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Monday 25 January 2016

The Vampire Diaries 7.1 "Day One of Twenty Two Thousand, Give or Take" Review

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Three Years From Now
Brooklyn, New York
Stefan arrives to get Damon out of  his coffin.

Today 
Caroline (Candace King) writes her diary as Elena asked her to so when she returns she won't have missed anything.  Er, not that she'd have much to miss with these Heretics around.  The most incessantly tedious characters this show has ever had.  Not to mention those Brit accents! Feel like screaming.  Lily (Annie Versching) and her brood have taken over the town and it seems Caroline and Bonnie )Kat Graham) aren't the only ones keeping diaries but Valerie (Elizabeth Blackmore) is too.  She doesn't want to be in Mystic Falls and she gets run over by a drugged up teen.  She gets up after they leave her there for dead and drive off.  So naturally she has to rant to the gruesome twosome of  Nora (Scarlett Byrne) and Mary Louise (Teressa Liane).

Matt's (Zach Roerig) about to graduate from the police academy and Caroline's mother has been given a park bench in her honour.  Stefan's (Paul Wesley) still around and he decides to apologize to Caroline for making things awkward and for what he said about his feelings for her, so they decide to be friends until they figure this out.  Alaric (Matt Davis) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) are in Europe to help Alaric get over Jo, and Bonnie's there to keep an eye on them, though Caroline isn't sure who will keep an eye on Bonnie.

Amsterdam

Bonnie goes sight seeing cos she can't sit around and watch them both get drunk, as Damon still laments being without Elena and Alaric pretends to be drunk, as Bonnie tells Damon he's been drinking tea and not bourbon.  Alaric goes off in search of a stone and lo and behold it's the same stone Lily's looking for as she travels to New York to find Enzo (Michael Malarkey).  He tells her he may be the boy she saved and showed kindness to but he's not her errand boy, well that didn't last long as he returns to Mystic Falls and Caroline tells him to pick a side.  You see the Heretics go on the rampage after Stefan fails in his attempt to blow them up.  Yeah a bomb would really work on the undead who've been that way for centuries, really how amateurish was that plan and as I say, the best laid plans in Mystic Falls always go awry.   Back in Amsterdam Damon saves Bonnie from a van but she tells him it's three seconds in which he hesitated.  He seriously wasn't going to save her or so she thinks.  The sooner she dies, the sooner he'll get Elena back.  

Caroline helps Matt plant the bomb and though they think they've succeeded it's not the case at all. Lily telling him Stefan same thing.  So the threesome decide to exact revenge and kill everyone at Matt's graduation ceremony, his entire class, except for Matt.  Who becomes sheriff of Mystic Falls seeing as there's no one else left.  Stefan and Lily reach a truce whereby they will live with each other and the town will be evacuated on the basis of there being mining fires underneath the town.  Anyone who enters the town is fair game.  

Bonnie returns with the others and Matt tells her about losing his class all cos she betrayed Kye and got her revenge on him.  Again Bonnie saying this is her fault and everyone blames her, well if the shoe fits!  Damon heads to Whitmore cos he's got nowhere else to go cos part of Stefan's deal included giving their house to Lily, so he's peeved that some Heretic is clipping toe nails in his master bath, doubt they'd even bother!  Ha.  He tells Bonnie that he hesitated for three seconds, the first second he got Elena back, the second second (ha) he was kissing her and the third second he would've lost his best friend and he's stuck with her until Elena's back.  Bonnie's the only friend he's got, what happened to Alaric.  Who's tyring to bring Jo back from the dead and is keeping her body on ice at the morgue instead of burying her.  Bonnie says she wants to fight for their town and Damon and her kill Malcolm (Justice Leak).  Lily's eldest.

Stefan and Caroline finally kiss and decide they want each other, when Enzo tells her he's picked a side, but it's Lily's and not theirs, as he injects her.  Well obviously he'd pick the side of the woman he loves.  So his removing Caroline's mother's plaque from the bench was an empty gesture.  We also get to see Damon on the clock tower as Matt evacuates and patrols the town, which is where we saw him in the last episode of season 6.

Three Years From Now

Stefan wakes Damon and feeds him blood, telling him she's back and has found them.  His scar opened up so that's why he knew she's back.  It was meant to be setting the scene for some interesting plotlines but that just didn't happen.  This three years from now back and forth is really annoying and isn't suspenseful at all.  Just a funny thought if that was Elena stalking them, that'd put paid to Damon's woes about getting her back!  ha.

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