TVD: Season 2 Episode 4 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 4

The Salvatore Lovers

Flashback. Katherine and Stefan are dancing. Damon is dancing with Elena. I guess it’s a dream or something. Elena and Damon are at the Grill kissing and playing pool. Katherine is there again. Oh! It’s that mind control thingy that Damon did to Elena in the beginning. Stefan wakes up with Elena sleeping on his chest. Except it’s not Elena. He quickly realizes it’s Katherine. She continues to tell him he’s the reason she’s back and tries to remind him he loved her once too.

Elena is reading at the Grill and Damon comes to sit with her. She leaves. Jenna’s having a barbeque; it was Damon’s idea. He wants to get to know Mason and put some silver in him to prove he’s a werewolf.

Katherine reads Stefan’s journal and drinks Damon’s blood stock. She mentions the werewolves and the Lockwoods were the ones who rid the town of vampires.

Katherine asks why he kept the picture of her. “You came back here to fall in love with me all over again, didn’t you?” He doesn’t say anything. He touches her face. “What is it about you that makes me still care…” They almost kiss and he stakes, but doesn’t kill her when they do. Ooh! He’s putting her in the cell. He asks her again. She came back for him. He puts gloves on and touches her face with vervain. He still doesn’t believe she came back for him.

Katherine asks Stefan if he pretends to be human with Elena. He says that’s the point. He doesn’t have to pretend with her. “Does she know that you love me?” He says he doesn’t. “That’s where you’re wrong Stefan.” I don’t think Elena compelled Stefan, at least not all the time. Maybe she compelled Damon or at least more. She flashes back to Stefan telling her when he looks at her, he sees an angel and that he’s in love with her. They kiss and she says goodnight because he doesn’t know she’s a vampire yet. When she goes to her room, Damon is there waiting for her. He worried his love isn’t enough. She compels him to leave. She touches her lips after Stefan’s kiss. “Go ahead Stefan, torture me. Keep me captive. Drain me of my blood until my body turns to dust. It’ll never change the truth. I never compelled your love. It was real and so was mine.” He looks at her with a tortured look on her face.

Damon goes to the kitchen with Elena. She asks him how operation Lockwood. He says he’s his new BFF. Jenna comes in. Damon thanks her for inviting him. She asks if she had a choice. He says he knows how she must feel about him. She says, “No. No you you don’t. You have never dated you. I have dated many yous.” “I’m a work in progress.”

Stefan says it wasn’t real. He remembers her compelling him. She says only after she revealed who she was. He was so afraid of her she had to take the fear away. He says whatever feelings he has now is hate. “Love. Hate. Such a fine line. I can wait.”

Elena asks if it would make her a bad friend leave Caroline at the house to go check on Stefan because she worried about him. Caroline thinks it’s a bad idea. Caroline suggests she drive Elena to the house. I think she knows about Katherine being at the estate. I mean, Katherine did tell Caroline they would have fun together. She drops her key and breaks the air line on her tire.

Stefan suspects Katherine was running from something. “Everyone has a past, Stefan.” He tells him he and Damon nearly ruined everything. “So Damon and I died for nothing!” “No, you died for love.”

Stefan asks Katherine again why she came back. Elena is exasperated. She’s always answered five times. He tells her to make it six.  She has no problem adding one more name to her list of victims if means getting what she wants. He thinks if she wants Elena dead she already would have done it. She reminds him she still can. He breaks the wooden chair and charges her, but he can’t do it. He can’t stake her. “I don’t want you seeing Elena anymore. If you don’t remove her from your life, I will kill everyone she loves while she watches and then I will her while you watch.” He chokes her, threatening her again. She busts out of her chains. He’s shocked. “I have been sipping vervain every day for 145 years. You caught me by surprise once. I wasn’t going to let it happen again. It doesn’t hurt me Stefan.” Elena shows up and Katherine stabs him in the knee. When Elena turns around, Katherine is there. “You must be Elena.” Elena wonders how it’s possible that they look exactly alike. She stands there, trying not to breathe. Katherine tells her she’s asking the wrong questions. Stefan comes running and Katherine disappears. “Are you okay?” “Not really.” They both say.

Elena is upset Stefan spent the whole day with his jealous ex-girlfriend. She’s worried Stefan wants to do what Elena says. Caroline listens while they talk. They acknowledge it’s the reality of their situation. Elena says Katherine wants them to fight. She wants to get between them. Stefan says she already has. Elena gets up and walks away. Caroline is about as heartbroken as either of them are. Damon is also there listening. He kind of smirks. So did it happen? Did Stefan and Elena break up?

Damon leaves the Grill and there Katherine is. She asks if he’s jealous she spent the whole day with Stefan. He says he’s pouty because he tried to kill a werewolf and failed. She tells him to ask Stefan about what she knows about werewolves. She tells him not to try to be the hero. He’ll be dead. “Been there. Done that. At least this time it’ll be worth it.” He walks away. She’s left annoyed.

I guess they didn’t break up. Stefan is in her room again. They feel bad about their fake fight. They kiss. Elena knew something was up with Caroline. Katherine got to her and it won’t be long until Katherine gets a play by play. Elena thinks Damon was listening too. She asks if Stefan’s gonna tell him the truth. He says the best way to make sure Katherine believes it’s true is everyone believes it’s true. I bet this is going to go on for a while, Elena’s gonna end up spending more time with Damon, sparks will fly, and things will be even more complicated than before. I was wrong last season though, so who knows. Stefan still doesn’t believe Katherine is there for him.

The Lockwood’s

Mason tells Tyler he won’t turn too because he won’t trigger the curse. He refuses to tell him what the trigger is, because ignorance is bliss. Tyler asks if he ever found the moonstone even though he has it.

Katherine flashes back to the ball again. Someone told her the attacks weren’t from vampires. She assures him he won’t let anything happen to the vampires. “The werewolf gene runs in their family. Their not all wolves.”

Katherine keeps telling Stefan further details about the ball. She tells George Lockwood she’s a vampire, because she knows he knows. She also tells him she knows who he is. Stefan pulls up a chair.

Damon notices fancy silverware in the kitchen. Jenna confirms it’s silver. A look of concern floods Elena’s face.

Katherine continues her story about George Lockwood. George told the council all about werewolves so he could cover his own tracks. And he allied with Katherine to keep her safe. “You knew the vampires were going to be burned at the church. They were your friends. Your family. And you just sold them out.” “I practically lit the match. Without blinking.

Damon asks Mason to cut the pie. He sees the silver knife and takes his slice without touching the silver. Damon and Alaric both look at him knowingly. He apologizes for being an animal. Alaric asks Mason if he and Jenna ever dated. Damon makes a lone wolf comment. Mason makes a lady killer comment. I think he knows about Damon.

Stefan wants to know what George got out of protecting her. The vampires gone.

Mason calls Damon out his innuendoes about wolves. He swears he’s not his enemy. He says he’s only there for his family. He sees no point in an age old feud being sparked between them for no reason. Damon shakes hands, but doesn’t believe him.

Damon follows Mason and stabs him with the silver knife. “You know I think it was werewolves that started the silver myth…. Now you’ve made an enemy.”

Mason gets home and asks Tyler if he’s still mad. Tyler asks if he’s still keeping secrets. He says yes, so Tyler is still mad. He gets to Mason and Mason tells him the truth. You have to kill somebody to trigger the curse of being a vampire.

Flashback: George helps Katherine escape. She’s the one who gives him the moonstone. Before she leaves, Katherine runs back and tells Stefan’s dead/sleeping/will-be-vampire figure, “I love you, Stefan. We will be together again. I promise.” And she kisses him. Present day Katherine touches her lips while she thinks about that night.

Jenna

Elena thanks Jenna for letting her invite Caroline. She comments about Damon and him keeping his hands off her. Mason shows up, then Alaric, then Damon, and Jenna leaves the room. Mason and Damon greet each other. Mason has heard great things about Damon who says, “Really? Cause I’m a dick.”

They play Pictionary and Damon draws a wolf dancing. Mason guesses it.

Mason suggest they take their party to the Grill, but Jenna and Alaric say no. “It’s like I’m with a bunch of adults.” “I prefer role model.” Damon tells Jenna she’s a wonderful hostess. She tells him he’s a terrible artist. He wonders if that’s the only terrible thing about him. She’s still decided. “That’s good enough for me.”

Caroline

Elena calls Stefan but he doesn’t answer [because he’s with Katherine, but she doesn’t know that]. Caroline comes in talking about her munchies. Elena mentions Stefan hates that part. Caroline mentions he said he hates that she’s a constant temptation. Elena is surprised. “Trust me it’s there. That’s why I had to break up with Matt.” Elena looks down at her phone.

Caroline goes over her own relationship failure with Elena trying to make her see her relationship with Stefan probably isn’t going anywhere. Can vampires compel each other?

Caroline and Elena wait  for the tow truck, but I’m not convinced Caroline actually called since she’s trying so hard to keep Elena away from Stefan. “What part of I’m worried about Stefan didn’t sink in?” “What’s the rush? Why are you hurrying into a relationship that will never work?” Elena tells her to projecting her relationship with Matt on her and Stefan. “I’m not. You’re going to be 70 and in diapers. He’s still going to be smokin’ hot. You are never going to have his children Elena. You are too maternal not have children… I’m just trying to be your friend.” Caroline is worried about being left alone. Elena leaves and walks to the house.

Katherine finds Caroline in the bathroom at the Grill. Katherine did threaten Caroline into spewing that stuff at Elena. She thinks she got to her.

Elena and Stefan walk into the Grill. Caroline apologizes about earlier. She doesn’t know what came over her. “It’s okay Caroline. Everything you said is right. It’s just hard for me to hear… You’re just being a good friend, in your own way.” She apologizes again. She wants to tell her about Katherine, but I assume Katherine threatened her not to tell.

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TVD: Season 2 Episode 3 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 3

The Lockwoods

Elena asks Alaric to come to the Salvatore’s to help them find out more about the Lockwood’s. He tells them Isabelle not only studied vampires, but also werewolves. They ask him if they can get access to her office. Damon is skeptical of werewolves. He’s been alive for 160 some odd years and has never seen them. Why not? Where are they? He’s also concerned if it is true, then he’s screwed.

Tyler follows Mason to hidden cave or something and finds claw marks in the stone.

Tyler asks his mom about the property and the old cellar. She gets an intense look on her face and briefly comments they don’t talk about those places. This is the south. We don’t talk about where slave quarters. Mason comes in.

Alaric, Damon, and Elena go into Isabelle’s office. It’s weird for all of them. The woman who let them into her office comes back with a crossbow and shoots it Elena, but Damon jumps in the way and gets shot himself. Alaric goes after the woman. Damon tells Elena to “pull the damn thing out.” Elena tells Damon not to kill her. She tells him if he does it, she’ll never talk to him again. He says she overestimates herself.

The woman tells Alaric she freaked. Katherine and Damon are supposed to be dead. “I read Isabelle’s research. It’s not possible.” “Then you should now just how possible this is.” Elena comes out and explains who she is. Damon tells her to be extra nice to him right now.

Tyler asks Matt about Caroline. Mason tells Tyler they need to be away from the watering hole ball dark.

Some girl mentions there’s a full moon tonight.

She says werewolves and vampires date back to the Aztecs. They were plaguing them, so the Aztecs cursed them. Making Vampires enemies of the sun and werewolves slaves to the moon. Werewolves prey on vampires, but hundreds of years ago, vampires hunting werewolves almost to extinction, which is why Damon knows nothing about it. “Legend has it the werewolf bite is fatal to vampires.”

Mason is preparing to lock himself up at night.

The party isn’t over at nightfall.

Mason takes off most of his clothes and chains himself up to a wall and drinks a weird concoction. He hears people and is annoyed. Tyler takes some girl to the cellar like an idiot and he unlocks it. Mason runs away and ties himself to some trees instead. I wonder if Tyler is going to turn tonight.

The girl, Amy I think, tells Tyler she’s not really into this. She likes Matt. I still think he’s going to werewolf up.

Stefan tells her they have to leave. They’re gonna lead the werewolf away from Matt. Tyler intercepts them and the wolf comes to them. Tyler yells no. The wolf listens and runs away. Tyler finds Mason’s truck and chains. Mason comes up all muddy and naked. Tyler knows he was the wolf.

Caroline

Matt goes looking for Caroline. She wants to let him in, but she can’t because the sun is shining through the windows. She had told him she was at home and he wants to spend the day with her, but since her phone is going to voicemail, he doesn’t know where she is.

Stefan takes Caroline hunting. She jokes about how killing cute defensive animals is the first step to becoming a serial killer. He tells her she skipped serial killer and jumped straight to vampire. She goes off about how she hasn’t been in the sun in days and she’s missing out on being at the swimming hole with everyone else and Matt finally told her he loves her, but she’s been blowing him off. He laughs because when someone’s natural tendencies become amplified. “So, you’re saying I’m basically an insecure, neurotic control freak on crack.” That’s hilarious! He agrees, but says he wouldn’t have said it like that. He promises after hunting, they’ll go to the swimming hole.

Caroline asks Stefan why he gives Mason the “serious vampire look… It’s different from your worried vampire look. Neither of which are much different than your “hey, it’s Tuesday look.”

Some girl flirts with Matt. Caroline comes up just then and compels her to “go find someone single to stalk.” Matt gets upset with this comment. He tells her it’s lame. She’s been dodging his calls all day and now she can’t come play the jealous girlfriend. Stefan tells Caroline she can’t just compel people for shallow reasons. “Great now I have amplified jealousy too. Maybe I should have stayed dead. My entire personality is basically killing me.”

When Stefan and Caroline are getting ready to leave, Stefan tells Caroline to go talk to Matt and Elena calls to fill him in. Matt is tired of the insecurity. She promises shew won’t be insecure anymore. While talking to Elena, Stefan loses Caroline because she goes off with Matt. He tries to call her, but she left her phone in the truck. He goes looking for her.

Stefan listens. He hears growling. He finds Mason’s car. He sees him in werewolf form in the car.

Alaric asks the girl not to say anything. She tries flirting with him. He tells her she doesn’t want to be a part of this and shares the truth about Isabelle.

Matt takes Caroline to the woods. The start making out. She gets a little rough with him and pushes him against a tree. He cuts his hand. She kisses it and then starts licking it. He’s weirded out. He bites him and feeds. She vamps up. Stefan stops her. Caroline compels Matt to forget everything and to remember the animal attacking him. She can’t believe she hurt him. Stefan tells her it’s not going to get any easier. She asks if she should be with him. Stefan says he’s the last person to help make that decision. If he took his own advice he wouldn’t be with Elena. He should’ve walked away, but he can’t.

Caroline goes to the grill to talk to matt, but Amy’s talking to him. Matt gets annoyed again. She says she lied about no more drama. He breaks up with her. she’s sad, but she also knows it’s for the bets. I think she might have done it on purpose.

Katherine shows up in Caroline’s room. She hopes it’s Elena. Ugh! Chills man! The fact that Nina Dobrev can play both Elena and Katherine so well is frightening and impressive.”

Salvatore Lovers

Stefan asks Elena if she’s sure about going to Duke with Damon and digging through her birth mother’s life’s work. She’s sure about the digging, not so sure about going to Duke with Damon. Then again, Alaric will be there, so they can bond over their mutual anti-Damon feelings. She wants him to go too, but he can’t because someone has to take care of Caroline. She asks if it’s okay that she’s going. He assures her it is. He wants her to be able to find some of the answers she’s looking for and he won’t let Damon keep her from that. I have to wonder if this will be the start of Elena and Damon reconnecting again. She knows he hates it; he agrees.

Damon taunts Stef by apologizing that he can’t come too and saying he’ll take real good care of her. Elena shoots him a look that could kill and then passionately kisses Stefan with a look that says she’s trying to make Damon jealous.

Damon tells Elena her pretending to hate him is silly. Alaric doesn’t think she’s pretending. He did kill her brother, but he came back to life. Thanks to a ring he didn’t know he was wearing. He claims he knew he was wearing it. She doesn’t believe him. “It’s a big ugly ring. It’s hard to miss.”

Elena gives the woman vervain. She asks if it really works, Damon lies and says it doesn’t. She’s surprised he can hear them, so she asks if he can read minds too. “No, but he is capable of being a first rate jackass.” Damon smirks at that comment.

Damon asks Elena if she’s found anything. He taunts her and says it’s too bad they’re not friends anymore or he’d share his findings. The woman and Alaric find something on werewolves.

Elena asks the woman about research on doppelgangers. There isn’t any information so far that they don’t already know. Normally doppelgangers torment those who look like them to undo their lives. Damon makes a snarky comment. Elena snaps back. ““if” I know anything, I’m not gonna tell you. Not with that attitude.” Alaric sort of smirks over them. “And this is coming from someone who wants to be my friend. Friends don’t manipulate friends. They help each other.” She walks away.

The car is locked and Elena can’t get in. Damon unlocks it and gives her a book. It says “Petrova.” Petrova was her original last name. He asks her to let him know what she finds. “You have every right to hate me. I understand. But you hated me before and we became friends. It would suck if that was gone forever, so.. is it? Have I lost you forever?” She doesn’t answer. She just thanks him for the book.

Just like I thought, Damon trips work well for them. It broke some of the hatred from her wall. She asks for the truth. Did he know Jeremy was wearing the ring? He confesses he didn’t. Katherine really pissed him off and he snapped. “I got lucky with the ring. I don’t know what I would have done if he wasn’t wearing it. Elena I’m sorry.” She nods and thanks him for his honesty. She tells him yes, he has lost her forever. “But you knew that already, didn’t you? You used me today. I thought friends don’t manipulate friends. You and Katherine have a lot more in common than just your looks.” He walks away and she is incredibly hurt by that statement.

Jenna

Jenna thanks Alaric for being Elena’s connection to her birth mother. Alaric apologizes for the distance lately. Elena asks if she’s okay. She plays it off.

Jenna is about to pour some wine when Alaric comes inside and just kisses her.

Bonnie

Stefan asks Bonnie to create a day walking ring for Caroline. She doesn’t think she can do and she’s worried it’ll make it easier for Caroline to kill someone else. He tells her the more she’s cut off from her friends and Matt, the harder it will be for her to hold on to her humanity. He says they might as well stake her now if they don’t help her hold on to her humanity.

Bonnie explains to Caroline the witch who spells the ring has the power to despell which means she hurts anyone, Bonnie will despell it. Caroline swears she won’t. Bonnie reminds her of her vampire urges. She says she didn’t mean to kill the guy, but Bonnie says he’s still dead. She silently casts the spell and gives her the ring. Caroline doesn’t believe it worked because there wasn’t a scene, so Bonnie throws the blinds open. Bonnie leaves Stefan to deal with her.

TVD: Season 2 Episode 2 -Recap and Reactions

Episode 2

Caroline

Caroline wakes up and leaves her room wondering where everyone is. The nurse says it’s late at night. Caroline is hungry. She wants something to eat. She smells something. She’s not sure what it is. Someone’s heart monitoring is beating. She smells the blood being given to the patient. She tries to drink it, but the nurse catches her. She was able to get the blood pouch. She drinks it and gags. She drops it, but then picks it up again and drinks all of it.

Caroline puts her hand out in the sunlight and burns. Matt comes in to check on her. He goes to kiss her, but she turns away and fakes a cough. He tells her she get’s to get out tomorrow morning. She freaks a tiny bit. Matt opens the blinds and she shies away from them, ordering him to close it back.

Caroline puts her jewelry on and when she tries to put on her vervain necklace from Elena, it burns her and she throws it. She drinks more blood and her face and teeth start to vamp up freaking her out. The nurse comes to check on her. She compels the nurse into not telling anymore. She feeds on the nurse.

Caroline compels the nurse to say her neck is because “her husband likes to get kinky.” She calls her mom to say the doctor signed her out.

Caroline shows up at the school and tells Damon she’s starting to remember everything about him. He doesn’t believe her. it’s impossible unless… “I have a message from Katherine. She says Game on.”

Caroline shows up at the carnival and flirts with Matt. When he hugs her, she’s enticed by him and quickly walks away.

Caroline walks out of the carnival crying. The guy is out there nursing his wounds. She finds him, apologizes, and goes to town on him. Poor guy. First he’s attracted to a witch. Then, he fights two werewolves. Now, he’s being eaten by a vampire.

Matt talks to Bonnie about Caroline.

Damon pulls a stake from one of the tents.

Elena asks Stefan if he agrees with Damon. Damon doesn’t agree with Damon about what they should do but what will happen.

Stefan worries that he can smell blood, but Damon finds her first. “He’s dead. I killed him. What’s wrong with me?” He tries to comfort her. She knows he’s going to do something to her. He tells her he’s going to kill her. She begs him not to. She begs him to really help her. He hugs her with the stake in his hand. When he goes to stake her, Stefan stops him. Caroline freaks out at the sight of Elena and asks why she looks like her and why she did this to her. Stefan tries to take her inside. Damon goes to stake her again, but Elena jumps in the way. “Damon she’s my friend.” They stare each other down. “Whatever happens. It’s on you.” He walks away and in comes Bonnie freaking out; denying the truth. Bonnie walks away. Stefan takes Caroline away. Elena goes to comfort Bonnie.

Caroline is worried Bonnie hates her. Stefan tries to assure her she’s in shock. He assures her about her heightened senses are normal right now. He encourages her to fight it. He helps her take deep breathes and make her vamp face disappear. She asks why Katherine did this to her. Stefan promises he won’t let anything happen to her. He holds her. I wonder if they’re going to have a thing later on.

Matt climbs through Caroline’s window. She tells him to leave. He tells her almost dying really freaked him out and he’s pretty sure he’s in love with her. Now it seems like she doesn’t feel the same way. She passionately kisses him and when they hung, her face vamps up. She practices the breathing trick Damon taught her.

Bonnie

Bonnie and Elena talk about how creepily alike she and Katherine look. They’re helping setting up for a carnival. Bonnie asks if she’s talked to Damon. “No, Bonnie, I haven’t. And I won’t. And I don’t want to talk about Damon or anything else that’s vampire related. Okay? I’m human and I have to do human stuff. Otherwise, I’m going to go crazy.” Yay! Second season in and she’s STILL handling most of this vampire stuff in a sensible, realistic human way!

Bonnie and Elena talk about how the Carnival is a success and Elena is surprised she can do more than wreak vampire havoc. Some guy starts flirting with Bonnie when they ask him for help.

Damon comes back. He tries to get Elena to help bury the body. Bonnie does the brain thing on Damon. She tries to light him on fire. “I told you what would happen if someone else got hurt.” Damon and Elena both say this wasn’t his fault. “Everything that happens is his fault.” Elena begs her to stop. He gets lit on fire. Elena shakes her free of trying to kill him. “Why did you stop me?” “Because this isn’t us. Bonnie this can’t be us.”

Jeremy

Stefan explains vervain and other ways to kill a vampire to Jeremy. He asks him to try to forget about Damon, because he’s 100x stronger than him and currently unpredictable.

Damon tells Jeremy it’s good to see him alive. Jeremy threatens to blow the whistle on who Damon really is. Damon threatens him back and takes his ring off to prove he could really kill him if he wanted to.

When Damon goes to the parlor, Jeremy is there waiting for him. He stops him from drinking the alcohol, because he laced it with Vervain so he could stake him. He tells Damon he figured he should stand for something like his father and uncle did. Damon tells him his father hated vampires too.

Lovers

Elena tells Stefan this carnival is about being normal teenagers. They are not allowed to discuss the v-word or the d-word.

Damon pours himself blood in the parlor and offers Stefan some. Damon thinks it’s funny Stefan is trying to be so careful with him; he wonders if Elena is worried too and assumes he’s their every conversation. Stefan asks if Damon’s seen Katherine again. Damon talks about the Lockwood’s. Stefan claims they don’t know why Katherine came back. Damon says it’s because of her undying love for Stefan, so he’s gonna let him deal with it.

Damon goes to Elena. Elena tries to ignore him. But he’s urgent.

Damon tells Elena and Stefan about Caroline. Stefan wants to find her. Damon wants to kill her. Elena says no. Stefan agrees. Damon reminds them of Vicki and that Caroline’s mom is the captain of the vampire hunters. Stefan is silent as Damon and Elena go back and forth. Stefan is aware this might be bad, but he agrees not to kill her.

Elena worries about Damon being right about Caroline. Stefan promises to make him wrong. “I don’t know why I thought it could be [normal]. My best friend’s a witch. My boyfriend’s a vampire. And I have a doppelganger who’s hellbent on destroying all of us.” Stefan apologizes. She assures him, “It’s no one’s fault. It is what it is. It’s just… you know what, I’m okay. I’ll see you tomorrow.” She walks away to go home.

Stefan wakes Elena up with a kiss at dawn. He wants to give her the normal experience she wanted to have before. She hesitates. He reminds her they have to take their moments when they can. When she asks him how they’re going to get to the top, he tells her to hold on tight and jumps to the top of the Ferris wheel so they can kiss like she wanted to.

The Council

Mrs. Lockwood tells Damon she’ll be acting as interim mayor until the elections and she needs someone to spearhead the council. She wants him to do it.

The Lockwood’s

Damon listens in as Tyler and Mason talk about his aggression asking if he has episodes and if it gets better when he works out. He says he blacks out. He wants to know if there’s a pattern. Once a month? Only at night? Yup. A werewolf!

Mason goes in the office looking for something. Tyler catches him. Mason says he’s looking for an old family artifact, a moonstone. Tyler says to ask his mom.

Damon and Stefan watch Tyler in an arm-wrestling competition. He takes on Mason who wins and takes on Stefan. Mason beats him, and he actually tries to win. Stefan jokes about them being ninja turtles or werewolves. Damon says there’s no such thing as ninja turtles or werewolves. Damon compels the flirty guy to pick a fight with Tyler.

The guy does pick a fight with Tyler. Stefan watches as Mason jumps between them. All three of them fight. Mason’s eyes go werewolf and he jumps like crazy. Stefan runs after the guy to make sure he’s okay when Tyler and Mason run off.

Tyler questions Mason about his eyes. Mason tries not to tell him. “You saw me get pissed off that I had to pull your delinquent ass out of a fight.”

Mrs. Lockwood tells Mason she’s glad he’s in the house. She thinks he’ll be good for Tyler and she’ll try to dig up the moonstone. I wonder if the moonstone is what keeps them from wolfing up?

Tyler goes looking through his dad’s valuables and finds the moonstone under a floorboard.

TVD: Season 2 Episode 1 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 1

Lovers

Damon tries to talk about the kiss without actually saying it. Elena of course has no idea what he’s talking about. Damon starts to piece things together as Elena is adamant the kiss didn’t happen and that she doesn’t remember talking to Jenna about going to the fire department. He doesn’t tell Elena what he’s realized.

“Elena” goes home, but I’m pretty sure it’s Katherine. Yup! She goes to kiss Stefan and he knows it’s Katherine. Elena and Damon show up just in time. This means Katherine at some point has been invited into the house. Elena tells Jeremy about Katherine and Damon admits he kissed Katherine thinking she was Elena. Stefan gets mad and tries to fight him. Elena steps in saying it was Katherine he kissed, not her. “I wouldn’t do that,” she says point blank to Damon. Elena and Stefan plan to try to get info about Katherine. Damon plans to ignore her. If she thinks she’s being ignored, she do something. Then, he’ll “stake her, rip her head off, something poetic. We’ll see.” Gotta say, I’m liking Damon hating Katherine. Ha, ha.

Elena and family show up. Elena sees Damon and checks on him. She still doesn’t know Jenna saw Damon kissing “her.” Damon doesn’t admit how he’s feeling, she thinks he’s hurting. He acknowledges she’s afraid Katherine is going to send him off the deep end. “Why is it such a surprise that I would kiss you?” “That’s not a surprise. It’s a surprise that you thought I would kiss you back.” “Now, I’m hurt.” Bonnie comes running in at that moment.

Elena begs Stefan not to fight Damon. He’s not the problem. Katherine is. He’s unstable when it comes to her.

While Stefan and Katherine are talking, Matt comes up and she plays the part of caring ex-girlfriend. Katherine tries her mind tricks on Stefan reminding him how happy Damon was to see her, though he thought she was his ex-girlfriend. Stefan tells Katherine he hasn’t spent the last 145 years obsessing over her like Damon has. She states his taste in women tells a different story. He threatens her. She says she came back for him. He says he hates her. She stabs him and runs off.

Elena cleans Stefan’s wound and asks if he’s going to be okay. Damon comes up and says he tried to track her but couldn’t. He tells Elena, “You better watch out. Looks like she’s going after your guy. I mean it’s only fair since I went after your girl.” Stefan denies this. Elena goes to check on Jeremy and Jenna. Stefan tells Damon he’s not going to fight him because they need to stay united as Katherine tries to pit them against each other. “I kissed Elena.” “Because you feel something for her. Because you actually care. And I’m not going to let Katherine come in here and destroy that part of you that has finally after all of this time is willing to feel something. She’ll try to break you. She’ll try to break us. And how we respond to that will define us. It’s our choice. So no, I’m not gonna fight you.” He stands there in dismay.

Katherine shows up at the estate with Damon. She claims she’s there to say goodbye. She knows when she’s not wanted. “What no goodbye kiss?” He says he’d rather kill her. “Which will it be? Kiss me or kill me? we both know you’re only capable of one.” He attacks her, but then they start intensely making out. “Wait. Brief pause. I have a question. Answer it and it’s back to the fireworks… answer it right and I’ll forget the 145 years I spent missing you. I’ll forget how much I loved you. I’ll forget everything and we can start over. This can be our defining moment because we have time. That’s the beauty of eternity. I just need the truth just once.” She tells him to stop. She already knows the question and the answer. “The truth is. I’ve never loved you. It was always Stefan.” You can hear is heart break. Her eyes actually show emotion before she walks away.

Elena finds Damon in her room sitting on her bed. She knows he’s been drinking and he’s upset. “You’re the liar Elena. You know there’s something going on between us. You’re lying to me and you’re lying to Stefan and most of all you’re lying to yourself. I can prove it.” He kisses her. She tries to fight it. She keeps telling him she cares about him, but she loves Stefan. It’s always going to be Stefan. Jeremy comes in at that moment asking if everything is okay. Elena says it’s okay, but Damon says it’s not. “He wants to be a vampire. Turn off the pain. Just flip the switch and it’s gone.” He snaps his neck. Elena cries over his body and Damon tries not to care as he walks away. Elena notices Jeremy is wearing his father’s ring.

Stefan comes by. He thinks Damon saw the ring and that’s why he did it. Elena doesn’t think he saw the ring. “It’s Katherine. She got under his skin and undid everything good about him.” “There’s nothing good about him,” Elena says. “Not anymore. He made his decision. He doesn’t want to feel. He wants to be hated. It’s easier that way. He got his wish. I hate him Stefan.” Damon is in the parlor drinking. Angry with himself. Jeremy comes back to life. He knows what happened.

John

Elena enters the kitchen to find John dying. She goes to help him and call an ambulance, while Katherine stands behind her. John tries to warn her, but she disappears. She goes looking for her and then she leaves.

Stefan and Elena go to talk to John. He freaks out, thinking she’s Katherine. Elena gives him his ring back as a sign of trust. John starts running his mouth about Elena being with a vampire and how she should’ve already staked him. Elena walks away saying such hatred is going to get him killed. After she walks away, Damon feeds his blood to John. He threatens to turn him into a vampire. If he doesn’t leave within 24 hours, he’s going to turn him into a vampire. Stefan tells Elena he asked him to leave town. She knows he threatened him.

John tells Jeremy he’s leaving. He tells Jeremy he was raised to hate vampires. Jeremy asks about the ring. John explains the ring protects you from supernatural stuff. It doesn’t work for accidents and things.

Bonnie

Bonnie and Damon talk about the Lockwood men and how she doesn’t trust him even if Elena is fooled. She does the witchy mind trick on him. Bonnie goes to talk to Elena, but it’s Katherine. She knows this when she touches her. She calls Elena to see where she is. Katherine introduces herself. Katherine starts recapping Elena’s life. Bonnie tries to do the mind trick on her. It doesn’t work. She attacks her back. Stefan shows up.

Humans

Bonnie tells Elena Caroline might not make it. Damon is standing their listening. Elena asks if she can do anything to help Caroline. Damon offers to give her just enough blood to survive. Elena doesn’t want him to do it, but Bonnie tells him to do it. “If I do this, you and me, call it truce.” “No, but you’ll do it anyway, for Elena.” Elena just nods her head.

Bonnie goes to check on Caroline. Matt says Damon stopped by late last night and now Caroline is mostly better.

Caroline wakes up in the hospital. “Elena” is there. Katherine confesses who she is. She asks Caroline to give the Salvatore brothers a message for her. She suffocates her and walks away. I wonder if she knows Damon gave her blood. I have a feeling she doesn’t, but it’s Katherine. Katherine is unpredictable.

Tyler and Family

Bonnie asks Matt about the accident. When Matt tells her about the noise Tyler heard, she immediately knows something is wrong. I’m convinced he’s a werewolf or something and that the vervain or whatever has kept him from turning or something… it would explain his and his father’s aggression.

Sheriff calls Damon to ask his help in talking to the Lockwood’s about the Mayor being dead. Damon talks to the sheriff and Mrs. Lockwood about the mayor.

Tyler’s uncle Mason shows up after what happened to his brother. Damon asks about him. Tyler thinks Elena has come by, but it’s really Katherine.

Jeremy apologizes to Tyler about his dad’s death. He reminds him he knows what it’s like to have strangers telling him how great his dad is. Tyler reminds him the difference is his dad was great, Tyler’s wasn’t. Jeremy agrees. They share a drink. Mason comes in, basically tells Jeremy to leave, and shares the drink with Tyler.

Tyler gets mad in his dad’s office. He tells his mom he hates his dad. She doesn’t believe it. He gets aggressive and Mason has to calm him down.

Mason and Tyler talk about the aggression being the curse of being a Lockwood.

Jeremy and Jenna

After Katherine slams the door shut, Elena rushes to make sure Jeremy is okay. He quickly wakes up. She calls Stefan to make sure Jeremy isn’t really a vampire. He’s not. Stefan tries to get ahold of him by telling him with Anna’s blood passing through his system, if he tried to die right now, he might actually die. Stefan tells Elena to go to the hospital and he’ll watch Jeremy.

TVD – Season 1 Overall Review

I went into this show hesitantly. I try to be careful with what I watch. If I can’t watch it with my teenage siblings, then I shouldn’t be watching it at all. After watching the first season of The Vampire Diaries, I am so far pleasantly surprised with it’s use of language, violence, and sexual content. It gets a little too sensual for my preference sometimes, but for the most part it’s fairly appropriate. I approve of season 1 of The Vampire Diaries to watch with my teenage siblings. Even with the occasional witchcraft, it’s not too heavy on occult practices and is not disrespectful of Christianity which is always my biggest concern with shows like this. I will continue to watch this show with caution, but less worry.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 22 (Season Finale) Recap and Reactions

Episode 22

Flashback to Katherine and Stefan getting dressed up for something… or not… it’s Elena and Stefan. Jenna helps Elena get ready. They’re dressing up for the 150^th Founders Day. Damon shows up and jokes about stealing his girl. “Elena is not Katherine,” Damon says. “You’re right, she’s not,” Stefan agrees, only for Elena to walk toward them looking exactly like Katherine. Honestly, I won’t be surprised if Katherine takes Elena’s place by the end of this episode. Stefan tells Elena about John. Even though there’s no proof, it seems likely. Her whole life she’s hated John. She talks about how she has enough issues with her actual family, let alone with John. She tries again with Jeremy, but Jeremy tells her it’s not going to be fixed easily.

While Jeremy is getting ready, Anna comes by. Jeremy feels about that his uncle killed her mother. He understands where John is coming from. Anna tells Jeremy she’s leaving and asks him to come with her. He asks her to change for her. She gives him a vile of her blood. He’s shocked. She tells him he can turn off the lonely as a vampire. He doesn’t know if he can. Anna finds Jeremy and drags him into the bathroom. Jeremy holds Anna’s vile of blood and Damon comes to tell him she’s dead. He figured that when they took her away. “I know you cared about her. I saw her killed and all I could think about was I wanted to help her. but I couldn’t… I took away your suffering once before. I can do it again, but it’s your choice.” “I know you think you took it away, but it’s still there even if I can’t remember why. Making me forget won’t fix it.” “What I did to Vicki was wrong. I’m sorry for my part.” “Anna said that vampires don’t have to feel pain. They can turn it off. They don’t have to feel the pain. Is it easier that way?” “Life sucks either way. I did it for a long time. And life was a lot easier.” Jeremy takes his Anna blood to bathroom, opens it, drinks it, and pulls out Elena’s pain meds. He dumps them all out and takes them before bed.

Tyler tries again to make things better with Matt. He tells Caroline he apologized. “You made out with his mother and you beat him up. It doesn’t get fixed that easily.”

On the float, Elena waves to Bonnie and Bonnie waves back. Then, Damon steps in the way and waves flirtatiously at her. She rolls her eyes in the flirty way she does with him and then looks up Stefan to make sure he’s okay with his brother’s ridiculousness. Damon turns around and sees Bonnie. She starts to walk away, but he stops her thanks her. “Thank you. I don’t take what you did lightly. The device could have killed me. Thank you.” Bonnie says she did it for Elena. He knows, but he’s still very grateful and he owes her.

John explains the device. It works only one time for approximately 5 minutes. He’ll set it off, it will release a high frequency sound to high for human ears and decapacitating to vampire ears. The sheriff’s office will inject all those affected with vervain and round them up so they can be killed. The evil vamps plan to attack during the fireworks show of the founders day. John knows this because someone confirmed it. Anna shows up at the meeting with the other vampires. John goes to the sheriff with plans to go after the vampires. She refuses, but her deputies have already agreed. He knocks her out, takes her belt, and handcuffs her to a heavy piece of furniture so she can’t stop the attack against the vampire attack. Anna tells Damon about the vampire attack. They think she’s with them, but she’s not. She tells him it’s supposed to happen when the fireworks go off. “Remember. A lot of them ingested vervain. It’s not about the feed, it’s about the kill.” They want to kill the founding families. Damon tells Alaric they need his anti-vampire kit. Then, he hears Elena laughing with Stefan and goes up to her, taking her other arm in his. “Tomb vamps are here. Founding families are here. Get her out of here, now.” The mayor shows up at the Grill where Caroline, Matt, and Tyler are. He tries to force Tyler to go home. Caroline and Matt jump to Tyler’s defense. The mayor tells them all to go home now. the vampires circle the crowd and Bonnie bumps into one and follows him. John turns on the device and it works. Damon is with John when it goes off. Anna is with Jeremy. And Stefan is with Elena. What’s really surprising is Tyler hears it too. And he’s driving. They get into a car accident. The Mayor goes down too. Alaric saves Stefan from being taken. Anna isn’t so lucky. Damon’s already where he’s supposed to be. Damon wasn’t injected. He and Anna start stirring. No no no no no! Damon watches as John personally stakes Anna. Hasn’t Jeremy lost enough!? John sets the place on fire. Alaric, Elena, and Stefan piece together that Bonnie didn’t despell the device. They’re surprisingly calm about it. Elena and Stefan go to find Damon. Damon finds the Mayor and tries to figure what he is. He’s clearly affected, but the vervain doesn’t affect them. I wonder if they’re werewolves. I know there are supposed to be werewolves in this show. Even if I didn’t know, it would make sense. You can only get so far with only vampires. This show has 8 seasons and 5 spinoff seasons. When the paramedics check Tyler’s pupils they look like animal eyes. Werewolf eyes if I know werewolves at all. He wakes up and is okay, but Caroline passes out. John explains he’s doing what should have been done 145 years ago. Elena tries to go after Stefan to save Damon, but John stops her. “Take one step closer and I’ll alert the deputies they missed a vampire.” “I’m asking you not to.” “That doesn’t mean anything to me.” “As my father, it should.” “You know.” “I wasn’t sure. Now I am.” Bonnie tries to keep Stefan from going inside. She doesn’t want him to burn. Elena comes running, she tries to stop her too. “I’m sorry I lied to you.” While holding Elena, Bonnie starts chanting to put the fire out so she can save Stefan and Damon. It works. Elena tells Stefan the story is a faulty wire set the building on fire. “I try so hard to hate him. I guess it’s just pointless.” “You care about him. So do I. But I love you, Stefan. I know you’re worried about that. She says it two more times while he tries to explain his insecurities. “You have nothing to worry about.” Tyler and Matt are finally sort of friends again. The sheriff says they’re going to do everything to make sure Caroline is okay. She tells Tyler to call his mom about his dad. Bonnie tells Stefan Elena is her best friend. She threatens Damon. If he drops even one drop of human blood, she’ll take him down, even if she has to take Stefan with him. Elena gets home and Damon is there. He says it’s a failed and feeble attempt of doing the right thing. “You know I came into this town wanting to destroy it. Tonight I found myself wanting to save it. How does that happen? I’m not a hero Elena. I don’t do good. It’s not in me.” “Maybe it is.” “No that reserved for Stefan and you and Bonnie even though she has every reason to hate me she still helped Stefan save me.” “Why does that surprise you?” “Because she did it for you, which means somewhere along the way, you decided I was worth saving. And I wanted to… thank you for that.” “You’re welcome.” He kisses her on the cheek and she thinks it’s weird. Then he slowly goes to kiss her kiss her and she doesn’t pull way. She kisses him back. Kind of passionately. Jenna opens the door on them. Shocked. Confused. Telling her to come inside. “What are you doing?” “I… don’t want to talk about.”

At the end of the day, Elena walks into the Grill looking like herself again. Damon tells her he likes her better this way. The period look did not suit her. She thinks it’s an insult, but he says it’s a compliment of the highest order. “I know Stefan is worried about our friendship.” “Did he mention something to you too?” “No, he did he mention something to you?” “No. Nothing worth repeating,” with that flirting smirk of his. “So I think she should stop with the flirty comments and that eye thing that you do.” “What eye thing?” he does the eye thing, the smolder. “Don’t make me regret being your friend, okay?”

She goes to Jeremy. “I don’t believe can’t fix this. I lied and I’m sorry. So tell me how I can fix this.” “You can go to hell Elena.” Damon watches the exchange and follows Jeremy, mocking him as he does. Jeremy calls him a dick. Damon tells him not to talk to him like that and not to talk to his sister like that either. Damon reminds Jeremy he’s the one who took his memory not Elena. Elena was worried and trying to protect him. Stefan comes up and talks to Jeremy too. “Don’t blame Elena. Damon turned her and I killed her. She was a threat to you and a threat to your sister. I’m sorry that it happened; I wish that it hadn’t.” Stefan gets upset that Damon is trying to help fix Jeremy and Elena’s relationship. He tells him to stop. It’s none of his business. It’s only good when you do it because you want to and not because you get something out of it.

Inside, John is in the kitchen when Elena goes in there. He tells her about Isabelle. Part of the reason he hates the vampire so much is because of what she became. How it ruined her. She was special. “I never would have sent her to Damon had I know she wanted to turn.” He hopes she understands. She looks at him with hate her eyes and a knife in her hand. He cuts off his fingers with the ring on, stabs his gut, and John asks, “Katherine.” “Hello, John.” What! Hold on, what!? I said I wouldn’t be surprised, and part of me’s not, but here I am exclaiming at the TV at 12:30 in the morning over Elena some how being replaced by Katherine! When did this happen? Before the kiss with Damon? It seems like it. But when? It had to have been after saving Stefan and Damon. Wait. Here she is. She’s on the phone with Stefan telling him someone took her stuff. She goes inside and… Oh my gosh! Are you freaking kidding me!? This is the end of the season! I knew I should have quit while I was head. I had a feeling this would leave me wanting more than the last episode did! Dang it! How do people watch these shows weekly!? This is why I wait to binge shows. My head is pounding with a need for sleep and I’m still considering staying up to watch the next episode! I mean, I know that will be foolish because every episode leaves me wanting more, but dang! Caroline is in the hospital, Jeremy is trying to turn himself into a vampire, and Katherine has traded places with Elena! Not to mention that Damon and Elena kiss wasn’t even real! ☹ I mean, good because now she didn’t cheat on Stefan, but bad because I’ve waiting all season for this love triangle to become a thing! It’s gotta become an official thing! But with Katherine back in the picture and Damon kissing her. I don’t know what’s coming now. I do wonder though if Damon kissed her because he was on to her… I don’t know. I have to go to bed… and tomorrow’s Saturday so it should be a busy work day, meaning I may not have much time to watch much TVD.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 21 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 21

Isabelle and Alaric sit together at the Grill. He asks where she’s been. She tells him she doesn’t have any answers that will satisfy him. She asks him to deliver a message to Elena so they can meet. He refuses. Isabelle follows him outside and threatens him. If he doesn’t do what she asks, then she’s going to kill everyone in town one by one and start with his students. Alaric gathers Damon, Elena, and Stefan in his classroom. He tells Elena and Stefan first and recaps Damon when he’s late. Damon is shocked and immediately looks at Elena to see how she’s doing.

Elena calls Damon to check on Stefan. They flirt like normal. Stefan’s standing at the door when Damon gets off the phone with Elena. Damon gives him his phone and tells him she called. Damon assures Elena she doesn’t have to go meet her mother if she doesn’t want to. Then they tell Damon about the killing spree threat. Stefan goes with her to Grill while she meets Isabelle. He sits away at a distance. Isabelle walks in like there’s no problem. She is shocked by how much Elena looks like Katherine. Katherine found her after she was turned. Elena starts asking Isabelle questions immediately. When she says not caring about human life is part of who she is, Elena contradicts her. Isabelle asks why she chose Stefan. Why not Damon? Or does she enjoy both? She is shocked by the question and doesn’t answer. Stefan looks down at his feet. Damon and Alaric are waiting outside talking about Isabelle. Alaric doesn’t understand. Stefan still has his humanity. Even Damon is a dick who kills people has something in him, but Isabelle is different. Damon tells him you can turn it off. Every instinct in a vampire is not to feel. Stefan doesn’t turn any of it off. Isabelle turns it all off. Damon only turns some of it off. Isabelle tells Elena to get the invention for her or it’ll be her fault people die.

Caroline and Bonnie discuss their float for the founder’s parade. Caroline doesn’t understand why everyone is fighting right now. Building the floats are supposed to be about friendship, but Tyler and Matt hate each other and Bonnie and Elena aren’t talking. Tyler tries to make amends with Matt or at least check on how he’s doing, but Matt won’t have it.

Bonnie walks in right as Isabelle leaves and sees Elena crying. She has an internal debate about whether to comfort her or not. When Stefan walks up, Bonnie leaves. Bonnie comes to Elena’s house before school and apologizes. She doesn’t want that to be their friendship. Elena tells Bonnie everything. Bonnie tells her Jonathan Gilbert never succeeded in inventing anything. Emily spelled all of his inventions including the mystery invention. Emily pledged her loyalty to Katherine, but she couldn’t stand by and watch innocent people die. Bonnie reads the spell book and tells her the mystery device is a weapon against vampires.

When John gets home, Isabel is watching two humans she turned into her puppets. She and John are in to together to get the invention. Damon is at Isabelle’s house and plays strip poker with her female puppet. Isabelle and Damon flirt and fool around. She says they have the same goal, working for Katherine. He attacks her. “Now that I have your attention, listen up. You do not come into my town and threaten the people I care about. Going after Elena—bad move. You leave her alone or I will rip you to bits because I do believe in killing the messenger. You know why? Because it sends a message. If Katherine wants something from me. You tell that little B- to come get it herself.”

Jeremy tries calling Anna again, but she’s not answering. Jenna likes her and her fire. John walks in and asks Jeremy about how well he knows Anna. He offers all his help, because his dad would want him to. While Elena is looking for Stefan, Jeremy asks Elena for advice or info on Anna and he tells her he knows what she is and that Elena knows. Elena really doesn’t know where she is. Elena turns around and Isabelle is there. She starts ticking off the people Elena cares about. Elena tries to tell Isabelle to leave, but Isabelle has friends around everyone Elena cares about. One of them hurts Matt and another takes Jeremy. Isabelle doesn’t believe how much Damon cares about Elena. She calls John over and John tries to get to the old friend he grew up with inside her, but she’s gone. She takes his special ring and has her puppets beat him. John tells Jeremy the plan is to get rid of all the old vampires and that his dad is the one taught him about the family history. Jeremy doesn’t believe all vampires are bad. John and apparently their father didn’t agree. He believed all vampires were bad, or so John says.

Elena tries to convince Damon to give her the device. He tries to argue, but he gives in. Bonnie can take the spell away to keep the device from working. That’s the plan. Take the spell away and give it to Isabelle. The all meet in a public place. Isabelle brings her puppets and Elena brings the Salvatore brothers. Elena refuses to give her the device without knowing Jeremy is okay. Isabelle tells her to call home. She does and Jeremy is safe with Jenna and John. “How did you know Damon was going to give it to me?” “Because he’s in love with you.” Shock on Elena’s face, an attempted straight face and side eye toward Stefan on Damon’s, and somber acceptance on Stefan’s. Elena gives Isabelle the device and thanks her for being a monumental disappointment so the memory of her real mother stays in tact. “As long as you have a Salvatore on each arm, you’re doomed. Katherine was smart. She got out. But we all know that you’re not Katherine.” She turns away and watches Isabelle leave. Stefan and Elena hug and Elena looks at Damon before burying her face in Stefan’s chest. Stefan looks over at Damon after a moment. All the while, Damon is watching both of them before walking away.

Elena wants to talk to Jeremy, but Jeremy doesn’t want to talk. He does tell her he read her journal. Elena explains that when she had Damon erase Jeremy’s memory it was because it was like Mom and Dad all over again. She saw it in his face. He tells her to leave.

Isabelle shows up at the school with Alaric there. She wants to tell him goodbye. She wants him to hate her so it’s easier. He shows her that she’s wearing the ring. She’s shocked. Pretending she doesn’t care anymore. He gives her the ring back. He doesn’t believe she doesn’t care. So he gives her the ring back and drops her vervain on the ground. “I wanted this. I needed this. This was my mistake.  Not yours. You are not going to remember this. I did. I loved you. I did. And when I think about what I gave up, it hurts. It does. But now you let me go.” She gives him the ring back and walks away.

Jeremy goes to his room and Anna is there crying telling him about her mother. “I know I’m not supposed to be here, but I don’t have anywhere else to go.”

Damon pours himself a drink in the parlor and offers one to Stefan. Stefan talks about what Isabelle said. He knows Elena cares about Damon and that he cares about her. Damon says they’re friends, in fact she’s like his only friend. He more or less threatens Damon. “This is not going to be like Katherine.” Damon puts two and two together about John being Elena’s father. John and Isabelle dated as teenagers. Isabelle confirms it. She calls John telling him she left the vampire stuff on his doorstep and tells him to kill Stefan and Damon. “I don’t want this life for her. She’s our daughter.” Oh snap! This show is getting crazier and crazier!

Without giving the details, Bonnie tells Caroline she didn’t remove the spell from the vampire weapon. She pretended to, but she couldn’t. Grams wouldn’t have done it, so she didn’t. “When Elena finds out, she’s never going to forgive me.”

TVD: Season 1 Episode 20 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 20

Stefan wakes up in the cell and has flashbacks to watching the vampires get caught. He acts as a distraction while Damon tries to set Katherine free. Damon gets shot trying to free Katherine. Stefan gets shot next. His flashback gets confused when Damon and Elena start trying to talk to him. He goes back and forth between seeing Elena and seeing Katherine.

Elena and Damon talk about how hard it is to see him locked up. Damon reminds her she did it. She reminds him he helped. He claims it’s for safety. She believes it’s because he kind of cares about his  brother. Stefan makes no effort to let Elena know he’s awake, but he does look at his missing ring and flashback again to the first time he noticed it. He wakes up when he knows he shouldn’t. Emily explains the rings were made for them weeks ago per Katherine’s request and that Katherine has been compelling him to drink her blood for weeks. Damon needed no such compulsion. He tells him he watched them take Katherine inside and burn the church.

Elena asks Damon if he’s figured out the invention yet. He hasn’t. He asks if she’s talked to John at all lately. She hasn’t. She’s been avoiding him and she’s been there most nights. Elena goes to school and Damon goes to check on Stefan. “The human blood should be gone by now. You wanna explain why you’re sitting in her feeling sorry for yourself?” Stefan refuses to drink his animal blood.

Anna surprises Jeremy with a class schedule. She’s officially a student now. He’s her reason for going. He’s in awe. They kiss. Anna and Jeremy discuss everything in his room. She tells him he’s her weakness. They get really sensual. He stops for a minute, saying he doesn’t want Jenna walking in on them. She uses her hearing to impress him and tell him what Jenna’s doing downstairs. At home, Pearl tells Anna they’re leaving. “There’s too many people here who know the truth. Too much  history.” She begs her not to leave. Pearl won’t force her. It’s her decision. Anna lets herself in Jeremy’s room and lays down with him. He’s only half away and quickly sleeps again. She was going to tell him she was leaving, but when he falls asleep again, she whispers goodbye and leaves. While Pearl and Harper are trying to leave, Pearl opens the girl and they get staked. Anna goes home and finds them. She breaks down.

Alaric calls Damon to let him know he’s been doing some digging on John. He found out he’s been contacting Isabelle a lot and that he’s found an address. He wants to go check on it together. Elena calls before Damon can agree or disagree. She asks how Stefan is. “Extra Broody. He won’t eat anything.” She asks about his favorite animal blood. Damon answers golden retriever flood and she knows he’s teasing her. John asks her to talk. He says he knows she knows. He asks what her mother would say if she knew she was dating a vampire. “Which mother,” she asks and walks away. Stefan tells Elena he doesn’t want to survive. He wants it over. She talks about it with Damon. He suggests she stay up here. She shouldn’t be down there by herself. He tells her he’s got an errand to run with Alaric. She jokes about them being friends now. He says he doesn’t have friends. Alaric and Damon are able to get into the house and find a vampire named Henry who was in the tomb. They talk to him about John and how he helps him keep an eye on the others. He says John is just trying to keep an eye on the others. John calls at that moment. Damon asks to answer the phone. When he doesn’t, Henry attacks and Alaric stakes him. Alaric and Damon joke with each other about looking for their vampire exes. He only looked for Isabelle for 2 years and now he says he’s done. He doesn’t want to look for answers he doesn’t really want to know. Damon is surprised it’s moderately healthy considering he’s been looking for Katherine for 146 years. He jokes he plans to stop at 200.

Flashback Stefan and Damon discuss whether they will or won’t drink human blood. Damon is the one who doesn’t want to do it anymore since Katherine is dead. Stefan isn’t so sure.

John and Pearl meet together at the Grill. John tells Pearl he was sorry for what he did to her. She believes he’s lying. He lies further. She gets emotional and he laughs saying his only regret was not staking her himself.

Stefan tells Elena Damon hasn’t fed him vervain in a while. He could be at the bars in a minute. He tells her to go away. He doesn’t want her there. She opens the door and walks in. He tries to scare her into leaving. She won’t back down. He unvamps and sits down. He tells her his choice about becoming a vampire. His father confessed to him that he’s the one who shot them. They were dead to him the moment they sided with the vampires. He goes to stake him and Stefan fights him. He accidently stakes his father and gets the blood on his hands. He can’t resist trying it even though he was going to let himself die. “How can you even look at me right now?” “You need to be able to talk about these things and I need to hear them.” She asks him to come upstairs. He’s not ready, but she is. She gives him his ring and tells him to come upstairs when he’s ready.

Elena is in the parlor when Damon gets home. They ask about their nights. She tells him Stefan is getting there, but he’s so full of guilt and Damon hasn’t helped that. She’s not blaming him, but she is pointing out he’s spent 146 years trying to make his life miserable, reminding him he’s the reason Katherine was caught. Damon gets upset. So far, Elena has only heard the sordid parts of Stefan and Damon’s story. Damon tells her the rest of the story. After drinking from her father, Stefan comes back feeling more alive than ever. He tells Damon he can now turn the guilt on and off. He brings a girl for Damon to drink from trying to encourage him to drink so he can turn off the pain. Stefan drinks from the girl and forces Damon to drink from her too. He doesn’t want to. He wants to die. Without Katherine, there’s no point in living anymore. “From his first taste of human blood, Stefan’s been a different person.” Damon calls him stupid if he decides to die. Elena tells him not to pretend like he doesn’t care. She goes down to Stefan, but he’s not there. His ring is, but he isn’t. He goes to the woods and flashes back to Damon’s promise of to make his life miserable. He doesn’t say it but he implies it’s because he didn’t want to live for eternity. He wanted to die. Emily tells Stefan that even death his heart is pure. She senses that about him. That’s what makes it a curse for him. Elena comes to him, telling him Damon told her the rest of the story. He feels so guilty about all the hurt and death caused by him. Elena tells him the reason she and her family were in the car that night was because she blew off family night to go to a party but got stranded so they had to come pick her up. “Our actions are what sets things in motion but we have to live with that.” He explains that pain is with him all the time. If he gives himself over to the blood, then he can make the pain stop. She reminds him that he’s made the decision to be good. She doesn’t believe he’ll give in to the blood. She kisses him, gives him his ring back, and walks away. “It’s your choice.” As she walks away, he says her name, puts the ring back on, and they kiss. Maybe this isn’t the temporary end of them and the beginning of Elena and Damon…? Elena and Stefan say good night to Damon. She goes upstairs and they talk. Stefan thanks Damon for helping Elena take care of him. Damon confesses the guilt is there if he wanted to feel it. He demands that Stefan not feel his guilt for him. And he tells Stefan he hates him not because he forced him to turn, but because Katherine turned him too. It was only supposed to be Damon.

Oh, snap! This show is freaking crazy! Isabelle is in Mystic Falls!

TVD: Season 1 Episode 19 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 19

Stefan drives to school in his car. Everyone stares. Elena is happy to see him at school again and asks if this means he’s okay now. A concerned look crosses Elena’s face when Stefan tells her he’ll catch up with her. He opens the trunk of his car and there are several empty blood bags there.

Damon has a meeting with the sheriff and John. Someone stole blood bags from the local hospital and changed the numbers to make it look normal. John suspects Damon, but Damon is confused. John volunteers himself and Damon to look into the matter. John shows up at the estate and tells Damon Jonathon Gilbert had an invention Pearl stole the plans too. He asks Damon if he knows who Pearl is. That’s what tips the scale for Damon. He tells him to get out. The only reason he was letting John use the blackmail scheme was because he thought he could lead him to Katherine. Because Katherine and Pearl were best friends and John doesn’t know that, Damon knows he doesn’t know where Katherine is. John threatens to tell the whole counsel about the Salvatore’s. Damon doesn’t care. He’ll kill the whole counsel, severe John’s hand, take his ring, and then kill him too. Anna and Pearl come to Damon with the invention Pearl stole. The problem is, she stole the wrong invention. She knew that when she saw the compass in Jonathan’s hand the night she was captured.

Bonnie is finally back in school after her grandma’s death. She avoids looking at Elena and gives Damon a weird look. When Elena catches up to her later, she says she didn’t really want to come back after learning the spell failed. Elena says she wanted her to know before coming back. Caroline comes running up and lets it out that she and Bonnie talked every day she was gone. Such is not the case for Elena and Bonnie. Caroline mentions the Founder’s court. Elena has forgotten about it. Caroline asks Elena if this means she’s dropping out. She can’t back out because her mom wanted her to do it. Caroline goes over her competition with Bonnie. When they go into the dance room, Bonnie ignores Stefan altogether and tries to avoid Elena who asks her to talk for just a minute. Elena asks what’s wrong. “You’ve barely said 10 words to me and you won’t even look at Stefan.” She admits everything Grams did was to protect them from the vampires in the tomb. Now that they’re out it means she died for nothing. She blames Stefan and Damon. Elena wants to know what she can do to make it better. She can’t. Bonnie doesn’t want to put Elena in a situation where she has to pick sides. She’s just having a hard time. Of course, Stefan listens in.

Anna shows up the estate. She apologizes for the stuff that happened with Stefan. Damon blames her for taking the blood from the hospital. Anna says she hasn’t been to the local hospital in a week and that the other vampires all left Mystic Falls except for herself, her mother, and Harper. Damon is concerned. Damon accuses Stefan of taking the blood from the hospital. Stefan denies everything. He swears he hasn’t been drinking human blood. Damon doesn’t believe him and catches him the act. Like the addict he is, he claims he has it under control. Damon calls him on his crap. He stole from a hospital. Stefan claims he’s fine, but Damon knows he’s going through the Jackal and Hyde phase of being back on human blood. He asks if Elena knows. Stefan says she doesn’t need to know yet. The first step to prepping for the Founder’s court is learning to dance. Elena and Stefan flirt it up. And Elena notices he’s in an unusually good mood. She’s not complaining. It’s just different.

While Stefan is walking past the basketball court, one of the kids falls and scrapes his knee getting bloodied up. Stefan struggles the urge to go after the kid. Alaric comes up to him and notices something is wrong. Stefan chokes him and then quickly apologizes, saying he’s feeling sick. Alaric is the chauffer for the Gilberts and asks Elena how he’s doing. Elena says he’s bouncing back. Alaric doesn’t push it further.

Anna shows up at the court. Damon talks to her about John trying to get the invention from Pearl. His reasoning for Anna is that she wants to stay in Mystic Falls if John is gone, because he’s making it hard for vampires to live there.

Jenna and Elena talk about how she’s not getting cold feet, but she’s not exactly having fun either. She feels like she would be having more fun if her mom were here. Caroline is sitting nearby and overhears their conversation. When Elena goes to change into her dress, Damon is there waiting for her. He tells her Stefan is still drinking human blood. He admits he would have rejoiced a month ago, but not now with the counsel breathing down their necks. Damon explains it’s so much worse for Stefan because he’s spent his entire existence denying his thirst, rather than learning to control. “It’s Stefan on human blood. He’ll say anything. He’ll do anything. Because he’s not gonna want to stop. Trust me.” Elena blames herself. Stefan comes in at that moment. Damon straight up tells Stefan he’s been filling Elena in and Elena says she knows about the blood. Damon excuses himself to go downstairs and drink. Stefan claims he was going to tell her. He swears he’s fine. She tells him it’s changing him. She calls him out on stealing and lying. He uses the guilt trip of “I thought you believed in me.” Stefan goes to the bathroom and breaks a mirror, furious about Damon and Elena. One of the other girls, Amber checks on him, and he vamps up. In the next scene, Stefan and Amber are missing. Elena tries to drop out because this isn’t who she is anymore, but Caroline stops her. She reminds her she’s doing this because it was important to her mom. Stefan is taking Amber outside and walking away with her. He compels her and rambles to her about everything. When Stefan doesn’t show up to escort Elena, Damon does it instead. Jenna and Alaric wonder what she’s doing with Damon. Damon and Elena have to do the dance with each other and Elena is very clearly feeling something with him. It’s in her eyes and small smile. It’s in his too. At the end of the dance, she looks away from him, trying not to feel whatever she’s feeling. Stefan tells Amber he wants to kill her. He speaks of feeding on humans as an artform. He knows if he gives in there’s no going back. Under compulsion, Amber encourages him. He does. He gives in. He feeds off her. Caroline wins. He asks why she’s not afraid. Because he told her not to be. He comes her further to be afraid of him and to run like hell. Damon tells Stefan about the struggle in the bathroom and that Amber is missing. Bonnie overhears and follows them to find him. He chases after Amber again. He changed his mind. The three catch up to him. Damon physically tries to stop Stefan while Elena begs him to stop. Bonnie uses a mind trick on him. It stops him, but he runs away. The sheriff says Amber doesn’t remember anything. The story is that Bonnie and Elena find her and called Damon. They claim they didn’t see anything. Elena begs Bonnie to talk to her. Bonnie doesn’t want to make Elena choose, but she does have to choose for herself. Alaric asks Elena what’s wrong. Elena is in Stefan’s room when he gets there, shaking. She tells him it’s not him. It’s what the blood brings out in him. He says it is him. It brings out what’s inside of him. If she thinks differently, she’s an idiot. “I wanted to drain every ounce of blood from that girl’s body. It’s who I am Elena.” “No, you can’t scare me off.” “Why would you risk this? Why did you come here?” “Because this is my fault. I did this.” “All you did was expose me to who I really am.” “This isn’t you.” “Stop saying that! Don’t get any closer to me.” “I’m not going to give up. I believe in you.” He slams her against the wall yelling stop. She shaking in fear. “I’m so sorry.” He leans against her. She stabs him with one of Alaric’s vervain darts. And, per Elena’s request, Damon locks Stefan in the same dungeon Stefan locked him in in the first episodes. She decides to stay outside the dungeon and he stays with her. Yup! This is officially the official unofficial beginning and Damon and Elena.

Jeremy asks John about Jonathan. Jonathan tells him there are more journals. Jeremy asks what he thinks of his writing and he claims he believes it’s all the crazy ramblings of a mad man. While talking to John, Jeremy spots Anna. She avoids him. He follows her. She’s hurt that he was using her to turn him so he could be with someone else. He compares it to befriending him to give his blood to her mom. She’s surprised he knows about that. He tells Anna he knows these things because of Elena’s journal. Part of him is angry she lied to him and erased his memory, but the other part is glad. He doesn’t want to remember Vicki as someone who wanted to hurt him. Anna confesses that after all the time they spent together, she would never do anything to hurt him. John asks Jenna about Anna. The foolish uninformed human that she is, Jenna gives him all the info he needs. She and her mother Pearl are new in town and trying to buy the Gilbert building.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 18 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 18

Stefan does pullups on the mantle of his room and pushups. He’s trying to detox himself of human blood. Damon tries to convince Stefan it’s okay to drink human blood from the blood bank. No one dies or gets hurt from the blood at the blood bank. Stefan lies and says he has his bloodlust completely under control. Damon leaves his cup of blood in the room, then runs back to get it claiming he almost forgot it. I think he left it on purpose.

Uncle John Gilbert shows up at the front door as the kids are leaving for school. Apparently, none of them like him. John is there to not sign the papers to sell the apothecary. It belongs to Jeremy and Elena, but because they’re minors, John has to approve. He says he won’t. He tells Jeremy he and Jenna used to sleep together.

Elena talks about it with Matt. Matt doesn’t like John anymore than the family does.

Tyler and Jeremy talk about Vicki’s death and how it doesn’t make sense she would be buried if it was just a drug overdose.

At the founders meeting, John is present and the sheriff doesn’t like him anymore than anyone else. He informs them all of blood bank break ins and missing people within 75 miles of Mystic Falls.

Alaric talks to Elena about Jeremy’s paper on vampires. He also questions her relationship with Stefan. She tells Stefan about Jeremy’s paper. He suggests she ask him about it. she asks him he’s doing. They talk about missing each other the few days he’s been away. They start fooling around. He’s gonna vamp up on her. And he does! They both freak out. He goes home and starts drinking excessively.

Elena calls Damon. Damon teases her while Jeremy is sitting at the dinner table. She takes him to her room asking how long it will take Stefan to get better because she’s worried about him. He reminds her deep down Stefan is just like him. She acknowledges the truth without saying anything.

Elena tells Jeremy she’s adopted. He wonders why she was worried about telling him. It’s weird to grow up thinking someone’s blood related to you and then find out their not. No matter what. He’s her brother though. He tells her he wrote the vampire paper out of boredom and maybe just a little gilbert crazy. Elena tries to deny gilberts are crazy. He jokes its easy for her to say because she’s not a gilbert.

At the founder’s kick off,  Elena immediately notices something is off about him. He admits right off that he’s drinking to take the edge off. He asks Elena to dance. Then he says the music needs to change. Kelly walks up then and tells Elena it’s not going to work. Elena notices him compelling the DJ to change the music. He starts dancing with Kelly, so she agrees to dance with Matt when asked. When Stefan starts dancing with Elena, they bump into someone. The someone is a jerk and tells her to get off the dance floor. Stefan gets mad and compels the guy again. She asks Damon if she knows what his brother’s been up to. No, he’s been watching her brother. He’s been asking questions about Vicki Donavan and who might have buried her. He gives her a rose and walks off.

Tyler catches Kelly drinking and takes her to the bathroom. I think they’re about to have a cougar moment. Kelly admits she feels like she should be on her best behavior because of Vicki, but she doesn’t want to be. Tyler admits he feels like he doesn’t deserve to miss Vicki, because he was so horrible to her. Matt and Elena catch them making out when Matt asks her to walk outside with him to get some air. She hesitantly agrees. Matt punches him and Tyler starts choking Matt who is left a bloody pulp. His mom was knocked over in the scuffle. At home, Matt packs Kelly’s things and tells her to leave because he’s better of without her. She tries to refuse to leave. She apologizes for failing him and Vicki. He tells her to be out of the house and his life by morning

John comes up to Damon and tells him he knows he’s a vampire without actually saying he’s a vampire. Damon snaps his neck and knocks him off the ledge. I can’t decide if I think John’s a vampire himself or if he’s really dead now. Damon tells Stefan the council is back in full vampire mode and that he killed Uncle John Gilbert. Stefan starts to go after him, but stops when he hears and I think smells Kelly’s bleeding wounds. He starts messing with the blood on her forehead until she asks what he’s doing. He walks away and when he looks at the blood on his hand he starts to lose it. Then, he slurps the blood from his hand. Damon is shocked when he sees John Gilbert walk back inside. I knew he was a vampire! Or not… he’s got a ring. Damon suspects Isabelle gave John a ring just like she gave Damon one. John explains he and his brother inherited the rings. He says he wouldn’t have given Isabelle his if he knew she was going to give it Alaric. He also says he sent her to Damon when she wanted to become a vampire. He’s surprised. John knows he thought maybe it was Katherine who sent her to him.

Outside, the jerk starts pushing Stefan and tells him he’s making a mistake. Stefan vamps up on him when he goes to punch him. Elena goes outside looking for Stefan, but Stefan disappears. She notices the jerk on  the ground, asks him what happened, and he answers he fell and hurt his arm. When she’s in her room, Stefan nearly gives her a heart attack when he shows up behind her. He tells her he tasted Kelly’s blood, that he wanted to kill the jerk, that he has a pounding headache and a hunger in him he’s never had before, that he’s telling her because he promised her he wouldn’t keep things from her and that he doesn’t want her to see him like this. He doesn’t want her to know this side of him exists. She promises she’ll help him get through this. He’s afraid of what he might do to her. She’s not. She kisses him and they hug. The exchange, “I love you’s.”

Elena checks on Jeremy who thinks someone killed Vicki and buried her. Elena can’t look Jeremy in the eyes as he asks her what she thinks happened and he starts suspecting she knows more. He goes into Elena’s room, looking for something, anything to explain why she’s acting like she knows more than she does. Her diary. He finds her diary and starts reading it. He finds everything he suspected and more. Elena goes to check on Jeremy who claims he’s fine.

Damon tries to tell Stefan about John Gilbert, but all Stefan can do is think about the blood in Damon’s cup. Damon deliberately leaves the cup out for Stefan. He stares at it trying to resist but failing. All that time without human blood made the temptation so much worse this time. Part of me wonders if Damon and Stefan are going to have like a roll reversal or something. Damon is slowly becoming more and more… careful and caring, while Stefan is now slowly losing it. It also makes me wonder if this is going to be what really pushes the love triangle I’ve heard so much about.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 17 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 17

Elena freaks out when the storm slams her back-porch door open.

Anna tells Jeremy she won’t turn him. He wants to know why he wants to be turned. He doesn’t answer. Anna asks Jeremy about his vervain bracelet. She offers to give it to her. She says he should wear it. Jeremy tells Anna he wants to be turned because he’s alone. She says there are only four reasons why vampires turn others. Boredom. Dirty work. Love. He’s none of those yet. They flirt over text message when she gets stuck at the grill with her mom. Pearl notices Anna and Jeremy flirting and asks the mayor who he is. When he answers, she’s quietly upset. She goes to the bathroom and talks to her. she’s still mad that his family is the reason she was stuck in the tomb for 150 years. “When he finds out, he’ll turn on you too.” “He already knows and he likes me.” her mom slaps and she leaves. As she does, she texts Jeremy that she’ll turn him. After learning about Vicki, Jeremy goes to his room and starts destroying his articles about animal attacks. Anna shows up and learns she’s the reason why he wanted to be turned. He admits it and she disappears before he can apologize. She’s hurt. He betrayed her not unlike Jonathan betrayed Pearl.

The vampire wants to kill everyone. Pearl says they have to be patient. These people aren’t their enemies, even though they are the same families. Pearl runs into the mayor at the Grill and starts chatting him up. When Anna and Pearl get home, they find most of their coven dead and the other obedient.

Caroline and Matt talk about his mom and Vicki. She tries to encourage him. Caroline’s car gets stuck in the mud on a back route. Her phone doesn’t work when she tries to call someone. She sits in her car until nightfall. Then finally gets out of her car and goes to look for a signal, alone, in the woods. She finally gets a signal at the tops of a hill, but slides when she stops pay attention. She grabs some vines and finds someone’s arm.

Damon, Elena, and Stefan discuss the other vampires and how Damon made a deal with Pearl. Stefan says Elena is going to sit and wait while he handles everything. She doesn’t argue, but I don’t think she agrees. Stefan goes hunting. Three vampires stake him in the gut. Damon calls Elena and she ignores him six times. He comes to the house, worried about Stefan. They go to Pearl’s. The vampire answers the door saying Pearl isn’t home. He shows Stefan weak and tortured. They compel the woman not to let Damon in. Elena can get in, but Damon won’t let her go after him. Elena and Damon go to ask Alaric for help. Harper defends Stefan as the bully vampire tortures him. When he refuses to help, Damon tells Alaric Pearl can help him find his wife. He reluctantly agrees. Elena argues that she wants to help. He won’t let her go in the house. She claims he doesn’t understand. He does get it. He cares enough about her that he tells her he can’t protect her. Alaric watches them. Either trying to figure out if he does understand or if there’s a thing between Elena and Damon. Alaric plays the role of a stranded traveler. The vampires let him in and Alaric tries to get the woman to let Damon in. She can’t because she’s compelled. Damon has to kill her to get in. Alaric is concerned, but Damon doesn’t care. When Alaric goes back to the car, Elena is gone, trying to help save Stefan. She finds a basement and goes to find him. Damon stabs the vampire guarding him and asks her if she’s insane. Stefan thinks Harper for trying to help him. When Elena and Damon come to help him, Damon can’t because of the vervain on the ropes. Elena has to help Stefan get to the car while Damon and Alaric act as distractions. They fall and she starts bleeding, making him weaker than he already is. Fredrick is waiting by the car when they get in. He starts beating Stefan more. Just before he stakes Stefan, Elena stakes him. Stefan passes out. Alaric and Damon finish off the vampires in the house, but there are still several outside. Elena realizes she can save him with her blood. She puts her cut palm in his mouth. When he wakes up, she tells him to take her wrist. “I trust you.” He drinks enough he can and does beat Frederick, but he kind of loses his mind. She’s freaked out. At the house, he says she could have been killed. He apologizes for making her see him that way. She apologizes for it being her fault. Alaric asks Damon if he lied about being able to find his wife. Damon confesses he did. Later at the grill, Alaric punches him.

Matt gets home and Kelly has made dinner for him. She promises she’s really going to try this time, but he has to bear with her. Caroline and the sheriff show up telling them the body was Vicki’s. Jeremy calls Elena about Vicki. They all gather together at Matt’s house. When Caroline tries to comfort Matt, he tells her needs to be alone. When Elena gets there, she and Matt hold each other. Of course, Caroline is jealous.

Damon finds Stefan in the parlor with a bunch of his blood pouches emptied. He sits there sipping like an addict. He tasted human blood again and it won’t be easy for him to go back.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 16 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 16

Pearl, Harper, and Anna live in a coven or something with a bunch of people. Vampires? They live with a human who lets them feed off her because they’ve compelled her. Anna seems to feel bad about it. Even after Pearl reminds them several times they have to keep a low profile, a couple vampires leave the coven and go to the grill where they run into “Katherine” only to know it’s a mistake. Elena sends Stefan a text message about the man thinking she’s Katherine. The vampire disappears. Elena asks Stefan to forget about it just for the night. Jenna breaks her heel and the vampire sees. He asks about Damon and where he lives. The vampire flirts with her. He tries to compel her, but can’t because she’s wearing vervain. She does tell him where Damon lives though, assuming they’re old friends. He shows up and watches from a distance. He and another vampire chick jump through the window right before Stefan is going to give him a lecture about being with Matt’s mom. Stefan stakes the girl, but the guy gets away. Stefan remembers them from 1864. Damon tells him what’s going on. The vampire dude tells Pearl she was right. They shouldn’t have left. She acts okay with it, but then she stakes him in the gut.

Matt tells his mom about a position at the Grill and he’s surprised she says she’ll look into it. He doesn’t expect her to stay long. Caroline shows up and his mom doesn’t act nicely about it. Matt tells his mom how he feels, ticking off the ways he’s had to be responsible for her.

Elena asks Stefan about Damon. Stefan asks her if she’s thought about what she’s going to do. “About what? Isabelle, my vampire birth mother who’s related to my vampire ancestor, Katherine, who screwed over your vampire brother? Nah, haven’t thought about it at all.” Seriously! More than halfway through the first season and she’s still responding like a normal human being! I’m loving this show if for no other reason that Elena is kind of normal.

Caroline asks Stefan and Elena to double date with her and Matt so the humans can get over the awkwardness between them. When he shows up at the house, Stefan has flowers for her. He tells her he came back to mystic falls for a normal life. Elena and Matt talk about the old days. Their moms were best friends when they were kids. Caroline is a little jealous. After more stories, Caroline takes Elena to the bathroom to talk. Matt confesses to Stefan that he seems like the guy who has everything, so those who don’t kind of go the other way. This surprises Stefan. Caroline tells Elena to try less. The point is to show Matt how much she cares about Stefan, not take a trip down memory lane. Stefan invites them all over to his house. Caroline feels like she’s been here before, because she has, but doesn’t remember anything. Stefan has a collection of car pictures. Matt loves cars. Stefan takes him to see his car. Matt loves it. Caroline doesn’t. He mentions Elena’s dad’s old Camaro. Then, like an idiot, after Caroline comments she doesn’t like sports cars because they’re too hard to make out in, he says, “It wasn’t that bad.” Elena gives him the look, he realizes his mistake, and Caroline walks away. Elena follows. He apologizes to Stefan. Stefan’s okay with it. Caroline is upset about being the backup. She’s Matt’s Elena back up and Elena’s Bonnie back up. “You don’t understand. You’re everybody’s first choice.” Stefan lets Matt and Caroline takes his car for a spin. Matt asks if he passed the double date test. She doesn’t know. He admits it’s his fault that Elena still means something to him. “Tonight wasn’t about me and Elena. I was there because I wanted to be with you… You’re the only one I want to be in this car with right now.” They make out.

Anna and Pearl show up at the estate. Damon tries to attack them, but can’t. They want Damon to help them take over the town again. All the vampires have come out the tomb. Many of them have come to the coven. She attacks him after he tries to deny helping them. She has 400 years on him. She offers to find Katherine for him. He claims he no longer has any desire to find her.

Jeremy is still skimming the web for info on vampires. Anna and Pearl buy an apothecary from Jenna. Anna shows up to see Jeremy. He’s a little shocked and not entirely happy to see her. I think he thinks she’s a vampire. He tells Anna that he’s kind of a believer now, but he might think they’re different, better than people think. He purposely cuts himself, trying to make her vamp up. She does. He lets her drink it. Jenna shows up and Anna leaves. Anna goes home and Pearl is upset with her for being with Jeremy. He walks into his room to find her. He tells Anna he knows because of Vicki. Why didn’t you kill me? “Maybe I’m a sucker for boys like you. Lost.” He tells Anna he risked it because it might be true about Vicki and because he wants her to turn him.

Matt’s mom flirts with Damon at the bar. She thinks the manager blew her off because last time she was in town, she slept with her boyfriend. Jenna shows up and the three start drinking together. Stefan, Matt, and Elena notice Damon, Kelly, and Jenna drinking together. They spot the kids and try to keep a low profile. When Damon and Kelly start flirting again, Jenna leaves. Damon takes Kelly home with him. They start fooling around. he goes to bite her neck, but tries to fight it. Matt, Damon, Elena, and Stefan walk in on them. Elena gives Damon the look. Stefan wants to drive them, but Elena refuses to live afraid that someone is going to come after her. She calls him saying she’s home safe and that she had a really nice time on their date.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 15 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 15

The vampire comes out asking what year it is. 2010. “You seem like a very nice person. I’m sorry.” Then attacks the random dude and takes his clothes. The human’s phone starts ringing and the vampire freaks out. In the park, the vampire notices someone he seems to know. In the final scene, he goes to her house. Anna and Pearl are there. Pearl calls him Harper.

Elena sits on the porch leaving a message for Bonnie and writing. Grams’ funeral brought back memories of her parents’ funeral. Jenna shares what information she’s found about her birth mom and that Alaric’s dead wife was also called Isabelle. Elena tells Stefan and he keeps from her the information that Damon is the one who killed Alaric’s wife. Elena goes to meet Trudie, Isabelle’s best friend from high school. She hasn’t seen her since she left 17 years ago to have her. They talked off and on but eventually grew apart. Trudie claims she doesn’t know who the father is. She sends someone a text message saying, “She’s here.” She shows her pictures of them as kids. But, she also serves Elena vervain tea and Elena realizes Trudie didn’t invite her in. She knows about vampires. Elena’s realization causes Trudie to ask her to leave. Some guy is waiting in a corner like a vampire. The guy comes to Trudie’s house. She doesn’t know who he is, but he thanks her for the text. Someone must have threatened her to keep Elena off the trail. She assumes he’s a vampire, but he’s not. He comes in and kills Trudie by throwing her down the stairs. He shows up in Mystic Falls and tells Elena to stop looking for her mother. She doesn’t want to know her he says. Then, he steps in front of truck to kill himself. Stefan tells her first that he’s under compulsion. I wonder if this means Isabelle is a vampire or if another vampire just wants to keep Elena on her toes. Is Isabelle really alive? Did Damon turn her if she is? Did he leave her somewhere and someone else turned her? Did he ask her to turn her? Were they having an affair?

Stefan leaves to check on Damon who is dealing with his feelings about Katherine with a bunch of compelled college girls dancing half naked with him as he drinks from. Stefan questions Damon about Isabelle, but he doesn’t care to remember. “Nothing matters anymore.”

Matt’s mom shows up while he and Caroline are fooling around on the couch. Matt’s mom doesn’t like Caroline because she went to school with her mom and she was fake. Matt takes his drunk mother home.

Jenna shows Alaric the picture of Elena’s birth mother. It was in fact his wife. The wife Damon fed off of and probably killed. Alaric and Stefan talk and Stefan explains he didn’t want to tell Elena about Damon without knowing for sure. Alaric gives him a picture of his wife to try to jog Damon’s memory.

In a flashback, Alaric and his wife talk about research she’s doing about Mystic Falls and vampires. Alaric asks Isabelle to give up her obsession with vampires. She’s hardly ever home and she doesn’t want kids. He just wants to be normal. She wants more. More suspicion that maybe Isabelle wanted to be a vampire and that Damon might have turned her.

Alaric and Damon drink next to each other at the Grill because they’re both depressed. When Alaric leaves, the sheriff comes by and asks Damon to be a Bachelor at the raffle. Damon agrees and asks for information about Alaric. She agrees.

Elena goes to the house looking for Stefan. He’s not there. Damon is. Still drunk and getting ready for the fundraiser. He’s too drunk to button his own shirt, so Elena helps him. She tells him she found out who her mother is. He doesn’t care, because she left her. There’s some chemistry between them and Stefan comes in telling her Alaric’s wife is her mother. He asks her to wait to ask him about her.

Damon asks Stefan, “Where’d our girlfriend go.” Stefan shows him the picture of Isabelle and he claims he doesn’t know her. Then at the fundraiser, the sheriff jogs his memory with a picture and mentioning North Carolina when giving him the info he asked for about Alaric. Not knowing Alaric’s wife is Elena’s mom, Damon taunts Alaric with double meaning comments about how “delicious” she was. Obviously, this all tells Elena what she didn’t already know. Damon killed her mother. Stefan follows after her. She’s mad about Damon, but still feeling sorry for him, even though she doesn’t want to. They both are hoping the lose of Katherine will change him.  Elena runs into Damon at the Grill and asks him if he enjoyed hurting Alaric and that saying she was just starting to think there was something redeemable about him. Stefan tries to stop her from telling Damon about her mother. She says her mother’s name was Isabelle and regret shines in Damon’s eyes.

Damon leaves the auction. Alaric notices and goes to the estate trying to attack Damon. Damon is drunker than ever. He confirms she came to him begging him to turn her. He slept with her because he liked her. He turned her because he begged her too. Damon stabs Alaric and watches him die. He sort of feels like it’s a shame since they’re kindred spirits, abandoned by the women they love. Stefan comes and Damon tells him Isabelle came to him. Then, he theorizes Katherine sent Isabelle to him since they must be related. After Damon leaves, Alaric jerks awake. Apparently, Isabelle gave him the ring and I guess it keep you from dying or something. Neither he nor Stefan believe it, but there it is in front of their eyes.

Elena sits in her room looking at a picture of her and her parents. Then, she calls Trudie’s number, wanting to talk to her, but getting Isabelle on the line instead. When she says her name, she hangs up.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 14 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 14

Elena finds herself in Anna’s hotel bed being babysat by someone—Ben, but he’s sleeping. She tries to quietly slip away, but he catches her when tries to open the door. He compels he not try to escape or move and she fools him into believing it worked. When he turns around, she opens the door to leave, but Anna is there. They throw her in the bathroom where they have Bonnie. She tells Bonnie she hasn’t told her about Emily’s spell book because she hoped it wouldn’t come to this—they need a witch to open the tomb. Ben comes in and explains Elena is only there as bait. Then, he tosses Elena in the room with Anna. Anna taunts her with information about practically dating Jeremy and how she really is Katherine’s doppleganger which most have the boys reeling. Elena asks Anna who she wants out of the tomb. She says only the idiot Salvatore brother would Katherine out. She wants her mom. She uses Elena’s phone to call Stefan for the spell book. Damon says he still doesn’t care. She leaves to meet the boys in a public place. Ben gives Elena water and she gives it to Bonnie who sets Ben on fire with the water. While he taunts the girls, Ben starts getting set on fire by the sun Stefan lets in with an open door and blinds. Anna comes back to the hotel to find Ben cowering in the shadows.

Stefan talks to Damon about Elena being missing. He begs him to tell him where she might be. He refuses. Stefan apologizes for being the reason why Katherine was taken from him. “Come on, Damon. It’s Elena.” “I mean this sincerely. I hope Elena dies.”

Tyler, Matt, Caroline, and Jeremy sit at the Grill talking about a party thrown by some dude who calls himself Duke. Caroline gives Matt a speech about how the right here and right now because he doesn’t think this is going to work out. She gives him an escape clause in case he wants out after kissing her.

Damon goes to the Bennet house and asks for Bonnie. Grams tells him to leave. He is no friend of theirs. She uses witchy powers to hurt Damon.

Jeremy stops Anna while she’s running to the boys. He invites her to the party. She gets kind of excited about it, but decides to go, because the party is out by the old church graveyard. Damon meets Anna at the park, plays up the loner vampire act, but then Anna threatens to kill Elena and he gives in.

Elena, Stefan, Bonnie, and Grams discuss working with Damon. It’s the only way to end everything. Giving him Katherine and destroying the other vampires with fire. Stefan doesn’t believe Damon will agree to work with them again. Elena thinks she knows what to do to convince him they really are working with him this time. She goes to him and tells him she’s not sorry. She tells him they’re on the same side. He asks her why he didn’t use his compulsion on her in Atlanta. They have something. An understanding. He doesn’t believe her. she takes off her necklace and tells him to compel her to find the truth. He doesn’t try. He puts her necklace back on. “I didn’t compel you in Atlanta because we were having fun. I wanted it to be real. I’m trusting you. Don’t make me regret it.”

The vampires, witches, and Elena work on bring Elena back. They open the tomb. Stefan runs off to get the gasoline and runs into Ben and Anna. Ben is going to make a main course of Jeremy if Stefan tries going after her. Stefan sets Ben on fire and goes after Anna. Damon pulls Elena to go in the tomb with him so they don’t lock him in. He wants leverage. Elena agrees to go with him. Elena starts panicking in the tomb with all the vampire corpses because she can only see what the flashlight shows her. then, she runs into Anna. Grams explains to Stefan that vampires can’t get out of the tomb, but Elena can. When Anna bites Elena and makes her scream, Stefan runs into the tombs knowing he can’t get out. Anna feeds Elena’s blood to her mother. Enough that she can move and talk again. Bonnie and Stefan explain they don’t know if Stefan can get out. Elena has Stefan go back for Damon so they can both come out when the Bennet’s get the spell up. Damon is mad and screaming about Katherine not being there. He throws the blood supply he had for against a wall. Elena lets Anna come out with her mom, because that’s all she wanted. Damon won’t leave with Stefan, but Elena comes back in begging him to come with her, he listens. They barely make it out as the Bennet’s lose their strength. Elena and Stefan go after Jeremy to make sure he’s okay. Then, Elena comforts Damon with a hug and an, “I’m sorry.” Stefan looks at them in jealousy. Bonnie is worried about Grams after the spell took a lot out of them. Jeremy says he doesn’t remember anything. When Elena leaves, Jeremy looks up vampires online. When Bonnie goes to check on Grams, she’s dead. Elena calls for an ambulance. Bonnie tries to fix it by looking up a spell.

Tyler asks Jeremy for drugs. Jeremy says he doesn’t party anymore and even if he did, he wouldn’t do it with him. Then, Anna comes up as Tyler walks away. While they’re walking around the graveyard, Anna and Jeremy talk about how he doesn’t really know what his scene is anymore. Anna tells Jeremy she’s leaving. They’re both bummed about it and they kiss. Anna turns and Ben hits Jeremy over the head.

Damon and Elena go to the woods and run into Matt and Caroline at the party Elena forgot about. Caroline holds Matt’s hand, Elena and Matt feel a little weird about it. Damon pulls her away from them and they watch in slight dismay. Caroline gives Matt another speech, explaining she grabbed his hand because she wanted to show off to Damon that she’s with the good guy now. She apologizes for not caring about his feelings or Elena in that moment. matt asks if they’re for real. She wants it to work, so she’s trying to be cool, open, and honest. He doesn’t want to mess it up either.

When Anna and her mother get to the hotel, Damon is waiting for them. He chokes Pearl, wanting to know why Anna gets the happy ending when she knew Katherine wasn’t in the tomb. Pearl explains the guard let her go, because he was obsessed with her and she promised to turn him. Last time Anna saw Katherine was 1984. She was in Chicago and knew were Damon was, but didn’t care. Damon goes back to the house. Elena calls Stefan to tell him she got to Bonnie’s and to ask about Damon. He says he’ll call her back.

In the final scene, a vampire is able to reach for the blood pouch and get enough to wake up and open the tomb with his bare hands. I’m surprised I didn’t see that coming. It should have been obvious when Damon threw the blood, but I didn’t see it coming. I’m also surprised I didn’t see it coming that Katherine wasn’t in the tomb.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 13 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 13

Another flashback. Katherine pretends to be a damsel in distress whose husband has been hurt. Then, she attacks the men who come to help her. Her “husband” is Damon. She’s showing him what it’s like to be a vampire, because he wants her to turn him. She goes to kiss him with her mouth covered in human blood. He hesitates, but then turns away.

Elena and Stefan wake up together all cutesy. Damon is sitting on the foot of the bed and interrupts their cutesy talk. He gets straight to business on planning with them. They start fooling around.

It flashes into a scene of Katherine and Damon fooling around. Emily comes in to let Katherine know someone is waiting for her. The “someone” must be Anna’s mom, or someone she calls “Momma” because she’s there.

Anna and Ben are in the hotel together. He asks why she chose him. Because he was a sad bartender who could be his eyes and ears.

Elena and Stefan talk about Damon. She feels sorry for him, believing everything he’s done, however sick and twisted, has been for love. Stefan explains every time he’s let his guard down, Damon has done something to make him regret it. Jeremy walks into the kitchen while they’re looking for the journal, Jeremy tells them he gave it to Alaric. He tells Stefan Damon killed his wife and disappeared with the body. Stefan tells him not to tell Damon why he’s there and offers to keep him safe.

Alaric is at the school reading the journal. Anna is there looking for the journal. This may not end well for her, what with Alaric being a wannabe Vampire Slayer. She draws him into the hallway so she can get the journal from his classroom. He knows it’s a vampire, so he gets a stake gun from his locker. When he gets to the classroom, it’s Stefan. Stefan takes the gun from him and says he won’t hurt him. Then, in a sign of faith, gives the gun back to him. He starts questioning him about who he is. He explains a vampire killed his wife. He tells him the journal is on the desk. It’s not. Anna took it.

She reads it and finds that Jonathon had a thing for her mom.

Stefan and Damon speak with their father about the founding anti-vampire team. What dad doesn’t know is Damon and Stefan already know about vampires.

Damon is in the kitchen chatting it up with Jenna about exes. Elena comes in. Damon flirts with Elena. Then, he asks if he can really trust his brother. She hesitates and says yes. He flashes over to her, not really believing it. He looks intently in her eyes, reading them, and she assumes he’s trying to compel her, so she reminds her she’s wearing vervain. He gets confused, “I’m not compelling you. I just want you to answer me. Honestly.” She answers of course. He talks to her about how there was a time when he would always trust Stefan. He asks if she understands why he wants to bring Katherine back. She understands that he would do anything for her. He sort of threatens her saying, “You can imagine what I would do if anyone got in my way.”

Dad and Katherine play croquet together. Stefan and Damon watch, talking about how he would stake her if he knew the truth. Stefan wants to tell him the truth, believing if he knew he’d keep her safe. Damon doesn’t believe he would.

Damon and Jeremy play video games in the living room and talk about Anna who is hot but weird according to Jeremy. Elena and Jenna talk about Damon in the kitchen and he listens. “He is ridiculously hot,” Jenna says and Damon smirks. “Shh,” Elena says, knowing he’s listening. “He’s an ass.” He rolls his eyes.

Stefan finally shows up and Elena and Damon both go to the door. He looks at them weird. “Well,” Damon asks. He tells them someone else got it and that it couldn’t be the teacher, because he knew where the teacher was. They go ask Jeremy who else knows about the journal, he’s weirded out that everyone is obsessed with it. He tells them Anna wants to meet him at the Grill and Damon jumps at the opportunity to drive him there. Damon sees Anna and immediately knows who she is. He flashes back to her.

Ben and Bonnie talk about her bond with Elena. “I’d die for her.” Bonnie calls Elena and Ben listens in. Elena makes the mistake of calling her a witch on the phone. Bonnie kisses Ben and discovers who he really is. She tries to leave, but he stops her.

Stefan shows Elena a copy of the journal they didn’t tell Damon about. While they read it, they find out his father was the one who protected it. “I’ll carry it with me to the grave.” Stefan flashes back to a conversation with his father. He asks him if they should really be so quick to judge the vampires. What if they aren’t as evil as everyone says they are? Dad talks about how vampires can control your mind and are of the darkest of evils. “Those who stand with them, who bring shame to their family’s names, will die with them.” Stefan tells Elena he knows where the spell book is. They go to his father’s grave and start digging it up. They both have reservations. Stefan asks Katherine about the necklace, assuming it’s from Damon, but of course it’s from Emily. She tells him not to be jealous of them. She’s spoiled and selfish and can make the rules through seduction and blood. When she bites him, she weakens with vervain he didn’t know his father fed him. The father comes in quickly and tells him he knew she was a vampire. They finally open the casket and do in fact find the spell book.

Damon waits in Anna’s hotel room for her and they both choke each other until they both give in. Anna tells Damon she’s been around forever, but quietly. Then, she shows him the journal and that his father had it the whole time. He asks him to help her, but he works alone. Damon shows up at the grave and finds Stefan and Elena there. Damon admits he never trusted Stefan and with tears in his eyes tells Elena she had him fooled. He flashes over to her and feeds her his blood, saying he won’t kill her, but turn her. It’s the one thing that gets Stefan to give him the spell book. Damon flashes back now and watches himself fight with his father over Katherine. Stefan flashes back to the same night moments later, believing it’s his fault. He put his faith in his father, even after promising he wouldn’t, and Damon put his faith in him. Right or wrong, Stefan knows he broke Damon’s trust in him.

Stefan goes downstairs to get aspirin for Elena after consuming Damon’s blood. He finds out Anna is there with Jeremy. He speeds upstairs to make sure Elena is okay, but she’s gone, out the window.

In Anna’s flashback, her mother, Pearl, tells her to go find Emily so they can try to get away from the vampire hunters. When she goes to speak with Jonathan, he has the vampire compass in his hand and it points to pearl. Having previously cared about her, he turns quickly and Anna, Stefan, and Emily watch as Anna’s mother is taken away.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 11 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 11

Stefan calls Elena begging her to let him explain the picture of Katherine. She doesn’t get it because she’s driving and about to be attacked by vampire. The vampire doesn’t attack. Instead he flees and Damon shows up to save the day. “Can you stand. Is anything broken?” She shakes her head. He tries to let her stand, but she can’t. He checks her eyes and she cries, “I look like her.” “What,” he asks as she passes out. I wonder if this is going to be the start of Damon and Elena romance. He’s slowly becoming more humane and seems to truly care for Elena, whether because she looks like Katherine or not, I’m not sure. Elena wakes up in a car next to Damon. When she asks where they are, he says Georgia. She begs him to stop the car because she can’t find her phone and no one knows where she is. She gets out and can barely stand. He flashes over to her before she falls over. She’s being her stubborn self and he sort of threatens to make her more agreeable. Stefan calls at that moment and he phone is in his pocket. He answers it when she doesn’t want to. When Stefan asks to talk to her, she still says no and Damon keeps talking to him. He tells her to just give her problems a break for a while. “Am I going to be safe with you? Will you promise not to use that mind control thing on me?” He says yes. She asks Damon about Katherine. They discuss vampire procreation not being possible, so Katherine would have had to have a kid before being turned. They also discuss the eating thing. As long as they keep blood in their systems, their bodies act normal. Then, she questions his nice act, wondering if any of it is real. Elena decides to start drinking. I do think this is going to lead to the Damon and Elena thing. She claims to have a high alcohol tolerance level. Except when Jenna calls, she’s definitely tipsy enough to fall.

Damon takes Elena to a bar owned by his lady friend, Bree who is a witch. She knows he’s come for help. He wants another tip on how to free Elena from the tomb since he doesn’t have the crystal. Some random dude comes in, the guy Bree called, and he takes Elena after she stumbles over outside. Damon freaks out and goes looking for her. This dude, a vampire, uses Elena as bate. Apparently, this vampire has a score to settle with Damon. He starts beating him up and pouring gasoline on him. Oh! The vampire is Lexi’s boyfriend. She starts asking him questions, knowing he’s the human. She begs him not to hurt Damon. He lights a match. “Lexi was good. And she loved you. That makes you good. Be better than him. Please.” He doesn’t set him on fire; he just throws him against a wall and runs off. Damon goes to kill Bree for sticking Lexi’s boyfriend on him. She tells him he can reverse the spell by getting her spell book. Elena asks Damon why he brought her with him. She’s not the worst company in the world. She was there in the car. He knew it would piss Stefan off. She reminds her she saved his life and not to forget it. They flirt a little.

What!? Vampire teacher may not be a vampire… he’s writing about how after years, he’s finally found and staked it. He flashes back to a memory of his wife. I guess now we’re going to get his story, or at least part of it. So, he really isn’t a vampire? Jeremy finds him searching his car in daylight for his ring.

At school, Stefan finds Bonnie to help him make sure Elena is okay. He powers aren’t working though. She can’t do it. she goes to see her grandma who says the only problem is fear in her mind. Bonnie goes back to the old church to face her fears and tries her powers again, but she’s still afraid. She hears someone or something. Then, she falls into a hall. She calls out to someone for help. Then, she turns around and sees that witch symbol. Stefan goes to check on Bonnie. Her grandma knows what he is and trusts him enough to keep Bonnie safe. He doesn’t know where she went, but she knows he does. Bonnie puts her ear to the wall and hears the souls. Stefan finds Bonnie in the middle of the night gets her out. October 1969. Stefan and Bonnie’s grandma know each other. They’re allies to the extent they protect their own first and foremost.

In the school library, Jeremy meets a new girl named Anna. Anna is homeschooled and starts talking about vampires and journals. Anna suggests they go watch vampire movies together as friends. Anna googles proof about vampires. She finds articles as far back as 1942 and there are regular “animal attacks” periodically every few years for 75 years.

Elena calls Jenna and lies about where she is. Then, Stefan calls and asks Elena to let him explain. She wants to know how she’s connected to Katherine. She doesn’t believe him when he says he doesn’t know. Damon listens into the conversation and races out to her when she hangs up, asking if she’s okay. She doesn’t believe he really cares.

Bree makes a phone call to someone, “You’ll never guess who walked into my bar.”

Elena goes straight to Stefan and says the one thing in her freaky world right now that she can’t handle is the lies. She wants to know who she is to him. He says she’s everything Katherine wasn’t. “When did you find that out? Before you kissed me? Before we slept together?” “Before I met you. The first day of school when we met it wasn’t for the first time. May 23, 2009. The day your parents’ car went of the bridge.” He heard the accident, all of it. He was fast getting there fast, but not fast enough. Her dad was still conscious but refused to let him help him until he helped Elena. When he went back to save her parents it was too late. When saw her face, he was worried it was her. So he started watching her to make she wasn’t Katherine. He got to know her and the more he knew her the more he didn’t want to leave. He wanted to know her. “It didn’t make sense to me. You were a Gilbert. She was a Pierce… You were adopted Elena.” He knows this because there’s no record of her mother ever being pregnant or being admitted into the hospital, even though her birth certificate says otherwise. He tells her he loves her. They kiss. Elena goes home and Jenna says she doesn’t set many rules for Elena because she trusts her and expects the truth from her. Elena turns the tables on her and asks about her adoption. Jenna explains they asked her not to say anything.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 12 – Recap and Reactions

Elena asks Stefan about the man in the road. He gives her vervain for herself, Jenna, Jeremy, and other friends. The pizza guy who shows up is in a black hoodie and is pretty obviously the vampire Elena hit.

Damon searches their library for the spell book. Damon taunts Stefan about having fun with Elena in Atlanta.

Jeremy gets an A for his essay, but the teacher tries to make sure Jeremy doesn’t actually believe in vampires.

Elena gives Caroline a vervain necklace and they talk about Matt. Elena tells Bonnie about her adoption.

Damon stops to talk to Bonnie at the Grill. He wants to start fresh. Bonnie threatens to kill Damon with fire. Ben, the bartender, comes to her defense.

The vampire calls and taunts Elena. Elena tells Stefan about it. He gives her the vampire compass.

Matt and Caroline flirt until he mentions he’s got a job as a busboy at the grill so he’s not going to the dance.

I wonder if Anna is a vampire or knows about vampires. She gets a bit defensive when Jeremy says he doesn’t believe in vampires. Oh, she is a vampire! She starts asking Jeremy about the journal and gets mad when he says he gave it to his teacher. She vamps up and the other vampire is in the hall. Apparently, they know Katherine too.

Elena asks Jenna about the adoption. “One night, your dad was about to leave the office when a sixteen year old girl showed up about to give birth. He helped her deliver, gave her a place to stay, and a few days later she disappeared with her. They were trying so hard to have a baby, but it just wasn’t happening. They kept it quiet, told as few people as possible, and put their names on the certificate in case anyone asked for proof.” Her mother’s name was Isabelle.

In the Parlor, Stefan brings dad’s journal to Damon. He assumes he’s looking for it to look for a way to release Katherine. Stefan offers to help Damon, but only to get Katherine out of the tomb, not the other twenty-six vampires.

While Elena is getting ready for the dance, her vampire compass starts freaking out. When she notices, she calls Stefan. He doesn’t answer, but Damon answers. Damon tells her Stefan is on his way to her, she immediately lets her guard down, assuming he’s already there. She’s wrong. He attacks. He was invited in. Damon comes to the house and they discuss how he got in. He posed as the pizza guy. She trusts both of them enough to agree to be bait at the dance so they can take him down. At the dance, she stays pretty much between both of them.

Alaric spots Damon with Elena and very clearly has a look of vengeance run through him. He talks with Jenna about his wife and stares at Damon. Alaric introduces himself to Damon, asking questions about his life. Damon gets suspicious. I wonder if he thinks the teacher is the vampire.

At the dance, Bonnie and Caroline asks why Damon is there. She lies, since Caroline is there, saying if she’s going to be with Stefan, then she has to learn to tolerate Damon. Damon asks Bonnie and Caroline to dance and they walk off. Then, he asks Elena. “I would love to,” and turns to Stefan. “May I have this dance?” That’s so mean and hilarious!

Elena and Stefan dance. She begs him to show her some authentic 50’s dance moves. He refuses. After a few dances, she turns to walk away, but then he shows her a few moves before saying he’s never doing it again.

The vampire pizza guy is at the dance.

Anna shows up at the dance to talk with Jeremy.

Caroline and Bonnie go to the Grill. Bonnie wants to sit at the bar with Ben. Matt overhears Caroline telling her she could do so much better. Caroline wants to talk to Matt. Bonnie goes up to talk with Ben. She asks him out. When Caroline talks to Matt, he tells her she heard the comment she made about washed up jocks working at the bar. Caroline admits she knows she messes up and is kind of horrible, but she’s working on it. He tells her he doesn’t know if he’s over Elena yet, but he’s not ready to try for more with her. She says it’s too late. He’s already taken the next step in his head, ruined it, and now this only good thing in Matt’s life is over. He chases after her in his truck then kisses her. “This’ll never work.” Then, they kiss again.

Elena spots the guy in the hoodie. When Stefan goes after him, it’s not him. He calls Elena and threatens Jeremy if Elena doesn’t leave the gym and go to the hallway. Of course, she does what he says and he chases her, abusing her. She grabs a couple pencils and tries to stake him but misses his heart. Stefan and Damon come to save her and stabs him with a broken broomstick. They torture any information out of him and when he refuses to say who he’s working with, they stake him. He has to die because he’s been invited in and there’s no getting out of that. He does tell them the answer to getting Katherine out of her tomb is in Jonathan Gilbert’s journal. He also tells them he’s torturing Elena because she looks like Katherine. They weren’t the only one’s she played with. Damon agrees to let Stefan help him.

Damon runs into Alaric in the hallway. He tries to compel him, and he acts like it works, but he has vervain in his hands.

Alaric walks Jenna home and mentions his wife’s name is Isabelle and that she’s from Virginia. Jenna immediately assumes it’s Elena’s birth mom.

At home, Elena tells Stefan she feels good after fighting back. Stefan tells Elena he told Damon he’d help, but lied about it. He was worried about telling her, because of her recent bonding with Damon.

Oh snap! Ben is a vampire too and he’s got a thing with Anna. He’s trying to seduce Bonnie because she’s a witch and Anna just wants to get to the journal.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 10 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 10

Jenna argues that she won’t invite Logan in. He tries to persuade her by implying she has no self-control. With no other choice, he walks away, then he attacks a stray runner. The sheriff shows up and tells Damon about Logan’s attack. Damon uses Caroline to track the new vampire. When he finds where he’s staying, Logan shoots Damon several times. Logan blames Damon for turning him, but it couldn’t have been Damon, because he didn’t give him blood. Logan has a pile of people. Logan tells Damon the founding fathers past down journals to their children.

In the last episode, Jeremy found an old journal and starts reading it. He finds some sketches and gets his own sketchbook out again. Elena and Jenna are surprised by impressed. Jeremey shows Jenna his new sketches and mentions the guy who wrote the journal, someone from the original gilbert family. He wrote and drew about monsters, vampires, and werewolves. He just assumes he’s crazy or drunk, but Jenna says he was a fiction author, but he is a gilbert, so he was probably a little bit of crazy and drunk too.

Stefan and Damon discuss where they might be going now. Both Damon, and Stefan who is secretly looking, are both shocked. After talking to Damon, Stefan knows he can’t leave now. So, he goes to the school and tells Elena, because he promised her the truth.

At school, Elena notices Matt and Caroline together. Bonnie says Caroline needs a nice guy after a psychopath vampire like Damon. Elena doesn’t disagree.  Elena and Matt talk about Stefan and Caroline. Then, Stefan shows up. He’s there to watch out for her. He wanted to be a doctor, but then he turned into a vampire. They discuss how he always leaves. He starts asking about her future and she doesn’t want to talk about it because he won’t be in it. Later, she offers him a ride home, even though she knows he can get home himself. She tells him she wanted to be a writer because of her mom, but not she can’t see herself as one. She talks about how she already had bad crap in her life before him. It’s different, but it’s no less painful with him. He swears he’s doing it for her. She calls him out. “No! You don’t get to make that decision for me. If you walk away, you’re doing it for you, because I know what I want. Stefan, I love you.” Pained brooding look from the vampire and then a passionate kiss shared between star-crossed lovers. They take their kissing inside. He starts to turn and looks away. She tells him not to hide from her. And like every cliché vampire-human love story, she touches his vamp face, then kisses him, and the dark brooding looks turns to brooding disbelief. Things get super sensual and they sleep together. They talk about his room and how it’s the one thing in his life that has stayed constant. He gets up to get her a drink, so she starts looking around. Oh! I bet she’s going to find the picture of Katherine! Ooh… and she does! When she does, she leaves. Stefan comes back to find Elena’s vervain necklace with the picture of Katherine. She drives away trying not to cry. She gets into a car accident after hitting a vampire in the middle of the road. Of course, the last moment is of her screaming.

Jenna shows up while Stefan and Elena are talking. She’s trying to hide from Logan. Stefan, who knows Logan is supposed to be dead, freaks out. He threatens Stefan saying he’s quite the celebrity in their town and he can expose them. Naturally, Elena understands immediately that Logan isn’t normal anymore. Logan runs into the sheriff and threatens her. Then, he lures Caroline into his car and snaps her neck. Stefan and Elena find out she went with him from asking Matt. Stefan and Damon stop the car. Stefan takes Caroline home and likely gives her his blood to survive. Damon is supposed to kill Logan, but Logan says all the right things. He wants to get into the tomb under the church too. He claims he does actually know who turned him. He’ll tell Damon at the church. The vampire teacher shows up to see and threaten Logan. Logan doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into. Vampire Teacher stakes him.

Tyler and Jeremy get in a fight. The mayor, Tyler’s dad, takes them outside and orders them to fight. Then, the teacher comes outside and threatens him to stop. Jeremy tries to befriend Tyler after seeing what his dad is like, but Tyler won’t have it.

Matt defends himself to Tyler about Caroline and admits he likes her.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 9 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 9

While she’s in math class, someone named Emily draws Bonnie from class and asks for help. Then she wakes up in the same class and it’s nightmare only to wake up in the woods again after seeing Emily in class. Emily says they’re family. Bonnie rushes into class slightly unhinged explaining the dream. At lunch, Bonnie explains everything to Elena and asks if she believes in ghosts, “Two weeks ago I would have said no, but now…” Bonnie thinks Elena, her great, great grandmother who originally owned the talisman is haunting her.

Caroline walks past Matt who acts like nothing happened between them. She goes off on him after the second “hey.” He explains he left because he heard her mom and didn’t want to get her in trouble.

In history class, the students get a new teacher. I have a feeling he’s going to play an important role in what’s to come. He tells Jeremy about a “jackass file” the old teacher had, mostly it was him. He offers an extra credit project to catch him up. Jeremy notices a ring he’s wearing! He says it’s a family ring. Ha! It’s gotta be like the Salvatore rings. Jenna and Jeremy have dinner at the Grill and see the new teacher. She’s interested, but not. At the Grill, the teacher and Jenna flirt. She shares her story about Logan. He shares his story about a young marriage and early death. Yup! Definitely a vampire! He doesn’t come into the house without an invitation. When she does she won’t invite him, he leaves.

Damon wakes Stefan up and offers coffee. They banter as usual. Stefan shows up at school and explains he didn’t kill his brother because of her and that he won’t be coming to school anymore, putting distance between them. She’s mad, he’s glad. It’s easier if she hates him.

Damon comes to the school and threatens Bonnie after explaining he knows she’s a witch, he knows about the dreams/haunting of Emily, and that apparently he and Emily had some kind of a deal. Maybe she gave him the crystal? Time will tell. She tells Elena and Elena tells her to stay away from him and to stay with her tonight. She gets out of the car and throws her medallion out into a field. Caroline goes to Elena’s house for a girl’s night too. Bonnie tells Caroline she tossed the necklace and Elena confirms it, but Caroline finds it in Bonnie’s bag after being given permission to look through it. Bonnie tells her she’s a witch, but Caroline doesn’t listen at first. She says she doesn’t believe in that stuff, but if Bonnie does then she will too. Then, they summon Emily who freaks them out and takes the necklace. Emily walks through the house and leaves the medallion on the ground to trap Bonnie. Emily messes with the lights, seems to be torturing Bonnie in the bathroom she’s trapped in. Then, all of a sudden, she says she’s fine. I’m pretty sure Emily must have possessed her. Oh, and she did! It’s her reflection in the mirror, not Bonnie’s!

Elena tells Stefan about Damon’s threat. The medallion belonged to Katherine. Emily, her handmaid and witch, gave it to her. Stefan finds Damon at the Grill. They play darts and Damon asks what Stefan’s game is. Stefan laughs because he’s been asking him the same thing for months. They go to the football field and play football together. He knows he’s trying to get something from him. Stefan talks about how their love for Katherine wasn’t real. They were compelled to love her. Damon always thought he was the last to see her, but Stefan tells him it was really him. Damon confesses he wants the crystal because he’s going to try to bring Katherine back. Damon begged Emily to save Katherine. She did. She trapped her in a grave or something under the church. The downfall was that it only worked with the comet, so to free her from the grave, she’d have to wait until the next comet. 150 years later. That’s why Emily is haunting Bonnie. She doesn’t want to keep her end of the bargain. Damon preserves Emily’s lineage for her saving Katherine. When she doesn’t answer, Elena knows it’s Bonnie. Elena calls Stefan and Damon listens to the call. They know she’s going to the church. Emily uses her powers to keep Damon from following her. He gets almost staked by a tree. Stefan lets him down. Emily explains in order to save Katherine, she had to save all the vampires in the church. That’s why she won’t keep her end of the bargain. She can’t bring all those vampires back. Damon attacks Bonnie’s body. Stefan saves her by feeding her his blood, because she’s only barely alive. Damon tells Stefan Katherine never compelled him. He knew every step of the way. For him it was real. And now he’s going to leave. Bonnie keeps asking questions. Elena tells her she’ll explain everything. Stefan doesn’t argue. She tells him she can do this. She doesn’t have to stay away from him, but he can’t. He has to leave. It was a mistake for him to come home. She begs him not to walk away. He does. through tears, Elena tells Bonnie everything, even that he’s leaving.

After Caroline goes home, Matt comes by her room. He confesses it creeped him out that they cuddled, because he’s never liked her, but it felt nice. He wanted her to know he stayed because he felt bad for her, because he knows how it feels to feel alone. He spends the night with her again.

Oh, snap! Logan isn’t dead! He’s a vampire now! He shows up at the Gilbert house and asks, “Aren’t you gonna invite me in?”

TVD: Season 1 Episode 8 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 8

Creepy vibes. A woman laughing. Stefan sitting in his room or parlor and starting to freak out a little. At first, he thinks it’s Damon, but then he’s jumped. It’s some girl named Lexi who’s come to wish him a happy birthday. Lexi tries to encourage Stefan to leave, but he explains he’s there for Elena. He’s 162 years old.

The sheriff questions Elena, Jeremy, Matt, and Stefan about Vicki and her whereabouts. They all seem to give the same story, but the sheriff seems to suspect vampires. After the questioning, Elena asks Stefan to stay away from her because people get hurt around him.

Damon tries seducing Lexi, but Lexi is only there for Stefan. When he doesn’t give it a rest, she chokes him and reminds him she’s older and therefore stronger than they are.

Damon takes the vervain to the sheriff and asks questions about their plans. She says they’re now looking at anyone new to town since the deaths began. He offers any help he can provide.

Bonnie shows up at Elena’s house and she asks why Elena is so down in the dumps. “Stefan and I broke up.” Bonnie apologizes for being MIA. When Elena asks Bonnie to take her mind off it, she sort of makes it worse by sort of better on accident. She shows Elena her witch powers which only adds to the supernatural secrets Elena has to keep. She’s amazed by the witch powers—making down pillow feathers float around the room. She asks why she told her if her grandma asked her not to. “I can’t keep a secret from my best friend.” Of course, that makes Elena feel guilty.

Damon compels Caroline to throw a party at the Grill and to get the crystal back. Damon tells Stefan and Lexi to come and she tries to convince him to go. While she’s drinking human blood, but donated human blood. While they’re getting ready for the party, Elena shows up and Lexi starts to freak out about her looking like Katherine. Elena leaves. Lexi makes him explain why her. He explains she’s basically the opposite of Katherine except in looks. “When I’m around her I completely forget what I am.” He confesses he’s in love with her. She draws the parallel that they must be related. Stefan claims he doesn’t want to know. He doesn’t to draw the connection to them.

Lexi shows up at the party by herself and tells Damon Stefan said he’d be by later. He shows up at Elena’s to check on her. She mentions “the girl in the towel” and he explains she’s his oldest friend—350 years old. Elena feels uncomfortable knowing she’s a vampire. She needs to talk to someone, but the only one she can talk to is him. He promises always to be there for her. She thanks him for coming by and he starts to leave, but then turns around, asks if she needs a ride to the party, and tells her it’s his birthday. She says she’s going to stay in tonight. Part of me believes her, but the other part doesn’t.

Caroline asks for the necklace back and Bonnie says she can’t give it back. She works out that Damon is the one who really wants it back.

Stefan apologizes to Matt, explaining he “went through something similar once.” He understands. He realizes his mom is just like their mother. Unreliable and always leaving.

Damon emotionally abuses Caroline, again. Calling her stupid, useless, and shallow. All because she can’t get his crystal back and because he’s confused about why people can’t touch it. Then, he goes out and attacks someone. When the sheriff shows up she asks the girl what happened. Seems like she’s probably going to feed them a Damon induced lie.

Elena does show up and jealously watches Stefan and Lexi shoot pool together. Damon comes up to her and asks what it’s like to be so righteous. She says it flares up around psychopaths. Then, she asks him what he did to her brother because he’s so different. He says he took away his suffering. I wonder if he fed her his blood like with Vicki. Lexi “buys” drinks for her and Stefan, then sees Elena and buys one for her. She tells Elena that the love of her life was human and he went through similar emotions Elena’s going through. She encourages her not to let him go, because it’s real and when it’s real, you can’t let it go. Elena says it was really nice meeting her. After a moment, Elena goes up to Stefan.

Caroline gets hammered and asks Matt if she’s shallow. He asks if it’s a trick question. She says she doesn’t want to be. She wants to be deep. Abyss deep. Then, she asks him to take her home. Her mom is outside and asks if she’s been drinking.

Lexi goes to ask Damon why he’s really in Mystic Falls. He says he has a diabolical plan and that he can’t tell her. The sheriff comes in with the girl and asks her if she sees anyone who attacked them. She I.D.’s Lexi who Damon then stakes. She asks why and he explains it’s part of the plan. Throwing the police of his trail now that he’s decided to stay in town.

At her house, Caroline asks Matt if he ever feels like there’s no one in the word who loves him. He agrees life can be rough. Then, he gets up to leave and she asks him not to leave. He climbs into bed with her and holds her. I bet they’re going to be a thing.

Stefan plans to kill Damon and Elena tries to stop him. She’s worried about what this will do to him. She begs him to talk to her and let her be there for him. He says she was right to stay away from him. They fight and she stakes him in the gut, “You saved my life. I’m sparing yours. Now we’re done.”

Bonnie has a nightmare or something about her running through the woods and someone saying, “It’s coming.”

TVD: Season 1 Episode 7 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 7

Vicki is still being looked for and she shows up in Tyler’s car. She’s afraid. She tells him how hungry she is; how she can’t control it. Then, she attacks him. Stefan and Damon show up just in time. Damon compels Tyler to believe he didn’t see any of them. Is this going to be what slowly brings him to humanity?

Elena wakes up quietly freaked out. She tells Jeremy he should go to school and wait for a call.

Damon and Stefan are playing the angel and devil on Vicki’s shoulders to help her decide who/what to feed from. “We choose our own path. Our values and our actions define who we are,” Stefan says. Damon decides to leave, while he walks away Elena rings the doorbell looking for Stefan. She calls Damon arrogant and glib, he calls her brave and stupid; and she calls him out. “If you wanted me dead, I’d be dead. I’m not.” She asks Stefan about Vicki. He explains that it may take longer for her since she’s a drug addict.

At the Grill, the Mayor and his wife talk about the vampires, how Logan let them get the compass, and how they should be worried that he apparently knows the town history. Damon is sitting there listening.

Stefan explains to Vicki she’ll have to live with the urge to drink human blood and that he isn’t proud of having drank it in the past. Elena makes a face that says she’s trying not to freak out about him drinking human blood. He also tells Vicki caffeine keeps them from being too cold to touch. Stefan leaves Elena to watch Vicki while he gets her more animal blood. She tells her she doesn’t want Jeremy apart of this. Vicki chokes her and threatens her, she strung her brother along for 15 years and then dumped him; that’s all she sees in her. Stefan agrees that Vicki shouldn’t see Jeremy.

Vicki asks Damon why he did it. He says he was bored. “One of the pitfalls of eternal life.” He and Stefan show her the perks of being a vampire. Speed. When she tries, she shows up home, but finds she can’t go in without an invitation. Matt is there and says the right words to get her inside. He gets mad about her “drug trip.” She starts complaining about her headache. Then, Stefan shows up and asks to come in, she says don’t let him in, so Matt tells him to leave.

Elena tries again to encourage Jeremy to let Vicki go so she can heal. He explains Vicki has been for him what Stefan has been for her—a bright spot in the darkness. She texts him, saying she’ll be at the high school party.

At the Grill, Damon tries to compel the Mayor’s wife, but she’s wearing vervain in her bracelet. They flirt with each other. She tells him about the counsel and asks for more vervain.

At the Halloween party, Matt tells Elena Vicki is there dressed as a vampire. She’s trying to fight her urge, but she’s starting to lose it. Stefan gets there and drags her to a classroom. Vicki tries to get Matt to believe Stefan won’t leave her alone. Elena tries to assure Matt everything is ok. Matt tries to fight, but Stefan urges him to believe he’s trying to help her.

Damon tries to take the jewel form Bonnie who is wearing it a part of her witch costumer per Caroline’s request. She burns him.

Vicki asks Jeremy to leave with her. She bites his lip while they’re making out and she tastes his blood. He sees her vamp up and watches her use her super strength on Elena and Stefan. Stefan stakes Vicki after she feeds from Elena. She cries over Vicki’s body after telling Stefan to take Jeremy away. Stefan calls Damon for help with the corpse. When he shows up, Elena starts hitting at him, accusing him of caring when he says he doesn’t. He warns her that she needs to leave. “Your wounds are bleeding and you need to leave.” She does leave, blames the blood on an “idiot with fake blood” when Matt asks about it, and lies about not knowing where Vicki is. After walking away, she starts crying in the car. She doesn’t want to lie. She doesn’t want to be a part of any of this.

At home, Stefan is waiting for Elena and Jeremy is in his room crying. She goes to comfort him. Asking if she understands what happened. He knows what he saw, but he doesn’t understand. Stefan sits outside listening to the emotional battle. “Why does everyone have to die on me,” Jeremy asks. Elena goes to check on Stefan and asks him to make Jeremy forget. Stefan explains he can’t do it right because of how he lives. Damon shows up and says he can do it. He just asks what she wants him to believe. “She left town. She’s not coming back. He shouldn’t look for her or worry about him. It’s going to hurt, but he’ll move on.” When Damon goes inside, she tells Stefan she wants to forget everything, but she can’t. She can’t forget how she feels about him.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 6 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 6

Flash back to 1864 when Stefan is either human or barely not human. It’s the first official sight of Katherine.

“What are you? What are you?” Elena demands. “You know,” he tells her. “You wouldn’t be here if didn’t… Everything you know. Everything you believe is about to change. Are you ready for that? …I’m a vampire.” She says she’s shouldn’t have come. Then she freaks out and tries to leave. He flashes in front of her, begging her to let him explain. She leaves and he lets her, but then shows up in her room while she’s on the verge of a full-blown panic attack—aka the only sensible reaction to finding out your boyfriend is a vampire that I’ve ever seen! Ha, ha. She tries to run from him, but he stops her from opening the door. He begs her to let him explain, that he’d never hurt her, that it’s been Damon attacking people. She says that if he really won’t hurt her, then he’ll leave. She literally begs him.

Damon eats the stoners but leaves Vicki alive. While burning the corpses, he calls Stefan, begging for his ring. He waits outside her house for a while desperately wanting her to let him in.

Elena asks Stefan to meet her in daylight at a coffee shop so she can separate fact from fiction. Mirrors are myth. He can eat garlic. Crucifixes are decorations. Survives the sun because of the rings. The mind manipulation. He asks for the day so he can explain everything to her before she makes a decision.

Damon takes Vicki home and leaves her on the couch. He drinks, begs Stefan for his ring because he’s bored, and then appears to turn Vicki into a vampire.

Stefan takes Elena to the middle of the woods where his home used to be. It’s now in ruins. She notices how old it looks and asks how long he’s been… He’s been 17 since 1864. “OMG…” “You said you wanted to know. I’m not going to hold anything back.”

Damon and Stefan used to be best friends until Katherine came into the picture. While they’re playing the new game of football, Katherine asks to join in, takes the ball and runs away, begging him to chase her. Damon was in the confederacy but left right before the founder’s ball. The conniving and manipulative Katherine pits the boys against each other. While fooling around with each other, Stefan says he’ll love her forever, she says forever is very long time, he says not long enough, and she vamps up and bites him. Then, persuades him never to tell anyone. She does the same with Damon. She wants to be with both of them forever.

Stefan hid Damon’s ring at the ruins of their old home. He explains to Elena that if doesn’t give it back, then Damon will retaliate in the only way he knows how to hurt him, by attacking her.

At the estate, Vicki and Damon are partying. She’s going on about being over Tyler and being into Jeremy, because he’s always seen something more in her. She asks why he doesn’t have a girlfriend because he’s hot. He does the cocky, I know thing. Then, says, “I’ve been in love, it’s painful, pointless, and overrated.” They spend the next while just dancing around the house. They trash someone’s bedroom, probably Stefan’s, maybe his. She pours her heart out to him, and he decides to “help” her. Then, he kills her by snapping her neck. When she finally wakes up, she’s dead and a vampire. At first, he tries to persuade her to let him go with her, because she doesn’t believe it. He warns her she’s about to go crazy. Then, he lets her go, telling her to go to the Gilbert’s house. She does and that’s where she starts to freak out. He head is killing her, the sun bothered her, and she’s got the major munchies.

Elena asks if Stefan’s ever used the persuasion power on her. He explains the necklace and tells her to keep it on so she always knows she’s free to make her own decision.

Jeremy calls Matt to come over. She freaks out about the quiet speaking being too loud and her mouth hurting where he fangs will be coming in. They become mesmerized by the TV. Then Elena and Stefan show up. He explains what’s going on and that if she doesn’t choose to feed, once she remembers what’s going on, then she’ll die. Elena freaks out again realizing Stefan had to make the choice. Upstairs, she almost bites Jeremy but fights it and runs away. Stefan informs Elena that he can track Vicki. Without hesitation, she tells him to go after her. She tries to keep calm and convince herself and Jeremy that everything will be okay. While they’re talking, there’s a ring at the door. It’s Damon. She tries to block him from coming in, but he overpowers her. She orders Jeremey to go upstairs. He takes note of her fear, knows Stefan’s told her the truth. He claims he’s just looking for Stefan. He claims Vicki is going to thank him some day and she asks if he thanked Katherine.

Stefan finally finds Vicki in the wounds. She’s starting to remember everything. She asks what happens if she doesn’t feed. “It’ll all just be over.” She wants to know if she’ll be better, he doesn’t answer. She asks him to take her home. And that’s when reporter boy comes in after tracking the vamps. He shoots Stefan with a wooden bullet which hurts, but doesn’t kill him. Damon shows up just in time and attacks the guy. “If anyone’s gonna kill you; it’s gonna be me.” Then, Vicki, not necessarily by choice, feeds off reporter boy and officially changes.

Elena waits on her porch for Stefan. She worries about his injury. Then, Stefan tells her he tried to stop her, but he couldn’t. He is going to do everything he can to show her she can live on animal blood. Elena gave him the day, believes he won’t hurt her, and promises to keep his secret, but officially breaks up with him. Then, she goes inside and breaks down crying. It’s heartbreaking and I want to hurt for her, but mostly I’m just really pleased that her reaction to everything is so sensible. She hurts so much to say she can’t be with him, he’s the only thing that has helped her feel more than sadness since her parents’ death, but right now she can’t be with him. Eventually she will be, I know. You don’t get to eight seasons and a five season spinoff without the original romance lasting at least a while, but still. It’s not happening just yet. I hope it takes a while for her to give in to her love, or lust or whatever, for him. This thing needs to continue to be sensible! As is, just for her reaction to him being a vampire, it is the superior vampire drama.

TVD: Season 1 Episode 5 – Recap and Reactions

Episode 5

Stefan leaves Damon in the basement with the vervain. His plan is to leave him weak and let him go without blood until he mummifies and becomes a living corpse. So far, his plan is working. Elena worries about Stefan’s secrets and lies after disappearing for three days.

Caroline tells Bonnie that she has a bunch of gaps in her memory and that for all she knows she let him bite her. When Stefan shows up at school, Elena is shocked and Caroline asks when Damon will be back. Stefan says in his dark and mysterious manner that Damon won’t be coming back.

At the bar, Elena shoots pool with Matt and talks boy problems with him because they were best friends before dating. Stefan shows up an hour late and still refusing to give Elena any kind of answer. While there, an older man recognizes Stefan who freaks out and asks Elena to leave with him. She refuses and walks away.

Stefan shows up at Elena’s to make her dinner and says that if she’s going to break up with him, then she needs to know him. He starts with information about Katherine then proceeds with random facts about himself. She offers to take over slicing the cheese for their dinner. I bet she’s gonna cut herself. Oh, and she does! He gets her blood on his hand, turns vamp, she sees it in the mirror reflection, and… he manages to change back before she makes him turn around. Dang it! I want to know her reaction when she finds his secret!

Oh, snap! Damon has a power to call people without being with them? Is it the crow? He calls Caroline’s name and after a few calls, she hears him and the crow appears. She freaks out a bit, but tries to calm herself.

He taunts Stefan about how the only thing to get between him and Elena now is the truth. He just walks away.

At the “sexy suds” car washing event, one of the cheerleaders is very rude and Bonnie makes the water attack her.

While washing a car together, Elena starts questioning Stefan about his ring. It’s a family crest for the Italian renaissance. She suggests he take it off for protection and he tries to keep his cool while denying it.

Okay, so now Damon projects himself into the presence of Caroline?

The older man shows up at the car wash. Elena asks him about why he thought Stefan was the same guy from a while back. He explains he thought he saw him in early June 1953. He was passing through to see his uncle Joseph who was killed in an animal attack at the same time. He knows Stefan because of his ring and his brother. Elena asks her aunt Jenna’s sort of boyfriend for help finding info on the incident the old man mentioned.

Ooh, the summoning is working. Caroline is at the Salvatore estate and she’s about to let Damon out of his cage in the basement… Zach gets to the basement just in time to keep Caroline from completely opening the door, but she opens it enough for Damon to break free. Sapped of his power, he’s not strong enough to fight both of them, so she’s able to escape.

Bonnie tries to dry water from the ground with her powers, but accidently sets the street on fire instead. Then she finds herself in a trance that Stefan is able to break her from. Only he notices, because like her, he’s supernatural. She goes to her grandma for help and answers.

Matt, for Elena’s sake, warns Stefan that she’s big on trust, so the more he tries to hide something, the more likely she’ll be to push for more information until she finds her answers.

At the house, Jenna’s boyfriend and news reporter sneaks through Jeremy’s room and finds the Gilbert watch and takes it.

Elena tries to convince herself through her diary that she doesn’t believe in anything. She believes in birth, life, and death. But, she’s finally starting to understand who or what Damon is. Un-aging men. Men who don’t get hurt and change unexpectedly. Women bitten on the neck. People drained of blood. Vicki calling it what it is… a vampire. She knows, but she doesn’t want to believe it.

Damon shows up in the graveyard to attack Vicki. Stefan finds Zach dead and Damon escaped, so he gets a stake and plans to attack Damon, but is stopped when he finds Elena at the door as he opens it. “What are you?” Yes! Finally! Ugh, but I’m supposed to be going to bed… Guess not yet! Haha