Mama Salvatore is truly the worst mother in the history of the world.But TVD’s version is more reminiscent of True Blood, isn’t it? The original version of the film Never Let Me Go had a horrifying sequence that shows what happens to a vampire when their permission to be in a home is revoked.Do you think Stefan and Damon would swap who had toilet-cleaning duties? I did sort of like that the Salvatore house now has a housekeeper.It’s an interesting approach, and found footage always freaks me out, but the shift from the flashforward to the found footage to the actual show was a bit too much for a five-minute opener. I could have done without the found-footage opening.This week, we got Caroline as a producer (I would have guessed politics) who can’t go back to Mystic Falls. I hope TVD starts to do that work soon, though, since this fast-paced show is starting to feel like a slow, slow burn. The Heretic infighting and Enzo’s continual ambiguity. The first time through, I was distinctly bored on my second watch I was able to appreciate the amount of work this episode did in order to set up conflicts and plot points. My initial impression of this episode-confirmed by my rewatch-was that very little happened. Thank goodness Bonnie is the best witch in the world. The Phoenix stone is an interesting McGuffin: it is magic, but the magic was cloaked. Meanwhile, Ric’s quest to reanimate Jo was touching and, I hope, promises to turn into something suspenseful soon. This week’s most exciting sequence-Stefan pushed out of his old home-was caused by a real-estate transaction. (Typing that sentence makes me realize yet again how little I like them.) Enzo is a pawn in their game, as is the deed to the Salvatore house. It's the Mystic Falls version of the game of telephone.Īnd there is trouble among the Heretics, who fight about clothes and use eyeliner pencils as weapons. Bonnie goes to Matt, who really got the short end of the stick this week and decides to blame Damon for it. Damon takes a while to tell Bonnie, doing the whole “I know what’s best for you” thing that, reasonably, drives her crazy. Stefan has a plan and Damon is bored enough to get in on it. The most interesting part of Caroline’s capture may have been the way in which information was exchanged. It felt very pro forma for both the torturers and torturee. I say “low-key” not because it looked painless (it didn’t) but because there was a relative lack of screaming and very few “Noooooo!”s. The core of this week’s plot was the capture and low-key torture of Caroline. (At least they got the memo about wearing miniskirts to funerals on The CW.) The most horrifying part may have been watching the Heretics mean-girl their way through life despite being over a century old. The death was temporary the torture, relatively silent. “A maniacal villain with maniacal villain motives? It’s not the worst distraction in the world.”įor an episode filled with torture and death, “Never Let Me Go” was quite tame.
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