"One of the highlights of my transition... remembering everything you compelled me to forget."
Everyone in Mystic Falls is not taking Elena's transition very well. Poor old Matt seems to be the center of attention in this whole situation, well at least for Damon who tries to kill him every chance he gets. His reaction might be a little impulsive, but isn't that the Damon we all know and love? Stefan can't seem to accept the fact that he let Elena die. So basically everyone is looking for a solution to fix this mistake, especially Bonnie.
To save Elena, Bonnie tries to kill herself in order to reach her on the other side and pull her back from the dead. "That's never happened in the history of vampirism," said Damon and boy was he right. Before I even get to the whole Gramz thing, I just want to make this clear. After so many centuries of people turning into vampires and dying because of the consequences, there is no way that Elena could be an exception to the rule! And if the writers were to go in this direction, I would stop watching. But they didn't so all is well. Whats really irritating how Bonnie's character is used as the only source of answers for anything. Someone's dead? revive them. Someone's missing? Find them. Someone's sick? Heal them. She's a witch but that doesn't mean she's God. Everytime something goes wrong Bonnie is chanting away, nose bleed in tow while Jeremy freaks out. This has really got to end because I don't believe for a second that there won't be very dear and near consequences for messing with the universe's plan. Also Bonnie deserves another witch partner in crime. The ratio of vampires to witches is pretty slim. Either way Bonnie's attempt at brining Elena back from the dead was unsuccessful and she a very severe warning from Gramz that messing with this type of magic was dark and dangerous. Duh, I don't think the spirits are really fond of Bonnie at this point.
But the use and abuse of witch Bonnie doesn't stop there. When she is unsuccesful with Elena, Klaus (whose in Tyler's body) threatens to rip Tylers heart out and jump into another human if Bonnie doesn't reverse the spell. This of course means more tapping into the dark magic for Bonnie. Ultimately, with no choice but to perform the spell and save Klaus and Tyler, Bonnie ends up hurting her Gramz on the other side. I'm not really sure how stuff on the other side works, I mean Gramz was dead and now they hurt her over there? Whatever it was bad.Sadly to say we won't be seeing anymore of Klaus in Tylers body, which is unfortunate because it was so bloody incredible to watch Tyler throw down little phrases like "love" while tricking Caroline into having vampire sex with him.Which leads into the revenge of the council on all the vampires in Mystic Falls. Obviously, Alaric outed them all and now a plan to kill all the vampires has been put into action, lead by Pastor Young, whom everyone seems to know, yet we've never met. This isn't anything new from the writers of TVD though, we just have to pretend and imagine when he throws down phrases like "you babysat my children" to Elena that we've known him all our life. This spin on the show is pretty intense if you ask me. Previously, the vampires have only dealt with authority, like police exposing them, or other vampire's that were stronger than them. Than there was hybrid Klaus. But now a fight between a religious figure kind of sets the scene up as a fight between God and the Devil, or if you're a non-believer, Good and Evil.
Since I sort of drifted off the Elena transisitioning trail, lets bring it back a bit. Elena, unable to feed, is given a choice, until her, Stefan and Rebekah are all locked up the vervaine infested stables of Pastor Young's little farm house. As the clock ticks, Elena looks paler and paler, ultimately looking as if she's on her last breath. In a heartwarming speech through the walls of the "prison", Rebekah actually starts feeling some remorse for attempting to kill Elena. That's when she gears up a plan to help Elena feed on one of the security guards. As Elena feeds on the blood, joy, bliss and power courses through her body and I feel a little squeamish watching this. But hey, mission accomplished.
Which leads me into my favorite topic ever, relationships. Klaus was clearly a jerk for saving Caroline over his sister in the wreckage that got Rebekah imprisoned by the council. His reasoning is valid, "you're an original, you can't be killed." Yet, that doesn't mean she wants to stay locked up in a cellar rotting while you save the other blonde that you have some fond desire for. Rude. This fight than escalted when Klaus re-entered his own body and was icing the last remains of Elena's blood to make more hybrids. Rebekah keeps trying and trying to make her and Klaus a family, after all that's all she has left, but he just pushes her further and further away, eventually snapping her neck after stating he really doesn't give a crap about her. Really touching scene.
Team Damon vs. Team Stefan. Well its obvious isn't it? A different type of love consumes both of the couples, but if Elena has eternity whats the rush? Stefan and Elena are sweet and caring and so very boring. Sitting on the roof contemplating "toghether forever" while the sun rises was great, but it had no passion. There was nothing exciting, nothing to actually make me think, "hey maybe they are in love." None of that. Even her speech about how she made the right choice in going back for him the night she died on the bridge was the best one she ever made. I just can't believe it. And you know why? Because scenes like the intense one between Damon and Elena happen. She remembers meeting him first. She remembers him telling her that he loves her but she belongs with Stefan. when she ask's if he was at the bridge last night and not Stefan, Damon replies "I would have saved you, in a heart beat no questions asked." Its obvious Elena wants to be treated like an individual that has decisions and Stefan respects that. Damon doesn't but only because he loves her so much and as someone who didn't have a choice in living (mainly because Stefan made him transistion) he never wanted that for Elena. On the surface, it makes Damon look like a jerk, but in reality, his motives are more raw than anyone could ever imagine. Stefan has this whole concept of free will, even if it will lead to disastrous things. Damon just acts, without thinking, but using his heart (that he always mentions doesn't exist.) Which one would you want, someone who lets you make your own bad decisions or someone who cares so much they do what's best for you regardless of who it hurts?? Or maybe both??
Lastly, TVD never leaves the scene of a crime without a cliffhanger and this time it surrounded the movement led by council member Pastor Young. While he has all of his followers together, cause it looks like they are all possessed or something he speaks about him being chosen to lead the movement and pretty soon they will be able to pass through the gates and reuinite in eternity. Than in a creepy manner he startes "We are the beginning" and blows the place up. What does this even mean? What is the beginning? Why was there such an emphasis placed on them passing out the vervain? How are they going to fight the vampires if they are dead? When he says meet in eternity, does he mean they are going to come back in different form and fight this battle? I have this strange feeling we are moving into the zone of zombies and I'm not sure how I feel about that. I guess we'll have to see.
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