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Wednesday 21 November 2012

The Vampire Diaries 4.6 "We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes" Review

Elena (Nina Dobrev) can't sleep and warms up some hot milk, yeah she's really going to drink that.  She has more hallucinations of Connor (Todd Williams) and he remarks on her guilty conscience for killing him.  She thinks he's a ghost and she stabs him, but it's really Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) she stabs.  Agh, Elena, she's doing my head in, especially how she's going to keep on doing that throughout this episode!  I mean how many times will Jeremy et al, be stabbed and killed.  Damon (Ian Somerhalder) says he should be grateful he didn't lose the family ring.  She's not talking to Stefan (Paul Wesley).  Damon is adamant she should have called Stefan.  Damon: "PS I killed Stefan."

Elena says this isn't about Damon or working with Klaus (Joseph Morgan) who shows up at Tyler's (Michael Trevino).  Caroline (Candace Accola) brings over Tyler's things in a charade for Klaus to highlight their "break up" drama.

Elena has yet another hallucination, this time a scene from Psycho, with blood in the shower.  Damon comments on how "shady people get outed" with regards to Stefan and he replies it wouldn't have happened if he had kept the secret.  Klaus knows about Elena's hallucinations since he killed the five hunters.  The hallucinations are a consequence and was spelled by witches which prevented him from his destiny.  He needs to take Elena with him or she'll kill herself.  Which he does cos she stabs Stefan next.

Jeremy tells Matt (Zach Roerig) about Connor's mark and he can see one too.  Shane (David Alpay) hangs out with April (Grace Phipps) and he looks familiar to her.  They tell Bonnie (Kat Graham) about the curse and she can't do magic to break the curse but she can ask Shane, cos after knowing him for a short while she trust him completely.

Klaus went through the same hallucinations for 52 years, he felt time.  Elena wants to know what else Stefan knows.  The hallucination eventually stopped.  Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) wants to help Chris (Ser'Darius Blain) and others break their sire bond.  He's no longer sired to Klaus.  Connor had a family and he's not happy, he's dead.  Katherine appears and tells her it's Elena's fault her parents died.  April recalls she knows Shane cos of her father Pastor Young.

Shane talks of Silas creating a spell to grant himself mortality and he was buried alive.  Is he Silas?  Well I had to ask didn't I?

Katherine tells Elena she's like her now and Elena'll kill again until she becomes like her.  Stefan will hate Elena but at least she'll have Damon.  Who tells Shane he's into origin of the species, monsters, not Darwin.  He shows Shane the drawing of the tattoo.  The Hunter's Mark  is a legend of how the curse torments until a new hunter awakens, i.e. Jeremy. They are called "potentials."

Caroline goes to the bar and distracts Klaus so they can rescue Elena.  Who now stabs Stefan.  Jeremy needs to kill a vampire and they need Klaus's help now since Stefan loses her.  Jeremy comments on killing Damon if he had a stake.  Damon must find Elena.

There's ye olde bridge again and her mother appears to her now positing she should kill herself cos she was meant to die.  It's the right thing to do and Jeremy will have a ghost for a sister who helps him.  Just how many ghosts does Jeremy need around or to encounter anyway.    She doesn't hallucinate Damon at first.  "Third time's a charm."  She sees Connor again and she doesn't wear her ring.

Klaus confronts Chris and Hayley takes the blame for Elena.  Stefan daggers Chris and Jeremy stakes him.  Damon isn't as fast as Klaus and Elena moves from him.  She begins to burn, which has all been done before.  Now it's Elena's turn to feel the burning sensation of the sun and not just the sun, ha.  Damon says vampires hate disappointment.  She knows Stefan has been lying.  Now Damon spills and tells her there may be a cure for her.

Tyler is angry about Chris, he was his friend, just like Elena is to Caroline.  She has a date with Klaus.  Matt isn't a replacement for Alaric as he tells Damon about the Pastor's phone records and how he called the same number everyday and he called it ten times the day of the explosions.  He was calling Shane.

Damon says she should talk to Stefan but she can't.  She's become different, darker.  Stefan asks her who or what she wants.  Something's changed between her and Damon and she feels more for him.  Stefan calls it "magnified".  Her feelings for him now she's a vampire have magnified.  When he was the ripper he understood why Elena cared for Damon.  He can't do this anymore and she wants Damon now.  Ugh!!

So we finally get that break up moment where Elena admits she wants Damon now and what an excuse that was, turning into a vampire caused the little feelings she had for him to be "magnified" and now cos of Stefan's secrets and all that, she can have Damon.  What a cop out, why didn't she just come out and admit it was really Damon she had the hots for, irrespective of whether she became a vampire or not.  Who's she fooling she always wanted him and was in denial.  Yes I am ranting, cos after all the hooha and breaking up with Stefan, "oh Stefan I love you" blah, blah, and then getting back together, this is what it boiled down to.  Nooo, they should have let Elena suffer, not get her own way and end up with Damon.  He's too good for her!

Now she'll probably be in two minds about the cure cos if she becomes human again, highly unlikely, will she still have the same intense feelings for Damon.  What was funny, was Katherine telling her Stefan wouldn't want her anymore cos she's a vampire and no longer human and he treated Katherine in this way too.  Yet he didn't say that to Elena, he still wanted her but he can't cos she has feelings for Damon, so actually she's the one who did the breaking up, getting in before Stefan could even if eh did want her to choose.

As for Jeremy becoming the hunter, that was always obvious and perhaps it looks like Caroline will go the same way as Elena and end up with Klaus, especially over Tyler's carry on and how he's lost a friend when they kill Chris to save Elena from the torture of her hallucinations.  It's all about Elena and just for once I'd like to see her suffer and suffer for longer than one episode, not end up with the hot guy!! Ha.

Bonnie trusting Shane and how he's ingratiated himself into their lives for his own purposes.  As for the title referring to Elena, she went more than just a little mad, but on full blown murderous spree, stabbing everyone within her sights, except for Damon, who had to save her, as usual.  No she had goo-goo eyes for him.

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