The Vampire Diaries 1:9
Posted by dorolerium on Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Before I say anything about this episode in particular, I am going to say that this show has really grown on me. I don’t view it as throw away TV anymore, it’s actually kind of interesting. The writing has gotten better, and while I still don’t like the casting for Elena, it’s good overall. I don’t really know when I started to like the show, if it happened between Damon saving Stefan and turning Vicky, or if it just started the last couple of weeks, but there you have it.
In this episode, Bonnie is being haunted by her ancestor Emily, who keeps taking her in her dreams to where the old church used to be. Although at the time I thought it was the old Salvatore house, it was later explained it was the church. Anyway, I assumed from pretty much the start that Emily had a connection to the Salvatore’s, and she did – she was Katherine’s maid back in the day. And a witch.
Damon seems to have turned a slightly new leaf, he feels somewhat bad about killing Lexi, and disappointed that Stefan wants to leave Mystic Falls. He tries to apologize with
I’m not going to feed on a human for…at least a…week
I really like Damon quite a bit, he is hilarious. And Stefan pretends a little bit to be Damon, trying to get Damon’s evil scheme out of him. I like Stefan much better when he’s pretending to be Damon too. But honestly, Stefan isn’t quite as bad as he used to be either. And he’s way less annoying than Edward Cullen.
There’s also a new teacher in town, and did any of you notice the ring he’s wearing? If memory serves me correctly, it looks an awful lot like the ring Katherine wore so she could stay out in the day. Basically from the moment I saw him and heard his name was Alaric, I was wondering if he was a vampire. And since seeing the whole episode, I suspect he may be, since he sure acted like he couldn’t get into the Gilbert house. Did y’all notice that?
The big reveal is Damon finally saying why he’s back in town, and how Bonnie’s crystal fits into it. See, it turns out Emily gave the crystal to Katherine the night she died, and it has the power to bring Katherine back. Emily possesses Bonnie and goes to destroy the crystal rather than fulfill her promise to Damon about Katherine. Apparently, the spell worked that to save Katherine, Emily had to put all the vampires in a mystic prison thingie, so getting Katherine out would mean getting them all out. She’s not willing to do it, so she destroys the crystal and therefore the way to get them back.
Damon is pissed about this, natch, so he bites Bonnie and the only way to save her is to have her drink vamp blood. In this vampire world, she would have to die with Stefan’s blood in her system, so she is apparently safe as long as she doesn’t die. I was going to give the show big props if they did kill Bonnie off, but they didn’t. Which I’m kind of glad about honestly, cuz I like her.
At the end of the episode, Logan shows back up. My question: Who turned him?
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