So here’s a brief overview of the episode:
Favourite moment: Everything from the moment Rebekah causes Matt and Elena’s accident onwards.
Most moving moment: the entire scene of the
paralleling car accidents, so beautifully done.
Most confusing moment: the whole deal Elijah makes
with Elena… It seemed very kind of him to do that considering they’d stopped
the heart of his brother.
Most exciting moment: Elena wakes up at the very end:
Best. Cliffhanger. Ever.
Favourite performance: I love evil Alaric but this
has to go to Nina’s spectacular underwater performances, capturing Elena’s
turmoil as she first loses her parents and then herself.
Best relationship between characters: Tyler and
Caroline as a couple have to win this one. Their goodbye and Candice’s
distressing yet convincing performance was flawless. But wait... Should I be saying Klaus and Caroline instead? Either guy with Caroline would probably win this for that moment but I'm secretly supporting a Caroline and Klaus get-together!
The way The Departed started was good enough to draw viewers right
in from the moment ‘So What’ by Pink starts playing and Elena actually looks happy. Not a
‘let’s-put-on-a-brave-face-today’ happy nor
‘let’s-appreciate-today-because-tomorrow-could-be-crap’ happy- nope, this is
genuine chirpiness. It always amazes me how Dobrev can adapt to these different
emotions so well, playing a broken girl one minute and a picture of perfection
the next. And then, of course, in true TVD style we are torn from the happy and
dumped right into reality. It is extremely
difficult to detach oneself from a character who you have followed right from
the beginning of their emotional journey. That loneliness she experiences in
the hospital room reflects Elena’s life now: Tyler, Caroline, Bonnie, Stefan,
Damon, Alaric and even Jeremy are so far removed from being normal that Elena,
whilst being the doppelganger, seems relatively ordinary compared with her
supernatural friends (excluding Matt, of course). It makes her seem out of place in the life she is leading and this scene emphasises how Elena’s life needs to move on, something the writers decided to
fulfil with the ending.
The decision to bring Elijah back briefly was great but I find
his constant popping up to be a little unbelievable. How can an original just
keep coming and going like that and be forgotten by the gang until they turn up
again? Although Elijah, and Daniel Gilles, has proved to be extremely popular
amongst fans, his appearances are pretty random and pretty convenient. I wouldn’t have thought he’d have been so
forgiving just to get Klaus’ body back considering they had just stopped his
brother’s heart. Nevertheless, he’s a rather cool guy and offered a very good almost-solution to the issue of
this whole episode.
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Up until this point, I’m sure many viewers had forgotten
about Damon and the fact he was still with Klaus’ coffin somewhere until his
distant voice comes through on the phone with a role of Elena’s eyes. This was
one of my favourite parts of the episode simply for the fact that it made
me sit there and giggle at Damon’s little comments. The “No! No, no, no, no.
Did I mention, no?!” did highlight how, on the one hand Damon would control
every part of Elena’s life if it were up to him to keep her safe but on the
other Stefan is only concerned with what Elena wants. I personally think she’s
done pretty well when she’s gone off by herself in the past but then equally,
she does sometimes need babysitting. But is that only because it is so often
enforced on her? It was only a matter of minutes before that she was being
“coddled” on the couch by some lovely, but rather protective, friends. It is no
wonder that she is constantly trying to break away and sort her own life out
for once.
The death of Klaus, Rebekah’s immediate breakdown and
Damon’s sickened look as he realises the bloodline could die was another
fantastic scene. Claire Holt’s performance was, once again, perfect. I really
do love this lady and her character who has fast become another one of my
favourites- I hope they bring her back, she added so much spice to the
episodes.
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So supposedly Klaus is dead. Yet one thing I noticed is that
Alaric was so quick to assume that the dagger would work, he took it straight
out as Klaus went up in flames, closed the coffin and turned his attention
elsewhere. Obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing and we know that Klaus is
indeed saved but I think I’ll be with many fans when I say that I hope Joseph
Morgan returns to the series! The impact he’s had over the last season and a
half has been huge and the reaction so positive despite his character being
pure evil so I imagine that he will be making an appearance in the future. If
not, I will personally steal the scripts and re-write them with him in it!
That phonecall,
the heartbreaking one where we see Elena finally make a choice between the
Salvatore brothers, reminded us again of the “one big proverbial coin toss” of
the brother’s lives when it comes to Elena. I am glad that, whilst there were
obviously a thousand other things going on, this grounding for the series was
never forgotten or even sidelined. The decision Elena makes did cause me disappointment as I thought that this signified the end of any hope of a Delena hook up. But no, no! Hang on
there- there is definitely still hope
for them. Remember when a person becomes a vampire, they remember that which
they were made to forget through compulsion? Well the first time she meets Damon, his confession of his love for her, it'll all come flooding back. Oh yeah, Elena is in for some
confusing feelings when we see her for the first time next season. Poor girl.
Or lucky girl, depending on which way you look at it.
I have to admit, I was almost converted to Team Stelena in
this episode with that romantic if-I-never-see-you-again kiss. It hurts me a
little to say it but he is so obviously the right guy for her and yet Damon
would provide her with so much excitement. If I was Elena I’d have an equally
tough time deciding between the two of them. But as she points out to Matt “When
I choose one, I’ll lose the other” and Elena has lost so many people. She has
mourned Jenna and her parents, and she is even without her real parents (Isabel
and John) as well as Alaric by the end of this episode. It really is no wonder
that this girl doesn’t want to go through any more pain. So I think we can
forgive her for not making a choice more quickly.
There is also something to be said about Bonnie’s role in
this episode. I’d love it if her character had more of a storyline rather than
just being a run-to everytime the others need some witchy help and I think this
use of dark magic- which started in the previous episode with her stopping of
Klaus’ heartbeat- could be it. As much as I don’t want her to start on a
downward spiral, I think this could be a really great storyline and allow Kat
to show off her acting abilities by being a little bit evil. By keeping Klaus
alive in Tyler ’s body, “the spirits won’t be
happy” with Bonnie but it’s the best of both worlds- we get to see the gorgeous
Tyler but there
is still hope for our favey JMo to come back.
So what does this mean for next season? Serious excitement
for TVD fans, that’s what. I cannot wait to see how the writers
create Elena’s transition and how she will deal with this future that was
forced upon her. I'm pretty sure that she'll see through the transition but will she
embrace her new life or hate it? And I wonder how she will react to the others?
Now that she knows she really did meet Damon first and one could argue her
meeting and falling in love with Stefan was down to him, will she change her
mind about her choice? Plus, how will she feel about Meredith and Rebekah? Will
she seek to blame someone for her predicament? I know the first thing I’d do
would be to go all Katheriney and hunt down Rebekah for making me relive that
accident. In fact, I would love to see Elena struggle with her niceness in the
coming season and maybe see flickers of Katherine in her as the resentment,
frustration and anger that she will undoubtedly feel begins to surface.
Wherever the writers choose to go with this storyline, there
is no doubt that it will be epic and I personally will be
obsessing over its potential until the show is back on our screens in autumn.
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