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Wednesday 3 April 2013

The Vampire Diaries 4.16 "Bring It On" Review

To control Elena (Nina Dobrev) or in an attempt to stop her losing the plot, Damon (Ian Somerhalder)  and Stefan (Paul Wesley) think it's better she return to school.  Elena comes out of the shower and is naked cos it's not like anything thy haven't seen before, even Caroline (Candace Accola) is shocked, cos she hasn't.  Before that she lies down in the middle of the road in the night and waits for a car, where she attacks the woman driver cos she's the only one who isn't full of vervain.  Damon stops her but she wants to feed and kill her.  Before leaving for school he compels her to behave and not feed on anyone.

At school she wants to become a cheerleader again cos she really loved it the first time round.  She attacks one of the rival leaders and steals her ribbon and then deliberately lets Caroline fall when she fails to catch her.  Elena was whiny before and now she's annoying and obnoxious with her still selfish attitude.  So much for turning off her humanity so she doesn't care, she just doesn't care and thinks this gives her a right to behave how she wants.  So the Elena rulebook has gone straight out the window!  She's not the first person/vampire to lose loved ones but she behaves like a spoilt brat.

Klaus (Joseph Morgan) saves Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) from being attacked by one of Katherine's vampires and then takes her home to wine and dine her in order to find Katherine's whereabouts and info on her.  She met her in New Orleans but she doesn't know where she is.  Katherine offered to help her find out about Hayley's parents.  Hayley looks through Klaus's paintings and finds one where he's standing facing the sunset which she likes.  He tells her it's cos it shows his passion.  Hayley also wants him to not kill Tyler so that she can have him.  Anything he does will make Caroline hate him more.  Klaus only wants to torment Tyler and make him paranoid over the centuries that's his revenge.

Sheriff (Marguerite MacIntyre) tells Stefan someone is stealing blood supplies from the hospital but it's not them, thus endangering Caroline and the others.  Damon looks for the vampire that attacked Hayley cos Klaus sets him on that lead and bumps into Rebekah (Claire Holt) looking for Katherine.  They find no leads at the hospital so Damon bites a nurse to lure the vampire out and finds it's Will (Aaron Jay Rome) someone he knew but he can't help re his wolf bite.  SO he kills him thus ensuring Rebekah can't get her hands on him and get info about the cure.  Damon doesn't want her to have it and tells her as much, she doesn't want to be ordinary.

Elena is bought back home by Stefan and she throws a party, again stripping in front of him.  She recalls their sex together but she doesn't feel that way.  She attacks Caroline's mother and then runs off.  Stefan and Caroline see her dance and that she's having fun.  Caroline thinks Stefan should do the same cos he spent a lifetime and more trying to keep his humanity.  He understands how Elena feels cos he didn't start ripping heads off until 1912, but he's been where Elena will end up and she won't find it easy to get back up.  Elena was there for him when he had his feelings turned off so he wants to help her now.  It's his fault Elena is like this and she won't be able to live with herself after killing people.

Damon's sire bond hasn't worked on Elena and Rebekah tells him if he uses the cure for her, she'll go back to loving Damon.  Elena tells Damon he loved her for so long and now he has her, she can't go back to being that scared little girl anymore.  SO he takes her to New York "the city that never sleeps" cos we'll get some lowdown on him during the 1970's with his friend he'd just killed.

Klaus and Hayley together was erm, awkward, especially when they each harbour feelings for others.  Elena has turned off her feelings for Damon so the sire bond doesn't work on her.  Caroline pining for Tyler and leaving in message results in Matt (Zach Roerig) being sent a package and Caroline finding she can't get into the Lockwood house.  Matt has to invite her in as he is given the deed by Tyler and he has a letter for Caroline saying how he can't return since Klaus will kill him and so it's goodbye really.  Caroline and Elena didn't have much of a fight in the woods, it was kind of wimpy for vampires and then having to be saved by
Stefan and Damon.  Caroline is angry cos she attacked her mother and Elena says she just has dirty thoughts about Klaus.  Yeah Elena like you being stuck between Damon and Stefan for so long but that was fine.

Klaus notices the birthmark on Hayley's back and knows it's from a werewolf clan in Louisiana so he may know something about her family.  Stefan thinks Silas followed them back from the island which Damon so quaintly referred to as "numskull island" and that he needs the blood to feed.  Damon's not interested though, he's more into running off with Elena.  Oh boring!  This ep was just leading us merrily along in the hopes of finding Katherine and the cure and prolonging the agony.  Elena taking down the photo with Jeremy's memorial from the board cos she just doesn't care.

Double meaning to the title re the cheerleading film, Bring It On and  bringing on the trouble with Elena, she wants to stop being that little girl, but really she's still acting like one.  Pulling stunts like lying in the middle of the road and waiting for Vics to drive by, then just walking around naked and letting her best friend fall.  It's not adult behaviour, even for a vampire.

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