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shadowkatTempted to say mummies - but I've been reading a book about mummies, not that kind of mummy. The dead dried up kind. Needless to say? This show is faster paced and more entertaining than my book.
Say what you will about The Vampire Diaries (or what I like to call Vamp Diaries - a far better name in my opinion) - but it has got to be the fastest paced television serial on the planet. Not to mention the most fun in the plot department. Whoowee! What a thrill ride. I kept rewinding, and rewatching sections. This is my guilty pleasure folks. (Well it and a few other tv shows, I won't mention - I have a long list of guilty pleasures.)
Also, this show certainly likes to kill off its cool female supporting characters. They do not last long. But - I will give it credit for making all the characters, especially the ones that get killed off - interesting and complicated. No faceless red shirts these. You do care about them when they go.
Was thinking when I switched it on - live, or rather on delay, so I could fast-forward through commercials and rewind - that I can't take it too seriously, Being Human, it's not. Deep. Hah.
The writers don't take it seriously. The writing reminds me a lot of the Scream flicks - which are insanely entertaining and hilarious horror homages to the slasher flick of old.
Alas, Poor Alaric...we knew you well, and now the actor gets to play Klaus. Weirdest plot twist of the plot twists upon plot twists of the night.
Backing up a bit. So, where we left off? Isobelle shows up at Elena's door, freaking out Aunt Jenna. Or as she later calls her - Vanilla Auntie (couldn't agree more - boring character Jenna, Vamp Diaries really needs to work on its sweet and nice characters - or I shall die of sugar shock. Luckily John, Isobel, Damon or Katherine appears with an insulin shot of sarcasm at the appropriate moment. Is it just me or do tv shows like this always give the shady characters the best lines? It's a major problem with this particular trope - teen gothic tv show. I think Joss Whedon may have been amongst the few who broke it, hmmm, explains why I loved him so much. Note to writers - the sweet innocent heroine can snark, it is allowed.)
Does this mean that Auntie Jenna finally figures out that vampire exist and her neice's Mother is one? No. Auntie flees the premises before anyone gets the chance to reveal it. Not that she'd believe it anyway, without substantial proof.
Caroline isn't so lucky with Matt - who freaks out and goes to Caroline's Mom, Sheriff Lockwood,
with the request to see the report on his sister - who he seems to think Caroline killed or was responsible for killing? Matt, not the smartest bulb on the planet. Honey, Caroline clearly changed long after Vicky disappeared. Also your sister was a train wreck, on drugs, and nutty.
If memory serves, Vicky and Caroline were never involved. But he leaps to this conclusion anyhow, as opposed to wondering about the various men Vicky was dating. And then gets Caroline to reveal all to him, begs her to compell him to forget, then dashes off to reveal it to Caroline's Mom, who had coaxed him into taking the vervaine and conning Caroline. Give him credit for pulling that off, or Caroline's Mom for coming up with it.
This really was an episode about Mother's wasn't it? Caroline's discovers once again her daughter is dead and loving it. While Elena discovers her mother is well, dead, and hating it, enough to be compelled by Klaus to betray everyone.
Isobel via Klaus plays the whole gang. Damon tells Stefan - "we've been played." Oh boys, you have no idea. Isobel breezes into town, talks Katherine into stealing the moonstone which Damon has cleverly (or not so cleverly) planted in his soap dish, and helping her kidnap Elena to give both to Klaus, in return Katherine goes free. Katherine gets the moonstone first, then goes to the
mansion where Elena has agreed to accept an award for her adoptive Mom's charity (Mom again).
Isobel meanwhile creates a diversion by sinking her teeth into John - appearing to kill him.
He rolls down the steps. Sheriff Lockwood declares him dead. (Don't worry, he has John Gibert's magical ring on - which Alaric gave him two episodes ago). And while everyone, including stupid Stefan is distracted - Katherine switches places with Elena.
Meanwhile, Isobel takes off with an unconscious Elena and the moonstone. En route, she stops long enough to apologize to Alaric. I really loved you when I was human. Completely. And outside of
showing up on your new girlfriend's doorstep, outting you, wanted to apologize for what I'm about to do to you now, really don't have a choice - sort of being compelled. So sorry about that.
And some witch comes out and knocks Alaric out. (Which surprised me, because I thought what the heck does she want with Alaric?)
Katherine goes to Isobel's safe house as Isobel suggested, worrying about Damon and Stefan popping up. Isobel apologizes to Katherine for betraying her. And whammo - Katherine is knocked out by hunky witch. At this point, I wasn't sure if he was a witch or a vampire or Klaus. The witch calls Isobel and tells her to let Elena go.
Isobel and Elena are at Isobel's grave. And Isobel gives Elena a rather touching speech about how the human side of her - desired to one day see her child again, the child she grieved giving up.
While the other side, the side that Elena unfortunately got to met, was cruel enough to betray her own flesh. In some respects it feels like a reference to other characters - from Katherine to Damon to Stefan. The betrayal of one's own family and the pain that sticks with you afterwards.
We have a lot of mother's giving up and betraying kids here. After she's told that she's finished, that she can let Elena go. Isobel takes off her pendant and sets herself on fire. It's a touching moment. Echoes the witches - Bonnie's ancestors who are equally set on fire, and first Damon then later, Bonnie are forced to feel their anguish.
John tells Elena that for two of the most selfish and cunning vampires he'd ever met, Isobel and Katherine did seem to genuinely care about each other and like each other - they were good friends. Which may explain, Isobel's torment and eventual suicide, after betraying first Elena and then Katherine.
Damon and Stefan realize that no one but Bonnie, Jeremy, and the two of them know that Bonnie has harnessed the dead witches power and has her own powers back. That they have a witch who is powerful enough to take out Klaus and knows how. She's their secret weapon. What they don't know and Jeremy does is that it will most likely kill her. (Damn, don't kill Bonnie, show. Elena - go right ahead, really don't care, same deal with Jenna. But leave Bonnie and Caroline alone. Which probably means they will kill Bonnie - she's with Jeremy after all. Don't worry about Elena, dear reader - the show won't ever kill her off. That's a guarantee. In fact, I think that each time she's in jeopardy. Oh come on, stop teasing me, I know she's safe. You aren't killing Damon, Stefan or Elena. It's everyone else...that I'm worried about.)
Best twist for last...Katherine comes to, we are in her pov, and we see the witch guy muttering over Alaric, who has tubes in his arms and blood being transmitted into him. Closeup. It is Alaric.
"Oh my God, Alaric?" asks Elena.
Alaric is lightening quick like a vampire. "Hello, Katerina, I've missed you."
"Klaus."
So...this begs the question, does Klaus survive by taking possession of others? Does he have a body? I think he does. Wouldn't make sense if he didn't have his own somewhere. Also in the previews for next week, where people are wearing really bad costumes at the school prom, Bonnie announces that Klaus has possessed Alaric. If we can take Bonnie's word for it, that is.
Not really sure what to make of it. Will state wasn't predictable. Also, I looked at how far it was in the hour, and realized okay, we've had the equivalent of ten cliff-hangers in the first 30 minutes, we have 30 minutes left? I can't believe this? And does it stop? No. We get the equivalent of four more cliff-hangers. The pace never really slows down. Bang. Bang. Bang.
Go to the bathroom, surf the net, and you've missed something.
I like tv shows and books like that. They are rare breed. At the moment most entertaining tv shows are: The Good Wife, Justified, and Vamp Diaries. I may or may not start kicking less entertaining tv shows to the curb. We shall see.
Say what you will about The Vampire Diaries (or what I like to call Vamp Diaries - a far better name in my opinion) - but it has got to be the fastest paced television serial on the planet. Not to mention the most fun in the plot department. Whoowee! What a thrill ride. I kept rewinding, and rewatching sections. This is my guilty pleasure folks. (Well it and a few other tv shows, I won't mention - I have a long list of guilty pleasures.)
Also, this show certainly likes to kill off its cool female supporting characters. They do not last long. But - I will give it credit for making all the characters, especially the ones that get killed off - interesting and complicated. No faceless red shirts these. You do care about them when they go.
Was thinking when I switched it on - live, or rather on delay, so I could fast-forward through commercials and rewind - that I can't take it too seriously, Being Human, it's not. Deep. Hah.
The writers don't take it seriously. The writing reminds me a lot of the Scream flicks - which are insanely entertaining and hilarious horror homages to the slasher flick of old.
Alas, Poor Alaric...we knew you well, and now the actor gets to play Klaus. Weirdest plot twist of the plot twists upon plot twists of the night.
Backing up a bit. So, where we left off? Isobelle shows up at Elena's door, freaking out Aunt Jenna. Or as she later calls her - Vanilla Auntie (couldn't agree more - boring character Jenna, Vamp Diaries really needs to work on its sweet and nice characters - or I shall die of sugar shock. Luckily John, Isobel, Damon or Katherine appears with an insulin shot of sarcasm at the appropriate moment. Is it just me or do tv shows like this always give the shady characters the best lines? It's a major problem with this particular trope - teen gothic tv show. I think Joss Whedon may have been amongst the few who broke it, hmmm, explains why I loved him so much. Note to writers - the sweet innocent heroine can snark, it is allowed.)
Does this mean that Auntie Jenna finally figures out that vampire exist and her neice's Mother is one? No. Auntie flees the premises before anyone gets the chance to reveal it. Not that she'd believe it anyway, without substantial proof.
Caroline isn't so lucky with Matt - who freaks out and goes to Caroline's Mom, Sheriff Lockwood,
with the request to see the report on his sister - who he seems to think Caroline killed or was responsible for killing? Matt, not the smartest bulb on the planet. Honey, Caroline clearly changed long after Vicky disappeared. Also your sister was a train wreck, on drugs, and nutty.
If memory serves, Vicky and Caroline were never involved. But he leaps to this conclusion anyhow, as opposed to wondering about the various men Vicky was dating. And then gets Caroline to reveal all to him, begs her to compell him to forget, then dashes off to reveal it to Caroline's Mom, who had coaxed him into taking the vervaine and conning Caroline. Give him credit for pulling that off, or Caroline's Mom for coming up with it.
This really was an episode about Mother's wasn't it? Caroline's discovers once again her daughter is dead and loving it. While Elena discovers her mother is well, dead, and hating it, enough to be compelled by Klaus to betray everyone.
Isobel via Klaus plays the whole gang. Damon tells Stefan - "we've been played." Oh boys, you have no idea. Isobel breezes into town, talks Katherine into stealing the moonstone which Damon has cleverly (or not so cleverly) planted in his soap dish, and helping her kidnap Elena to give both to Klaus, in return Katherine goes free. Katherine gets the moonstone first, then goes to the
mansion where Elena has agreed to accept an award for her adoptive Mom's charity (Mom again).
Isobel meanwhile creates a diversion by sinking her teeth into John - appearing to kill him.
He rolls down the steps. Sheriff Lockwood declares him dead. (Don't worry, he has John Gibert's magical ring on - which Alaric gave him two episodes ago). And while everyone, including stupid Stefan is distracted - Katherine switches places with Elena.
Meanwhile, Isobel takes off with an unconscious Elena and the moonstone. En route, she stops long enough to apologize to Alaric. I really loved you when I was human. Completely. And outside of
showing up on your new girlfriend's doorstep, outting you, wanted to apologize for what I'm about to do to you now, really don't have a choice - sort of being compelled. So sorry about that.
And some witch comes out and knocks Alaric out. (Which surprised me, because I thought what the heck does she want with Alaric?)
Katherine goes to Isobel's safe house as Isobel suggested, worrying about Damon and Stefan popping up. Isobel apologizes to Katherine for betraying her. And whammo - Katherine is knocked out by hunky witch. At this point, I wasn't sure if he was a witch or a vampire or Klaus. The witch calls Isobel and tells her to let Elena go.
Isobel and Elena are at Isobel's grave. And Isobel gives Elena a rather touching speech about how the human side of her - desired to one day see her child again, the child she grieved giving up.
While the other side, the side that Elena unfortunately got to met, was cruel enough to betray her own flesh. In some respects it feels like a reference to other characters - from Katherine to Damon to Stefan. The betrayal of one's own family and the pain that sticks with you afterwards.
We have a lot of mother's giving up and betraying kids here. After she's told that she's finished, that she can let Elena go. Isobel takes off her pendant and sets herself on fire. It's a touching moment. Echoes the witches - Bonnie's ancestors who are equally set on fire, and first Damon then later, Bonnie are forced to feel their anguish.
John tells Elena that for two of the most selfish and cunning vampires he'd ever met, Isobel and Katherine did seem to genuinely care about each other and like each other - they were good friends. Which may explain, Isobel's torment and eventual suicide, after betraying first Elena and then Katherine.
Damon and Stefan realize that no one but Bonnie, Jeremy, and the two of them know that Bonnie has harnessed the dead witches power and has her own powers back. That they have a witch who is powerful enough to take out Klaus and knows how. She's their secret weapon. What they don't know and Jeremy does is that it will most likely kill her. (Damn, don't kill Bonnie, show. Elena - go right ahead, really don't care, same deal with Jenna. But leave Bonnie and Caroline alone. Which probably means they will kill Bonnie - she's with Jeremy after all. Don't worry about Elena, dear reader - the show won't ever kill her off. That's a guarantee. In fact, I think that each time she's in jeopardy. Oh come on, stop teasing me, I know she's safe. You aren't killing Damon, Stefan or Elena. It's everyone else...that I'm worried about.)
Best twist for last...Katherine comes to, we are in her pov, and we see the witch guy muttering over Alaric, who has tubes in his arms and blood being transmitted into him. Closeup. It is Alaric.
"Oh my God, Alaric?" asks Elena.
Alaric is lightening quick like a vampire. "Hello, Katerina, I've missed you."
"Klaus."
So...this begs the question, does Klaus survive by taking possession of others? Does he have a body? I think he does. Wouldn't make sense if he didn't have his own somewhere. Also in the previews for next week, where people are wearing really bad costumes at the school prom, Bonnie announces that Klaus has possessed Alaric. If we can take Bonnie's word for it, that is.
Not really sure what to make of it. Will state wasn't predictable. Also, I looked at how far it was in the hour, and realized okay, we've had the equivalent of ten cliff-hangers in the first 30 minutes, we have 30 minutes left? I can't believe this? And does it stop? No. We get the equivalent of four more cliff-hangers. The pace never really slows down. Bang. Bang. Bang.
Go to the bathroom, surf the net, and you've missed something.
I like tv shows and books like that. They are rare breed. At the moment most entertaining tv shows are: The Good Wife, Justified, and Vamp Diaries. I may or may not start kicking less entertaining tv shows to the curb. We shall see.
