The Vampire Diaries 5x04 Recap

The main aim this week is get Stefan’s memories back. Damon has the ‘Damon way’ of doing things by taking his brother out in his car and getting him drunk. Whilst Elena tries to take him down memory lane with her, by revisiting important moments in their history. There is a nice moment between the brothers when Stefan states that he is the fun brother and Damon is the safe one. Both Elena and Damon however, are trying to avoid releasing the ripper.

It is Remembrance Day in Mystic Falls and time for a home visit for Caroline, who has been away at college playing detective. She brings Jesse home with her, a move which leads to him questioning Caroline’s motives and they share a kiss.

At the bar trying to regain his memories Stefan shares that although they keep telling him he is a monster he thinks now he has no memories he will be ok with his ripper side. Elena arrives and is put out that Damon hasn’t told Stefan about her, he argues that there is two hundred years to catch up on first.

Matt meanwhile, is still struggling with his blackouts and decides to film himself so that he can see what happens. He watches the footage back and sees Gregor, he faces the camera and tells Matt that some people will come looking for a blade and that he must protect it at all costs.

Elena takes Stefan back to high school where they met, and to the bridge, basically giving him a tour of their relationship. They are very flirty and Stefan guesses that they were together once upon a time and tells her he feels better when he is with her, the hunger to feed is gone. She confesses that she fell out of love with him when she became a vampire. They almost kiss but Stefan is shocked to learn that she is with Damon and goes off the rails.

Stefan has gone to the party and got horrendously drunk; he runs into Caroline and tells her that she is hotter in person. He gives her the slip in order to chase after Jesse; he attacks him saying why should he be good when he has lost everything.

 Caroline intervenes and saves Jesse by feeding him her blood. Stefan goes back to the house and burns all of his journals he doesn’t want to be the Stefan from them and decides he doesn’t want anything to do with Damon and Elena, only Caroline. This is a good move; I like this storyline a Stefan not pining for Elena is interesting and I want to see the relationship with Caroline develop and Elena’s jealousy.

This is finally the episode where everyone finds out about Bonnie, Jeremy is struggling with keeping the secret as everyone needs something from Bonnie. He confides in Damon that she is dead, and Damon is instantly concerned for Elena’s wellbeing. (There is a cute moment between Damon and Jeremy when they hug and Damon shows he truly cared for Bonnie) Damon decides it is best that he tells Elena whilst Jeremy tells Matt. Caroline seeks comfort in Stefan and piles all of her troubles onto him. The gang hold a memorial service for Bonnie and grieve for her; she is watching over them and sends them each messages through Jeremy. Tyler makes a return after hearing the news to be there for Caroline.

Back at college for the cliff-hanger Jesse is being studied by Professor he discovers that Jesse has vampire blood in his system and kills him in order to turn him into a vampire. I wonder what the professor wants to achieve from this?

Final Thoughts:

I’m glad now everyone knows about Bonnie, it will be good to see how the gang cope without running to her first with every problem they have. How are they going to solve future crises without the use of magic?

This episode was a good return to the roots of the vampire diaries, I feel that the professor is a more sinister villain than Silas. Although it seems weird that there was no mention of it in this episode they seem to have forgotten about Katherine.

The funeral scene was nice, I liked the surprise that Tyler showed up and Damon in a suit is always a treat.

Caroline has a lot on her plate now and she has many options Tyler, Stefan, Jesse and not forgetting that Klaus could appear at any moment. I am definitely a Klaroline shipper but as his only friend I am looking forward to seeing the Caroline/Stefan relationship as it was starting to get good last season.

Hart of Dixie 3x03 Recap

This was a bit of a filler episode I feel as we didn’t really make any progress. The main premise is that Zoe wants to get back to work, However Brick is not budging. Joel suggests that she opens her own practice but all Zoe wants is to be back in with Brick. This begins the awkwardness of the episode whereby tensions are high between Zoe and Joel.

By accident Joel lets slip to Brick that Zoe might open her own practice, she is furious with him. Brick is fuming and it leads to a heated argument by which Zoe exclaims that she will open her own practice. To which George Tucker announces that it is in her contract to not practice within 20 miles of Bluebell or she has to pay $350,000.

Meanwhile Lavon is trying to get a minor league baseball team to build their stadium in Bluebell. The owner is Cam Lynch who happened to go to college with Brick. He begrudgingly agrees to help Lavon; however Cam is very interested in Brick. Brick doesn’t like the attention and is called away to an emergency.

George is struggling with tutoring Lynley as she will not give up flirting with him, it comes to a head when George tries to help her zip up her dress and gets his hand stuck. Caught in an uncomfortable situation the only person George can call is Zoe. They finally have a chance to talk about her leaving and George tells her that it might have hit Brick harder than she thought.

Lemon is ruffling a few feathers in the belles, she forms a resistance to Crickets leadership, but she is discovered by Cricket and is made to clean the town as punishment. After completing all the humiliating tasks, Lemon along with Anabeth quit the belles.

Joel is down in the dumps over Zoe and heads to the Rammer Jammer, Wade recognises that depressed look on his face and takes pity on him. They need to keep Brick from finding Zoe so they hatch a plan to keep him distracted this involves Wade punching Joel in the stomach (I bet he enjoyed it) They bond, Wade even has a cute nickname for him ‘Shakespeare’

Brick tells Zoe that his world fell apart because Shelby left, Magnolia left and then with Zoe leaving he had double the work load. He offers Zoe her job back but not as a partner as someone who can work their way up.

We finish off as usual in the Rammer Jammer and Wade tells Zoe to take it easy on Joel and she is touched that he got punched for her.  

Final Thoughts:

My favourite line from Zoe to Wade ‘How is it you drink so much and yet forget so little

Not too excited about this episode not much happened although it showed tensions brewing very easily between Zoe and Joel.

I’m glad that Lemon and Anabeth have quit the Belles that stuff bores me

Very very excited for Robert Buckley next week

The Vampire Diaries 5x03

Elena has been having restless nights dreaming of Stefan as the ripper and he doesn’t have his daylight ring. Trouble is Elena and Katherine are having the same dreams as part of the ‘Doppelganger curse’ Elena and Katherine are sparring off with each other and Damon is playing mediator. I like Katherine as a human she much better with her humanity.

The traveller, Nadia, is now being Silas’ puppet and is instructed to kill Matt. Matt has been possessed by Gregor, the traveller she needed to gain Silas’ trust by killing him but aims to restore Gregor in Matt’s body. Matt arrives home and can’t remember ringing Elena and he has mud all over his shoes.

Stefan has been saved by a stranger, she knows all about Silas. She tells him a story that she is Silas’ one true love (a traveller) and he wanted Ketsia to make an elixir to make them immortal. Complete 180 and it turns out she is ketsia and came through from the other side when Bonnie dropped the veil. Ketsia (Tessa – for the modern world) was due to marry Silas and made the immortality spell for the wedding ceremony but he took the spell before with someone else, Amara (The first Petrova doppelganger I assume as she looks identical to Elena). Betrayed she offered Silas a second chance to take the cure. He refused and killed Amara by giving her the cure. Ketsia created the other side so that Silas would be stuck there instead of in peace with Amara. Ketsia asks for Stefan in helping to take down Silas he agrees.

On the road to try and find Stefan, Katherine is trying to wind up Elena and Damon, by saying she should not be dreaming about Stefan. However, Elena is having none of it and argues why should they keep Katherine around, Damon tells her he intends to keep her as leverage because Silas wants her. When they reach the bar they were looking for they run into Nadia and Elena chases after her. There is a cute Damon/Elena moment when he tells her to be careful as Katherine is not worth the hair on Elena’s head. In the woods Katherine asks Elena why she hasn’t killed her, Elena replies that it is what is left of her humanity. However Katherine is captured by Nadia.

Ketsia seems a bit of a psycho and she had planted the dreams in the girls head to lead them to where Stefan was but she was expecting Katherine as well as Damon. Ketsia aims to link Stefan to Silas in order to weaken his mental state and his mind control. She manages this and in doing so saves Nadia’s life as she was under his mind control to kill herself. Ketsia tells Damon that he has no chance for a happy ending as she has sat on the other side and watched over the century the doppelgangers search for each other and find each other. (i.e. Stefan and Elena are destined for each other)

Silas realises Ketsia is around after she fried his brain and tells Katherine that the cure is running through her veins. Maybe there is a possibility that everyone can be cured.

Damon tells Elena, that they are a lost cause and that the universe is programmed to make doppelgangers fall in love with each other. But he gives a big romantic speech that he loves her. I am loving these speeches there is about one an episode at the minute.

For the final cliff-hanger Stefan wakes up and has complete memory loss he has no idea who Elena and Damon are, handy as he has forgotten all about his love for her. The show just keeps throwing curveballs.

Final Thoughts:

Forgot Stefan did not know anything about Katherine taking the cure Etc.

How will the memory loss affect Elena, will she be hurt he has forgotten her

What’s going on at college? Abandoned the professor storyline

I like Ketsia she seems bad ass.

Hart of Dixie Season 3 Episode 2 Review

Bluebell’s newest resident, Joel, is not coping so well with the southern way of life he cannot deal with the humidity and he sits on fire ant rock. Also to add insult to injury in this episode he finds out about Zoe and Wade and also notices some tension between him and George Tucker. In this episode Zoe aims to show him the charms of the town in order to make him fall in love with it like she has but it does not go so well. In fact the only person in Bluebell that likes Joel other than Zoe is Tom Long, he loves Joel’s writing.

The town is buzzing about ‘Lemonade’ (Lemon and Wade) and within the episode we find out each of the inhabitants of Bluebell’s reactions to it. Meatball finds out from the belles and believes that he is ‘the other man’ Brick is not best pleased and confronts Wade over the relationship.

After their one night stand Lynley gets a little too attached to George after he makes her eggs in the morning. They agree to not exchange names and avoid each other but this is made hard after Lavon recruits George to help him locate this Mystery man.

Lemon suffers in this episode as she is trying to keep up the pretence that her and Wade are together to make Zoe Jealous, whilst also trying to find herself an eligible bachelor to stop her from sleeping with Meatball. Naturally, one is in town Carter Cuvington and he is interested and she asks Wade to dissolve their fake relationship. After seeing Lemon and Carter at the Dixie stop, Zoe is convinced that the relationship with Wade is fake and lets Wade know this. Joel and Zoe weirdly bond over this as Joel states that the writer in him needs to know how and why they are faking the relationship.

Anabeth and Lavon are hosting a welcome to Bluebell dinner party for Joel, meant to be an intimate affair, of course the whole town ends up inviting themselves. The party does not go without a hitch, trying to get Lavon and Joel to bond is difficult as Lavon hated Joel’s book and posted bad reviews about it on Amazon. Joel is also taken ill after he has an allergic reaction. I'm missing the Lavon/Zoe time and I feel that Joel may put a wedge between them.

After being forced together at the party George lets Lynley know that he doesn’t want a new relationship. This appears not to sink in as she hatches a plan to spend more time with him by getting George to tutor her. I don't like this storyline, I think that now they have Joel I see where George fits in. I think him and Zoe should just be good friends like at the start of season 1.

Lemon and Wade have a heart to heart and he asks her to still continue the fake relationship as it is working by making Zoe Jealous. As a good friend she lets everyone know at the party that they are together apart from Carter who she tells the truth. However at this moment Meatball arrives and announces to everyone that he is sleeping with Lemon, everyone then figures out that ‘Lemonade’ is fake, Carter leaves town. I like that Lemon is trying to be a better person, I hated her in season 1 but she is becoming more and more likeable by episode.

Lemon tries to salvage a relationship with Carter. Meatball arrives at the Dinner Party and announces to the party that he is sleeping with Lemon. Everyone is shocked but figures out ‘Lemonade’ is fake. Carter clears off.

At the end Zoe tells Wade she didn’t like seeing him with someone else. They decide to find a way to coexist and even share a joke.

Final Thoughts:

I like that they haven’t forgot the past i.e. Lemon/Lavon and make little references to them

Cricket’s husband is definitely gay, I like meeting these very small characters though as it can get boring Zoe/George/Wade

I want to see more Anabeth/Zoe scenes, Anabeth is a bit boring at the moment and I think Zoe needs a gal pal

In addition to this I want to see Zoe living back at Lavon’s so there can be some awkward breakfast run ins

The Vampire Diaries 5x02 Recap

Well you cannot say that The Vampire Diaries is ever boring, this week Silas is causing more problems for the Mystic Falls crew and new supernatural’s are born.

We begin with Bonnie filling Jeremy in on events at the town square, she is now determined that Silas cannot get what he wants after killing her dad. She is struggling to grieve now not only for herself but for her father too.

Silas has meanwhile compelled the whole town into looking for and bringing him Katherine which counts for several scenes throughout this episode where they are almost caught.

Stefan’s hallucinations are continuing, he is dreaming happy thoughts of him and Elena together to keep himself from turning off his humanity.

At college, Caroline is unhappy about Tyler deferring and the mystery surrounding Meghan’s death is still continuing. The death certificate cites suicide, but the girls are not buying it and Elena sets off to find out what the doctor who signed it knows and why he is covering it up. She enrols them in his class in order to find out more, Jesse (New guy) just so happens to be in this class. Though it is short lived as Dr. Creepy/hot professor kicks them out of his class. I predict a few flirtations between him and Elena.

Damon’s conscience is getting the better of him and tries to enlist Liz’s help to find Stefan. He realises Stefan might be have been drowning all summer long while he has been shacked up with Elena.

Silas appears at college pretending to be Stefan, and fills Elena in on some things Damon has been keeping from her. He asks her some leading questions in order to determine Jeremy’s location and therefore Katherine’s.

Meanwhile on the run, Katherine is enjoying all the aliments of being human such as needing aspirin and coughing up green bits. After discussions with Elena, Silas has learnt where Jeremy will take Katherine and is hot on their heels. He runs into Matt who is not subject to his mind control so Silas breaks his neck to get in contact with ‘the travellers’ Luckily Matt is wearing the Gilbert ring and we see him visit The Other Side where our dear old friend Bonnie is keeping a watchful eye. We see the other side from their perspective and Matt finds out the truth about Bonnie. However, he realises that when he wakes up he will not remember a thing. 

Damon comes to college concerned that Elena is in trouble with Silas and enlists Caroline’s help. Elena meanwhile is finding out more about Dr. Creepy from Jesse, and he informs her that he is part of a secret society at Whitmore. Caroline and Jesse then have a moment as she takes care of him following a Damon knockout. She rebuffs him feeling loyal to Tyler, though she softens and bonds with him when he explains he is in the same situation.

Elena has been compelled by Silas to weaken Damon and kill him. He is finally honest with her and tells her everything that has been happening back home. However, it makes her rage soar which is conveniently also a trigger for Silas’ compulsion to try and kill him. Damon gets her to break it by getting her to talk about the bad feeling she has had about Stefan all summer. She confesses he has been reaching out to her and he is in a lot of pain.

Back in the woods Jeremy cannot be controlled by Silas either and he is stronger than him, they fight although Silas is immortal and stabs them both. Katherine shows up in the nick of time and shoots Silas saving Jeremy. It is at this point Matt wakes up and Bonnie and Jeremy share a moment, he promises to help her as she tells him that she is not ready to be dead yet.

Elena leaves Caroline behind at college to help find Stefan as she is leaving Dr. Creepy shows up telling her Gilberts do not quit so easily and invites her for a meeting to talk about her dad. Glad that the immediate danger is over Elena and Damon make up he is a little jealous that she has been having dreams about Stefan but a little reassurance and a passionate kiss puts his mind at ease.

 

Always ending on a cliff-hanger, upon returning to Mystic Falls, the safe has been found but it is not Stefan who is inside.

Final thoughts:

If Stefan is not in the safe where is he? And has Silas’ mind control just made him think he is underwater.

Jesse is appearing everywhere, I feel he will have a bigger role to play, maybe Dr. Creepy’s puppet. Also he looks suspiciously like Connor, the Vampire Hunter and Marcel from New Orleans.

Who are the travellers? And what is the secret brunettes agenda why is she teaming up with Silas.

I am thoroughly enjoying the Silas, Damon scenes as he is more badass than Damon.

The mystery of the picture of Meghan and Elena’s dad has not been touched on yet.

The secret society intrigues me will they stray towards what happens in the books?

What will happen to Matt now he has served his purpose of spying on Silas.

   

The Vampire Diaries Season 5 Premiere

We join our Mystic Fall favourites after the summer, Stefan has been gone all summer long (we know he’s been underwater) the others have assumed that he is just wallowing from the new relationship status of Damon and Elena.

Elena and Caroline are preparing to go to college; Caroline is trying desperately in vain to get the elusive Tyler back to her side. Now that he is allowed back in Mystic Falls is he ever going to appear? Personally, I liked what was going on with Caroline/Klaus and the slight possibility of Caroline/Stefan. But one is now on a spinoff show and one is underwater so I’m praying for a new love interest at college for her. Damon and Elena have been playing house all summer, bathing in the luxury of a guilt free environment sans Stefan.

Stefan is still trapped underwater, dying and coming back to life over and over again; he keeps hallucinating with Damon telling him to turn off his humanity so that he will not feel the pain of dying. Just as he is about to give this up, Elena appears in his dreams telling him to stay with her he will get through.

Matt has returned from his adventures with Rebekah, they had fun on the road, however, when she leaves for New Orleans (going to the Originals) a figure from the road pitches up and Matt is in a little spot of bother. Who are these Vamps? And what do they want with Matt?

Bonnie is trying to accept her new life as a ghost; she is keeping up the premise that she is still alive by getting Jeremy to send postcards and texts to her dad and friends. However, Jeremy is struggling with the opposite, the transition from dead to alive and the all dreaded return to school. In which one day back and he is already expelled, if they were not vampires goodness knows how they would have got into college.

Silas is running around town screwing with everyone, he lets slip to Liz who he is but quickly compels her to forget everything. Question is what does he want with Katherine, in this quest he reveals to Damon who he really is and will only tell him the location of Stefan if he surrenders Katherine. Trouble is a newly human Katherine had already come to Damon asking for help in her weakened state and he sent her out of town with Jeremy. On the way out of town they crash and Jeremy is left for dead (really looking after himself with his second chance) until hero Damon pitches up to feed him blood after his promise to Elena to look after her little brother.

It’s not all going swimmingly in college for the girls either; they have a roommate when they thought it would just be them (Making it hard for them to be themselves) The new roommate is all but a bit suspicious as she drinks vervain water. Then at a campus party she rings the girls in panic claiming she is being chased, she then drops down dead in front of the girls. The campus claims that it is a suicide but the girls know better, they can recognise a vampire bite when they see one. The plot thickens as on the dead girl’s phone there is a photograph of her with Elena’s dad.

In true Vampire Diaries style it is not the only murder, Silas uses his mind control over the whole town and slits the town mayors throat i.e. Bonnie’s dad, the only one to witness this is Bonnie, but her screams are unheard. Is it just me or does Silas make Klaus look like a mouse (his presence is missed though)

Final Thoughts: I like that there is going to be a mystery surrounding Elena’s dad.

The new villain is going to be interesting as he can appear as anyone and will be even better when Stefan gets out of his watery grave, mistaken identities all around.

Let’s hope they introduce some more new characters as the death rate is getting higher. Hopefully a new love interest for Caroline, Tyler is too flaky.

I struggle how to see they will keep up the Bonnie saga, hope she does not appear all season as a ghost. However, now that Jeremy is human again it allows for the revisit of fan favourites such as Ric. Plus is it just me or is Jeremy HUGE.

I like Damon happy, it suits him that he got the girl, but I hope he does not lose the bad boy attitude that made us fall in love with him in the first place.

It’s good that Matt has his own storyline this season he always seems a bit redundant.

Hart of Dixie Season 3 Premiere Review

Its 5 months later and Zoe is still in New York, cue dream sequence and Dr. Hart is seeing bluebell residents everywhere in her new hospital so much so she doesn’t realise Rose is actually there. Her new boyfriend, Joel convinces her to go back and tie up loose ends.

Zoe arrives back, spangley shorts and all to a deserted town square and inevitably the first person she runs into is old flame Wade Kinsella, who seems ok that she did not come back to him as he had hoped. The same cannot be said for the rest of the town who are furious that Zoe left. Tom Long fills her in on all the goings on and it seems that George has not returned from being on Tour and in his absence neighbouring town Fillmore is suing half of Bluebell and are threatening the town’s founders day parade.

Changes are all around and Lemon is being particularly cagey and the Belles are convinced that she has a secret boyfriend; we later discover that this is Meatball. This she confides in Wade, who is unsurprisingly disgusted, it is nice to see that they now have a solid friendship. This is shown later when Lemon enacts revenge on Zoe for Wade by claiming it is Wade that she has been sleeping with and that they are in love. It will be interesting to see how long this storyline carries on for and it is clear that it will bring about some comedic situations in future episodes.

The only two residents happy to see our New York doctor are Lavon and Anabeth, very much still together. Although Anabeth is being driven crazy by Lavon’s cousin Lynley (The new resident of the carriage house)

 

Zoe is intent on only spending one night and needs a reference from Brick; he challenges Zoe to find George Tucker to get him to the hearing in order to save the Bluebell Founders Parade and only then will he sign. Zoe finds George in a seedy motel far from the George Tucker she knew. She hires Lemon to help fix George, he wins the case and Zoe wins back the hearts of Bluebell.

Happy to have finished all of her unfinished business Zoe is on her way back to New York when she bumps into Crazy Earl who has blood poisoning and refuses to see Dr. Breeland. She calls her boyfriend Joel to announce she will miss her flight. Earl is still convinced that Zoe will become his daughter in law and Zoe and Wade are forced to spend the night together monitoring Earl. I think that Earl is secretly not crazy and in fact will be the one to bring them back together.

George and Tanzie run into each other, Tanzie is now dating Filmore’s attorney, George’s opposite. He responds to this news by drinking and hooking up with Lynley. This could provide a new relationship for the season, interesting as Lavon had already sworn Wade off his cousin.

The day of the Founder’s parade and Zoe’s boyfriend pitches up in Bluebell, much to the disappointment of Wade.

She thoroughly enjoys the parade and Lavon tries to convince her to stay, it seems to work and she announces to Joel that Bluebell is where she belongs and asks him to move with her. The final scene in the Rammer Jammer, Lavon is delighted to have his best friend back (I am glad that the friendship dynamic of these two has not changed), Zoe lets slip that she knew that Wade thought she would stay and that she is happy he is happy with Lemon. He aims to come clean that he is not dating Lemon but decides against it by giving her a big smooch in front of Zoe.

Showing their childlike nature Zoe copies this with a show of affection to Joel. Fans of Zade will be happy as it shows that they haven’t quite moved on from each other yet. I predict a naive Joel will not last very long in this newly formed love triangle or is it a square now?

Final Thoughts: I’m glad that the writers have moved on from Zoe/George/Wade, although now it is more Zoe/Joel/Wade but provides a relief from the repetitiveness of last season’s ending.

I’m really enjoying the friendship that is blossoming between Wade and Lemon I think it will be a good addition however Anabeth seems a bit redundant now.

I want to see more Anabeth/Lavon, they were only just falling in love last season and now they seem married. Maybe this season’s wedding?

I don’t know if I like Joel as a character, he seems a bit wet and not Dr. Hart’s type, perhaps this is intentional but I hope he grows a backbone in the next few episodes as he has to compete with other such strong male characters.