*Note* The House is still a little overwhelmed by this episode even 2 days later. Some of you may have realized I am a Delena fan (shut up), but more than that, I am a Damon fan. He has gone through one of the most incredible character developments I’ve seen on any show. Those people who keep bringing up season 1 Damon and his exploits have truly missed the point of what he has gone through internally over 3+ years. This episode was so special for me not just because of Delena, but because for the first time it seemed like the other two sides to the triangle showed real growth, too. You guys, I may have to retire the DENIAL label and I couldn’t be happier. So let's buckle up and do this.
Mystic Falls is my home...how many people add an “And mine” when watching the lead in? Just me? OK then.
We open on Elena tossing and turning from guilt and sexual frustration. OK, they only point out the guilt, but has she gotten any other than the leg humping and the dirty dancing? We know vampirism ramps up all of your emotions, and her feelings should be set to “severe horny” still from the infamous Denver Cockblock. I know mine are. *Off to Urban Dictionary to see if The Denver Cockblock has been added as an entry, yet.*
Instead of calling Damon, because he is the cure for everything, our girl decides to have some cocoa or some crap and starts to hallucinate the former hunter Connor. I am not going to spend a lot of time bitching about her whiny guilt, even though I did in the live tweets, because it makes total sense within the storyline developing that it is more likely induced by the effects of killing a hunter than by the effects of ODing on eternal Elena compassion. If they hadn’t explained that, it would be incredibly obnoxious that she felt guilty over killing the man who was trying to kill everyone she loved. Me? I would have on my most killer stilettos and be dancing on his grave. As Elena battles with her subconscious, she also manages to stab Jeremy in the neck. Oh, poor Jerbear. Yeah, you’ve now suffered enough and I will forgive you and stop interrupting every time you go in the bathroom with the Sport’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
Now she calls Damon. Implied in her “I don’t trust Stefan” is an “I do trust you” and my Delena senses start to tingle and I quickly drown them in a glass of wine. Damon shows just how selfish he is (I will be hitting the shit out of this point later. Be warned.) by not capitalizing on her pain and calling Stefan anyway. Jeremy still has his eternity ring, even after Alaric’s (Drink!) tragic end and survives the knifey throat punch while Elena tries to evade Stefan. She is not having any of his excuses and needs to wash off the evidence of her instability.
Look, when Faye tells you to drink, you drink motherfuckers. It does not surprise me that Tyler cannot hang with her. But look who can! It is sexy, angry Klaus! If he keeps talking low and close like this I will never be able to stay mad at him for stabbing Bex and I am mad. Wait. Is he actually growling as he talks? Dear lord, my panties exploded and I find forgiveness in my heart. Cocky, British bastard. He apparently dropped by for the hybrid wake and thus the Hayley near face licking of Tyler is a cover.
Caroline shows up with her break up box (I have got to stop connecting Klaus to random character’s boxes) for fake indignation with Tyler. I never for a second bought this, but Klaus does and he is the only real target. I am dying over the fact of how he clears out the place for the Tyler and Caroline “break up” drama, he can barely contain his smug satisfaction. He is pissed at Tyler for hurting Caroline, but you know inside he is giggling like a 12 year old girl. All three are giddy over their success in fooling him and I amend my future fanfiction idea to include a three-way between Faye, Caroline, and another person to be named later. (Me! It’s totally me!)
Anyone else amused by how Klaus can barely contain himself from skipping down the street? Dude just lost his map to the cure (which he totally wants to find, give to Elena, and then destroy forever) and Elena is going batshit crazy, but Caroline is single and he is just one talking animal away from a Disney song montage. Stefan is so bad at subterfuge, so Damon has to tell him to answer his damn phone and go out to talk to Klaus. Klaus is the exposition fairy again this week and lets on that Elena is not on emo overdrive due to wearing a Stefan moping hoodie (yay!) but because killing a hunter makes you suicidal (boo!). He quite nicely offers to keep Elena locked up for her own safety and definitely not for his own motives. If those pursed lips don’t indicate to you Stefan is thinking about Klaus’s Red Room of Pain, then you aren’t one of my readers. Stefan uses up his last DENIAL DENIAL DENIAL with a “She’s totally fine, dude. Ignore the brother neck-stab.” Elena has another freak out, runs from the house, and Klaus nabs her ass in a split second. Damon and his good hair this episode are not pleased.
Jeremy tells Matt about his invisible ink, but before they can discuss further, they are interrupted by the perkiest thing that has ever hit this town, and I include Caroline. I love this girl, and I just know something horrible is going to happen to her. NotAlaric smarms his way up to the gang before rolling off. His name is adorable, but he gives me douche chills. April inquires about Bex, because these two need to be BFFs like I need shirtlessness and Matt rolls his eyes right on out of there. Oh, wait! I have a DENIAL for him, because he still has feelings for Rebekkah at least in my mind.
Bonnie is here to be accusatory and judgemental. Must be Thursday! Oops, Bonnie, your hero worship is showing. Next!
Klaus shows Elena to a bedroom, or late 18th century bordello, can’t be sure which. He exposits one more reason on top of the already 500 existing ones for why he is a tortured soul that just needs the love of a blonde cheerleader to heal him. Blah blah *guilt* blah blah *suicide* blah blah *I bet she smells like sunshine*. Elena incorrectly and momentarily wonders if Klaus wanted to save the hunter in order to keep someone else from feeling eternal guilt. Really, Elena? This truly is fucking with your brain if that thought even crossed it. Klaus has no fucks to give over other people’s guilt. He is too weighed down by his own that he covers in smirks, sarcasm, and evil.
Blah blah *sire bond* blah blah *Stefan’s eyebrows* blah blah *mole in Klaus House*
I’m going to just assume Elena saying how horrible killing Connor was is tied to the curse and/or just general lying. It keeps me from being irritated. Elena’s hallucinations take the most magnificent turn ever when they create...Katherine! I’m thinking even a fake Kat can kick Elena’s ass. Let’s watch!
NotAlaric is telling the story of Qetsiyah, the witch who create the immortality spell for the man she loved, Silas. It always comes down to love fucking everything up, doesn’t it. Well, and witches. April connects Professor Pervert to her dad as we listen to the story of how Qetsiyah loved Silas who loved another. Girl got her serious revenge on by killing the other woman and burying an immortal Silas alive. Supposedly Silas has been plotting revenge since then. New #BigBad? Who knows?
I love hallucinatory Kat as much as the real one. I know this is supposed to come off as bitchy, but to me it sounds like truth time in Elena’s head. “Don’t you ever stop crying?” Preach it! The poor victim Elena line also killed because Elena is not the only person who has lost around here, but she is the only one who seems to glory in it. My Delena feels start vibrating again as Elena’s inner voice speaks truth on the fact Stefan cannot love her like this, so I now drown it with tequila. Shush, you!
Excuse me while I cry for 15 minutes over a 15 second scene. Alaric! (Drink!) Damon seems to be the only one to acknowledge the hole his death has left in their family. He is in so much pain and yet he puts it aside to help the people who loathe him and who have yet to show him any compassion. Even the queen of compassion keeps taking from him. Thank god his bottomless selfishness allows for him to only give and never receive a moment of comfort and empathy for what he has gone through.
Blah blah *snark* blah blah *exposition* blah blah *Jere needs to kill to set Elena free* Sorry new hybrid. They really don’t last long, do they?
Caroline brings her sparkling personality and perky breasts (which Klaus actually can’t keep his eyes off of - rewatch and see how often his eyes flit downwards) out to seduce Klaus for something. He’s said yes mentally before she’s even asked. He, of course, is not lacking in his own charms and lowers his voice even further. How does she not just straddle that bar stool of his? Dimples! *faints*
Katherine continues to give voice to all of the horrible thoughts running through Elena’s head. It is painful, but on another level, freeing. Once those terrible things you think about yourself are spoken allowed, it makes ignoring them a bit more difficult. If our girl makes it though this (shut up of course she will), she just may be able to get her life together. Stefan comes to free her and he gets the gut stab he has earned over the past several episodes. That felt delicious. And she’s off again!
I love this version of Damon and I want to keep him forever. Blah blah *Bonnie pissy* blah blah *Jere ready to kill* blah blah *Damon come save the day yet again*
This week’s production of Sexual Tension Theater involves Klaus and Caroline. Glitter and dimples everywhere.
Where is the one place Elena would go to kill herself? Wickery Bridge of course! The scene of 3 almost eternal, or not so eternal, deaths for her. Man, that’s hard. Play the Mom card. No one can guilt you like a mom. It kills me that Elena’s subconscious even thinks of it as 2 times she could have died here. IT WAS 3! (FUCK YOU, STEFAN!) And there goes the ring in the drink.
Damon says 3rd times a charm, because he also conveniently forgets the time Stefan tried to kill her, just like everyone else forgets, but NOT ME! Fucker also threw out her cellphone. Damon’s soothing tones are counterbalanced by those of Connor and she looks towards the sunrise. Across town Klaus is interrupting the attempted fleeing of Random Hybrid #32. Words and hot looks are exchanged between him and Haylay (Faye, damnit), but this was only a setup to get a kill for Jeremy. The scenes cut back and forth, ramping up the tension, especially that of a desperately pleading Damon. One quick axe cut and Elena is free from Connor’s torment, but not the torment of the rising sun. Damon, being the smartest thing in this town, grabs her and dives with her ass right over the side of the bridge. #TeamBadass Lives!!
Elena awakens to find her ring back on her hand. My Delena feels are now tap dancing with remembering all of the times he brought her necklace back to her. He gave that to her more times than Stefan did and will always make sure she has what she needs. He approaches her from his window perch to make a “Heathers” reference that made me giggle and love him more. She smiles a real smile at him that we haven’t seen on her face since...since all the other times he has made her smile. The hand touch and the soulful looks are too much for our selfish boy to take and he LAYS TO REST FOR THE FINAL FUCKING TIME THAT HE IS THE SELFISH ONE ANYMORE ON THIS FUCKING SHOW! I’m sorry to yell during this tender moment, but I have had enough. If you can look at this scene and see the way he throws aside his love for her to defend his brother and try to keep them together even though it must be killing him, I have no words for you. Well, I have words, but they are all foul, nasty, and hateful and I refuse to be sucked in by them when my Delena feels are skipping and humming through the house. Just know I see you and am judging you harder than a coven of witches.
He tells her everything, because this is what love and respect combined is. You want their life more than your own and you are honest with them, even when it goes against your own self interest. When has a secret ever been a good thing in this town?
Tyler talks way too much sense about how these people will do anything to save each other without giving a good goddamn about the swath of destruction that lies behind them. Caroline pours salt all over the wound and grinds it in by telling him she is going on a date with Klaus. Ouch.
“Bourbon. Make that two.” Alaric! (Drink!) I cannot say enough how happy I am Damon acknowledges Ric constantly. It brings me joy and makes me sob into my Chunky Monkey. I am surprised beyond belief that Matt has a key piece of information and that I enjoy his chemistry with Damon. Maybe they can bond during Damon’s daily trips to the Grill. The “drive it home” caused an explosion of new slash, I have no doubt.
Blah blah *creeping creepster NotAlaric with the “come to me, Bonnie”*
Is...is Stefan getting past his...denial? *faints for a moment before rewinding the scene* Is...Elena getting past her...denial? *faints harder and knocks wine and tequila right off the table* This is written as a break up, but if we are all honest, they broke up a long time ago. What this is, is two people who recognize that they have grown apart and it’s time to stop holding on to something that doesn’t exist anymore. It is quiet, sad, and final. (I’m sorry, Stelena fans, but this is completion. Could things change later to reignite it? Sure. But this is goodbye. Period.) When she says the name they were both nicely avoiding, my Delena feelings do this: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! All over fucking twitter. I won’t apologize. I did shed a tear at a scene that was heartbreaking, even if it was inevitable. I wish Stefan well, and hope he finds a person who can live up to his high expectations, or he learns to temper them and finds peace. I also hope Elena doesn’t futz around and just gives in to what she feels for Damon. Screw proprietary. Even immortals should know that tomorrow is no guarantee and you need to take happiness when it is offered to you. Grab it with both hands. And grind it’s thigh in the Grill bathroom.
Mystic Falls is my home...how many people add an “And mine” when watching the lead in? Just me? OK then.
We open on Elena tossing and turning from guilt and sexual frustration. OK, they only point out the guilt, but has she gotten any other than the leg humping and the dirty dancing? We know vampirism ramps up all of your emotions, and her feelings should be set to “severe horny” still from the infamous Denver Cockblock. I know mine are. *Off to Urban Dictionary to see if The Denver Cockblock has been added as an entry, yet.*
Instead of calling Damon, because he is the cure for everything, our girl decides to have some cocoa or some crap and starts to hallucinate the former hunter Connor. I am not going to spend a lot of time bitching about her whiny guilt, even though I did in the live tweets, because it makes total sense within the storyline developing that it is more likely induced by the effects of killing a hunter than by the effects of ODing on eternal Elena compassion. If they hadn’t explained that, it would be incredibly obnoxious that she felt guilty over killing the man who was trying to kill everyone she loved. Me? I would have on my most killer stilettos and be dancing on his grave. As Elena battles with her subconscious, she also manages to stab Jeremy in the neck. Oh, poor Jerbear. Yeah, you’ve now suffered enough and I will forgive you and stop interrupting every time you go in the bathroom with the Sport’s Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
Now she calls Damon. Implied in her “I don’t trust Stefan” is an “I do trust you” and my Delena senses start to tingle and I quickly drown them in a glass of wine. Damon shows just how selfish he is (I will be hitting the shit out of this point later. Be warned.) by not capitalizing on her pain and calling Stefan anyway. Jeremy still has his eternity ring, even after Alaric’s (Drink!) tragic end and survives the knifey throat punch while Elena tries to evade Stefan. She is not having any of his excuses and needs to wash off the evidence of her instability.
Look, when Faye tells you to drink, you drink motherfuckers. It does not surprise me that Tyler cannot hang with her. But look who can! It is sexy, angry Klaus! If he keeps talking low and close like this I will never be able to stay mad at him for stabbing Bex and I am mad. Wait. Is he actually growling as he talks? Dear lord, my panties exploded and I find forgiveness in my heart. Cocky, British bastard. He apparently dropped by for the hybrid wake and thus the Hayley near face licking of Tyler is a cover.
Caroline shows up with her break up box (I have got to stop connecting Klaus to random character’s boxes) for fake indignation with Tyler. I never for a second bought this, but Klaus does and he is the only real target. I am dying over the fact of how he clears out the place for the Tyler and Caroline “break up” drama, he can barely contain his smug satisfaction. He is pissed at Tyler for hurting Caroline, but you know inside he is giggling like a 12 year old girl. All three are giddy over their success in fooling him and I amend my future fanfiction idea to include a three-way between Faye, Caroline, and another person to be named later. (Me! It’s totally me!)
Anyone else amused by how Klaus can barely contain himself from skipping down the street? Dude just lost his map to the cure (which he totally wants to find, give to Elena, and then destroy forever) and Elena is going batshit crazy, but Caroline is single and he is just one talking animal away from a Disney song montage. Stefan is so bad at subterfuge, so Damon has to tell him to answer his damn phone and go out to talk to Klaus. Klaus is the exposition fairy again this week and lets on that Elena is not on emo overdrive due to wearing a Stefan moping hoodie (yay!) but because killing a hunter makes you suicidal (boo!). He quite nicely offers to keep Elena locked up for her own safety and definitely not for his own motives. If those pursed lips don’t indicate to you Stefan is thinking about Klaus’s Red Room of Pain, then you aren’t one of my readers. Stefan uses up his last DENIAL DENIAL DENIAL with a “She’s totally fine, dude. Ignore the brother neck-stab.” Elena has another freak out, runs from the house, and Klaus nabs her ass in a split second. Damon and his good hair this episode are not pleased.
Jeremy tells Matt about his invisible ink, but before they can discuss further, they are interrupted by the perkiest thing that has ever hit this town, and I include Caroline. I love this girl, and I just know something horrible is going to happen to her. NotAlaric smarms his way up to the gang before rolling off. His name is adorable, but he gives me douche chills. April inquires about Bex, because these two need to be BFFs like I need shirtlessness and Matt rolls his eyes right on out of there. Oh, wait! I have a DENIAL for him, because he still has feelings for Rebekkah at least in my mind.
Bonnie is here to be accusatory and judgemental. Must be Thursday! Oops, Bonnie, your hero worship is showing. Next!
Klaus shows Elena to a bedroom, or late 18th century bordello, can’t be sure which. He exposits one more reason on top of the already 500 existing ones for why he is a tortured soul that just needs the love of a blonde cheerleader to heal him. Blah blah *guilt* blah blah *suicide* blah blah *I bet she smells like sunshine*. Elena incorrectly and momentarily wonders if Klaus wanted to save the hunter in order to keep someone else from feeling eternal guilt. Really, Elena? This truly is fucking with your brain if that thought even crossed it. Klaus has no fucks to give over other people’s guilt. He is too weighed down by his own that he covers in smirks, sarcasm, and evil.
Blah blah *sire bond* blah blah *Stefan’s eyebrows* blah blah *mole in Klaus House*
I’m going to just assume Elena saying how horrible killing Connor was is tied to the curse and/or just general lying. It keeps me from being irritated. Elena’s hallucinations take the most magnificent turn ever when they create...Katherine! I’m thinking even a fake Kat can kick Elena’s ass. Let’s watch!
NotAlaric is telling the story of Qetsiyah, the witch who create the immortality spell for the man she loved, Silas. It always comes down to love fucking everything up, doesn’t it. Well, and witches. April connects Professor Pervert to her dad as we listen to the story of how Qetsiyah loved Silas who loved another. Girl got her serious revenge on by killing the other woman and burying an immortal Silas alive. Supposedly Silas has been plotting revenge since then. New #BigBad? Who knows?
I love hallucinatory Kat as much as the real one. I know this is supposed to come off as bitchy, but to me it sounds like truth time in Elena’s head. “Don’t you ever stop crying?” Preach it! The poor victim Elena line also killed because Elena is not the only person who has lost around here, but she is the only one who seems to glory in it. My Delena feels start vibrating again as Elena’s inner voice speaks truth on the fact Stefan cannot love her like this, so I now drown it with tequila. Shush, you!
Excuse me while I cry for 15 minutes over a 15 second scene. Alaric! (Drink!) Damon seems to be the only one to acknowledge the hole his death has left in their family. He is in so much pain and yet he puts it aside to help the people who loathe him and who have yet to show him any compassion. Even the queen of compassion keeps taking from him. Thank god his bottomless selfishness allows for him to only give and never receive a moment of comfort and empathy for what he has gone through.
Blah blah *snark* blah blah *exposition* blah blah *Jere needs to kill to set Elena free* Sorry new hybrid. They really don’t last long, do they?
Caroline brings her sparkling personality and perky breasts (which Klaus actually can’t keep his eyes off of - rewatch and see how often his eyes flit downwards) out to seduce Klaus for something. He’s said yes mentally before she’s even asked. He, of course, is not lacking in his own charms and lowers his voice even further. How does she not just straddle that bar stool of his? Dimples! *faints*
Katherine continues to give voice to all of the horrible thoughts running through Elena’s head. It is painful, but on another level, freeing. Once those terrible things you think about yourself are spoken allowed, it makes ignoring them a bit more difficult. If our girl makes it though this (shut up of course she will), she just may be able to get her life together. Stefan comes to free her and he gets the gut stab he has earned over the past several episodes. That felt delicious. And she’s off again!
I love this version of Damon and I want to keep him forever. Blah blah *Bonnie pissy* blah blah *Jere ready to kill* blah blah *Damon come save the day yet again*
This week’s production of Sexual Tension Theater involves Klaus and Caroline. Glitter and dimples everywhere.
Where is the one place Elena would go to kill herself? Wickery Bridge of course! The scene of 3 almost eternal, or not so eternal, deaths for her. Man, that’s hard. Play the Mom card. No one can guilt you like a mom. It kills me that Elena’s subconscious even thinks of it as 2 times she could have died here. IT WAS 3! (FUCK YOU, STEFAN!) And there goes the ring in the drink.
Damon says 3rd times a charm, because he also conveniently forgets the time Stefan tried to kill her, just like everyone else forgets, but NOT ME! Fucker also threw out her cellphone. Damon’s soothing tones are counterbalanced by those of Connor and she looks towards the sunrise. Across town Klaus is interrupting the attempted fleeing of Random Hybrid #32. Words and hot looks are exchanged between him and Haylay (Faye, damnit), but this was only a setup to get a kill for Jeremy. The scenes cut back and forth, ramping up the tension, especially that of a desperately pleading Damon. One quick axe cut and Elena is free from Connor’s torment, but not the torment of the rising sun. Damon, being the smartest thing in this town, grabs her and dives with her ass right over the side of the bridge. #TeamBadass Lives!!
Elena awakens to find her ring back on her hand. My Delena feels are now tap dancing with remembering all of the times he brought her necklace back to her. He gave that to her more times than Stefan did and will always make sure she has what she needs. He approaches her from his window perch to make a “Heathers” reference that made me giggle and love him more. She smiles a real smile at him that we haven’t seen on her face since...since all the other times he has made her smile. The hand touch and the soulful looks are too much for our selfish boy to take and he LAYS TO REST FOR THE FINAL FUCKING TIME THAT HE IS THE SELFISH ONE ANYMORE ON THIS FUCKING SHOW! I’m sorry to yell during this tender moment, but I have had enough. If you can look at this scene and see the way he throws aside his love for her to defend his brother and try to keep them together even though it must be killing him, I have no words for you. Well, I have words, but they are all foul, nasty, and hateful and I refuse to be sucked in by them when my Delena feels are skipping and humming through the house. Just know I see you and am judging you harder than a coven of witches.
He tells her everything, because this is what love and respect combined is. You want their life more than your own and you are honest with them, even when it goes against your own self interest. When has a secret ever been a good thing in this town?
Tyler talks way too much sense about how these people will do anything to save each other without giving a good goddamn about the swath of destruction that lies behind them. Caroline pours salt all over the wound and grinds it in by telling him she is going on a date with Klaus. Ouch.
“Bourbon. Make that two.” Alaric! (Drink!) I cannot say enough how happy I am Damon acknowledges Ric constantly. It brings me joy and makes me sob into my Chunky Monkey. I am surprised beyond belief that Matt has a key piece of information and that I enjoy his chemistry with Damon. Maybe they can bond during Damon’s daily trips to the Grill. The “drive it home” caused an explosion of new slash, I have no doubt.
Blah blah *creeping creepster NotAlaric with the “come to me, Bonnie”*
Is...is Stefan getting past his...denial? *faints for a moment before rewinding the scene* Is...Elena getting past her...denial? *faints harder and knocks wine and tequila right off the table* This is written as a break up, but if we are all honest, they broke up a long time ago. What this is, is two people who recognize that they have grown apart and it’s time to stop holding on to something that doesn’t exist anymore. It is quiet, sad, and final. (I’m sorry, Stelena fans, but this is completion. Could things change later to reignite it? Sure. But this is goodbye. Period.) When she says the name they were both nicely avoiding, my Delena feelings do this: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! All over fucking twitter. I won’t apologize. I did shed a tear at a scene that was heartbreaking, even if it was inevitable. I wish Stefan well, and hope he finds a person who can live up to his high expectations, or he learns to temper them and finds peace. I also hope Elena doesn’t futz around and just gives in to what she feels for Damon. Screw proprietary. Even immortals should know that tomorrow is no guarantee and you need to take happiness when it is offered to you. Grab it with both hands. And grind it’s thigh in the Grill bathroom.