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Wednesday 20 June 2012

The Vampire Diaries - 2.16: "The House Guest" Review


Katherine wants to help. Jenna asks about isobel, and Bonnie and Damon look for the burial site of the witches who were massacred there. Speak of the devil vampire, Isobel arrives.

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) thinks Katherine is Elena (Nina Dobrev) as she's wearing her clothes and then Stefan (Paul Wesley) thinks Elena is Katherine, but she is really Elena.   Katherine thinks it's easy being Elena and they all need her, especially since none of them know what Klaus looks like.   Matt (Zach Roerig) asks if Caroline's (Candice Accola) made her decision or she should leave him alone.   Stefan feels this may be Katherine's only chance to get Klaus.   Damon tries to burn Elijah (Daniel Gillies).  Katherine only tells him afterwards that he can't get the dagger back now and he wonders why she didn't warn Damon he would die if he used the dagger.    Cos Damon would burn her.   She always gets what she wants.   She wanted out of the tomb and knew he'd die, she didn't care.   Stefan wants the Martins on their side.

Jenna (Sara Canning) asks about Isobel.   Elena asks her how they can tell someone what they know.   Alaric (Matt Davis) wants to be with Jenna but can't until he can tell her about Isobel.   Bonnie (Kat Graham) says she's looking for the site of the witch massacre centuries ago and if she can't find it then she can't help.   Emily told her about the witches.   When a witch dies violently, it releases mystical power marking their place of death with this power.   Elijah was looking for this place.   Stefan says Elijah didn't have a weapon to kill Klaus cos he didn't need one.   If the burial site is found, a weapon won't be needed.

Jonas (Randy J Goodwin) thinks Elijah should have killed them.   Jenna and Caroline wallow in their relationship problems.  Sometimes it's hard to tell he truth.   Lukas (Bryton McClure) tries to channel Elijah with a spell and astrally projects himself and finds himself in Damon's cellar and thinks he sees Elijah.   Emily died on the massacre site.   Damon doesn't believe Katherine is being sincere about helping.   She's not lying and she senses a presence.   When she's not around, Damon shows Stefan a passage from the journal.   Lukas removes the dagger from Elijah and Katherine tries to push it back in.   Jonas tells Lukas to kill Katherine.   Damon uses a flame thrower to burn Elijah calling it a "crazy-assed witch attack."  Lukas burns.

Alaric sees Jenna at the Grill.   Matt ignores Caroline.   Jenna can handle whatever Alaric's keeping from her.   Jenna: "Not tonight Ric, tonight I have traded you for Senor Tequila."  Caroline compels the singer on stage to let her sing and does a rendition of Eternal Flame, appropriate for what's happening not only in terms of burnings, but their relationships and ironically, Caroline will always be eternal, ha.   Hey I thought of this song the other day.   Matt kisses Caroline and Jonas attacks Stefan.   Damon stakes Katherine for the dagger, next time he'll put it in her heart.  

 John (David Anders) and Isobel want Stefan and Damon out of Elena's life and made Katherine a deal: killing Elijah would get her out of the tomb.   She could help with Klaus and kill Stefan, the deal was to save only one of the Salvatore's and she chose Stefan over Damon.   Why is that not surprising that Katherine has been making all these deals and counter-deals?   That she would be working with Isobel.   Only last episode she lied about the dagger and also how not killing Elijah would get her out of her tomb.

Bonnie mentions dating Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) to Elena.   He's had pain in his life and he deserves to be with Bonnie, she gives them her blessing.   Katherine knows what to do about Jonas, who wants Elena to get his daughter back.   Elena tells him he doesn't need Elijah.   Matt is hit with a bottle in his neck by Jonas and Caroline makes him drink her blood.   It's not Elena but Katherine, how many of us weren't surprised with that revelation.   It's too common an occurrence not to happen.   She kills Jonas and attacks Bonnie.

Damon insists it was Katherine's idea.   They need Elena if they're to take on Klaus.   She's not a threat to Elena.   Alaric loves Jenna but can't tell her about Isobel's death.   Jonas gave Bonnie her powers back and wants her to kill Klaus.   He also told her how to do this.   Damon says the town knew Emily was a witch and Katherine turned her in.   Katherine knows he's lying about the site of the massacre but Damon's not in the mood to take on Katherine. He tells her there are six bedrooms in the house and she should use one.   Yes six rooms but they all use the same one bathroom!  Caroline's blood healed Matt: she's a vampire.  Vicki knew.   Isobel returns.

Seems funny that Jenna wanted the truth from Alaric and she didn't get it from him, but Isobel turns up and that came as a shock, even to Elena.   Plenty of shocks, twists and surprises this episode too, would an episode be complete without them.   It seems Matt finds out what happened to Vicki and he's the last one to know, as well as who or what Caroline is.  

Funny Alaric was being honest about Isobel being dead and she arrives on his doorstep.  What was Jenna meant to think, duh, he was lying.   She probably thought Elena was keeping this from her too.   Damon is responsible for many deaths on this show, or he wouldn't be Damon, but the way he used the flame thrower on Lukas was gruesome and what a way to go, being burned like that and he wasn't even a vampire.  

Not one death, not two, but three.   Jonas also gets killed (so much for wanting to kill Klaus by themselves).   Another plan falls by the wayside (as they so often do).   At least Jonas gave Bonnie her power back and told her about the witches' burial site.   Damon finally tries to burn Elijah's body this week, but that was a bit too late, then telling Katherine to find her own bed (he wouldn't have done that centuries ago!)  It seems Damon may have been peeved Katherine chose to save Stefan over him.   Yes Katherine, many of us were!

Katherine can't really be trusted considering she's done so much back-stabbing (pun intended?) always putting herself first and just plays everyone against each other.

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