Once more the season opens with Elena (Nina Dobrev) being the centre of attention as she talks of what's been happening over the Summer and how they're getting on with losing Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder). However, she's the one who's really suffering and not wanting to accept that Damon is gone, to the point of asking Luke (Chris Brochu) for herbs so she can hallucinate and see Damon there whenever she takes them. This in turn makes her more thirsty and she's been attacking people, almost killing them in the process when drinking blood. Caroline (Candace Accola) calling her the 'border lurker.' Since the Travellers cast their spell, there's no magic in Mystic Falls and anything supernatural can't get into the town, thus Caroline has to meet her mother (Marguerite MacIntyre) at the boarder, who tells her about the two people who were attacked.
Elena calls Caroline and tells her she's coming to the football game at Whitmore, even if she doesn't want to go. Alaric (Matt Davis) now teaches Occult Studies and is having a hard time dealing with being a vampire, especially since he's got all those "sausage" students in front of him, when she drinks blood during the lecture which he can smell. See Elena forever the selfish one. Caroline learning she's been crying over Bonnie but not over Damon and knowing it's cos she's been taking the herbs. Elena deciding she wants to become a doctor, or not, as she works at the medical clinic just so she can get her hands on an endless stream of blood supply.
Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) also broods and gives up on everything as he just plays video games. Matt (Zach Roerig) trying to make him snap out of it cos he's a hunter and though there are no vampires in Mystic Falls doesn't mean he can just be slack. Elena wanting him to do the same, hypocritical much? He doesn't have the luxury of resorting to magic and hallucinating Bonnie back cos he can't let go and move on. So this is his way of dealing with it.
Tyler (Michael Trevino) also has trouble with dealing with having no 'superpowers' which once enabled him to do anything and everything, to the point of thinking he might have some chance with Liv (Penelope Mitchell). Alaric has to stop him twice from getting drunk and losing his self control and bringing back his werewolf side, but he doesn't seem to take the hint. Especially when he also finds out that Elena's been getting the herbs from Luke and loses the plot. Liv telling him he's lucky they brought him back along with others even if they did lose some people in Bonnie and Damon, but they shouldn't be blamed for everything and they do think about what they did when they did the spell.
Stefan (Paul Wesley) is in Savannah and is working at the garage but is being stiffed out of his pay. Well he could have just compelled him into getting it back and put Dean in his place. Yeah, a Dean in this show, ha, but its not our Dean from Supernatural!! Ha. Yeah, I'm just talking about the name okay! Stefan meets ivy and he doesn't want to talk about himself though he knows all about her. telling her he's a vampire, which annoys her. Caroline reads books Alaric's given her about finding some spell or way to being Damon and Bonnie back, but doesn't have any luck. She calls Stefan and leaves a voicemail for him telling him she's not coping at all, but he's just given up and isn't even looking, as he tells Elena.
Damon tells Elena he's dead, but she replies he already was, so he says he's 'gone' but she doesn't want him to say that. She needs to stop hallucinating him back and move on and she realizes she must do that too, cos she's hurting people. So asks Alaric to compel her into forgetting about him. He was turned by an Original so he can compel other vampires. Meanwhile Matt's part of the community protection group which has been started by Tripp (Colin Ferguson) and he argues with the sheriff over her not doing her job, after Elena attacks Sarah and she runs to the town without Elena being able to stop her. However Matt gets Caroline to make her forget what happened.
We see Damon making pancakes for Bonnie and she hates when he makes a smiley face on them, as he reads the paper, yeah don't fool us into thinking they're in some sort of fake wedded bliss, ha! Oh you know hat I mean.
A bit of a slow start to season 6, yes we understand Elena's pain but there's not much difference in how she feels now after losing Damon and how she always feels after she loses someone, it will always be about her and her feelings, as if she's the only one who has to deal with that. Seems there's more to Tripp than meets the eye and Stefan just gives up on his brother like he's done in the past too, so nothing's changed there either. Except that Damon never gave up on him when he was the Ripper and anytime he needed him. Selfish Stefan! Once more it's left to Caroline to feel nostalgic, do the right thing, want everyone back how they were, when everyone just think it's too difficult and move on, not necessarily in a good way either, they're mainly in denial over everything. Perhaps the title says it all, will remember how good the show used to be, now it's just repetition.
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