Because
tonight’s episodes were a 2-parter and shared some major plot points, I am
going to review both episodes at the same time, so this is going to be a little
longer than my normal reviews. The good
news, you only need to click in one place.
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The
episode sees Stefan running from Reyna, Damon dealing with the impact he’s had
on Stefan’s life, Caroline and Alaric moving with the babies, Enzo (re)united
with his family, the sire lines being messed with, and a major character
returning courtesy of Davina Claire.
Let’s
start with Stefan since he spans both episodes.
He is in a major pickle at the moment.
He was marked by Reyna and goes to New Orleans to hide from her. Klaus is pissed because Reyna will kill any
vampire she comes into contact with and that is not good for his city. I don’t think Stefan knew where Reyna came
from, so I don’t think he knew she was from New Orleans. I do have to applaud the plan he used to lure
her to the Strix’s hideout in order to use her as a decoy so Hayley could rescue
Elijah and Klaus. That was smart. If any one person can stand up to the Strix,
it would be Reyna. Klaus and Elijah may
be able to hold them off for a while, but there are so many Strix, I fear they
would be overcome eventually. Reyna, on
the other hand, can decimate vampires with the arsenal at her disposal. So use Stefan’s bad luck of being marked by
Reyna to save Klaus. Nicely done.
It
was funny watching him meet Freya for the first time. She seemed to think that the “friend” portion
of the prophecy was more or less defunct and then Stefan, an “old friend” shows
up and she was so not happy about it. To
her credit, she managed to figure out a way to hide him from Reyna. Am I surprised she couldn’t remove the
mark? Nope, that seems to be something
that is beyond almost anyone’s abilities.
But hiding it was obviously a whole other story. I can only assume that he scraped off the mud
(or whatever it was) in order to let her track him to the Strix’s hideout.
Klaus
is now truly alone. Davina managed to
use the spell to break the sire bond between him and his line. The good news is that all of our friends on The Vampire Diaries are now safe should
something happen to Klaus. The bad news
is that Klaus could now easily have anyone who has pissed off over the last
1,000 years after him without fear of a large portion of the vampires dying off
if he is killed. I wonder if the spell
will prevent him from creating a new sire line if he turns anyone from here on
out. Given that the spell Davina performed
was meant to undo Esther’s magic, I would suspect so, but they never said. That seriously sucks for him. And I got the sense that he was genuinely
scared of Reyna. Could her sword have
hurt him? Obviously it couldn’t kill
him, but I would expect that a spell meant to trap his spirit would still work
on him.
I
found the differences in the ways he treats Caroline and Aurora
interesting. Both of them have tried to
kill him at some point, but his feeling for Caroline obviously run much deeper
than do his feeling for Aurora. I’m not
sure if that is just because Aurora is an out and out loon or if it has to do
with something about Caroline. When
she’s been a part of the plans against Klaus, she’s generally just a decoy and
not the aggressor. And then there is the
fact that Caroline obviously has feelings of some sort for him, which has
always fascinated me. He has always done
horrible things to her friends, yet she keeps coming back to him when he is
around. And she makes him a better
person because he was willing to risk pissing off Reyna in order to save Stefan
because Caroline asked him to.
Damon
is not in a good place right now. He is
racked with guilt about what happened to Bonnie this week and Stefan last week,
so he has decided to take himself off the board. If we hadn’t seen him in the coffin in the
future, I would expect him to kill himself.
Instead, given the previews for next week, it appears that he will just
seal himself away in order to protect the people he cares about.
I
am trying to figure out how The Vampire
Diaries is going to handle things at this point. Caroline and Alaric are with his kids in
Texas, Damon is ready to go into hibernation, Stefan is on the run from Reyna,
Bonnie is in the hospital, Enzo is with the Armory, and Matt is in Mystic
Falls. I can only assume that the show
is going to jump forward to the future and stay there relatively soon. If so, does that mean that The Originals will do the same in order
to keep both in the same time?
Is
the woman (missed her name) from the Armory really Enzo’s descendant and did
his father really establish the Armory?
If so, why did they abandon Enzo so long ago? There are a lot of pieces missing from that
particular puzzle and they need to be answered ASAP. I did feel sorry for Enzo when Bonnie chopped
off his hand. That had to seriously
suck.
Having
Hayley kill Aya was just perfect. Aya
killed Jackson and was the prime mover behind the whole sire line delinking
spell, so she needed to be killed and it was rather obvious that Elijah would
never do it. No matter how much he hated
what Aya had become, I don’t think he could have killed her. My main concern is that this is probably
going to throw a major monkey wrench in their relationship. While I expect him to forgive Hayley, it may
take a while.
I
loved watching Elijah verbally flay Aurora and expose her for just how crazy
she is. That man knows how to insult
people and make it sting, so that was very nice. Now that Elijah has the gun with the bullets,
I expect them to be destroyed, which means that Aurora will no longer be a
danger to the Mikaelsons directly. The
only thing she’ll be able to do is hurt those they love. And since she’s on her own now, I am not sure
how effective she’ll be at that.
Kol’s
back! I was so happy about that. Aside from Elijah, he’s always been my
favorite Original, so that will be very cool to see. I just wonder how Klaus will feel knowing
that the magic ripped from him was used to resurrect his brother.
Until
next week!
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