Damon's memory revealed that on that same night as she was waiting for her parents to pick her up and was distraught about her unknown future with Matt, she ran into a sexy stranger by the name of Damon, who compelled her to forget and get everything she ever wants out of life. That memory ultimately gave Damon the strength to overcome Alaric, right before he fell to the ground dead. The thing is that Damon is not as bad as we think he is. Through everything he has kept that meeting a secret so that Elena and Stefan can be together. She is what drives him.
Ric was literally a loved character. Even in his dark vampire huntsman days, he always looked out for Elena. When he died, Damon obviously realized that meant Elena died as well. His goodbye to Jeremy was heart wrenching but only because he was such a strong father figure for the two, and his goodbye meant the loss of Elena. At this point in time, everyone was unaware that Elena was transitioning so when they all saw Alaric die, they all assumed Elena was gone for good. That obviously cannot happen but her new vampire life raises so many questions for season 4. Now that Elena is a vampire, who is she going to pick. She is clearly going to remember meeting Damon first. Is she going to enjoy being a vampire? Since she never had a baby does that mean she ended the lineage of dopplegangers??? Are the dopplegangers even necessary since Klaus is now dead? Will he ever get his body back? He will sure as hell be mad that he cannot use Elena's blood to create more of his minions. Will Tyler survive? Will Matt survive? Did Elena know Dr. Fell gave her blood and when she fell in she knew she would turn into a vampire? What about the whole town of Mystic Falls? Will they forget that Caroline and Tyler are vampires? Oh the anticipation. This is the beginning of a whole new era for The Vampire Diaries, but I am glad they finally tied it back in to the doppleganger.
- Elena: I have to let one of them go.
- Matt: Which one?
- Damon: I'm not halfway out of Virginia and Elena sells our souls to the originals.
- Damon: You know whats her call. Everything bad ever!
- Stefan: That's just in case there is not later.
- Damon: Grabbed her, gagged her, threw her in a well. I don't know anything rather than let her trust Elijah.
- Stefan: Not us brother, you and Elena.
- Damon: I want you to get everything your looking for but right now I want you to forget this happened. Can't let people know I'm in town yet.
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