Translate

Wednesday 14 May 2014

The Vampire Diaries 5.20 "What Lies Beneath" Review

                                               
Now that they know the Traveller's are after Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) as Tyler (Michael Trevino) manages to turn into a werewolf and escape and warns them of what Markos (Raffi Barsoumian) has in mind.  They decide it would be good to hide out in Caroline's (Candace Accola) father's cabin.  Yeah who thought of that idea, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) ha, instead of laying low let's go isolate ourselves instead. Luke (Chris Brochu) goes with them to chant a spell to ensure the Travellers don't find them.  Caroline thinks that Stefan and Elena are romantically linked again and tries to find out if this is true, but Damon thinks they're hiding something else, something about Enzo (Michael Malarkey)

So they that game a little like Truth or Dare but instead you talk about what really happened to you and you take a drink if you're lying.  Well Damon brings up Enzo and Stefan doesn't drink, thus confirming his suspicions that he's got a secret and so has Elena.  When Elena and Stefan collect firewood and spend a long time in the barn, as Caroline puts it, twenty minutes, Enzo finds he can touch the light, thus giving him a whole new plan to his revenge quest.  Yet it is obvious Caroline does have feelings for Stefan even if they say they're just friends.

Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) have the entire dorm to themselves and so are trying to make a date weekend out of it.  But he's called and has to head back to help with Tyler.  Grams (Jasmine Guy) appears to Bonnie and tells Bonnie she needs to be honest about what's happening to her and what will happen to her, even though she told Jeremy that Liv thinks there's a spell to save her.  Yeah so where was Liv hiding out.  Grams knocks over a lamp showing that things are getting out of hand on the other side cos she wasn't able to do that before.  Which is good news for Enzo since he's still around and out for revenge.

Matt (Zach Roerig) and Jeremy torture Tyler, or rather Julian to make him give up Markos's whereabouts and he tells them about his body and how Markos is probably heading for it.  They serve him cocktail of vervain before that which makes him speak.  Well it was more the piece of metal that Matt stuck into him. Seems Matty Blue Eyes has it in him to be ruthless after all.

Enzo tries to drown Elena in the bath, that was fun to watch and Damon has to rescue her - again.  She also spills the beans about Enzo being dead and well, she can't keep a secret, wouldn't trust her with anything. It's not like he tortured her or dragged it out of her or anything.  Too late, Damon confronts Stefan about it and then he realizes that Enzo isn't out for one of them but he's going after all of them.  They find Luke gone.  For a witch Luke is so easily captured by everyone.  They search for him and Caroline and Elena have their talk about why she kept it from her and she realizes it wasn't about Elena and Stefan after all, but Caroline did look awfully jealous.  Even when Stefan tells her he kept it to himself cos he didn't want her to feel sad about Enzo cos they looked pretty cushy together.  Adding eh keeps things from Elena too.

Stefan and Damon have their talk and Stefan tells him he didn't want Damon to go on a killing rampage if he knew Enzo was dead, seeing as he doesn't have any friends at all.  Damon replies he wouldn't have done that, but going on past behaviour, there's no guarantee of that.  They find Luke in the barn and as they try to get him out, Enzo sets the place on fire.  Staking Stefan and holding a rock against Damon.  Damon tells him there's a lot happening and Bonnie came back from the other side as did Markos and others so he promises he will find a way to bring him back too.  He believes him and lets Damon go, that all seemed too easy. Funny Stefan didn't race out of there at vampire speed when he had Luke, no he just took his time.

Bonnie and Jeremy get to where the Travellers are hiding the Mystic Falls residence bodies, in the caves, where else, but don't find Julian's body.  Giving time to the Traveller's to take it back.  They burn it and chant spells which doesn't leave much hope for Tyler, who begins to have flashbacks of everything that happened, about Markos destroying the knife.

So at least Damon got to kiss Elena again, cos well he said he needed to and of course she was obliging, but it's not what some of us wanted to see, especially since he just kind of goes running back to her over and over.  They parted now let's see them apart.  Is that too much to ask?! It does seem to be getting old hat and needs a new injection of fresh ideas.  The sooner this happens and the Travellers disappear, the better.  Even though Damon tells her he wouldn't have gone all murderous on them showing he's kind of come a long way.

No comments: