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Thursday 15 December 2016

The Vampire Diaries 8.6 "Detoured on Some Random Backwards Path to Hell" Review

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Alaric (Matt Davis) and Caroline (Candice King) find the twins gone at home and call the police who as we know will be useless.  She plans on accompanying Alaric to search for them and doesn't want Stefan (Paul Wesley) coming along.  Who's compelled the sheriff so he can cut through the red tape. Caroline wants to do this alone cos she doesn't know what's going to happen and that may involve killing Damon (Ian Somerhalder) so she takes his ring off and gives it back to him.  No distractions when it comes to the girls and was really taking her role of mother once again after moving out and getting engaged.  Enzo (Michael Malarkey) and Bonnie (Kat Graham) have their night of pleasure and then they get their prospective, rather respective phonecalls.  Bonnie from Caroline no doubt and Enzo thinks it's Damon, but it's actually Sybil (Nathalie Kelley).  Why would he even think Damon would call him.  She once again gets into Enzo's subconscious and he passes out in pain.

Bonnie takes him to the Armoury and thinks Stefan might be able to get into his head like he did with her, only Stefan admits he hasn't been able to get very deep before.  Meanwhile the boring sisters, let's face it, have had enough of these two annoying siblings mow!  Sybil and Seline (Kristen Gutoskie) don't like them, don't really care what happens to them, not interested in their redemption, reform, moving on, whatever.  They are completely useless and that accent of Sybil's Agh!  Not to mention if I hear that forced humming once again!! I'm liable to break some dishes or throw something at fat face Sybil stuffing her face with bacon!  Seline reveals her plans for the twins of how she's going to offer the twins to Cade (Wole Parks) in exchange for their souls and get them out of their deal with Cade.  Which involves killing darker than dark souls for him.  What; the all powerful devil needs sirens for that job and in this instance they're not even very good.  Damon thinks he can offer them a much better plan.

As Stefan heads into Enzo's subconscious, he warns him he's going to find a lot of darkness there, heck you're a vampire of course you'll be dark.  He sees Sybil tearing strips off Enzo, in him, literally and enjoys it immensely.  Well it's like scoffing bacon isn't it! Then tells Matt (Zach Roerig) to find diners cos that's where they are.  As Enzo sinks further into his mire of pain.  Bonnie thinks she'll lose him, but Matt tells her he's a survivor, he unlike Damon, didn't give into Sybil and fought back. Bonnie lamenting his loss and how much she really loves him.  When Caroline and Alaric arrive at the diner they're already gone cos apparently Sybil knew Stefan would delve into Enzo's subconscious, yeah cos she's that perceptive, seriously that was a silly part, she may be able to read minds and the like but to know what he's like as a man and that he will actually do this very thing and has the ability to do so.    Enzo comes back to Bonnie after hearing this heart to heart and doesn't know whether to kiss Bonnie or Matt first.  That's cos Stefan dealt with the siren's song in wanting him for herself and her own intentions, just as she did with Damon.  Well she well and truly got her way with the brothers!

She tells him she'll give him the real location if he agrees to come alone as she has plans for him and Damon of course.  Who was just going around being silly too.  Yes in this ep he was completely Sybil's lapdog! Stefan gives Caroline the wrong location cos he's got to do this alone.  For the summoning of Cade, they need water and souls, which they have at the motel.  Damon says they should summon now cos he's got a plan.  Yeah cos plans always work out in this show don't they! Even better plans than Damon's have gone awry.  But more likely his plan was actually one that was supplanted into his head by Sybil of course, seeing as his 'free' will is actually her will.

Selina gets the girls to summon Cade who it seems takes his sweet time to appear.  Sybil tells Damon about Stefan and how he's going to get killed by the men she's manipulated but he can save him.  She wants Stefan beaten cos Cade will like the show of blood.  As Cade finally appears Seline offers him   the twins and Sybil butts in with her own deal of Stefan and Damon instead.  As they're immortal vampires and have been around practically forever!  Damon tells Stefan to kill the man behind him cos otherwise he'll kill him.  And as he does so he offers to be the sacrifice in exchange for the girls. Thus conferring on him the "eternity of misery" Damon promised him in season 1 (see ep of the same name earlier) as well as his own damnation for selling his soul.  Well it was a sale wasn't it and it came at a bargain price too.

Caroline and Alaric argue over who the actual parent is and he says darkness follows her wherever she goes cos she's a vampire and he's taking the girls, he said that last time.  Well who asked him to get involved with the sirens anyway.  He seemed to relish the chance of doing so.  Oh and there was no mention of Georgie either after her DB was found, yet nice Alaric was big on sympathy for everyone, barring sympathy for the devil of course!  They later apologize to each other and she does the same to Stefan.  Who tells her part of his deal involved 24 hours with her, so she won't be a June bride.  She thinks there'll be some way to get out of the deal.  Alaric was a right old bastard this ep I have to say.  Excuse language, treating his baby mama like dirt.  You'd think he'd given birth to them, if she didn't have the babies and go through what she did, he wouldn't have them now.  How rich saying they're his and Jo's.  Yeah 'I'll just throw that back in your face Caroline! I mean you also left me for Stefan too' whilst we're at it!

Matt talks Alaric around into getting angry and he finds a drunk Damon, beats him up before he drives the stake through his heart.  Too late as he won't be dying anytime soon!  It's Damon, we can't be losing him!!  Seline gets double crossed by Sybil who tells her she's not out of the deal cos it was her offer he accepted and not Seline's.  So she's still damned.  That's what you get for thinking she could trust someone who wasn't even areal sister anyway, not to mention how gullible Seline was. Took her a hundred years to come up with this deal and the same can be said for Sybil.  As I said it was such a silly storyline and really we could've bowed out with something much more interesting than hell and souls.  Somebody end these sirens already!  Ha.

The title of this ep was uttered by Caroline in 1.17 Let the Right One In.  Again going back to earlier titles and eps as if they can't find something original to concentrate on.  Making it seem like they had unfinished business from those earlier season 1 episodes.  But here it could almost be seen as a reference to Stefan and wanting him to be the right one in to hell to help the devil collect souls. Could almost be a little Supernatural in nature too and storyline as Sam and Dean's ventures into hell too. Getting back to 1.17 where Stefan and Damon made a new enemy, which here could be substituted for Cade.  "Damon gets what he wants as usual no matter who he hurts in the process." Was Elena's line to Damon back then which rang true ever since.  So kind of made me wonder has Damon really switched off his humanity for real right now, cos in some scenes it seemed as if he knew exactly what he was doing and this had nothing to do with Sybil's hold on him.  Such as coming up with the plan to let the girl's go, even if Sybil says it was her idea.

Also Alaric having a change of character within this episode as he now turns killer and ends his best friend's life, in revenge for Tyler, what would Elena say.  He'll be in for a shock!  As in 1.17 Damon   says to him, "teacher by day, vampire hunter by night."  That was irony personified in this episode when he stakes Damon.

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