The Vampire Diaries 8.16 "I Was Feeling Epic" Review

                                          
As Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline (Candace King) struggle to help Bonnie (Kat Graham) since she's fading away, she wakes to find herself with Elena (Nina Dobrev) who's lying on the bed and they both hug, but Elena says she shouldn't be here cos it's not her time.  Bonnie says it is and Enzo (Michael Malarkey) says it's not as he drags her away and back into her life, or should that be back to life.  Vicky (Kayla Ewell) must ring the Mystic Falls bell until it rains hellfire and Matt (Zach Roerig) wants to stop her but she won't let him.  As Damon (Ian Somerhalder) throws her out of the bell tower, but she still returns and then breaks her neck as an experiment and she returns again.  He says he's got to help Stefan and Bonnie find a way to stop Katherine so Matt must stop his sister.  Of course she's dead already as Damon said but she tells Matt she doesn't want to return to that hell and would rather just die for good and burn in the fire, which isn't really what he wants, but he can't stop her.

Bonnie finds the research that Alaric (Matt Davis) and Dorian (Demetrius Bridges) were doing where he had the idea to make hell implode, well not the right word, but you get the meaning and Bonnie thinks that the hellfire could be Mystic Falls saving grace if they can get Katherine in hell at the time the fire destroys the town.  That will be hard work but Stefan says he will do it.  Katherine meets with Damon who thinks it's Elena and Stefan stabs her with the bone weapon, but it only sends her to hell momentarily.  At least it shuts her up as Damon says, for a while.  Bonnie tells Stefan the plan: uh-oh another plan and the last one for the show which will of course backfire in some ways.  They search for Elena as her body's not in the coffin and Stefan finds her int he boiler room but he can't bring her out cos of the spell which Bonnie must also find away to break.
                                          
As said,Bonnie tells him about the fire in the tunnels and how she'll channel it there and he will be the one to keep Katherine there and go to hell with her, saying he's already there anyway and it's what he must do for his redemption.  Alaric leaves town with the twins to the Armoury and tells Caroline to come too.  She must help search for Elena and will join them later.  He tells her he knows what it's like for Caroline to lose a mother and he's not going to tell the girls the same thing.  She promises she'll be there.  Katherine shows up again like a bad smell from hell and torments Damon some more. He knows of the plan now and she tells him how if she were Elena, she'd chose Stefan cos he's the better man.  He always was the better brother too. Next time he sees Katherine she shows up in the tunnel and he tells her that the tunnels are only 7 miles as the crow flies so the fire will get here quicker than if it travels across the town.  That's where he'll be with her and they'll both wait for it in hell.
                                                 
Cue Stefan as he comes to rescue big brother and tells him he will be the one cos he has so much to live for and Elena too.  But Damon wants this to be his sacrifice since he's come a long way and must do this, eve if it means Elena will no longer be with him and vice versa. As Stefan's human now, Damon compels him and makes him go as he takes another flying stab at Katherine by throwing the bone in her back.  Stefan leaves and we're meant to think that he's gone, but obviously he hasn't, knew there'd be more to this than Damon getting killed.  Matt evacuates the town with another gas leak and he tells Peter (Joel Gretsch) about Vicky.  Peter's not here to talk her out of it but wants to say goodbye to his daughter.  She tells him he's 15 years too late.  Matt tells her Bonnie has a plan and they want her to ring the bell.

Bonnie chants the spell and as the bell strikes, her nose bleeds again and she says she can't do this alone and needs Grams help.  Enzo appears and tells her she is strong enough and that she's not alone and now is her moment to live!  As Grams (Jasmine Guy) joins her along with the other Bennett witches.  Driving the fire through the tunnel and finally it goes out, leaving a charred bell tower. Stefan sees Elena at the school, fitting as this is where they had some of their memorable moments and she tells him he shouldn't be here.  But he tells her about how as a human he didn't go without vervain and he wasn't compelled by Damon, returning to the tunnel, where he gave Damon the cure and he knew he would desiccate and would be in hell.  He whispers to Elena to tell Caroline something, Also telling her how he had to save Damon and for the first time in over 200 years he realized what he was really like as a person and how much he had changed.  He had to do this for him and wanted Damon to live for him too.  As he leaves in a flash of light and meets with Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) outside, telling her "it was epic!"  Stefan feeling a pang of guilt no doubt for turning Damon in the first place, now it was only fitting and apt that he return him to his human life.
                                                      
Alaric tells Caroline the plan when they're on the road and he says he had to do this and leave, thinking of his family but it doesn't mean he doesn't care about Damon or Elena.  Caroline calls Stefan and leaves a message telling him to call her and how he loves her forever.  Elena appears to Bonnie and she tells her she broke the spell so they're both going t o live.
Damon and Caroline say goodbye to Stefan
Brother - Husband - Friend
Born 1846
Now At Peace
                                            
He ask Caroline if she believes Stefan is at peace and she says yes.  One day they'll see him again     and will be together again.  Caroline and Bonnie have their moment with Elena as she tells Caroline that Stefan said to tell her he will love her forever.  So she replies he got her message and heard her. As Elena and Damon are finally reunited and kiss.

Each of them tells them what they did later as a diary entry.  With Matt becoming sheriff and remaining one, even getting a bench in his name.  Alaric and Caroline open their school for gifted children, calling it after Salvatore, cos Caroline said Stefan would've wanted it that way and had help from Dorian and Jeremy.  Caroline also getting a donation from Klaus with a letter, we knew it was from him.  As they'll probably meet up later on.  Alaric calling that another story.  (Maybe she'll end up with Klaus in The Originals.)  Hey everyone uses that ending, even I used it in one of my books.

Tyler (Michael Trevino) and Vicky walk away.  Bonnie says she will live her life and enjoy it until the day she's reunited with Enzo and as she packs she forgets her passport which he whispers to her and takes his necklace with her too, sensing him there for a moment.  Elena says she went to medical school and returned to Mystic Falls cos it's her home.  As she and Damon walk off together, thorough the years, she lets go of his hand and he vanishes, and she finds her family, all of them at home.

So that was Mystic Falls and this was The Vampire Diaries finale.  Don't know what you thought of it, a little rushed,a little more could've been made of it.  But one of the brothers had to die and it had to be Stefan, probably cos this is where the story started and how he was turned by Katherine and then turned Damon.  He was the one who went through it all, all the changes, meeting Elena, the love triangle, the Ripper years and he came round full circle to save the town and to end Katherine, even if hell was meant for him.  He made Damon change too and get his redemption and Caroline tells Damon she doesn't  believe he'll end up in hell.  As Damon and Stefan reunite at the end, "hello brother!"  How it all started and ended.  So what did Damon end up doing all the time Elena was studying.

Did you all cry, any tears, one tear.  Boy am going to miss this show, maybe the characters and actors more cos 8 years is a long time, it's like an eternity! Watching all the events unfold, heck now I'll have to write my own sequel: what happens next.  Though some may already be doing that right now. Just for my own satisfaction in my own mind!!  It was EPIC!!

A bit of a turning point in Katherine having Cade under her thumb as soon as she entered hell, which means she would've had some massive powers over him or was just one bitch, as Damon would say to have taken over!  Which is why he wanted Stefan and Damon, said that too considering Cade didn't really know them from Adam!!  Ha, sorry, but that means the sirens plan to deliver Stefan and Damon to Cade in exchange for the twins wasn't even their plan either!  It's also revealed that Kai's sleeping spell also had other means of waking Elena up and didn't involve magic.  However Bonnie succeeded in breaking it.  Matt also considers running for Mayor which was a nice touch cos it was his home, the only one he's known and he knows what's best for the town.  That was Matty Blue Eyes epic ending!

Though Damon and Elena were probably married, we don't know  if they had children.  Also they had a farewell memorial to Stefan in their usual spot in the woods which was a nice touch too in their final fond farewell to him, now he's truly at peace!  Then again...who knows.  Damon doesn't get to speak in this episode like the others telling us what he did!  Ahh miss that!  Also we don't know if hell being destroyed marked the end of monsters and the like, but it shouldn't cos that would make The Originals redundant!  Nor do we know what happened to Katherine, whether she was destroyed in hell like Cade.

Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) makes an appearance for Caroline, as does John Gilbert, (David Anders) Jenna (Sara Canning) Miranda Gilbert (Erin Beute) Lucy (Natashia Williams) Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) Grayson Gilbert (Jason MacDonald).  Elena grows old which is what she wanted after all, "that's the promise of peace, that one day after a long life, we find each other again."  Yeah let's have a warm and cosy booze up with Damon and Stefan by the fire!

The epsiode title was said by Lexi in 1.8 162 Candles. Stefan says it here and elean makes reference ot it too.  The epsiode where Stefan turned 162 so it was an epic ep for him!  Some choice quotes in this ep too like Daom: "poor Sefan, persecuted through throughout eternity by his depraved brother." Which all changed now int he finale.  Bonnie telling Elena she's a witch and here she uses all ehr powers as that same withc ot save the town!

Once Upon A Time 6.9 "Changelings" Review

                                             
The Evil Queen is given the ultimatum of killing Zelen (Rebecca Mader) and having to do this but even if Regina (Lana Parilla) still blames Zelena for Robin's death, she can't still hold her responsible for it.  Zelena wasn't even around when Robin was killed and it's not like she knew he would get it from despicable Hades.  As for not forgiving, well seems to me they've been through too much not to forgive.  Especially after they came together when their mother opened up a lot when they were in Hades.  Regina even threatens to crush her own heart if it means the Evil Queen will meet her demise in order to stop her from killing Zelena.  A bit harsh, but there doesn't seem to be any way around it. Especially since all of the Evil Queen's outfits get more stupendous and glamorous, I mean, Regina had nothing like this or the hairstyles.

This is more about Rumples (Robert Carlyle) and we now get to see that the Black Fairy is actually his own mother so there's quite a lot of backstory still for him.  Here he manages to kidnap a child and leaves it at the castle for Belle (Emilie de Ravin) to work out who the baby is.  His father was Peter Pan and he led the boys into Neverland, taking them from their families to form his own band of the Lost Boys (which sounds like a pop group, sorry didn't mean it to.  But apparently his mother has the same trait and kidnapping/stealing children is something she's into in a big way.  So as far as Rumples is concerned the bad apple doesn't fall far from the tree.  (No not one of Reggie's red apples!)   Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) and Emma (Jennifer Morrison) also helping Belle after she has her dream, which leads her to the book in the library.  Belle's pregnancy is completed in record time, who didn't see that coming and she gives her son to the Blue Fairy (Keegan Connor Tracy) to spirit away and keep safe.  So if she can't look after him, then there's no way she was letting Rumples get his hands on him too.

Emma has another vision which she hopes will help her resolve who's out to get her too and Aladdin (Deniz Akdeniz) becomes the Genie of the lamp to grant the Evil Queen her wishes, which became a sort of silly game, with having to word what they wanted, then Charming (Josh Dallas) getting hold of the lamp, then becoming the master of the Genie and all that repetitive nonsense.  Charming wishing that Queenie becomes the snake that she is.  

Rumples being abandoned by his mother speaks volumes to how he turned out, especially in wanting to be there for his son now, but it was a little too late though.  I mean he did exactly the same thing to Bae and couldn't be a father to him then or even now.  Even after losing him, it seems he hasn't learned what it is to be a father and to stop being possessive.  Does this in some way resonate in having to have power at all costs no matter if he's alone in the longterm or not.  Power is the one thing he can manipulate, control and will always have, which won't desert him.

Belle's dreams with her son and how he keeps coming into them, leading her into some kind of future mess she won't be able to get out of, appears a bit sinister, especially since we find out that she didn't have any part in his upbringing and he was brought up by someone who wasn't good.  He seems to be manipulating her with some sort of agenda for Rumples, especially since he doesn't even know him. It seems he was also manipulated when little to harbour so much hate against a father he never knew and taking sides with his mother, just doesn't seem to be right.

Supernatural 12.14 "The Raid" - Commentary

                                          
This episode of Supernatural appeared to be returning to some familiar territory from past seasons,   especially the early seasons.  Not in terms of chasing or killing vampires or the Brit Men of Letters, but more so to the antagonism and split which appears to be developing between Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles).  Particularly after Mom (Samantha Smith) reveals how she's been working with the Men of Letters and they're onto something where they can wipe out all the bad and this would leave Sam to have his life back.  To do what he wanted, go to college and they can move on from this hunting.  Even if Sam tells her this is what he chose to do.  Ergo: Dean talked him into it and he chose to stay.  (Notice they gave her Dad's journal but they don't talk about him since she's been back!)

Mom feels she can be more open with Sam cos he'll understand better, be more on her side and support cos he didn't really have her around at all when she died.  In many ways Sam wants this too and to be with her, so he'll do what it takes for this to happen.  Also with a little nudging from Dean when he tells Sammy to pick a side and stop sitting on the fence.  Something he shouldn't have said and might well regret saying to him.  Clearly Sam takes Mom's side.  However when all's said and done what will Dean actually do without his hunting.  It's the only thing he knows how to do and has ever done in his life.  Without hunting his life will be basically redundant with not much to do at all, aside from turning to booze, which he also does now at the first sign of something that is beyond his control.  Also he doesn't expect Sam to leave him in such a way and always take his side.   That's not really wrong or too much to expect; considering for all these years that's all they've had: each other. Dean even calling Mom 'Mary' out of his disgust at her helping the men of Letters and the betrayal. Family should stick together.

How can they trust the Men of Letters after that rogue Toni which they keep mentioning, but more so she forgets what Sam went through when he was tortured by her, by them.  It was Dean who came to his rescue, sure along with Mom, but Sam has too readily forgotten this and is opening up dividing loyalties and old wounds.

As for killing the Alpha vampire (Rick Worthy) doesn't mean there aren't other vampires out there and this attack on the Letters' bunker shows how inadequately ill prepared they are.  They can brag about having the weapons, the tech but where was all this when they needed it now.  It was Sam who helped them out with the aid of the Colt and it was good old fashioned fighting too.  They weren't even aware of harbouring a traitor in their midst in the form of the other hunter, Pierce (Aaron Douglas).  It was so easy for him to say he knew Rufus, who's gonna know if he did or not and whether he really did know him is beside the point.  It just shows no one and I mean no one can be trusted.

Of course there will be those on Sam's side and others on Dean's side as far as fans are concerned, but at the end of the day they need to do what's right for them, for each other and for humanity.  It's not a question of talking Dean around, as Sam says to Mom.  They should be loyal and Sam should know by now that keeping all this from Dean will not help in the longrun.  How can he do this to his brother.  He's been there for him through it all and all the heartache and to just give up and join these 'outsiders' is just a blatant sell-out anyway you look at it.  I don't believe Mom should take sides either and make her sons do the same.  She hasn't been here that long, she tells Dean she's going through "three decades of "catch-up" but that doesn't mean she really knows what they've been through as brothers.  Though I am looking forward to the conflict aspect between the two bros to come in future episodes.

Hoping Dean isn't going to settle for the Men of Letters spiel and think for himself, staying independent of them.  Cos nowhere does it come up, nor do they think of the other threat, that of Crowley (Mark a Sheppard) and how he's keeping Lucifer, unknown to them and the devil spawn. Let's also not forget Cas (Misha Collins) and how he'll fit into all this Men of Letters 'game'.

Once Upon A Time 6.8 "I'll Be Your Mirror" Review

                                             
Regina (Lana Parilla) and Emma (Jennifer Morrison) finding a way to trap the Evil Queen would only backfire, at least most of the eps begin in this way.  Then somehow they backfire on her.  This one begins with Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and David/Charming (Josh Dallas) coming to terms with not seeing each other at the same time and leave messages for each other.  As well as Snow realizing the Evil Queen is watching them through the mirror.  Which gives Regina an idea to trap the Evil Queen in a mirror and this will require using Henry (Jared Gilmore) as bait.  As if that hasn't been done before.

He meets The Evil Queen and she realizes it's a trap but gets one better on them when the mirror doesn't work and she smashes it, sending them to the land of mirrors instead, where she's been watching everyone, what the Evil Queen has a pervy bone in her!  As well as keeping up the Rumples' (Robert Carlyle) seduction. which he goes along with only cos he's using her and it suits him now.  Belle (Emilie de Ravin) wants to escape him and asks Zelena f(Rebecca Mader) for help since she showed her Rumples and the Evil Queen together.  She wants to get away from him and needs a portal.  So she needs her wand which is in his shop and Aladdin (Deniz Akdeniz) is the only thief who can help her.  Again reminiscent of Will Scarlet.  He agrees to do it even against Jasmine's (Karen Shenaz David) wishes cos they're meant to be searching for Agrabah.

Regina and Emma can see the others but can't use magic and this was where the Evil Queen was meant to be trapped.  They determine Henry is the only one who can save them, cos it's his turn to show his maturity and that he can think for himself, without needing his mothers to do that for him. Cue the formal and him wanting to ask Violet (Olivia Steele-Falconer) so the Queen disguises herself as Regina and gives him advice.  When Henry looks in the mirror at Granny's he senses something and this is reinforced when Evil Queen shows up and tells him one day they'll return to their castle and he can be king, not go after some commoner like Violet.  But her falldown is when she slips her phrase of telling Henry not to slouch.  In the land of mirrors they find the Dragon (Tzi Ma) and Emma needing his help, but he can't do anything for her parents.  Though he did think of a way out by building together the pieces of a broken mrror.

Henry enlists Violet's help to get away from the Queen's watchful eye and in the crypt he tries to communicate with his mothers.  Only he's beaten to the punch again by her as she reveals the Dragon's heart.  She wants Henry to turn to his dark side and destroy it so he can save his mothers, who have to deal with the Dragon in dragon form now.  They decide they must sacrifice themselves to Henry to help them.  Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) discovers Emma's phone and mirror but isn't much help since Queenie knocks him out.  Henry in the final moments doesn't smash his heart with the hammer but instead smashes the mirror allowing them to escape.  Hook does arrive to save the day and sends the Queen on her way unless she wants her throat ripped by his hook.  Only he knows if he does that he'll also kill Regina, but the Queen doesn't.  What something she doesn't know in Storybrooke!

Belle gives the wand to Zelena but Rumples retrieves it since she's not going anywhere and wraps a golden threaded bracelet around her wrist so she can't leave.  Which he was  busy spinning away at when Aladdin broke it, again Rumples knowing he was there.  Seems Aladdin is only remembered when they need something from him.  Also Henry and Violet share a dance together and she admits she's been distant cos she didn't know how to act at school, cos of the movies they've been watching and he said he should've showed her Sixteen Candles first.

Getting tired of the Rumples/Belle fiasco of a storyline it's so repetitive.  Just deal with it one way or another.  She tells him he can be good, he's too weak and afraid to follow through on it.  She won't let him see his son, he won't let her leave!  Also Zelena shows he can't use his powers on her cos of the hospital ep where she helped him when he had his heart attack so he wants the Queen to kill her. Well Zelena you picked the wrong side again!   Snow decides she can't write notes any longer and Charming says he misses her too.  Curses not another variation on the sleeping curse!

Once Upon A Time 6.7 "Heartless" Review

                                                 
The Evil Queen (Lana Parilla) who always wanted to get her claws into Snow's (Ginnifer Goodwin) heart now finds another way to do so.  She finds a way to take out their hearts and hold their hearts to ransom with a potion, which is actually from Rumples (Robert Carlyle) and his vial of water from the Lost Souls river which Regina tells them they brought back.  Anyway so was thinking in the next ep when the Dragon told her she shouldn't have released her dark side it was meant to stay within her, a clue to defeating her this season and putting her evil side back inside of her so she can keep her in check.  As he said they all have a dark side and she was meant to keep hers.

This ep also giving a chance to make another version of how Charming (Josh Dallas) and Snow met, only he didn't realize it was her otherwise that would've spoiled their very first meeting.  You see he saves her from the woodcutter and he always finds her even when they didn't know each other. Regina tells them of a sapling.  They must find it but if they do then Rumples and the Queen will also know what they're up to.  Their search leads them all the way to the brook where Snow found Charming when he was in hospital.  The sapling is in a cave and when they touch it, they have flashbacks to everything that happened between them and how true love's kiss always led them to each other.  However their plan to distract Rumples and the Queen fails when she realizes that Zelena's (Rebecca Mader) note was written by Regina, as she turns up to find them both ti the hot throes of passion!  Ha.  Or as heated as these two could get!  The Queen admitting she always had a bit of a thing for the Dark One, dearie!  As does Regina, though nothing happened.  Which isn't how the Queen wants to leave things!

David as the shepherd finds he needs to leave in order to find a buyer for his livestock and the farm cos they're not making ends meet and his mother actually packs him off to Longbourne to do so. (Longbourn being the home of the Bennett's in Pride and Prejudice.)  Snow also having the same plan to go there but for different reasons, as she tells Blue (Keegan Connor Tracy) she needs to escape Regina.   As she'll always be hunted in the Enchanted Forest.  Of course their paths had to meet, as David meets the woodcutter who knocks him out whilst taking him the same route. Pointless scene cos he turns out to be the one who has the showdown with him, kills him and rescues Snow. Who pays him for his rescue so he can save his farm; mentioning a corrupt nobleman she can raid for funds.

Snow realizes that part of the story wasn't in their vision flashbacks and so realizes that they will always find each other and come to the town's help by willing to make the sacrifice.  The Queen has other plans however and not only does she take their hearts but she ensured Snow suffers the pain of losing each other.  She puts her under a sleeping curse and Charming finds her as he always does and as they kiss he gets the curse too.  Regina saying when one's awake the other sleeps, so they'll not see each other at the same time.

Emma's "oh my God" when she reveals she had a thang for Rumples, well she would, she was lonely having lost her true love, so naturally she'd develop some sort of feelings for him and he was also teaching her magic so he was always there to form some sort of bond, however misguided that was.   The Enchanted Forest showing how the sapling grew when they both met for the first time and their seeds of love were planted.  So how did it get in the cave?  Apparently Emma (Jennifer Morrison) being the outcome of true love and thus becoming the saviour doesn't explain much, still there's no hints on how she can save herself and stop her tremors.  She hasn't really done much of late.

Still the Belle/Rumples fiasco continues and she's not going to find any good in him and stop being a coward by a photo of an ultrasound.  If anything it'd make him more determined to find some way to ensure their son recalls him as someone worth knowing and that he gets a chance to know him.  As well as finding a way to ensure he's worthy of his son's love as Belle (Emilie de Ravin) tells him. What happened to Wilby since he was a driving force in getting the Charming's together?

The Vampire Diaries 8.15 "We're Planning A June Wedding" Review

                                              
Bonnie (Kat Graham) breaks the news to Caroline (Candice King) about Katherine and hell and says she'll need the bottle of champers more than her.  As they set about thinking of a way to lure Katherine out and deal with her.  Damon (Ian Somerhalder) thinks the best way possible will be for Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Caroline to get married since Stefan was her greatest love and she won't be able to resist.  Hence the title and also the wedding will impact everyone's lives and not just their own.  As Alaric (Matt Davis) brings in Dorian (Demetrius Bridges) to help with finding a weapon to destroy Katherine, they recall Cade's bone being part of his body and maybe they can use Katherine's bones to do the same, which are buried in the tomb.  Where Damon takes Stefan to retrieve them. Bonnie and Caroline make wedding plans and she tells her she won't be there, with Stefan listening outside the door before he leaves with Damon.

Damon brings along his trademark bourbon and will make it into a bachelor party celebration and his last night of freedom as a single man.  Also picking up Katherine's skull and mimicking her and pouring some booze down its mouth.  Caroline gets an old cameo which she thinks is from Stefan with a card and 'something old' circled around it.  Obviously it's not from Stefan, firstly he's not around and secondly he wouldn't give her something which clearly isn't his to give.  Knew it was Katherine's.

Matt's father, Peter (Joel Gretsch) shows up in town with his mother, Kelly (Melinda Clarke) in tow, surprise, surprise it's Lady Heather from CSI!  No, cos she's acting all rather suspicious and she picks this time to come back with him, shocking Matt (Zach Roerig) also.  Then running into the loo to vomit blood!  Obviously she's dead and no one knows it, cos no one bothered finding out exactly what had happened to her.  Caroline's not so happy since Bonnie won't be there and neither will the twins.  So she thinks her wedding won't be what she had dreamed it would.  However Alaric brings them around cos Stefan called Valerie who placed a protection spell on them and she will have her flower girls.  He's glad she's happy and she has her tiara placed on her Head, but before she can tell Alaric what she wants to say, he leaves.  Later he kinda wallows when Dorian tells him about the way to end hell by using so much psychic energy that it'll implode, like the way they put out oil fires. However Alaric's not really listening as he recalls the time he came here with his first wife and wanted to kill Damon.  He thought he killed her but she wanted to be turned.

Damon brings Stefan back cos he's a lightweight now he's human and takes Caroline for a final booze up too before she gets married and drinks a toast to her mother.  Someone who hated Damon but then became good friends.  Caroline wishes she was here and misses her.  He welcomes Caroline to the Salvatore family and gaining another family member.  Peter is attacked by Kelly on the way to the wedding, wanting the knife, but he's already given it to Stefan.  Stefan wants to keep the knife and Damon says he'll keep him safe and if Katherine touches him he'll cut her into little pieces and feed her to the guests as the wedding buffet.  He wants Stefan to be there at his wedding one day and Stefan hopes he can too cos he needs a best man and that Stefan's real hair will last by then.  The band plays the Mystic Falls Founder's ball music at the Lockwood Mansion and Damon recalls how that was playing when Stefan and Katherine were together in the 1800's.

Bonnie and Enzo (Michael Malarkay) share a dance and he tells her how he'd have wanted their special day to be, with flowers and dancing.  Also that Stefan Ripper is no longer and he was the one who killed him, not real Stefan, who is back now after she gave him the cure.  She shouldn't hold it against him.  Just as Caroline thinks she'll be walking down the aisle alone, Bonnie turns up and says she'll walk with her.  Well she had to be there for the rest of the plot to pan out.  Damon's compelled the wedding guests to show up, he had a lot there and he waits a long time asking if anyone wants to stop this, but nothing happens.  Apart from Matt saying Peter should've been her  by now.  Stefan and Caroline haven't prepared any vows so Damon says they should just go for it.  She recalls how they met at the prom and how she told him about one day he'd be happy and married.  Kelly runs off to vomit again and Matt goes after her.  Some guest must've thought the vows did that! Ha.

Damon dances with Bonnie and she turns around to share a quick twirl with Enzo.  As Kelly turns up after leaving a gas tank in the fireplace of the house.  As Bonnie takes the twins to the loo.  Matt looks for Peter and finds him behind the bushes when his phone rings.  Kelly  turns up and complains of how no one liked her and they all drove her away she's happy to tell them what Katherine is planning even after Damon tries to torture it out of her cos anythings better than the torture, oblivion and pain inflicted by Katherine in hell.  She plans on burning down Mystic Falls and Matt says Peter won't do it but then he has a sister, Vicky.  Caroline rushes to get the twins out as the house explodes. Bonnie is trapped inside and the twins are siphoning her powers, as Enzo tells her she's got to show them what to do.  She needs to save herself even if she believe she'll lose the connection with him. He believes she won't and that they will be together one day in peace.  She has to show them what to do and she must live.  He makes Bonnie promise she will live a full life.  As the twins chant with Bonnie, the flames recede and burn out.

As they show Vicky walking to the bell and ringing it.  Bonnie hears it too and Stefan is there to catch her as she faints.  Everything falls into place for the final showdown with Katherine and also with Elena, just leaving us to see who will come out of all of this and survive and who, if anyone, won't.  At least Caroline got her dream wedding, even if it wasn't under the best of circumstances. Hey all members of the Maxwell's in one ep, though not altogether.

Some choice lines from Damon, as always: "we throw the one party Katherine would never miss, who doesn't love a wedding?"
"We shove Stefan's happiness in her face, she won't be able to control herself."  Ha, no wonder she wants to reign Hellfire on Mystic Falls, but then she always was destructive.  However just thought she was around all this time in hell, so in some way, she must've always planned her revenge somehow.  Also anticipating Damon and Stefan being brought to hell by Cade, who ultimately failed!

The title was said by Caroline in the Pilot episode, so they went right back to the beginning in the penultimate episode ever.  As Caroline got the lowdown on Stefan between the third and fourth period, finding out he was a Gemini and his favourite colour is blue.  Hmm, not purple (my fave) which was the colour at the wedding.  Loved that purple carpet!!  However loved how this pilot episode also had Bonnie telling Elena: "there's no way I'm psychic, but whatever I saw or think I saw, I have this feeling...that's just the beginning"  Seems she was psychic all along, or at least had this power somewhere deep inside her. Which is what Dorian thinks they can use to destroy hell.  If any one of the writers/producers recalled this, then some great continuity going on here!  (Or maybe looked it up! ha.)

Once Upon A Time 6.6 "Dark Waters" Review

                                       
Hook-centric episode as it focuses on how he's determined to keep this family together, of Emma (Jennifer Morrison) and Henry (Jared Gilmore).  Showing Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) on his ship before the onslaught of the curse and how one of his crew turned out to be Captain Nemo (Faran Tahir) who has a quest of his own and needs Hook's help. This in a roundabout way leading to Hook facing his own past and finding Liam on the Nautilus too, small ocean it seems!

It also finds Hook having to make breakfast for Henry as he steps into his fatherly duties but the Evil Queen is there to stop him and ensure Hook doesn't become close to him, as she tells him about the shears and how they're hidden in the toolbox.  Oh really Hook, you couldn't find anywhere else to hide them.  Thus showing how he betrayed Emma since she needed him to do this one thing and get rid of them for her.  Henry takes them and Hook discovers them gone.  As he tries to talk to Henry at the docks cos Henry wants to put them back into the ocean, they're taken back to the Nautilus cos Nemo needs him again.  As in flashback mode Hook is rescued by Nemo from the sea monster as he hunts for the chest.  It's not about treasure but it contains a key which Nemo says will lead them to a home called Mysterious Island.

Only Hook finds the island is actually the Land of Untold Stories, so it wasn't really a home for them. As well as Hook telling Henry how he killed his father partly out of jealousy over his brother Liam. But how he doesn't want that to happen to Henry and Emma and that's why he kept the shears.  So if it came down to it, he could save her.  He makes Henry escape and stays behind where he's confronted by Liam.  He's out for revenge and doesn't want to hear Hook's excuses so he tries to stab him with the dagger but Nemo intervenes gets in the way.  Back to today and the same thing happens, but Henry comes back and begs for him not to kill Hook.  Liam telling him he realizes that Henry would've been left an orphan like he was, as Nemo is wheeled in and they're reunited.  Couldn't really be that easy.

The show finding another way to just bring in ancillary characters to drive the story forward no matter how pointless it is sometimes and tedious in many ways.  The same with Aladdin (Deniz Akdeniz) as Emma shows him the Storybrooke sign when she found out she was the Saviour, but it's been repaired.  She tries to make him realize he can still be a hero, only for Jasmine (Karen Shenaz David) to tell him that Agrabah is no longer there and she made an alliance with a neighbouring kingdom, but it doesn't matter now.  (Yeah Agrabah was blown up if you get the point from last year when there was the vote for it to be bombed by dummies who thought it was a real country!!)

Belle (Emily de Ravin) leaving the ultrasound photo for Rumples (Robert Carlyle) in some hope it'll what - change him?  What's the reasoning behind this, it'll only make him more determined to keep her here and to get his hands on his son no matter what.  So far the Queen (Lana Parilla) hasn't accomplished much of anything except a few victories here and there and just putting a spanner in
the works.  She's even alienated Henry, so much for saying she's his mother.  Hook tells Emma what he did and she understands cos she would've done the same.  Not much changed there then.  It just keeps going round in random circles with bits of stories added from other characters but nothing interesting that makes you really care much, if at all!