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Saturday 29 March 2014

The Vampire Diaries 5.11 "500 Years of Solitude" Review

                                                
After their night of passion together, Katherine wakes to find her hair falling out and rushes out of bed before Stefan (Paul Wesley) can see! Er, he already knows she's dying.  He still recalls how vain she is even at this time, well he tells her that later when she's on her deathbed.  Only you know no one really dies on this show, until, well, they die so obviously there was bound to be some kind of reprieve for Katherine.  This comes in
the form of Nadia (Olga Fonda) wanting to do a spell on her so that she can latch onto someone else's body. She says it'll be Nadia but Katherine doesn't want to go through with it.  Even though Nadia finds a traveller who can do the spell.  She conveniently waits for Elena (Nina Dobrev) to sit with her alone, cos Elena being Elena wouldn't be able to resist clearing her goody goody conscience.

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) has a drinking game going with Matt (Zach Roerig) and Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) where they drink everytime they can beat what Katherine did to each of them, especially after they find Damon at the bar drinking himself to oblivion as usual.  Wallowing over Elena dumping him.  Elena joins in even if they're no longer together and so does Caroline (Candace Accola) and Bonnie (Kat Graham).  Caroline forgot to tell them about Katherine and Stefan together and also that Nadia is Katherine's daughter.  Matt goes form more booze in the cellar and is caught by Nadia and buried in the grounds of Salvatore mansion.   Stefan refuses to drink to Katherine's past actions and all the hurt she's caused but chooses to recall the best in her, much to everyone else's chagrin.

Katherine dreams about giving birth to Nadia and having her baby taken from her by her father without her having a chance to see her.  Some would call that her just desserts, but as Stefan tells her later, she didn't deserve to be treated like that cos she was just an innocent seventeen year old girl.   Nadia arrives telling them she wants help in saving Katherine cos she can't do it alone, but no one wants to help.  As Damon tells her that's unanimous.  That's why she has buried Matt and without his ring.   So they hunt for him in the grounds and Caroline also realizes Bonnie and Jeremy have done the dirty and she exclaims how "scandalous sex" is even better, since Elena doesn't know.  Which Caroline'll soon learn will come to bite her.

Damon sits by Katherine's side and is about to suffocate her with a pillow when she's stopped by the sheriff (Marguerite MacIntyre).  She's brought sedatives for her and tells Damon that'll be murder, yeah like he cares! Ha.  I mean he is a murderer after all.  Caroline bumps into Klaus (Joseph Morgan) or rather he bumps into her in the woods and he's here to make Katherine's last moments hell.  They have a drawn out conversation about what Caroline really wants and after she admits that hell leave and never come back.  SO they kiss and do a little more than she should be unhappy about.  That's her "scandalous sex" line coming back.  Rebekah (Claire Holt) rescues Matt since Klaus heard his screams a while ago, but we don't really get to see what they get up to if anything.  Hey they don't even share a conversation together on screen!

Katherine sees Elijah (Daniel Gillies) but Damon tells her he's not there.  Nadia enters with the traveller after she steals blood from the doppelgangers, Stefan and Elena, after holding them up in an abandoned house and using fellow travellers to chant their spells.  Thus ensuring Stefan and Elena can't escape since they don't have their rings either.  Caroline rushed back in to see everyone looking when she had leaves stuck in  her hair but no one even thought about what she may have been up to.  Appears Klaus compelled her to forget.

Stefan tries to ease Katherine's pain by removing the bad memories for her, of her father being killed by Klaus which Damon revelled in and finding her mother dead too.  Damon telling her it was all her fault cos she ran away.  Katherine also recalls the first time she saw Stefan with his carriage broken down.  So they kind of bid farewell to Katherine but Bonnie being the anchor sees her and will probably have to pass though her.  Whilst they wait she tells them she sees the others on the other side, like Vicki and she has a message for Matt, that she's always watching over him.  As well as as Alaric (Matt Davis) coming back too, just to see how Damon is still making an ass of himself.  Leaving Elena alone with Katherine, saying she forgives her for everything she did. Not what Katherine expected to hear from her and Katherine ceases her moment to pounce and chant the spell.  Thus taking over Elena's body.

Tyler (Michael Trevino) turns up just so he and Caroline dredge up the past again with their never ending problems.  For the one hundredth ep, this could have been so much better, than just mostly flashbacks.  Also Klaus took his sweet time coming onto the scene and he wasn't even there to gloat over Katherine, but to get it on with Caroline.  What was strange was that Bonnie sees Katherine but she doesn't pass though her, so much for her being the anchor, what happened there then?  Even adding some scenes with Jenna (Sara Canning) and the dagger Katherine used on her, or John (David Anders) chopping off Katherine's fingers couldn't rescue this hurriedly put together mish mash of an ep!

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