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The Vampire Diaries- MEET SILAS

The producers and directors of TVD have finally cast the badass that has taken Mystic Falls into his reign. If you thought Klaus was scary, get a load of Silas. (Actually, to be quite frank Klaus is anything but scary. He's gorgeous and British.)

Scott Parks, not to be confused with Adam Parks, has been confirmed for the role by the CW. While, we will finally see the man unmasked, that doesn't mean he'll stop using his 'let me take your body' transforming skills. I'm sure pretending to be Elena or Caroline will be help him access the curse.

I also wonder, how the gang will meet Silas. Will they even know its him or will he try to slither into their lives undetected? With everyone on the look out for this man, I'm pretty sure welcoming a new comer into the tight knit circle of vampires, witches, werewolves, hybrids and a human wont be on the agenda.

What do you think? Does Silas look as scary as he's made out to be? Truthfully, Parks has me convinced that he's a geeky computer guy. Even Damon looks more frightening than he does. But I won't ride him off just yet. Maybe Parks, just like Silas, is a chameleon in disguise.

Fall 2014 Potential Pilots- CW, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX

I promised to write down a little breakdown of what we can see starting Fall for the pilots, as I was a little thrown off that The CW was turning into Sci-Fi on prime time. 

THE CW

• The 100
•  Directed by Bharat Nalluri (Emily Owens M.D) so based on the director, the show already has a 50/50 shot at surviving (you know since Emily Owens flopped.)
• Starring: Eliza Taylor (Neighbors,) Eli Goree (Emily Owens, M.D.), Henry Ian Cusick (Lost), Marie Avgeropoulos (Cult), Paige Turco (Person of Interest), Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy), Kelly Hu (Arrow), Thomas McDonell (Suburgatory), Christopher Larkin
• The show is based on a book by Kass Morgan (which usually means the show will do well) in this post-apocalyptic thriller. Basically, 97 years ago a spaceship left the earth with 100 people, actually juvenile delinquints, back to earth in an attempt to re-colonize after a nuclear war emerged. Already, I can see how this could be interesting and potentially an idea that hasn't hit the TV waves yet. The CW has good track records with supernatural shows and this one looks promising, especially when the pilot was written by a writer from the series Chuck.
• Blink
• Michael Weston (House), Johnny Simmons (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), Elizabeth Marvel (Person of Interest)
• Not much said yet about the drama, except that it will be funny and quirky. One the of family members ends up in a coma-like state where he can hear and see everything. Alright, not seeing the humor after that short description nor am I finding coma's funny. I mean this has happened in shows before, people wondering if the person in a coma can hear them or whatever? How can this be a one hour enticing drama? I doubt the success of this one completely. 
• Company Town
•  Gage Golightly (Teen Wolf), Stella Maeve (Golden Boy), Maya Kazan, Merle Dandridge (Sons of Anarchy), Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie), Dondre Whitfield (The Event),
• A scandal erupts at a naval base and two best friends are suddenly split apart and kept apart because of the military divide on two different sides of town. Alright I see how the military and navy can make a show and how this could create some tension for a couple of episodes, but it needs to be backed up with a very strong storyline.
• The Originals
• I don't think I have to elaborate. Vampire Diaries spin off following the likes of the originals Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah when they return to New Orleans and run into Klaus's protege Marcel. Could either be a huge hit or a huge miss, depending on what fans expect from the producers. 
• Oxygen
• Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights), Matt Lanter (90210), Malese Jow (The Vampire Diaries), Titus Makin Jr. (Glee), Grey Damon (The Secret Circle), Natalie Hall (Pretty Little Liars), Chelsea Gilligan, Greg Finley (The Secret Life of the American Teenager), guest star/recurring Maggie Elizabeth Jones (Ben and Kate)
• Great cast. A lot of recycled CW cast members from Cancelled shows and series ended shows. Its kind of a romance love story like Twilight only between a mortal and an alien, who comes to earth with eight other aliens. The other aliens who came to earth previously have all been imprisoned. I'm assuming amongst the love story these nine aliens referred to as The Orion 9, will do everything to free their fellow alien friends. Yeah, aliens. Not digging it.
• Reign
• Adelaide Kane (Neighbours), Toby Regbo, Celina Sinden, Jenessa Grant, Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables), Anna Popplewell (The Chronicles of Narnia), Rossif Sutherland
• Well, the cast isn't exciting and neither is this plot line. It follows Mary Queen of Scots arriving to France as a 15-year-old, with her ladies in waiting and has something to do with the history, sexual intrigue, bad and good people. Basically a younger version of the movie Elizabeth. Yet, in a time where Downton Abbey on PBS is actually getting a lot of viewers, maybe this is the CW's attempt at a "classical piece" with a young twist. 
• The Selection
• Anthony Head (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Louise Lombard (CSI), Sean Patrick Thomas (Save the Last Dance), Peta Sergeant, 
• 300 years in the future, and based on a book, a poor young girl is chosen by a lottery to be in a competition to be a queen of war-torn territory. I don't know about you but it sounds like Hunger Games and what really irritates me is repetition. Sure, TVD sounded like Twilight and it was better and really successful, but this, this could go either of both ways. The cast is also mediocre.
• The Tomorrow People
• Peyton List (Mad Men), Luke Mitchell (Home and Away), Robbie Amell (Revenge), Mark Pellegrino (Lost)
• Based on a 1970's UK series, it brings together 7 people with superhuman powers to fight evil. Yep, I have absolutely nothing to say. 

The rest of this list only consists of pilot drama's I think will probably be successful on prime time. I don't mention all of them cause some of them are just really stupid. I also only talk abut drama's and not the comedy, although it looks like comedy will be very prominent next fall. 

FOX

• Boomerang
• Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives), Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace), Michael Stahl-David (My Generation), Patrick Heusinger (Royal Pains), Rosa Salazar (Parenthood)
• Really good lineup and the plot even in just a few short words is really catchy. It follows the daily life of people, a family business. The business? Assassins for the U.S goverment. Now who doesn't want to watch that?? 

• Delirium
• Emma Roberts (Scream 4), Billy Campbell (The Killing), Daren Kagasoff (Secret Life of the American Teenager), Corey Reynolds (The Closer), Gregg Sulkin (Pretty Little Liars), Jeanine Mason (Bunheads), Michael Michele (ER), Melinda McGraw (Men of a Certain Age)
• Okay, this I know will be good just because its a best selling book and it has the potential of PLL. Although I'm not quite sure if Fox is the best home for the drama, it'll definitely bring them a younger audience and keep them in the competition with ABC Family. I must say I'm excited. The plot focuses on love being illegal, but can be eradicated with a procedure. With 95 days leading up to her procedure, the main character falls in love. What this has is potential, a strong story and the ability to make it last for consecutive seasons. 

• The List
• Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl), Tamsin Egerton (Camelot), Hilarie Burton (White Collar, One Tree Hill)
• Only because anything with P.Sawyer from One Tree Hill is totally worth it in my book.When members of the Federal Witness Security Program start getting killed, US marshal leads a case to find who stole the file. A mystery? All aboard the mystery express!

• Sleepy Hollow
• Orlando Jones (MADtv), Katia Winter (Dexter), Nicole Beharie (The Good Wife), Tom Mison (Parade’s End), guest star John Cho (Go On)
• The plot description is literally one sentence;A modern-day supernatural thriller based on the legend of the titular Westchester Country, N.Y. town. Yes I do realize its supernatural, but come on sleepy hollow. It has no choice but to be promising and enticing, right? Original is a horror directed by Tim Burton. I doubt someone would create it if they weren't going to do it justice.

NBC

• After Hours
•  Jill Flint (Royal Pains), Brigid Brannagh (Army Wives), Ken Leung (Lost), Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under), Brendan Fehr (Roswell) and Jeananne Goossen (Alcatraz)
• Follows a team of doctors and nurses working the graveyard shift in the ER at San Antonio Medical Center. So I'm going to go with a mix of E.R, Grey's and Desperate Housewives. I'd say its golden. Anything to do with doctors and nurses and a splash of drama or murder mystery is solid for lie 8 seasons.

• Believe
• Kyle MacLachlan (Desperate Housewives), Johnny Sequoyah, Jake McLaughlin (Savages), Delroy Lindo (The Chicago Code), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time), Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil), Arian Moayed (The Following
• Follows an unlikely relationship between a gifted young girl and a man sprung from prison who has been tasked with protecting her from the evil elements that hunt her power. Alright the casting is great, the writers (J.J Abrams Lost/ Alcatraz) are pretty good, but you know it'll be heavily serialized. With J.J its always either a hit or a miss, nothing in between. This already has supernatural written all over it and what powers could she have? But see, it already has me wondering. 

• The Blacklist
• James Spader (The Office), Megan Boone (Law & Order: LA), Ryan Eggold (90210), Diego Klattenhoff (Homeland), Harry Lennix (Dollhouse)
• The world’s most wanted criminal suddenly turns himself in and offers to give up anyone he’s ever worked with. The catch: He’ll only work with a new FBI agent, one with whom he has no known connection. Alright, so he knows everyone in the world, I'm guessing and this will be a thriller in some twisted but totally worth the watch way. I'm getting hooked. As long as they can keep all the characters in check without weaving the web too far.

• I Am Victor
• John Stamos (The New Normal, Glee), Megan Dodds (CSI:NY), Matthew Lillard (Scream), Terry Kinney (Oz), Lorenza Izzo (Hemlock Grove), McKaley Miller (Hart of Dixie), Josh Zuckerman (90210)
• As much as I want to be game for anything Uncle Jessie, I just can't do this really sad pilot description. Really, a show about a divorce lawyer who has a unique view of relationships? What X-ray vision??

• Wonderland
• No cast just yet.
• The project will use Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel as a point of origin, but will be built around a new character named Clara. Alice will have assumed the role of Wonderland’s evil queen, and thus will be the woman Clara wages war against. I'm intrigued. Alice the little blonde-y becomes evil and everything breaks loose. Definitely an attempt to catch up to Once Upon A Time and I see the success already.

ABC

• Big Thunder
• Ed MacLiam (EastEnders), Pierce Gagnon (One Tree Hill), Ana De La Reguera (Eastbound & Down), Zahn McClarnon, Alex Hassell, Alex Meraz, Ruth Bradley, Spencer Locke
• Sold because of Pierce Gagnon, but in all honestly I think this plot sounds interesting and a little different than everything we've seen thus far.A late 19th century New York doctor and his family relocate to a frontier mining town run by a powerful, but mysterious tycoon. Unfortunately, they quickly realize that not everything in the titular city is as it seems. (Inspired by the Disney Parks ride Thunder Mountain Railroad.) Plus Melissa Rosenberg has been writing and although she's got a bad rep cause of Twilight, I'll stick up for her. 

• Gothica
• Raza Jaffrey (Smash), Chris Egan (Kings), Tom Ellis (Merlin), Janet Montgomery (Jersey Girl), Tracie Thoms (Cold Case), Emma Booth (Underbelly), Seth Gabel (Fringe), Melissa George (Hunted, Alias)
• A modern-day Gothic soap that weaves together the mythologies of Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray, among others. Honestly, modern and gothic do not go well together. This sounds disastrous.

• Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
• Sophie Lowe, Peter Gadiot, Michael Socha (the UK’s Being Human), Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks)
• The presentation/potential spin-off features Wonderland both post- and pre-curse. Wait what? More Once Upon A Time? Is ABC merging with NBC on this one? Like I said when to much is overdone, it becomes boring and therefore less viewers tune in.

• The Returned
• Omar Epps (House), Kurtwood Smith (That ’70s Show), Devin Kelley (Covert Affairs), Frances Fisher, Samaire Armstrong (The Mentalist)
• The potential series asks the provocative question, “What happens when the people you have mourned and buried suddenly appear on your doorstep as if not a day’s gone by? The lives of the people of Arcadia are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return.” I say yes only cause that question really made my brain churn and I started imagining and I got tweaked out. So yes, go for it ABC. Give it a whirl!
• WestSide
• Jennifer Beals (The L Word), Odette Annable (House), Luke Bracey (Home and Away), Bruce Greenwood (The River), Michael Graziadei (The Young and the Restless), Lincoln Lewis (Home and Away), Dean Winters (30 Rock)
• The Romeo and Juliet-esque soap focuses on two rival families living in “California’s most seductive ‘city,’” and the forbidden and dangerous romance that emerges between them. All I can say is, I love me some California and some Romeo and Juliet. 

CBS

• The Ordained
• Nestor Serrano (Blue Bloods, Dexter), Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire), Jorge Garcia (Lost), Audra McDonald (Private Practice), Emmanuelle Chriqui (The Mentalist), Sam Neill (Alcatraz), Hope Davis (In Treatment)
• The son of a Kennedy-esque family leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Awesome cast lineup and the storyline seems fresh and promising. Sold.

I used the help of http://tvline.com/2013/01/24/pilot-season-abc-cbs-cw-fox-nbc-2013-2014/4/ for all of this information. Give credit where its due, I just put in my two cents!!! 

What's Cancelled and What's Renewed? Fall 2013/2014 Season!

Its that dreaded time again. Spring is a brewing and everyone's excited to play, yet TV stations must make the decisions of who shall stay and who shall go.

The CW's 90210 has already been terminated, which means that this is its fifth and final season. Look the writers and producers really got away with a lot on this show. Ratings had fallen, fans tuned out, but there is something really magical about that zip code that entices people. I wouldn't call this show serialized, because you can definitely tune in and out and still understand whats going on, which is mainly why I think it survived for so long, but its safe to say the run is over. Goodbye Naomi and gang!

Everyone can catch their breath and uncross their fingers though. The Vampire Diaries are renewed for another season! Obviously. With TVD also comes Supernatural, which I'm not too concerned about because I never saw it to be a good show to begin with. Also on this list How I Met Your Mother (because we cannot get enough of Barney, ever), The Following (unlike The Cult), and Hawaii 5-0.

A lot of other shows are on the fence. Revenge is one of the shows that I'm personally concerned about because of its complicated plot line involving the Initiative and the fact that its episodes have been spread so thinly this past season, making it even harder to keep up with the heavily serialized show. It seems that its much easier for stations to keep the non-serialized shows, which bothers me because serialized shows are the meat of everything. Sure, those half hour shows that take up time slots and let you laugh after a long day mindlessly are needed, but so are the shows with exceptionally good writing and complicated plotlines. Revenge is like Lost, only simpler. Although it scored a mere 1.5 in the 18-49 category, its an ABC produced show that will likely get picked up for season 3. Let me just point out how finicky the prime time system is. Last week's episode of Revenge drew in 6.8 million viewers. Honestly, I call that a good day for TV, I don't know about you. Shows, Once Upon A Time, Nikita, Chicago Fire and Nashville are all looking at renewals as well.

The Carrie Diaries and Beauty and the Beast are half and half just because its unsure if The CW will be able to fill the slots with anything, should I say "better." Of course, the CW can count on the success of their new show The Originals, which is an almost guaranteed win, unless the show backfires miserably which I doubt. I think The Carrie Diaries started off as something that could have become really good, and failed to live up to the noise and fame of "Sex and the City" because of the childish writing.


What I'm really upset about is Red Widow, which has gotten just rotten reviews and a weak viewership. I personally am really backing the show just because i think it has a great deal of potential. The first few episodes were rocky, but I don't think that its a horrible show. Unfortunately, with prime time TV its all about the numbers, the viewership and the money you can get for ads, which is what Red Widow failed to deliver. I don't want to give up all my hope yet, but I think that its a done deal when the network only order 8 episodes.

Same goes to Cult, which I predicted would fail miserably after its low scoring (and kind of pathetic) series premiere. With a pretty legit cast, the shows writing was under-developed, especially competing with The Following, which is Fox's leading show. Both had similar plotlines, yet Cult was aimed at a younger demographic, who just didn't find it appealing. After getting the day and time switched from Tuesday to Friday, it was pretty much over at episode two. Same goes for Smash, whose excessive advertising didn't do them much justice. Hart of Dixie will probably saying adios as well, as the country strong show just doesn't have what it takes to compete at the prime time level.

Well, here's what "better" might include. The CW is turning into a channel dedicated to well, the paranormal/ supernatural. Its obvious I am the number one fan of TVD. I'm super excited for The Originals. But when one channel premieres a whole fall lineup of shows that will be featuring the super-normal alien or nuclear war delinquents, cut me out. I don't know whose attention these people are trying to get but it isn't mine. That being said, check back soon for a list of all that's to premiere for the Fall 2013/2014 season. 

Red Widow- The Captive

"Whatever you have to do. Whomever you had to do it to."

At first I found the storyline of Marta's young daughter kidnapped for ransom kind of predictable and totally worthless. I thought it would be Schiller to the rescue, Marta falls in love and that whole dynamic of being stuck in a "bratva" would be over. Yet, I was pleasantly surprised to see the characters grow and expand in a way I didn't even think about.

Natalie was ditching school and acting weird all because she felt like she was alone. No one would tell her the truth about what was going on, so she decided to try and help her brother out by throwing some graffiti on a brick wall with the killers shoe on it. Alright, not the smartest move but she is only like 15, I'll let it go. Poor girl couldn't expect to be kidnapped, especially not by her uncle Mike. Of course the pieces of the puzzle fit together perfectly. Mike lost his wife and owes a whole lot of money to some really bad people. He can't get any shipments, Marta fired him and he's addicted to the white stuff. What better way of getting some free cash than by kidnapping your god daughter. Of course, knowing her mother is completely loaded after the passing of your best friend and that she would do anything for her daughter. Totally avoiding the fact that she is a Petrov and working with Schiller.

What was interesting is that Natalie stood up for Mike and protected him, despite what he did to her, because he was the only one that was truthful with her. Well, up until he told her that Schiller killed her father. This of course, is probably completely false, but it does lead to an interesting story arc. Natalie now knows her mother is doing a lot of stuff to protect the family and clean up her fathers mess. Seeing the two of them bond after being reunited was really touching and some great writing. There is nothing stronger than a mothers love. While Marta was suppose to do a drive through of the boats through the waters to see how long the shipment of Alexandra's guns would come in, she was sidetracked by an amber alert, technically. This mean that Schiller paid her a visit at home and Natalie heard her mother confronting Schiller about "working for him." Lets just see how that one will play out. I still think that the shoe has to do something with Marta father and his body guard. 

Well while Marta couldn't do a test drive with her boats, she trusted Evan to do it for her. I don't know why people keep trusting him but they do. He was than informed by Gabriel that this was where the packages were hidden. So now Evan has all of Schiller's missing coke, he's on the boat with Schiller's employee, whose trying to strike him a deal to get into the coke selling business. I don't know about you, but I already sense trouble for everyone involved, especially Marta. Involving the children in drug matters is probably the biggest mistake one can make.

I don't understand why the grandfather is allowing Gabriel to be involved in "bratva" matters, but this is an obvious parenting failure for Marta, whose trying to keep her family out of the drug business. I don't blame her, I just don't want Gabriel to go down that road. Especially seeing how your grandfather and uncle beat down on someone who was clearly a family member at one point. Its sickening to teacha young boy that and Marta is clearly not doing a good job, since her father wants her to strike up a deal with Alexandra Dechenko and her family and ultimately take down Schiller. It doesn't seem like thats going to happen. My prediction; Marta now knows how powerful Schiller is. She will hopefully ask him to track down her husbands killer based on Boris's memories. That will lead to her papa and his mob, which will than cause turmoil for the whole family. That including the fact that Evan is sleeping with his father girlfriend, who honestly gets treated like trash on the show (not that she comes off any different.) 


Two things I enjoyed within this episode. Kat was finally spending quality time with her husband, even if it is to tell him she has the hots for agent Ramos. And agent Ramos was nowhere to be seen and hopefully minding his own business dealing with his crack headed wife. Ultimately though, if the Petrov-Walraven family comes into war, and the Deschenko, Schiller and Ramos families are involved, I am strapping myself in for the ride. Definitely potential for this show, yet I don't think that a break is needed just yet as the writers are still trying to establish themselves as a serial, especially when week to week the numbers keep falling. This week their down to measly 1.0 for 18-49. Could it possibly be that too many good things are on Sunday nights? Would a different day work better for the crime-thriller? 

Revenge- Masquerade

"May your ornate facades lead you to intrigue."

Six long weeks have passed on Revenge and Emily's patience is at its peak as she plans out just the right moment to strike her blows. Although, a Halloween episode in the beginning of April is a bit of bad writing if you ask me, I'm always a fan of masquerade parties, especially one thrown by Queen Victoria Grayson. 

Aiden and Emily continue their mission to bring down the initiative, with the hopes of finding Padma. In order to get Trask to come out of hiding, Aiden risks his job position at Grayson Global. His risky business looses Trask a lot of money and Daniel loses the investment of the initiative. That's one way to get them off your back.  Aiden is than able to follow Trask back to the lair, where he finds that Padma was killed the morning of. Seems quite hard to believe that people as smart as the initiative, who clearly anticipate things before they happen, fail to have any kind of security or back up with them. All situations flow together as Daniel learns that this in fact was the best move his company could make revealing that his mother is the one behind the threatening photographs against Emily. He also becomes curious about Aiden's past, which apparently if his father's past doings are revealed could cause some real trouble. One thing is certain; Aiden has been looking to blame and torture someone for his sisters death and killing Trask with his bare hands was the icing on the cake. He can proudly say he avenged his sisters death. 


Nolan has been loosing it and getting nearly zero to no sleep in his attempt to find Padma by trying to track down the Falcon. He gets a little distraction thrown his way when Jack asks for his help to take down Conrad Grayson at his gubernatorial meeting. Unfortunately things don't go Nolan's way at all. His search for Padma hits a dead end (no pun intended) and in a odd twist of events, he is actually suspected for the death of Padma. His inability to use the governor's meeting as an alibi for his whereabouts at that time in the day also don't serve in his favor. I'm actually very upset at how slowly Emily, Aiden and Nolan progressed at saving Padma. Nolan is the one person on the show that deserves a bit of happiness and that was torn right from him, in front of his eyes. There was nothing he could do about it. He stayed positive, believed, hoped and than bam, just like that she's just dead. Its really something that should be mourned. Too many people are dying in this attempt to gain revenge and set the record straight about David Clarke. 



Emily has gotten into Daniels good graces again, making page six of The Post. You know, going public makes it official. This brings her one step closer to Victoria and one step further from Aiden. But what does she really want to do to Victoria? We're in a couple of seasons now and killing her is clearly not an option. How much can we make her suffer? When will she reach the level of maximum happiness with her need to avenge her fathers death? I feel that hurting Daniel or Charlotte would do more damage than anything else. 

In the relationship corner, Emily must play on a couple of fronts. While she's clearly in love with Aiden, she has to keep up this love facade with Daniel that leaves Aiden completely disgusted. Who could blame the guy? Yet, he did know what he was signing up for in the beginning. Emily is also playing her cards against Victoria by using her son against her. Not Daniel, but the one she gave up when she was 16 and apparently raped by her mother's boyfriend. Conrad thinks that this threat comes directly from the son in an attempt to ruin his campaign. Boy, are these people clueless. The answers are lying right in front of them. Victoria is completely paranoid at the masquerade ball where she is to find the masked intruder with the 12 black rose. Morbid right? Dead love and all that. One might also call it good taste; the holiday spirit if you will.

Well the plan was executed properly. Victoria faints at the mere sight of a man with the rose who is than traded off with Aiden taking his place. But who is the masked man? Can it really be the son? Has Emily tracked him down? She had more than enough time to do so in the six weeks that have elapsed since she last found out about him. But, we learn that Victoria had given the boy to a convent where she asked the sister never to tell the boy who his mother was and never to tell her what he turned out to be. That means it would be physically impossible for Emily to track down the kid, or should I say man. She would need Victoria to lead her to a place that would present that opportunity. Well Victoria did. She came to the orphanage and Emily followed her, posing as a woman who was pregnant and didn't know what to do. My guess is that if that scene had any meaning its to lead up to Emily's revelation of who the son is. But why does it matter? What role will he be able to play in Victoria's demise?

Some other questions that I was pondering through the episode. What will the Falcon help Emily and Nolan do? What comes after the initiative? How does Jack plan to take down Conrad and how is asking Ashley to join him in ruining Conrad a smart move? I know Jack hasn't been in the loop and revenge isn't his expertise, but really Ashley? The Grayson's tell her jump and she says how high? Despite all the revenge she might want to get for the way they treat her, she has it to good to be the mole. She's going to sell Jack out asap. And if she doesn't well, we found Jack's new love interest. I'm sure Amanda would be thrilled. What does Emily have in store for Victoria? Why is Charlotte hitting people and why are people calling Amanda a druggie? Especially random people at a masquerade ball? As intriguing as the show is, cutting out a huge chunk of the plot line leaves so much room for development, that I can't foresee where we're sailing to next. I just know it'll be dark and twisted; Emily Thorne style. Unfortunately, we must wait till April 28 to find out what happens next. The writers always keep us guessing. 

Memorable Quotes

• Emily: All to often we mask truth in our deface, concealing ourselves in fear of loosing the ones we love. Prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us confront from pain and sadness, or use it to repel a truth to devastating to accept. 
• Nolan: I have to believe it. Even if every alley I run down is a dead end.
• Daniel: You know I'd never risk Emily's life, no matter how much I want her by my side.
• Emily: I wouldn't strike me off your dance card just yet.
• Ashley: Wear a tie. People want to be able to relate to you, not feel like their actually related to you.
• Trask: We don't threaten in 2 dimensions, we act in 3. 
• Charlotte: A symbol of dying love seems more disturbing than thoughtful.
• Daniel: Feel free to use one for each of your two faces.

The Vampire Diaries- American Gothic

"I think we just found Katherine."

If its one thing the Salvatore's cant do, its take a hint. How many times must Elena push them away for them to finally just give up? I get it, being persistent may hopefully help Elena turn her humanity on. But in the meantime there are going to be many casualties. I'm not complaining cause the more the brothers bond over Elena's "problem" the snarkier their comments get toward each other. The love just keeps bursting. Unfortunately, the thing with Elena is that she isn't blind to just how far away from herself she's really gone. She enjoys being the "bad bitch." Yet, this episode compared that she doesn't stand a chance next to Katerina.

Katherine's presence makes any episode worth watching because Katherine is brilliant. After 500 years of running, you kind of have to be, but still she plays rough. She found herself a small little town and compelled all the people in it to allow her to feed on them. She even compelled one of the towns folk to hold onto the cure for her. The trick that the people had no idea who Katherine was, if they weren't looking directly at her was very crafty. When Rebekah spoke, the townsfolk had no idea who Katherine was. When they saw Elena they remembered everything. But Katherine hasn't changed much anyways. Her disregard for any living or dead creature beyond herself is still present. She's up to her old manipulation. She's using Elijah, well rather his feelings for her, to have him bargain with Klaus. She has the cure only because its her guarantee at finally bargaining a deal with Klaus to set her free. I'm not sure why she's still so scared of Klaus. He hasn't been on her case since like season 2. He has much bigger things to worry about at this point. If she had known he needed the curse to survive though, she wouldn't have let Elijah just walk away with it. At this point no one needs the cure more than Klaus, whose being sabotaged by Silas. 

It was really interesting to see the levels of hierarchy that played within the trio this week. Elena is obviously lowest on the chain. She may be a bad ass without her humanity, but compared to the other two, she was like a rabbit amongst tigers. She couldn't even fool Elijah into thinking she's Katherine because she lacks that Petrova spunk. Katherine is bigger, better and stronger than Elena, but not when Elena has her sidekick, Rebekah, an original. When it comes to brains though, Katherine has each and every one of her steps planned out. I was actually quite shocked to see how quickly Rebekah took the "cure." Despite how horrible being human is made out to be, she really just wants to live a plain Jane lifestyle. It didn't occur to her that the cure could have been fake or spiked, she just went for it. I was also surprised by Elijah and his dedication to finding the Katerina he fell in love with. So many years later and he still has hope that he could flip her switch back on.  It might have worked though because by the end, it really seemed like she turned a new leaf by giving Elijah the cure and letting him do with it as he pleased.  Will he give it to his sister, who really wants to be mortal, or return it to Klaus and ask for Katherine's freedom? He would be stupid to trust the broad, no matter how reformed she says she is.

While Katherine was doing some soul searching and trying to make amends with the people she "loves," Elena was just downright over it. She made it clear that she wasn't standing for any of this feelings crap, and she wasn't about to turn her humanity back on. This carefree life has gotten the best of her. Even Elijah's speech about compassion couldn't convince her. Damon won't stop fighting because he just want's Elena to feel again and hopefully feel for him. Stefan won't stop fighting because he feels personally responsible. Yet after repeating history time and time again, Stefan has the right idea of just letting it all go and living life up. What's the point of all their hard work when it just goes un-appreciated? Skip that Mystic Falls mumbo jumbo and go travel the world. At this point how to you go back to pretending none of this happened? That Elena didn't snap your neck in New York, that she didn't toy with your feelings, that she didn't steal your car, that she didn't kill people just for the fun of it. Yeah I'm talking to you Damon. 

Silas is one scary and powerful creature. With the ability to become anything and anybody, while getting into people's minds is cryptic. He had Klaus convinced that a piece of the white oak ash was stuck in his body and was killing him slowly. From the promo's I had hoped that Klaus was shirtless for a much naughtier reason and Caroline wasn't trying to teach him a lesson, but tit for tat. Silas also took over Caroline's body (or was it just a hallucination) to scare Klaus into doing what he wanted, which leaves us wondering how else can he manipulate the rest of the gang? Caroline (the real one) came to Klaus's aid and  got his mind off of the pain, which ending up being all in his head. Their heated argument and the tension between those two. Whew is it hot in here? I longed for Klaus to just grab her and kiss her, but i'll be patient. She's still trying to bargain for Tyler's freedom. Clearly, its not an easy thing to do. If Caroline (whom Klaus loves) can't seem to convince him, I don't see how Elijah could. Except for the fact that Elijah has the cure, which is the one thing keeping Klaus safe from Silas. Although if Silas were to kill Klaus, everyone he turned would also die with him. Silas would than do his spell that destroys the other world and everyone would come back to life. Doesn't it all come full circle? Yes, I assume there is a catch.

All in all, the episode was a nice little reunion. The cure is like a hot potato, bouncing from one person to the next. Each person has motives and ulterior motives for taking/ giving up the cure but its ultimate destination; Klaus. They also have so sides to them, you could literally peel them back like an onion to uncover new personality traits. The plot with Bonnie was left untouched. For all we know she's sitting at home with her father clueless about anything that's happening.  Elena cannot be saved, although the episode implied that the brother's wont try until they succeed. Katherine is back and I'm glad to say that she is still way better than Elena at life. The plot line with the cure is slowly starting to fizzle out. Either Silas gets it or he doesn't. What else could possibly happen? With all the originals back in town, I sense the pilot is coming up really soon. Possibly when the show picks up April 18? Prom is a big time in a girls life, especially when you're a vampire. Caroline will definitely plan a kick ass prom, but who will she go with? Klaus? Will Elena take both Salvatore brothers? Will Rebekah finally get to go to a school dance properly? Festivities are usually a time when things really hit the fan in Mystic Falls.  The possibilities are endless, just as long as we don't end up with a dead prom queen.

Memorable Quotes

• Rebekah: Why are we stopping?
• Elena: We searched three cities in the last 24 hours. I'm sick of top 40 radio and I smell like leather. 
• Rebekah: Conniving little bitch compelled the whole town!
• Damon: Remind me to send her some mini muffins.
• Damon: Screw the mini muffins, I'll get champagne.
• Damon: Elena without humanity is a stone cold bitch and I won't trust her till we get the old Elena back.
• Rebekah: I couldn't agree more. You've chosen a beautiful place to die.
• Katherine: So sad for the boys though. Their special snowflake of human frailty; gone.
• Damon: That guy got his neck snapped in New York and this guy is royally pissed off.
• Rebekah: You're loosing your touch evil one.
• Caroline: Oh you do have a heart. Oh my bad its just a bloody rib.
• Damon: Wow a quilt and a fish aquarium. Who the hell are you?
• Damon: Did it ever occur to you that your not that deep?
• Damon: Sorry Rebekah didn't have a pony to distract her.
• Elijah: It'd be a shame if the world lost a soul as compassionate as yours.
• Elena: Your compassion is a gift Elena. Carry it with you always and forever.
• Katherine: Oh come on she could use a nap. It must be exhausting being me.
• Damon: I had a moment of weakness Stefan. Thats my thing. Its like me and you falling for the same girl. Its our thing.
• Stefan: Was our thing.
• Elijah: You don't have a smart brother. Turn's out I'm just as stupid as the rest of you. 

ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars Spinoff- Ravenswood

The secret has been reveAled. No, not who A is, but that ABC family is following in The CW's lead and creating a spin-off of its largely successful show, Pretty Little Liars. With the announcement of Ravenswood, ABC Family also announced that PLL has been picked up for a 5th season. Yeah, after that finale it better have been picked up or there would have been a million angry fans.

So when can we expect Ravenswood and what can we expect from it? Ravenswood, created by PLL executive producers, Marlene King, Oliver Goldstick, Joseph Dougherty, and Leslie Morgenstein, will piggy back off of the annual PLL Halloween episode in October. Ravenswood is a small town in PA, right next to Rosewood, that has been suffering from a long and deadly curse. Five strangers will come to investigate the occurrences when they find themselves personally affected.

If your like me and you like spoilers and trying to figure out what will happen before it happens, you might want to look into Google and see that a movie called Ravenswood already exists and it is about a girl who went missing 10 years before hand and in 2012 a sheriff decides to look for her. Marlene King teased that someone in fact is missing in the beginning of the show. Maybe thats where the idea stemmed from? 

Will this show be another all girl casting or will the group of 5 strangers be mixed? Who would you like to see as part of the new Ravenswood team??? Will any of the PLL stars be connected? What will this deadly curse be? Will the show feature anything mystical (like The Vampire Diaries) or will it solely follow a pattern that PLL has followed: ugly and confusing twist and turns that keep our brains churning. Will the two towns ever connect?

With so much buzz and excitement around Pretty Little Liars and The Vampire Diaries, are producers taking things too far by creating spin-offs?? First, TVD creates The Originals. Now PLL creates Ravenswood. Will fans get bored and need something new? My guess; no. The writers are very talented and creative and the idea of Ravenswood is recycled but fresh at the same time. With The Originals, that idea could go down the toilet really quickly, as there can only be so much happening with the mystical world until it all starts to make absolutely no sense and fall into "The Secret Circle."

Here's who I'd like to see in Ravenswood.

Sarah Hyland of Modern Family. Although she's already 21, she fits the description of what I think a girl from Ravenswood would definitely look like. ( I mean have you seen the girls in Rosewood?) Those big bug eyes and that Alison charm. Yep. She's a dead ringer for Ali with a flair of Mila Kunis.

Jason Earles, better known as Jackson on Hannah Montana. Come on, you have to have a career after that show. Plus that blonde hair, those blue eyes, he's like Toby. Granted he's married and 34, but ABC family has a way of making people much younger than they really are. 

Coming off of Nickelodeon and straight to ABC family would be a neat transition for Victoria Justice. Plus, I'm sure the producers would love her with her keen resemblance to TVD star Nina Dobrev.

Hunter Parish. The 23-year-old actor has the look that could transform him from Showtimes Weeds right to Ravenswood, PA. Just look at that brood. 

Brie Larson is a 20-year-old-actress that can be seen on United States of Tara. With that blonde hair, you wouldn't expect her to perform pop rock on the side. Maybe she can find some time to take a trip to Ravenswood. 

Who would you like to see on Ravenswood this October?