Both Caroline and Elena meet new people at college and want to adjust properly while pretending to be "normal". Meanwhile, Jeremy's circumstances surrounding his death are not as normal and the consequences are highlighted when he returns to school. All hell breaks loose.
Are they really happy?
I felt pity for Stefan. Drowning in a box for an entire summer, while his brother and Elena were nothing short of happy together, is not exactly the nicest outcome for someone who walked away with a broken heart. The same applies to Bonnie who paid the price in order to see her friends and especially Elena happy. It seems like she's the one always suffering the most, and that impression is confirmed after Silas, in the body of a shadow-self of Stefan, brutally kills her father in front of an unmoving audience. Each and every character is confronted with problems that their friends are not aware of, including Matt's mysterious encounter with Nadia (Olga Fonda) and her villainy sidekick.
Problems
In the end, I felt that each story arc felt a bit choppy and disconnected, and death was once again used as drama fodder that has no meaning, including Megan's death and Elena's and Caroline's dismissive reaction to it. We know that they are quite used to this, but I'd prefer watching a bit more humanity coming out once in a while. It would give these mini storylines more emotional impact, which is why Caroline's breakup with Tyler was a complete non-issue to me. Sorry, Forwood fans.Highlights
Bonnie (Kat Graham) deserves more than she usually gets and I wish her storyline would be more frontline in Elena's and Caroline's life. They will eventually find out that she died and the end result is not going to be pretty for anyone involved. Her personal vendetta against Silas might just be the beginning.Another highlight was Stefan's hallucination and his struggle with humanity or non-humanity for his freedom. Interestingly, Damon prefers the easiest choice to get the best result, but it is once again Elena who persists that humanity is Stefan's greatest gift, and one that should not be thrown away to end his misery. Hopefully, he will still get out of that box, though. Preferably sooner rather than later.
I was not impressed with this ep at all, I had already seen the drowning ploy on Angel, the college bit was boring and the sex at the start did not add ANYTHING to the story. The great chemistry is gone between Ian and Nina, which is another good reason to not date your co-star. :( Paul was excellent.
ReplyDeleteI think Paul and Kat were really really great! I wasn't all 100% impressed, but they definitely added to the better parts of this episode.
ReplyDeleteI agree. But I always hate the first ep of the new season. It never feels right at all.
ReplyDeleteI think next week's ep will be better. But as far as what we got goes, I didn't like the college stuff. It didn't work for me. I don't think they showed enough of Katherine's human struggle at all. She will not heal like a vampire now, and that car wreck must have hurt her.
I think they should have explained why Silas wants to kill Katherine. If he needed her blood, he would have taken it. He just plain wants her dead.
I liked the Bonnie scenes, but it's time her friends find out she's dead already.
Enough with the Jeremy's in trouble stories already. OMG. How many times will Jeremy need saving?
I really liked it! As for Ian and Nina's chemistry, I think it's still there; maybe not as much when she's playing Elena, but the Katherine/Damon scenes were great
ReplyDeletethis ep was about deciding if this season would be worth watching. My negative opinion about the dopplganger element still stands, but it was nice to see Paul W. Show us a completely different character. It was better (imho) that humanityless Stefan. Damon was fun as always. The college mystery was interesting. It was enough to give me hope that'll I'll enjoy the season,
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who have a lot of dejavu?
ReplyDelete- Klaus pretends to be Tyler/Silas pretends to be Stefan
- Cover is blown during the episode and then copycat goes and attacks poor woman (Rebekah/Kat)
- Accident with no cassualties (Rebekah & Caroline /Kat & Jer)
- Death, that has no meaning or/and explanation(Pastor Yound/Megan)
- Bonnie is on the other side
- Bonnie sees her family member in pain
Paul Wesley is an amazing actor, loved his acting as Silas in this episode everything else was kinda boring, so over Damon and Elena. What would be perfect is Stefan not pining over Elena anymore, when he eventually gets out of the box
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