I’m going to get my complaints out first. Maybe if I air them vocally (or in writing) I can let them go and move on with my life.
When did all these big bads stop having weaknesses? My husband had the misfortune to be home while the show was on this week. His pointing out that all these vampires walking out in the sun drew my attention to all the other issues (non-issues?) that these creatures no longer have.
Sure, they have magical rings, but that used to be the exception. Now, it’s the rule. Or they’re originals, or hybrids, or they caught a leprechaun or something just as stupid that renders being undead meaningless when it comes to all the weaknesses that we know and use to defend ourselves against them.
Then everyone and everything is drinking vervain. Vervain…isn’t that the plant the makes vampire skin boil? Nah. Not if you build up immunity. I wonder if people allergic to bee stings could do the same thing. Or, you know, die trying. So Klaus can’t compel anyone anymore. Including the humans since they all drink the vervain. But that’s no matter because it seems that all the humans, even the ones on the vampire/monster killing counsel, are willing to play politics and work with him. Seriously? Shut up.
But wait! Jeremy must have fallen off the vervain wagon since last week the gang decided to send him away. By compelling him! Again…shut up.
Moving on.
Bonnie works hard on getting the coffins open since Stefan and Damon can’t figure out who’s in the fourth one. Bonnie’s dream seem to be pointing out that the key to Klaus’s demise is in that coffin. Too bad those cranky dead witches aren’t helping.
Stefan decides that he wants to be a badder bad guy and ups the ante with Klaus. He wants the hybrids gone. To prove his point he beheads and then shanks another. When that does nothing but piss of the original, Stefan kidnaps Elena, feeds her his blood and threatens to drive her off the bridge. Lest ye forget, Elena’s blood is what keeps Klaus’s newly hatched hybrids from dying right after they are made. Gotta love that doppelganger blood. I think it’s cinnamon flavored just because I can.
Klaus caves and promises to send all his little critters out of Mystic Falls. Elena flips out because, what the hell Stefan! Her parents died on that bride and she’d be much more fun as a vampire if she’s a fifth of Katherine’s badassery (it’s a word!). Plus she’s stop being so fragile that everyone has to protect her at all times, including the other humans.
It’s Caroline’s birthday, but she doesn’t want to celebrate since she died and will never get a day older. Her friends, being awesome, decide to throw her a funeral. This way she can bury the old Caroline and move on with her new life. Or something. The only things I got out of the party in the tomb was that Bonnie was pissed at Elena for making choices for other people and that these kids can get their hands on liquor way too easily.
Caroline’s funeral almost ends with her dying for real when Tyler “accidently” bites her. It’s “accidently” because Klaus told him to do it and since Tyler is sired he has no choice even despite his refusal to do any such thing.
Not to worry, Klaus shows up and saves her. He even tells her that being a vampire will let her see the wonders of the world in a way she couldn’t have had she lived as a human. Seems that Klaus has a way with words that makes needing vervain a moot point. The bracelet he leaves her doesn’t hurt either.
There’s a cliffhanger that means nothing to me because so far I car less about the new character, Dr. Fell. She was introduced briefly two episodes ago, makes goo-goo eyes at Alaric, knows about all the super freaks in the town and may or may not be a psychopathic murderer. I guess time will tell.
Yeah, airing out my issues did nothing to help me move past them. Either this show used to be better or I couldn’t find anything anymore interesting to watch on TV.
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Dawn Del Sontro lives in Virginia with her husband and three children. She’s been working on her best selling novel for so long that when it does come out, it’s going to end the world as we know it. In her spare time, she plays video games to wrack up her headshot count and prepares her family for the inevitable Zombie Apocalypse. As she likes to tell her friends and family, “Zombieland and World War Z aren’t just entertainment, they are guides for survival. Resident Evil is a prophecy of the future.” 
