Paranormal Lockdown 2.1 "Monroe House" Review

Eddie, the owner of Monroe House was looking for a quick sale, however he bought more than he bargained for, especially when he didn't know the story of the house or its haunting.  Have found that's often the case in the majority of houses for sale and bought by people unknowingly, it's not revealed by the sellers.  Even in the UK, there's a questionnaire where the sellers must list anything and everything about the house and yet I know many people shy away from asking that question of whether it's haunted or not.  Which of course they can answer untruthfully.  Am still waiting for that case where someone sues for exactly this, buying a haunted house.

Anyway back to the investigation, since something was trying to attach itself to Nick's back from the outset on day 1, it finally did catch up to him in the crawl space.

When Katrina asks why it keeps leading them to the kitchen, the woman's voice sounds as though she says "strangling me."  As I heard it at 25.33 and the man says "you shut it".  Oddly since in the other room Nick felt he couldn't swallow and had flies in his throat, finding it hard to breathe and making him leave that space.  Eddie also saying how other people have felt that way too.  There was a afire at the house, was that before or after the body was buried there. Smoke from a fire would also cause choking, making it hard to breathe, almost akin to strangling.

At 24.45 "she says again, "come into the basement." Before the man says, "send help."

26.19 a voice comes through and says "I can feel it" in a Southern-ish accent after Nick asks, "can you feel that?" When he feels the ground shaking, which eerily was also felt by the security man outside.  That doesn't often happen.  But great credibility.

Once again there was so much going on in this episode.  Wonder if they checked Nick's back after he was clawed in the crawl space.  Also it's disturbing that these remains were there for all this time, belonging to a poor restless spirit who's being prevented from talking and getting eternal peace, most likely by her assailant.  It took for Nick and Katrina to investigate and actually for Nick to go into the crawl space and be subjected to being pulled back and maybe even scratched to prevent him from unearthing the mound.  At least a lot of what they encountered was validated by Eddie.  Good on Eddie to do this, at least now it's out in the open and can hopefully lead to some sort of closure for that spirit.   These stories are very sad and on top of that there's the unknown 'demonic entities' looking to feed off the energy and give out its own negativity too.  Day 3 as Nick predicted "tomorrow is going to be worse" and it was for him in that crawl space.

As Katrina has to go check on Nick (again) their investigations are so exciting to watch, not least of which they always have each other's backs (no pun) and there's always common sense analysis, no exaggeration and OTT nonsense!
Was this just a shadow across the camera or was it something that moved, this clip looks like it was added for some reason, but no explanation.  Before Nick sleeps.
Was trying to upload a video clip of it but it didn't work.  Technical issues!! Hmm, wonder why? (Will try again later.)  Sorry you'll have to watch that bit!

Here's the video a bit of a haphazard edit if it was that, or did something more the camera?

29.52 when Nick's sleeping, the man asks: "is this all?  With the woman replying "I'm here."

Another gruelling episode to watch and can only imagine how draining it was on Katrina and Nick once again to spend 72 hours there.  But they have to and also make some sort of headway there too. It's a shame the history of the Monroe House isn't very extensively documented, would like to know more about it.  Especially the unexplained spontaneous fires in the basement, an attempt to hide evidence or is there some other general or paranormal explanation for this.  As Nick said "we have more questions than answers"  still even after their investigation.

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

                                                               
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.

Longmire 3.4 "In The Pines" Review

                                                 
As Walt (Rob Taylor) plays a few notes on the piano, Branch (Bailey Chase) shoots a rabbit dead, aww wasically wabbit!  (Sorry!) and then lights it on fire along with some of his hair.  Walt stops playing and turns over the papers on the piano which show suspects in his wife's murder case.  A man runs from the woods and Ferg (Adam Bartley) waits for Walt and Vic (Katee Sackhoff) to arrive.  He found the DB of their leader, Adam.  He shows them the spot and they find other people on the same group camp are also missing.  The group leader who owns the business, Susan Taylor (Abby Brammell) and her husband, Charlie (Matthew Thompkins) whistle out to them, but only one whistle is returned.  Adam was killed when his head landed on the stone and nothing that Marshall (Lynn Andrews) did to him, such as giving him first aid would've helped.  Others are found and are taken back to the station.  They speak of Wolverine, real name Trey (Dustin Ingram) who was a rowdy one and some of them were afraid of him.  Ferg finds a missing girl down a ravine and Walt must go down and rescue her, using whatever he's got, which turns out to be handcuffs acting as a carabiner on the rope.  She tells him about Wolverine and how she thought he'd rape her and so stumbled too far off the edge.  Some people were afraid of Adam.  Ferg shows Walt Wolverine's sketchbook with bloody drawings in it.

Vic's husband, Sean (Michael Mosley) shows Walt a photo he got in the mail with the number 32 on the back, when Walt and Vic were in Arizona and she's laughing by the door.  Walt says he doesn't have anything to worry about from him, but he'll only be getting a restraining order for Gorski (Lee Tergesen) then.  Vic was erm, following a pattern of behaviour here in actually going after her superior officers.  Granted she was a rookie back then, but she's not now and yet she can't help but pine for Walt too.  Once again her boss and superior!  Walt tells her about the photo and she says she'll talk with Sean but she drinks at the Red Pony instead.  She tells Walt she hasn't spoken to Sean yet but he's used to her working 24 hour shifts anyway.  Also as the flashback showed, she and her boss had an affair.  She backed out of it, got married but he still pursued it.  32 was their rendezvous number for their apartment.  Vic speaks with Sean and he tells her maybe their marriage is over, that was the impression of course, since she wasn't that happy with him for a long time as she was with Walt in the photo.

At the hospital doc Weston (Scott Michael Campbell) tells Walt the DNA results aren't in yet and finds out Branch ordered some tests done.  Walt tells Branch he carried out the same tests on the ash and the DNA results came back belonging to David Ridges.  Branch replies the test was done on his own DNA, so it's possible to burn an animal with your own DNA and still be alive.  Walt's going to reopen the case after he's solved this one and Branch gets some rest.  Ruby (Louanne Stephens) gets a call about Henry's (Lou Diamond Phillips) monitor and Branch picks him up.  Telling him he owes him as he paid his bail money, wanting to know about peyote dealers in the area.  He later stakes out the place with Travis (Derek Phillips) and kidnaps the dealer, aka the White Warrior, Sam (Hank Cheyne).

Wolverine's mother is worried about her son and the phone rings, Walt sees it's a local number and asks her where he is, as she tries to smash her phone.  Trey's arrested and picks a fight with Marshall, adding he's got a juvenile record for assault.  He tells Walt about Adam and how everything in the backpacks matched, except Adam had condoms.  They we e only supposed to take things that they use.  Susan tells him Adam was a good leader and she went on the trail with him many times, as Charlie walks out saying Adam was a liability and he told her that.  She had an affair with Adam. Walt speaks with Charlie saying he followed her and he killed Adam cos he cleaned up after himself.  Asking if he should tell her or if he wants to.

Henry learning he's indebted to Branch, doesn't ask why he paid the remainder of his bail money, but does give him drinks on the house as he's already paid for them.  As said, Vic was fooling herself thinking she could have any romantic with a Walt even if she does have a thing for him.  How real are her feelings if she keeps falling for older men (meant in a nice way cos Walt's not that old).  Walt getting out of his office cos he doesn't want Sean to find them there together.  As he was thinking of Vic and she should salvage her marriage.  It's good to see how the two different stories, usually in the show are sometimes relate in terms of having the same subject matter, such as Vic having an affair back then and Susan having one too, leading to murder out of jealousy and Sean is a bit like that too. He's very possessive of Vic.

Longmire 3.3 "Miss Cheyenne" Review

                                          
Walt (Rob Taylor) visits Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) who asks him for the only thing he can do for him which is to judge the Cheyenne Beauty Pageant which he says is nothing like their one.  It's an important event. Walt also wants to know who beat him up but he doesn't say and doesn't want him to do what Malachi (Graham Greene) says.  His bail hearing is approaching and Cady (Cassidy Freeman) will represent him but has no experience with trials or bail hearings.  The judge gives her the weekend to decide what she's going to say on Monday as she dresses Henry in a typical suit, which is far too large for him, as well as applying concealer to his wounds.  Walt later remarking on it and asking if he's wearing make-up.  Cady sees an old law school friend, Cameron Maddox (Nick Gehlfuss) in court.  However she later drinks at the bar as she thinks it's a lost cause and Henry won't be granted bail.  Walt tells her she's got two days and to stop drinking.  Yes she was having her own continual soiree wallowing in her selfish misery! ha.  As he puts her photo of when she was little on the board of the Red Pony as someone who shouldn't be served.

She gets Cameron to help her and tells him she'll buy him dinner but he had other intentions back in law school and agrees to help her with affidavits on Henry's good character.  All goes well until he sees her hug Branch (Bailey Chase) and then next day he pikes out by saying he's got other cases. Obviously he was giving her the cold shoulder otherwise why turn up in court to begin with unless he thought he'd have a chance with her and yes I was about to write get laid!  Thinking he could get his other intentions satisfied, which fell through.  Smarmy much.  Cady narrows down 175 statements into one and tells the judge she has one person to testify only Ms Mae Stillwater (Irene Bedard) who tells the court about her daughter Lily, and how Henry helped her back on track, paid for counselling. His name Standing Bear and is not one where people mistakenly think that you run from a bear that is standing, but instead he faces his fears and doesn't run from them.  The judge sets bail at $1 million. They need another $100,00 which Branch writes her a cheque for, it's not his money after all and his father will get it back, as long a s Henry stays put, as his name suggests.

Walt, whilst judging, is called to the scene of a crime where a doctor's DB was found in the barn. Ben was working at the Rez clinic too and Branch pays a visit to find out about him and is given the name of a patient, Grey Wolf (Gregory Cruz) who was seen and heard arguing with him.  Branch also asks if he's seen David Ridges who was here a few months back.  Branch in his haste forgets the name of the patient.  Walt and Vic (Katee Sackhoff) pay a visit and he says he got mad cos Ben assaulted his daughter and is a pervert.  She went in with flu-like symptoms and he gave her an intimate exam.  So he got mad.  At no time did Walt let on that Ben was killed, but he says he can't talk to his daughter, Michaela (Faye Viviana) cos the matter's been resolved.  Vic thinking it was his roundabout way of saying he killed him.

Ben's parents are in town and his father, Oren (John Lawlor) says he can't go through with it again, as he already lost one son, Ben to murder as well.  Oren is also a doctor as is their step mother, Sylvia (Molly Hagan) runs in the family you could say.  Whilst at the pageant Walt talks with Michaela and says she looks like she's pregnant.  Vic speaks with Grey Wolf who tells her this isn't the normal pageant involving bikinis and banners or the like.  Grey Wolf was angry at Ben since he wanted her to get an abortion but the baby was her boyfriend's.  He's also angry at Walt cos his rumours got her fired from the pageant after they had her pregnancy confirmed.  Branch thinks Sylvia could've been behind it depending on her motive which must be money and Walt then speaks with Oren who tells him that she couldn't have killed his sons cos they were on vacation together, as Walt tells him the two murders were similar, thus one killer.  Oren also tells them about the sterilizations and how he needs his patient files cos the killer is one of them.  Oren believes he was right to do what he did cos they were in no position to look after themselves on the Rez, which Walt is disgusted with.

The patient list leads to Dina who was sterilized, having a hysterectomy performed after going in for an appendectomy in Oklahoma and she killed both of his sons since she couldn't have children of her own.  She attacks herself with a knife.  Walt picks Henry up from prison and vows he will never set foot in that place again.  Henry doesn't want him to make promises he can't keep, but again, he will do so cos that's the sort of man Walt is.

Signs of double standards going on at the Rez and between the doctors who performed the sterilizations.  With Grey Wolf being angry that she was removed from the pageant just for being pregnant, yet in away also confirming that these things happen on the Rez, as they object to women having free will and exercising it.  However it's not the same thing for everyone.  The case being that it was okay for women to be treated in such a way on the Rez back then and could get drunk and pregnant and their daughters too, but removing her from the pageant for being pregnant didn't resound any hypocrisy between the Rez and its people.  At the end of the day it's the woman's right to choose, no matter where she's from or who she is, which is an obvious conflict with the way the doctor's behaved shockingly back then.. and now and he believes he did the right thing.

Longmire 3.2 "Of Children and Travelers" Review

                                             
A teen's DB is found under a bridge and Vic (Katee Sackhoff) calls in Walt (Rob Taylor) as he tends bar at the Red Pony, she had a Russian passport and Vic thinks the case may be related to human trafficking.  Walt doesn't think so since she wouldn't have her passport with her.  She's found to be adopted by a couple and they say they couldn't have children of their own so they found her.  But she was a handful and couldn't be controlled, so they sent her to a school.  A school which Vic questions if it is a school or a prison.  The woman tells them she got into trouble a lot and when she ran away he sent Norwood (Myk Watford) after her, his phone was found by her body and she reluctantly gives them access to his records.  At the school Polina's (Mary Elise Hayden) roommate shows them the photos she sent her and one of them showed a man dropping her off somewhere.  As the woman comes in, Walt tells her he was checking his e-mail!!

They plan to stay overnight and Vic strikes up a conversation about bad girls, good girls and how was Walt meant to react at that anyway, finding out she was a bad girl, that much was obvious.  She says bad girls need forgiveness.  As well as drinking his beer, exactly she could've got her own, it was a bar after all. Walt has trouble with his room door and then they both sit and look at the adjoining door, Walt looked funny thinking what Vic would come bursting through the door, ha!  She does knock on the door as they have a lead on Norwood, who Walt reads like a book, or one of his books I should say, as he joins him for a beer and sends Vic for supplies.  He tells Walt how she was in his office naked so he helped himself and then she took off with his phone, after he did her favours and left the doors open for her.  He thought he'd hang out here for a while.  Walt arrests him for statutory rape and suspicion of murder.

Branch (Bailey Chase) returns to work, guess it's not so much that he has to, but more that he needs to , to find out what happened to him and who shot him.  As Ferg (Adam Bartley) later catches him in Walt's office, but doesn't see him reading the files into his case.  He also brings in the man who dropped Polina off at some trailer park.  Here Walt and Vic find the couple just drove off and the man saying the walls were just paper thin.  Right he was being helpful so he was my suspect straight off.   Walt thinks it's a good idea if they bought the couple to them after they find so many predators online looking for children but nothing can be done about them as they don't have their real names.  Walt gets Ruby (Louanne Stephens) to access the chatrooms putting out a message of how they can't handle their Russian daughter.

A man stops by who gave her a lift and she told him about her father abusing her.  Vic says it might have bee the truth and not her fantasy as he put it.  They talk in the chat room to a couple who send a photo of Polina and their daughter Sofia (Charlotte Alexis White) and Vic takes hold of Walt's arm to make it look more real.  The man turns up and it's the one from the trailer park, as he runs away in his truck with Sofia.  He gets her to pull a gun on Walt and to shoot him.  But Walt tells her about Polina and brings the toy unicorn with him.  Now how did he get that into his pocket?!  ha.  He takes her away and says he will find a good place for her.
Elsewhere Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) is being beaten up by Malachi's' (Graham Greene) men saying he's showing him his roots and there's no Walt here to protect him.  Infact if they knew about him being friends with Walt he'd have a tougher time in here.  Henry's PD (Public Defender) doesn't come in and the second one that does is incompetent (aren't they all?) so Cady (Cassidy Freeman) fires him and takes on his case instead.  Walt tries to call him but can't get through and when he does visit he gets Malachi instead who tells him how bad things can get for Henry, he wants him to help him out at his parole hearing.

A bit of routine a episode with the murder of Polina and it was apparent this would happen to her since she tired to get Sofia away from them.  As was Henry's predicament in jail with with Malachi inside too.  You'd have thought he'd have gotten bail by now or put in solitary, but they're not so big on that over there.  Branch is determined to find out who shot him and hasn't made any headway yet.

The Vampire Diaries 8.5 "Coming Home Was A Mistake" Review

                                             
As they show Matt (Zach Roerig) coming home with Tyler's (Michael Trevino) coffin, the others get calls from him informing them of Tyler.  Meeting up for his funeral eventually.  Bonnie (Kat Graham) is sorry she can't be there as she has to help Enzo (Michael Malarkey) and Alaric (Matt Davis) now writes entries in the diary for Elena.  He's sorry he doesn't have anything good to say.  Alaric uses the tuning fork but not for long, the number of times they showed it, it was apparent it was going to go walk-a-by.  Especially since they still had it at The Armoury and didn't even secure it.  Pity Alaric didn't tell his intern or whatever, Dorian (Demetrius Bridges) to lock it up when he's done with it. There's no sign of Georgie and Alaric wants to know if he's seen her.  He also wants to test the frequencies of the fork and anything else he can do.  Yeah typical guy can't multi-task.  Alaric uses it on Sybil (Nathalie Kelley) again but she's no help as he tells her he's got a cell ready for the second siren.  Ah once again more mistakes and oversights, they use their powerful voices for bad and again they have her in a glass cell so she can easily break the glass and escape.

At the funeral they find four graves have been dug and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) showing up, no surprises for guessing, well knowing, he'd be there.   He wants to end it all for them and Stefan (Paul Wesley) breaks the shovel with Damon asking if he's got intentions of staking him.  Well at this point in time, staking would be too good for him and pointless.  He's not remorseful obviously and he high tails it over to Matt and threatens to turn him into a vampire as he's the only surviving human boy left in Mystic Falls.  As he makes him drink his blood or at least tries too, whilst having a stronghold on him.  Caroline (Candice King) tells him nobody wants him here and he reminds her of how rich that is coming from her, considering the number of people she's killed when she flipped her switch.  He then leaves.  Yeah Damon run away.

Seline (Kristen Gutoskie) takes the girls to the carnival and uses her siren power to get the man to give them a dead goldfish so they can go home and bury it.  How macabre a nanny is Seline. Obviously cos she's a siren and not a nanny.  Sorry that wasn't meant to sound like a rhetorical one-sided joke!  As she takes them to the cave where she says she's going to bring back Cade.  However she gets them to use their magic and burn the DB under the tarpaulin.  Who won't exactly be Cade. Damon makes an impromptu visit to Sybil and she can see his humanity is getting the better of him. He feels once more and that's not good.  She tells him he should just go be with Stefan and turn off his switch if that's what he wants and a lifetime of unhappiness and death finally.  Sybil says she wants him, all of him (doesn't everyone? ha) he should just give over to the dark side and what's waiting for him there, i.e Cade.  Yeah an eternity with him in hell.

The police call and tell him Georgie's been found being the DB that Seline burned.  But is she really gone even they show her tattoo just for clarity.  Matt gets a delivery from the Armoury which is actually from Tyler telling him if anything happened to him then he needs to help him now, he was looking for Selina and there are notes and sketches and photos of her in the box.  He hasn't met her yet but of course by ep's end, we know he'll find out who she is.  Good help is so hard to find these days.  Matt tells his father (Joel Gretsch) he's lost everyone and he's used to it from an early age and he replies he had that coming.  [Said after being Agent Afloat from NCIS should've said that last ep!] He tells him the story of Virginia St John and how Tyler was helping her, Enzo's relation from last season who told him about Selina and the siren being released back in 1883.

Damon decides he wants to end it all and meets with Stefan at the carnival, oh great, let's all hang out there but Stefan decides he's going to take Damon down.  Yeah that'll wok.  Caroline wants to come with him but he doesn't let her and since when will that stop her.  Damon isn't going to change and just wants everyone to stop trying to help him.  Even though he did say he needs his help.  That's nothing new and it's tiresome coming back to the same old story about how Damon is no good, always was and will be.  Also that Elena won't forgive him for what he did.  Stefan tries to shoot him with the vervain but he catches it and tells him this is where it ends for them.  Until Caroline shoots him in the back with vervain (short of backstabbing him! ha.)  Obviously those chains won't hold him since that's the first place Sybil will head, being in his head still, she knew where he'd be.

Bonnie tries to get Enzo to flip his switch but he's not buying any of it and knows about Tyler.  She asks Caroline how she came back and it was all about guilt for her.  What her mother would think of her and what she's done.  The thing she feared the most.  She thinks with Enzo that's fire as she's used the 'flame of imprisonment' from the Armoury to keep him in the cabin.  She burns it down and tells him she'll be the first one who dies tying to save him.  She'll never leave him.  On it went until she passes out and he carries her out by switching on his humanity but returns to the cabin to end it all for himself too.  Sheesh doesn't all this ending ti all business ever stop.
She tells him she'll never leave him some more times and then heads back into the cabin but he brings her out after she burns her hand putting out the flame.  Cue kissing.  What does this mean for her, will he get her witchy powers back?

They turn up at the carnival too as Stefan thinks they should say a proper farewell to Tyler, which again was nothing new, just saying what each one thought of him and his bravery and resilience to fight and come back again.  With Caroline saying she loved him and they all did.  Stefan wanted them here cos he was on the ferris wheel with Elena and they had good times here.  Reminding them they have to take every moment as that's all they have, just moments.  So they ride on the bumper cars and Caroline shoots some balloons.  She's going to be his wife so of course she'd be there for him.

Caroline's glad Matt's back and she shows him photos of the girls and Selina too.  He tells her they need to get home and find Selina and the girls gone.  And so coming home was a mistake, for all concerned, Tyler, Matt, as it led to nothing but misery for them.  Of course we weren't going to get Damon stuck in that prison termed time immemorial forever (sorry one of my lines from something else I wrote) it is the final season after all and we couldn't let Damon 'Damn' Hot be missing from several eps.  Besides as said, Sybil isn't done with him yet.  Some choice quotes in this ep and Alaric welcoming Sybil to her psychic hell.  Alaric also saying Tyler was the last of the Lockwood's and to Seline of all people!

Once again the title is taken from a previous ep 1.9 History Repeating (which is exactly what it did in this ep) when Stefan said it to Elena. Also in this ep, Damon revealed to Stefan why he actually returned to Mystic Falls, to get Katherine back (a little like waiting around to get Elena back.) So once again a bit of an overlap in that he's here again for some reason Sybil will eventually implant in his mind which will no doubt concern Seline.  Also that episode had plenty of Stefan/Damon bonding of sorts with Damon trying to show a different side of himself, less menacing and even offering to stay off eating people and just sucking on the feathered variety of animals.  Here he told Stefan he can't live off bunny rabbits, that's just not him.  Maybe need to go back and watch season 1 over again. Well at least they had the Gas 'n' Sip reference in season 1 relevant here as was also featured in Supernatural.  Yay remnants of an almost cross over!  Ha.

Longmire 3.1 "The White Warrior" Review

                                      
As always the opening of Longmire sets up stories for the entire season and this was no exception. As Walt (Robert Taylor) drives an injured Branch (Bailey Chase) to the Rez clinic where he has to be patched up by Walt and stabilized.  Well he did the patching up with fishing tackle and the Rez clinic worker stabilized him.  Barlow (Gerald McRaney) is angry that Walt brought him in when he asks what happened and he hopes he didn't use a rusty fishing tackle at that cos he' going to hold him responsible.

Walt drives to catch Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) as he transports Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) to Denver and Mathias doesn't stop for him until Walt almost drives into an ongoing truck which prompts Mathias to pull over.  Walt says he wants to speak with Henry and he hasn't waived his rights.  Henry says he can afford a lawyer since he's got money in the safe and Walt tells him not to waive his rights.  He can help him if he stays in his jurisdiction, but if he goes to Denver that's Fales' jurisdiction.  At the office everything's a mess and they ask him what happened here.  Walt replies he got angry.  He wants Ruby (Louanne Stephens) to find a good lawyer for Henry and Vic (Katee Sackhoff) talks to him alone.  He tells her his wife was killed and Henry's taking the blame for something he doesn't want Walt arrested for.  Henry kept the teeth for those reasons.  He needs to get Hector back from Cumberland county as he's witness.

At the hospital he tells the doctor to find out if Branch was on any drugs, hallucinogenic since he claims to have seen David Ridges (David Midthunder) and he was wearing white make-up and he found his ashes and left them at the CS.  He dreams of the man coming into his room.  He believes it to be true and also Jacob Knighthorse (A Martinez) is mentioned.  As he talks with Knighthorse he says that Henry's team wouldn't have done well and Walt replies he was here to help them.  He tells Whitehorse about David Ridges and how everyone claims he's dead.  He says it's the White Warrior and it's a spirit come back.  The doctor also told him about the crow feather he found in Branch's wound which would've become infected.  He also sees similar in Knighthorse's office which is made of raven, crow and eagle feathers, he says it's an antique.

When Walt speaks with Henry in jail he tells him there wasn't much money in the safe and he says Deena took it.  A good public defender should be able to get reasonable doubt as long as they have Hector there.  Henry tells him about the White Warrior also and how they'd call them religious extremists.  At the Rez Mathias runs Walt and Ferg (Adam Bartley) off the land cos it's not his jurisdiction and he scatters the ashes in the bag which was evidence.  You'd think Mathias would be more forthcoming in helping since it's his job.  He tells Walt he'll call the FBI to tell them Walt was here without permission.  Ferg inadvertently walks through the ashes, which was obvious but he didn't realize and Walt collects scrapings from his boot.  For someone who's not into forensics he sure knows what he's looking for, which is why so many underestimate the power and intelligence of our sheriff!

Also the remark made by Knighthorse about him not getting a call about that anytime soon, was a good laugh considering Walt wouldn't be cos he doesn't carry a phone. Thought he was going to say that for a second.  Vic says she's sorry about his wife and he shouldn't keep things to himself.  She also got a good look at Walt when he was cleaning Branch's blood off his body and yet again any excuse for us to see Walt shirtless!  Branch dreams again and he almost strangles Cady (Cassidy Freeman) who's shocked and leaves when Walt comes in.  Of course she's going to end up defending Henry cos there's no one else to do the job right.  Branch insists he wasn't dreaming when he saw Ridges.

As Walt checks out the Rez again he finds some men and a fire and convinces Mathias to come along. He ties them up and asks where they live but no one answers.  I said it was the one in the middle, the short haired one with the necklace.  They bring Branch here and he can't recognize any of them insisting it was ridges.  Walt has no choice but to let them go and tells him he just let his shooter go. Showing him the results of the analysis of the ashes which were Ridges.  Branch also being doses with peyote.

Knighthorse has an alibi which rules him out and this was confirmed by Barlow, who just likes to sit around cleaning his guns all day and drinking.  Of course this all opens up Walt's wife's murder again as everything appears to be up in the air.  Ruby being upset at him as he hasn't told her much nor where he's heading.  Nothing will be the same between Branch and Cady now and she was really shook up at his actions, even if he was dreaming, at least it seemed that way.  As said the opening setting up the groundwork for the many continuing mysteries this season 3.

The Vampire Diaries 8.4 "An Eternity of Misery" Review

                                         
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Another one of those flashback eps which you either hate or love and I actually don't like them no matter what the context or the premise they entail.  Especially having to endure last season's jumping and forth with three years later, earlier, present day etc.  This one is a story told from one sister to the other as she speaks of Cade (Wole Parks) a man who could read minds being psychic and how he was not only treated badly and eventually was burned on the pyre.  One of the sisters also developed this psychic ability and was driven out of her village, ending up with the other on an island. She was meant to be Sybil (Nathalie Kelley).  She taught the other how to forage for food or at least was supposed to by calling the ships to sink and then she'd bring back the provisions.  She didn't want that when she found out that's what Sybil had done and that God would provide for them from the land. Nothing came of that and so Sybil went out hunting on the basis that she would bring back food but in actual fact she was eating human flesh as there weren't any provisions on the ships and the sailors came from her village.

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) ends up at Peter Maxwell's (Joel Gretsch) [who was agent afloat in NCIS eps] garage and how prophetic was that or coincidental where he sets alight the mechanic cos he could and he wasn't much help, but as we know no humanity means no remorse.  When Peter returns Damon compels him to tell him about the Maxwell family heirloom.  He says his gran died and left a storage box which his son was looking for.  Damon thinks his watch could be an heirloom and when he touches it is laced with vervain.  He then stabs him and is saved by Matt (Zach Roerig) who shoots Damon.  With the reveal that Matt is his son.  Getting him to drink Damon's blood Matt saves him. He knows Matt is desperate and he's not really in the mood for small talk telling him if he doesn't help him then he won't get Tyler (Michael Trevino) back.  He's not in New York and he's finished with Elena.  How many times have we heard that one.  Ah silly Matty Blue Eyes leaving Damon tied to a chair with wheels!

Alaric (Matt Davis) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) question Sybil with the help of the tuning fork and she tells them the story of having another sister, as the name suggests they're sirens.  Georgie (Allison Scagliotti) is curious as to what's happening and goes to Alaric's house to retrieve the book but triggers the alarm.  She comes across Seline (Kristen Gutoskie) and she calls Alaric to tell him about Georgie.  Obviously giving everyone the impression that she's the siren.  But no, Sybil already threw that one out there by saying that Seline is a good name for a siren.  Seline obviously gets Georgie to help imprison Alaric and also knocks out Stefan.  But Sybil doesn't leave her cell.  Alaric leaves a message for the others and says he can get out cos Georgie showed the way out of the caves, adding she's the other siren.  Begging the question why would she do this if she was the siren.  So he knocks out his hearing so he can't be manipulated.

Sybil tells Stefan the story of how she discovered the bones of the men hidden in a cave at low tide and how she was turned into a cannibal.  She tried to kill herself but she was saved by Cade, who created an all powerful pit of fire to save himself from his fate.  She also tells him Seline is the siren but he won't remember that.  Asking him the question of "which girl are you?"  That sounded funny. The one who killed and turned his brother cos he couldn't bear to be alone or the one who was the victim.  She'll tell him everything if he answers her, "which girl is your spirit animal?"  Stefan replies he's both cos he is, and she tells him his destiny is that hell and the devil.  He doesn't believe her and doesn't believe there is a devil, but she talks of how Damon does and that's why he made a deal with Cade and he's switched off his humanity.  He doesn't want to end up in that place and he's seen it.

Georgie tells Seline how Sybil told her to "piss off" and she kills her, foraging on her. As she floats off into another place.  Has Georgia gone to hell then and will be their ally?  She said she died and came back so there must be something she can do to help them and to defeat the devil.

Matt gets to Tyler after he and his father talk of how his great grandmother spoke of vervain to ward off the vampires and he was sorry he left Mystic Falls.  Matt saying they'd all have been better off leaving.  He opens the trunk and can't believe his best friend has actually gone!  Poor Matt's been through the wringer and has lost anyone he ever cared about!  Probably one of the best emotional scenes we've had in this show for a long time, as he breaks down and has his dad for support, at least. Showing Tyler wasn't strong enough to handle Damon.  Who finds what he was looking for in the form of an orb (cannon ball more like! ha) but doesn't know why he's looking for it.

Caroline's (Candace King) left Bonnie with Enzo but she hasn't been able to help him yet.  She tells Stefan he could've slept in his bed even if she was with Bonnie.  The part in the beginning with Cade reminds me of the episode of Once Upon A Time where Merlin was featured and how his magic led to his being ostracised.  Sybil kind of told a bleeding heart story didn't she about being the younger sister and the victim.  That she had no choice and Seline lied to her.  Making her story similar to Damon becoming a vampire but that doesn't absolve her for the killing she's done and made others do, in the same way it doesn't really absolve or give them redemption either, even if Stefan said whatever they did they've forgiven each other cos they're brothers and their bond is greater.

How are Alaric's daughters involved with this and their reaction to the pitch fork.  They can't be sirens considering they're meant to be witches.  Also seems they will have an impact on the story since Seline has a hold of them as nanny.

As always a word about the title which comes from season 1 where Damon said to Stefan: "I promised you an eternity of misery so I'm just keeping my word."
Also in 1.22 Blood Brothers, Damon says the line again as they flash to 1863: "you got what you wanted you and me for all eternity.  But hear this brother I will make it an eternity of misery for you." It wasn't just an eternity of misery quite yet over the years, but he got a good headstart on it, especially considering he didn't really act like the loving brother on numerous occasions, as well as deserting Stefan last season, just to wake up when Elena does. Which he now says doesn't mean anything to him.  It's what Sybil said too of how it was Stefan who wanted Damon with him and didn't want to live without him.  Good continuity for this episode.

The Vampire Diaries 8.3 "You Decided That I Was Worth Saving" Review

                                                
Bonnie (Kat Graham) surprises Caroline (Candace King) with champagne in bed for breakfast and to congratulate her on the engagement to Stefan (Paul Wesley).  Caroline being all shy in her top as if Bonnie hasn't seen her dressed like that before.  It's what she mostly always wears.  She snuck into her house and got her wedding scrapbook so they can plan together with Caroline saying she wants the same for Bonnie and Enzo (Michael Malarkey) and she'll help her get that for them.  Sybil (Nathalie Kelley) watches the car crash with Elena and her parents holding Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) hand and she sees the sheriff (Marguerite McIntyre) call it in the Vics, the Grayson's and Elena.  Damon saying he doesn't know them.  Of course he wouldn't, since she's turned his brain to mush literally and metaphorically.  And boy is she irritating for a siren.  Think they could've come up with someone better to play a seductive siren cos Sybil has no charm whatsoever and is as exciting to watch as a wet sponge and that's saying something.  However the plus side: Damon sitting calmly reading a book!  But what was he reading?  Ha.

Of course she's got Damon right where shew ants him, so easily and completely at her side and wants the same loyalty from Enzo.  Begging the question if she's already got one lapdog why does she need another one.  Or maybe all the fun is in getting him to submit to her will and mind games.  As Caroline and Bonnie go wedding dress shopping, Damon turns up as Sybil wants him to kill Bonnie, testing Enzo and seeing if he will submit to her.  He refuses to switch off his humanity (vampires must be easier to manipulate than other creatures it appears.)  Thus sending Damon after Bonnie. Bonnie wants to be Caroline's maid of honour, she'd be "honoured" and jumps at the chance since her competition won't be awake until she dies.  Yeah about that dying business, so if Damon was able to kill Bonnie, that would've meant Elena would've woken up and then where would Damon find himself.  But of course that's neither here nor there since he can't remember a damn thing.

Damon fails miserably in killing Bonnie as would be apparent and Sybil's disappointed since he got beaten by a girl, two girls he tells her.  But she wonders if his heart was really in it.  So once again we get more mind melding manipulation and she finds out that Bonnie and Damon have been through a lot together.  Then turning up at the house when Caroline is in search of weapons.  She looks through Caroline's wedding scrapbook too, and Caroline jokes how she liked a design she wanted when she was in the eleventh grade.  She wants a heart to heart with them or it occult be very painful for them both and wonders why Bonnie and Damon never went there together, you know, did the dirty cos he's hot and his name can spell 'Damn'.  Oh come on, to paraphrase Caroline, what was she five?  She wants Bonnie to choose between Enzo and Damon cos they're going to fight to the death and one of them will end up in that place below.  Not heaven but in real pain.  Bonnie doesn't choose so she takes them in the car to where they'll be fighting.

Strangely Damon calls Stefan, he doesn't know what she wants him to do saying his mind won't focus on that, calling it "apple sauce and penguins."  He wants Stefan to help him and obviously he's not given up on him though it's hopeless.  As said, Damon's given up on Damon so it was rather all pointless.  He shows him Enzo in the boot and wants his help in killing him.  To be his second.  Of course he knew Enzo wouldn't have anyone else there and that's it.  Everyone knows Stefan will do anything for Damon including taking sides.  Stefan wants to know why he can't fight her like Enzo has and why he's given up.  Again knew the answer would be that it's pointless.  With Damon the entire question and answer vocabulary just revolves around giving up for him.  Last time he gave up cos he didn't want his loved ones to fight for him anymore and get hurt, seems he's doing the same thing now.  Though he's the one behind the killing!  Guess I should day nothing's changed there then.

Anyway little Ms Siren doesn't wear her seatbelt and still insists on getting the last word in and as Bonnie hasn't chosen the clock strikes 3 and they begin the fight, with Stefan trying to stop them. Bonnie slams the breaks and Sybil goes flying through the windscreen!  Pity there wasn't any lasting damage.  As they arrive, they find Stefan's out of action, and Sybil also arrives, knew she'd get a ride so much for Bonnie's walking theory, telling Bonnie to choose again as Damon has his hand in Enzo's chest.  She chooses Enzo as she would and Damon wants to be saved.  Sybil tells Bonnie no one's going to help her so Damon still needs to kill her, going back on her pinky swear to Enzo.  LIke he cared. Only Enzo can stop it by coming over to the dark side and he gives up and switches off his humanity.  Of course Sybil would still want Bonnie dead and Enzo tells her he doesn't care.  Bonnie standing there and not running until she told her to, what's up with that.

Beforehand Stefan had told Alaric (Matt Davis) about their engagement and he says he's fine with it and can give him a deal on two flowergirl dresses.  He gets Georgie (Allison Scagliotti) to carry out more research and she finds that the pitchfork is a pitchfork, which is what I said, last ep and in medieval times, that's the only fork they could use so it didn't have three prongs to it.  As the twins squabble over the fork it falls to the ground and makes a sound, he says it's a tuning fork and obviously would be used on Sybil.  Funny how Alaric knew where to find everyone and as Damon tries to kill Bonnie, he turns up and puts Sybil out of action with the fork.  Not for long though.  As they have her at the Armoury, didn't they even think of how she'll use her 'singing' to control Damon still.  Come on she's a siren, clearly all that myth stuff went out the window here!

Bonnie has words with Stefan about how he was on Damon's side and always will be, well that's apparent, they're brothers and blood is stronger and all that.  Alaric tells Stefan that he can get Damon back again cos he did before and not to give up to him.  Alaric considered Damon a brother, or as close to and again Damon doesn't know what she wants him to do.  So we get her humming and he needs to remove all the attachments to him and this one just happens to be Tyler (Michael Trevino) So that's how they aim to weed out the characters and that's their endings.  Not even Tyler was strong enough and he tells Damon to kill him cos either it'll help him overcome this hold on him, or his face will be the last one he remembers forever when he recalls what he did.  He turns away but her moany humming is too much of an allure and he kills Tyler!  Fans won't be happy.  Well one down and a few others to go.  Stefan didn't even finish writing in Elena's diary.

Caroline knows Stefan took Damon's side but she has to take Bonnie's.  We're not going to get that coming in between them are we.  Especially after they've found each other.  Will they get their happy ending.  Didn't think this was the show it used to be.  The storyline isn't very gripping and I still say this siren nonsense is a little out of place for this show.  

Once again the title can allude to any one of the characters here, either Bonnie, Enzo or Damon.  Or all of them.  Each one of them needs saving in their own way, not just from Sybil, but also in the form of their own personal redemption.  Perhaps one reason why they're taking sides.  They've all been there for one another and saved lives and yet it seems they're going to have a showdown here and it looks very ugly!  Time and again Bonnie has saved Damon even if she doesn't like him, but thought all that changed last season when she was angry at him for leaving her and going to rest for eternity, leaving everyone to fend for themselves.  Seems there's still fallout from all this cos Damon did the same to Stefan, again leaving him and not caring about family.  Little wonder he's so easily manipulated and can just switch off his humanity so easily.  So if he really cared for Elena how come Sybil got to him so easily.  He knew he would see her again and that he would be around for eternity.

Caroline had to take sides cos she's Bonnie's best friend and she can't see her go through all this over and over again.  She's always the one making the sacrifices for her friends, getting hurt and getting nothing in return.  Guess the funny scene was at then end when Sybil now takes Bonnie's place and eats the pancakes.  But that look on Damon's face kinda said 'I know who you really are and I'm bored of it.'  Get outta my head!!  Yeah can't wait for that!