Elena (Nina Dobrev) is back in her own body now which leaves her to catch up on what's been happening around her. Of course this she did in t he most part by having a phone conversation with Damon (Ian Somerhalder) surprisingly the phone battery didn't run out. Oh and Matt (Zach Roerig) falling for the same ploy as Tyler did when Damon needed to get out of his chains. I mean do they not communicate with each other. So Stefan (Paul Wesley) has Elena at the dorm with Liv (Penelope Mitchell) having done a spell to keep her in. Feeding her periodically with his blood. There's no known cure for the virus she's been injected with and Caroline (Candace Accola) goes in search of this at Maxfield's lab. She finds a recording of his saying how he's mixed in wolf blood into the serum, which potentially makes it more dangerous. Elena is dying, booo hoo and she's revisted by hallucinations this time round, guess they got a budget now and didn't have to resort to old flashbacks, or new, ha.
Aaron (Shaun Sipos)appears to her and she thinks it's cos she's the one who killed him, so when she asks Damon he changes the subject or he's interrupted by Matt cos it's feeding time and so doesn't have to tell her. At least not yet. Anyway Enzo (Michael Mularkey) returns to the lab and he and Caroline work together to find the antidote which he tells her he has, but first she's got to do something for him. This involved her and Stefan. The Travellers want to use Stefan to locate his doppelganger, oh man, there's another one of him and apparently he works as a paramedic in Atlanta. This was good to see cos it shows Stefan moving away from Elena and Damon in terms of not really wanting her back, as Katherine wanted him and getting something different to do. Elena asks him if he and Katherine got together and he tells her they kissed but he stopped it. Clearly he doesn't want to go there.
Elena wants to get out of her dorm prison and Luke (Chris Brochu) turns up whom she almost bites but sends him away by compelling him, or so she thinks. But she doesn't have second thoughts when she sees Liv with Bonnie (Kat Graham) who doesn't want her getting out. So she throws a sharp object at Liv and she needs Elena to save her life now by feeding her blood, but why doesn't Liv get affected with the virus too. Okay she's not a vampire, but technically she should have some trace of it inside her. Anyway this leads to Liv showing her true colours since she's just going along with Bonnie until the time is right for her and Luke, her gay brother, to pounce in with their new plans. I don't like the way, just when Bonnie thinks someone is a friend or actually helping her, they turn on her and the others. They have done this so many times now, it's getting boring. Think Prof Shane.
Elena once again hallucinates and sees Aaron but this time Damon is there to help her, as is Enzo with the antidote. Leaving Elena and Damon to have a heart to heart and a bit more than that. He tells her he killed Aaron after she rejected him but she somehow manages not to blame him but everyone else, such as Katherine. He calls their relationship "toxic" and they need to part ways. Elena comes up with how she always has to defend him again and be there for him to help him out again. Or the way she said again,
"ag-gen!" Cos anyone can see what was coming next. Another falling into bed scene and another Damon shirt being ripped "ag-gen." Oh come on, so bored with their on/off relationship and make-up sex. Elena can't change Damon and he won't ever change either. New plots now please.
So many holes in this ep, ag-gen, ha. For starters why would Enzo help Elena, she's just a nagging pain and he was happy being 'ripper' pals with Damon on their killing spree. He doesn't even know her. Why would Caroline just jump at the chance of killing Stefan's doppelganger. She's not really a cold blooded killer and how could she just murder his lookalike anyway? Are the Travellers so strong that they can't work to defeat them instead. Bonnie once ag-gen (ok I'll stop copying Elena's 'again' now, ha) keeping things to herself, like not telling them about Katherine being dragged to hell most likely and not passing through to the other side.
Anyway Enzo and Caroline head out to kill the Stefan doppelganger and Caroline thinks this is okay to do cos Stefan would do the same for her. Leaving us to also ponder what Luke and Liv will be up to and will this tie in with the Travellers. As for Sloan (Caitlin McHugh) being their leader, she's the one who came to Maxfield, saying she'd fund his research further. That was a bit of a dead end (pun fully intended) so presumably the antidote and meeting up with Sloan was what Maxfeild wanted Enzo to do for him, before letting him go.
I can't believe someone actually got Stefan to say he worked out Elena was Katherine after they kissed. Cos the text Matty Blue Eyes sent to Caroline helped, as did Caroline herself. It wasn't a lone man effort. Cos it also rings the opposite of what Elena said to Damon, that it wasn't her and Katherine was in her, he didn't know, when he should have known. Well they didn't really snog each other if that's how they're now saying Stefan worked it out. Lazy writing here for a show in its fifth season! Also Stefan implying he stopped the kiss cos he worked out it was Elena, means he actually still has feelings for her, if you think about it.
Funny scene had to be Elena hallucinating herself dancing on the bar and Matt telling her to rip off her top, which she does. Something she wouldn't do. Perhaps rename the title 'While We Were Weeping' for Katherine and her quirkiness and downright 'not giving a damn for anyone' attitude, which is now missing.
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