![]() In true vampire soap opera style, this episode is rife with double- and triple-crosses … without any actual crosses, of course. Someone pours a glass of liquor and drinks it. (Katherine tells one of her brothers that she has the devil “wrapped around my finger.”) Some women wear clothes that bear some cleavage or expose their shoulders. And there’s a great deal of talk about hell, where not-so-nice folks go to be tortured. But the episode, for all its supernatural oddities, has an undercurrent of spirituality that at least contains a whiff of Christianity: Characters die and go to a pleasant afterlife, where they’re met by friends and family. People are injected, sometimes forcibly, with hypodermic needles.Ĭharacters smooch on occasion. Bonnie also dies temporarily, but she’s sent back by her old, dead boyfriend to save the town. Another woman, also deadish, is thrown from a bell tower and has her neck broken before (ahem) snapping back to life. She’s stabbed to death four times before being consumed by flames, each time bouncing back with a certain swaggering zest. If anything this episode tells us, it’s that Katherine’s a hard lady to keep down. Main character Elena is mostly dead (a spiritual catatonic state, Katherine tells us) and trapped somewhere in town, and while the witch Bonnie works on protecting the town itself with her magic powers, Stefan and Damon argue over who’ll stick around to save Elena’s body and make sure Katherine is killed permanently. The town of Mystic Falls is about to be destroyed in a big ol’ cataclysm, thanks to Stefan and Damon’s evil, hell-residing sister, Katherine. What CW did apply to The Vampire Diaries was a heaping helping of sensuality, muddled spirituality and just a whiff of derring do to keep people tuning in and applauding the right characters.Įpisode Reviews The Vampire Diaries: Ma“I Was Feeling Epic” Nobody’s ever accused the CW of applying clearheaded logic to its teen melodramas. And you’d think all those nocturnal supercreatures would decide to set up shop in a place where, perhaps, their names weren’t plastered on historical documents, their faces weren’t captured in sepia-tone photographs, and where the townspeople weren’t forever vigilant of the walking undead.īut that’s just us. And after decades-maybe even centuries-of supernatural beasts eating the locals, the townspeople are a little put out. Something strange has got to be in the water. Now, if all this has your head spinning, just think how the folks in Mystic Falls must be feeling. ![]() Or the people who occasionally die and return to Mystic Falls like it’s reunion weekend. Or the Lockwoods, a secret family of werewolves. Or Katherine, the Salvatore’s somewhat demonic sister. Or the legions of dead people who keep coming back to life. We’ve not even gotten into Caroline, Elena’s uptight friend who becomes a vampire before becoming another vamp’s main squeeze and turning the show’s long-running triangle into a … square? Or Bonnie, the budding witch with mysterious powers who holds the fate of Mystic Falls in her pretty hands. The Vampire Diaries has taken more twists and turns than a Marvel comic book saga. It gets more complicated than that, of course. Newly “converted” vampires are very distraught over their transformation, and Stefan confesses to Elena that he never wanted this “life.” Still, being undead isn’t quite the party it would seem to be. Crucifixes and holy water have no effect on them, and Stefan professes a love for garlic. These particular vampires are demigods-fast, strong and, of course, good-looking with few of the weaknesses traditionally associated with their kind. As Damon tells his sister in the closing episode, “after 153 years this banter we have it just old.” But featuring an attractive, apparently ageless cast, most of whom come equipped with super-supernatural powers probably helped lengthen the program’s shelf life. It’s not easy to keep a show like The Vampire Diaries, um, fresh for eight seasons. But for most of its history, The Vampire Diaries was predicated on both a long-running lover’s triangle among “good” vampire Stefan Salvatore, bad brother Damon and the object of their shared affections, Elena-a Mystic Falls high schooler who turns into … well, plenty. This CW supernatural soap opera found a measure of redemption when the final bell literally tolled. Or so it was for most of the show’s run, which concluded its eight-season run in 2017. The supernatural sibs have been lapping up the thick stuff for the last century-plus, feeding an undying rivalry from which neither can seem to shake free. They say blood is thicker than water, and that’s particularly true for the Salvatore brothers, born, raised and transformed into vampires in Mystic Falls, Va.
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