"I don't know maybe this is the better version of me."
Today's episode felt like I was watching an edition of Vampire Gone Wild! I always knew the cheerleaders had pep in their step, but Elena had an overload on tonights episode of The Vampire Diaries. This is a huge change from the emotional and needy Elena that we are accustomed to seeing every Thursday night. This girl had edge, spunk, and she was just a little scary. Didn't you think so? Her level of aggressiveness and spontaneity exceeded Katherine's a bit, and that's saying something. But of course, she doesn't like being compared to Katherine, despite her desperate attempt to drop her clothes in front of her ex and her current boyfriend. Who could blame her she's living young, wild and free.
As always Stefan wanted to control the ripper that was seeping through Elena's seams. As a ripper himself, he knew exactly what would happen the minute she turned off her humanity. But I don't think he understands that at this point, Elena has got nothing. She's lost her whole family, including her brother and burnt her whole house down. Girl has nothing keeping her down anymore, no pun intended. Yet when you start seeing worry lines on Damon's face, thats when you know things are getting slightly out of control. Being a badass vampire is one thing, but abusing those privileges, especially do the people that have been by your side through everything is another. Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Yeah, I know how dumb that sounds in context but go with it.
Now, I like Caroline. I believe that in all honesty she has progressed relatively well as a character. This weeks Elena was like that friend that tells you the truth when she's drunk; no boundaries. She rejoined the cheerleading squad, per Caroline's help. Who knew Caroline still had time for the cheer squad? Than she fed on the competition, followed by a deliberate attempt at dropping Caroline on her "thick head" before revealing that this was all part of her master plan. She than hurt Caroline's mom and almost bit her. Than when she Caroline was trying to find her and help her, a girl fight escalated; a complete 360 for Elena. She threw jabs at Caroline trying to convince her to turn it off so she doesn't feel the pain of Tyler leaving her or doesn't feel guilty for thinking about Klaus. You know, as much as I hate to say it someone finally did tell blondie the truth. And if it wasn't for Stefan and Damon, she would have staked her own best friend. Isn't that exactly what Elena hated about Katherine and the vampires? How they killed the people she loved with no remorse? Well at least I thought so until Elena cleared up her behavior for me by justifying her actions with the fact that Damon tries to kill Stefan in pretty much every episode.
I have a couple of questions regarding Elena's sudden abandonment of feelings and humanity. For one, is this how you break the sire bond? It seems to work like compulsion and although Elena listened to Damon, it was like she was pretending so she could go through with her plan and feed on cheerleaders that didn't have vervain in their systems. But than later on, she ended up listening to Damon anyways. Is she just following his lead because of her own free will or does this sire bond really exist? Second of all, she has no feelings, but she does feel? She gets angry, she feels amazing, she still has feelings for Damon, she gets jealous. She told Stefan that he needs to move on because she feels nothing for him but than got jealous when he was having fun with Caroline, while denying her jealousy. She technically still has feelings, she's just pretending not too. Putting that aside, how will they turn her feelings back on and bring her back to the old Elena? Stefan still has hope for her and even possibly for the relationship that they had, by getting the cure for her.
Which was Damon's job. On his hunt for the cure or should I say the hunt for Katherine (whose gotten exceptionally good and running and staying hidden) he encounters Rebekah, who also wants the cure for herself. By the end of the episode neither of them really care to find it anymore. With Damon's help, Rebekah realized that being a vampire was better than being a mortal and getting fat and old. And obviously Damon will not be doing his job since Elena has convinced him that he actually likes her better this way. When she explained that he always wanted to be with her but was scared of what she would think about the bad things he was doing and now she didn't care cause she did them too, I almost jumped in the van with them. So of course, they run away to New York to have some fun, far from brooding and fun sucking Stefan. See, alone crazy vampire Elena scares me, but paired up with Damon I'm buckling up for the ride. This power duo is bound to be a whole other level of excitement. Go team Delena! But I must wonder who is Will and why is he so important to Damon that he referred to him as one of life's biggest mysteries. I guess we will find out next week.
So while the love birds are leaving their problems behind to go live life, Stefan has made the discovery that the empty blood banks in the hospitals surrounding Mystic Falls must be the doing of Silas. I hoped that when Rebekah told Damon she found Shane dead on the island, he would make some connection to the Shane that was brainwashing Bonnie, but than I remembered what does Damon care? As of right now Bonnie is in grave danger and no one knows it. No one is even worried about her absence from school.
Since Tyler's on the run and his mother and father are both dead, he left the house to Matt. In the care package he sent, he wrote a letter to Caroline saying that he won't ever be coming back as long as Klaus is alive. Which basically means forever, since he's you know, immortal. This might be a motive for Caroline to try and find Katherine and get the cure. Meanwhile, Klaus is playing house with werewolf Hayley. She's the reason that Katherine has the cure (making deals with the devil is her strong suit obviously) and since Katherine want's to use to cure on Klaus, he needs Hayley's help to find her. This story line also allowed us to see Klaus get nakey nakey and do some dirty for the first time ever! About time!! We've seen the intensity of vampire sex, now its time for some hybrid-werewolf sex. I'm going to assume this is happening sans the emotions since Klaus still wants to be with Caroline and Hayley has her eye out for Tyler. She also wants to find her family and Klaus happens to know a werewolf brood that was located in Louisiana that had the same identical birthmark as Hayley. Obviously, this family will play a role in the new spin off show- The Originals, which Klaus and Hayler are both going to be a part of. So than maybe they will actually become a real couple. Who knows?
Memorable Quotes
- Stefan: We're going to loose her Damon.
- Stefan: Her humanity is off. She's basically numb to everything that makes her who she is.
- Damon: She's a vampire.
- Damon: Being undead gets you down? Voila! Vampire prozac.
- Damon: I know its controversial Stefan but people actually like to have fun.
- Damon: I can't believe your making me say this. Show some restraint.
- Damon: I just made a list called things you suck at.
- Elena: As soon as the queen backs off everything will be fine.
- Rebekah: You're like Sherlock Holmes with brain damage.
- Stefan: When in doubt manipulate people with sex. You know thats the same trick Katherine used to pool.
- Elena: Look at you, your whole world revolves around me. Maybe your the one who needs to turn it all off.
- Stefan: They'll drink all the booze and get bored or Damon will come home and kill all of them.
- Damon: Life sucks when your ordinary.
- Damon: Under any other circumstance this would be a major turn on.
- Stefan: Even when I was at my worst Elena didn't give up on me, so we can't give up on her.
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