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Wednesday 4 December 2013

The Vampire Diaries 5.6 "Handle With Care" Review

                                               
Katherine awakens and goes on a food binge! But her hair's turning white, everyone keeps complimenting her on her hair do.  Damon (Ian Somerhalder) knows they'll be interrupted any moment and counts down until Silas appears and now he's a witch, he agrees to help them with Bonnie (Kat Graham) if Damon offers to find the anchor with him.  Not so much as offers, as he's got no choice in the matter.

Now we've seen it all, the so-called anchor everyone's looking for is actually a who, not a what.  It's Amara, huh, now we get another version of Elena/Katherine, as if the doppelganger wasn't enough, we get a triple-ganger, or whatever they're called! Ha.   Seems this show is going all out for the sell on Angel/Buffy storylines and other objects, such as  the key in Buffy was Dawn.  SO at the end of the day what exactly is going on here as we get more twisty turns than Damon can find witchy words to describe, er witches!

Katherine walks into the Whitmore party, right first a ball, now a party, so when exactly do they get to study and work.  She claims to have forgotten her invite and is allowed in with everyone thinking she's Elena.  Then she makes a beeline straight for the buffet and doesn't recognize Aaron (Shaun Sipos) cos she didn't meet him.  After scoffing herself and stuffing her bag too (look free food!) her tooth drops out.  Eeww, that'd be a turn off, to think she could have sued!  She doesn't know what's happening and thinks she could be dying. Well she isn't the cure anymore after Silas's feeding fest and talks Maxfield (Rick Cosnett) well more like blackmails him into helping her with her tooth decay problem.

But before all that, Caroline (Candace Accola) holds Maxfield hostage and they remove the vervain from his blood from a drip as she questions him after compelling him on his plans and the Secret Society which is called Augustine.  She asks about forging her roommate's death certificate (wonder if Aaron knows what his guardian is up to, probably not) and is shocked to lean there's an Augustine vampire.  Oh man what is this Frankenstein's monster, I know I've said it before!

Silas turns up now mortal and wants to find the anchor so he can destroy the other side, thought he didn't want to do that.  Lost the plot anyone?  Just joking.  Stefan's funny line of needing to be drunk to understand the story, sums up the plot of this episode and season really.  Ha.  He's willing to do this so Bonnie can be brought back, but she's still against it even if Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) still wants her here.  SO Jeremy and Damon head to New jersey with him as he cracks a silly knock knock joke about who is the mayor, no one cos he killed him, lame or what? Stefan also reminding Damon how the universe keeps creating doppelgangers of Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) cos Silas and Amara were meant to be together.

Elena thus traipses off to find Stefan who happens to be holed up, help up at Quetsiyah/Tessa's (Janina Gavankar) cabin.  The three become trapped there courtesy of Silas's meddling magic and Tessa finds time to explore culinary pursuits, such as pineapple being added to pizza, does she even know what pizza is/was. Stefan offers to cook for her cos secretly he wants to find a way to save Elena since she's going to be supper by sunset and even if he can't remember he still has to save her.  Again even if they didn't come to his rescue. So he stabs her and they make a run for it.  Heading to chez Salvatore, Stefan finds Tessa already there. She doesn't want to be healed but wants him to recall everything he did in his lifetime.  Killing their father, turning Damon into a vampire, his bloodlust.  Elena turning up cos Tessa tells her she and Stefan are sleeping together, which Tessa tells Damon shows her jealousy.  It is obvious she still has feelings for Stefan, she must, prophecy aside.

Tessa wanting Damon to kill Silas before he can destroy the other side.  The question then arises of whose life is more important, Elena's or Bonnie's and naturally Jeremy opts for Elena, she's his sister and Bonnie is already dead which she keeps telling him.

Meanwhile at the warehouse, Damon encounters some Travellers who try and get the better of him, but this is Damon and he's dealt with witches before, but these Travellers are no match for him as he pulls the heart of one and stabs another.  Silas brings Amara back to life and she feeds off him, then stumbles around, bumping into Damon.  He takes her back to Chez Salvatore also and Elena is surprised at seeing another version of herself.  Yawn.

Katherine and Caroline teaming up was new and at least they got something done, unlike Elena.  So no more Stefan doppelganger and somehow killing Silas seemed too easy after the big bad he was last season.  SO is he on the other side now where Bonnie can get to him?  Had to ask.  Yet throughout all this Matt disappears and no one is bothered with what was happening to him and what happened to Nadia as well?
Damon referring to Jeremy as Pocahontas with his crossbow!

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