TVD - 4x14 "Down the Rabbit Hole"
Hi guys. How are we all feeling today? I know this is kind of belated, but I got you this Vampire Diaries- themed box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day.
The good news is that it is very big, the biggest, the 300-candy box. The bad news is that only one of those chocolates contains the cure, one contains the calcified blood of Qetsiyah, ten contain a nasty coconut mixture, and the other 288 are filled with pure sadness. I lost the key that tells us which is which, but if you kill enough vampires, it will magically appear on the gleaming and well-defined male torso that is nearest to your person. Or you can just take your chances, BUT I AM WARNING YOU. The coconut ones are really gross.
Anyway. There was a Vampire Diaries episode last night, and it was made of nightmares; I ordered an assortment of neon-colored office supplies and a red stapler today to make me feel better, and yet I am still sad. (P.S. Putting me in charge of department supplies was the worst decision anyone ever made.)
I actually thought the first twenty minutes were kind of boring, but the last twenty minutes were double-interesting, so overall: I definitely liked it. Although I have to say that, while I have always admired this show for not being afraid to herd its characters into the worst-possible scenarios, after they actually went there with Jeremy (!!!) I had a moment where I was like “… I think maybe you have crossed a line here.” Honestly, I don’t know how much more sadness you can heap on Elena and realistically expect her to come back from it and not just say “Fuck you, world. I’m out. And I’m taking the good corkscrew with me, so all you will have left is this crappy one that doesn’t open shit.”
STILL. STILL. I am fascinated and intrigued to see how dark they take her, even while I think they are setting themselves up for a gargantuan climb when it comes time to get her back to Camp Better Place. At this point, I want Elena to shut off her humanity, just so she can have a break from the cycle of guilt that that will inevitably arise when she starts to abuse herself for her “role” in Jeremy’s death. But then WHERE DOES IT END. WHEN DO I GET MY UNSIRED SEXYTIMES AND FLEETING MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS? How does face-touching fit into this new scenario? Where, exactly, is Damon’s butt? You see I have many questions.
I am still kind of emotionally exhausted, so these are just random thoughts that likely make no sense.
++++NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Jeremy, you have absolutely no luck in caves and tunnels. If you do end up back by some sort of supernatural means, please endeavor to be an above-ground boy from now on.
+++They have to dump some of these magical objects. At least the moonstone was travel-sized. I still laugh every time they haul out that giant hunk of tombstone, because it is just. so. unwieldy. Everyone looks like a tool carrying it. I am not one to cry McGuffin Abuse at every turn, but I think I finally reached my limit this episode when the sword that Stefan couldn’t find at Christmas was trotted in by Caroline and Klaus and revealed to have an Aramaic cryptex in the handle. I just . . . no. No! The Da Vinci Code HAS NO BUSINESS HERE.
+++I am fickle, and am kind of back on enjoying the Klaus/Caroline train if only because I’m always on board with villains being deluded about the ~enormity of their romantic gestures. Here, I’ll make this half-assed attempt not to kill your boyfriend. YOU’RE WELCOME. Please. Please. Kisses of gratitude can be made out to me, Klaus Mikaelson, in any amount exceeding a billion.
+++REBEKAH, MY LOVE. You just keep on killing me, with your little speeches to Damon about loving Elena for the rest of his life and how your gaze sort of went a little misty, and we really knew that you were talking about you and Stefan, who you would have given the cure to if you knew he wasn’t just going to turn around and give it to Elena. People keep saying that the Silas/Qetsiyah/Other Lady triangle is mirroring S/E/D, but I think there is a stronger link to R/E/S. I’m curious to see if there’s something to that in this back half of the season.
+++I am glad to see Katherine back, but I am not happy with her. I’m trying to figure out if she wants the cure just to destroy Klaus or if there are additional reasons we have yet to discover. I feel like maybe she has some connection to Vaughn (who is apparently still in next week’s ep) and that’s how he knew things about Damon and Mystic Falls. Cuz I really hate the “oh I’ve just been spying on you and you didn’t notice” explanation.
+++Damon Salvatore’s “Look at my skin. It’s flawless.” Only character to make a round of torturing sound like a make-up commercial. And it explains all those face soaps.
+++So what I took away from this episode is that Damon has basically resigned himself to No Elena. I saw his telling Stefan to go find the cure and his “She only needs one of us” as his official resignation to the Stefan-hero status quo. Not that there wasn’t a pragmatic element to it, too; he was too weak to be of much use, so he needed to be out of the equation, but I also feel like this is the point where Damon has sort of given up because he has deemed his own situation truly un-fixable. D: D: D:
+++Stefan was rather inoffensive this episode, but I did shake my head a bit at his early conversation with Elena re: taking the cure. I’m glad he’s finally admitting that he wants it for himself, but let’s get real, his motives for not telling Elena that is because he wanted to milk it for all of its romantic gesture glory. Perhaps subconsciously, but this is Stefan. Constantly standing on a diagonal so the light hits him just right. But on the positive side . . . progress.
Thinking about this anymore is just making me sad all over again. Time to order some mint green legal pads.
The good news is that it is very big, the biggest, the 300-candy box. The bad news is that only one of those chocolates contains the cure, one contains the calcified blood of Qetsiyah, ten contain a nasty coconut mixture, and the other 288 are filled with pure sadness. I lost the key that tells us which is which, but if you kill enough vampires, it will magically appear on the gleaming and well-defined male torso that is nearest to your person. Or you can just take your chances, BUT I AM WARNING YOU. The coconut ones are really gross.
Anyway. There was a Vampire Diaries episode last night, and it was made of nightmares; I ordered an assortment of neon-colored office supplies and a red stapler today to make me feel better, and yet I am still sad. (P.S. Putting me in charge of department supplies was the worst decision anyone ever made.)
I actually thought the first twenty minutes were kind of boring, but the last twenty minutes were double-interesting, so overall: I definitely liked it. Although I have to say that, while I have always admired this show for not being afraid to herd its characters into the worst-possible scenarios, after they actually went there with Jeremy (!!!) I had a moment where I was like “… I think maybe you have crossed a line here.” Honestly, I don’t know how much more sadness you can heap on Elena and realistically expect her to come back from it and not just say “Fuck you, world. I’m out. And I’m taking the good corkscrew with me, so all you will have left is this crappy one that doesn’t open shit.”
STILL. STILL. I am fascinated and intrigued to see how dark they take her, even while I think they are setting themselves up for a gargantuan climb when it comes time to get her back to Camp Better Place. At this point, I want Elena to shut off her humanity, just so she can have a break from the cycle of guilt that that will inevitably arise when she starts to abuse herself for her “role” in Jeremy’s death. But then WHERE DOES IT END. WHEN DO I GET MY UNSIRED SEXYTIMES AND FLEETING MOMENTS OF HAPPINESS? How does face-touching fit into this new scenario? Where, exactly, is Damon’s butt? You see I have many questions.
I am still kind of emotionally exhausted, so these are just random thoughts that likely make no sense.
++++NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Jeremy, you have absolutely no luck in caves and tunnels. If you do end up back by some sort of supernatural means, please endeavor to be an above-ground boy from now on.
+++They have to dump some of these magical objects. At least the moonstone was travel-sized. I still laugh every time they haul out that giant hunk of tombstone, because it is just. so. unwieldy. Everyone looks like a tool carrying it. I am not one to cry McGuffin Abuse at every turn, but I think I finally reached my limit this episode when the sword that Stefan couldn’t find at Christmas was trotted in by Caroline and Klaus and revealed to have an Aramaic cryptex in the handle. I just . . . no. No! The Da Vinci Code HAS NO BUSINESS HERE.
+++I am fickle, and am kind of back on enjoying the Klaus/Caroline train if only because I’m always on board with villains being deluded about the ~enormity of their romantic gestures. Here, I’ll make this half-assed attempt not to kill your boyfriend. YOU’RE WELCOME. Please. Please. Kisses of gratitude can be made out to me, Klaus Mikaelson, in any amount exceeding a billion.
+++REBEKAH, MY LOVE. You just keep on killing me, with your little speeches to Damon about loving Elena for the rest of his life and how your gaze sort of went a little misty, and we really knew that you were talking about you and Stefan, who you would have given the cure to if you knew he wasn’t just going to turn around and give it to Elena. People keep saying that the Silas/Qetsiyah/Other Lady triangle is mirroring S/E/D, but I think there is a stronger link to R/E/S. I’m curious to see if there’s something to that in this back half of the season.
+++I am glad to see Katherine back, but I am not happy with her. I’m trying to figure out if she wants the cure just to destroy Klaus or if there are additional reasons we have yet to discover. I feel like maybe she has some connection to Vaughn (who is apparently still in next week’s ep) and that’s how he knew things about Damon and Mystic Falls. Cuz I really hate the “oh I’ve just been spying on you and you didn’t notice” explanation.
+++Damon Salvatore’s “Look at my skin. It’s flawless.” Only character to make a round of torturing sound like a make-up commercial. And it explains all those face soaps.
+++So what I took away from this episode is that Damon has basically resigned himself to No Elena. I saw his telling Stefan to go find the cure and his “She only needs one of us” as his official resignation to the Stefan-hero status quo. Not that there wasn’t a pragmatic element to it, too; he was too weak to be of much use, so he needed to be out of the equation, but I also feel like this is the point where Damon has sort of given up because he has deemed his own situation truly un-fixable. D: D: D:
+++Stefan was rather inoffensive this episode, but I did shake my head a bit at his early conversation with Elena re: taking the cure. I’m glad he’s finally admitting that he wants it for himself, but let’s get real, his motives for not telling Elena that is because he wanted to milk it for all of its romantic gesture glory. Perhaps subconsciously, but this is Stefan. Constantly standing on a diagonal so the light hits him just right. But on the positive side . . . progress.
Thinking about this anymore is just making me sad all over again. Time to order some mint green legal pads.