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Saturday 3 May 2014

The Vampire Diaries 5.17 "Rescue Me" Review

                                                  
Caroline (Candace Accola) befriends Stefan's (Paul Wesley) doppelganger, Tom, but only after she's led to him by a witch and Enzo (Michael Malarkey) being there didn't help.  Especially that talk in the hospital whilst waiting for Tom to arrive, Caroline finds out how much of a good guy Tom really is especially when he's thanked for saving lives.  Well being Stefan's doppelganger, it was inevitable at least one of them must be good.  It's apparent Caroline wouldn't and couldn't go through with his cold blooded murder.  They find him hooked up in the basement and then she rescues him by breaking Enzo's neck, as if that would stop him. Then she takes him for a feed and imagines him chocking on his food and not helping him.  So all's fine until she takes him to the car park, did she honestly think he wouldn't be killed by Enzo.  He's got his own agenda and wants to find hi own love Maggie who saved him.  The Travellers are keeping this from him until he lives up to his part of the bargain, which he does.  Saying of course Caroline wouldn't go through with it.

Not much happening with Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Damon (Iam Somerhalder) in the plot, in terms of anything new except for their constant pining over each other, said goodbye, now let it go.  We find out Liv (Penelope Mitchell) wants to kill Elena and eliminate one of the doppelgangers but that doesn't go as planned, as nothing ever does in this show,a s we've seen over the years.  It's parent/teacher night at school and Damon arrives as Jeremy's (Steven R McQueen) guardian, since Elena is no longer registered as such. Apparently Jeremy's counsellor says that Jeremy's suffering cos of the tension at home between the two and they promise to put things right.  But how can they do that when Damon tells Elena all he wants to do is to rip her clothes off at school then and there.  Oh Damon for someone who didn't really go school and was big on education, it appears he was acting like the hormonal school kid that night.  Ha.

Cue Elena with her own dreams as she tries to rip his clothes off in the classroom, but she only imagines it. Then she needs to be saved from Liv as she tries to kill Elena by Jeremy.  Liv did try to protect Elena but it's too dangerous for her to stay alive.  As if he won't have his hands full when moving in with Matt (Zach Roerig) and Tyler (Michael Trevino). Three Stooges as Damon called them (oops next ep) or Three Msytic-eers?  Ha.  Jeremy has taken on the mantle of protecting Elena.  Seems strange each one of the characters has their own love problems.  Bonnie (Kat Graham) more interested not in hearing about Elena and Damon's sex romp but wondering where Jeremy spent the night and more importantly if it was with Liv.  Got hold of the wrong end of the stick there big time has Bonnie.  Never mind, gave her time to figure out that Luke (Chris Brochu) is Liv's  brother and Hazel shows up to pass though Bonnie and she tells Luke about this. Their plan bites the dust.

Stefan of course would tell Caroline not to kill Tom, but somehow wonder if that came a bit too late, since he shouldn't have gone along with the Traveller's and Sloan's (Caitlin McHugh) plans if that was to be the desired outcome, he could have just fallen on his sword or rather his bucket, somewhere that makes sense! Ha. But other fun moments was being told Jeremy had only missed 11 days of school, what in all this time, that's it.  As well as the part where Caroline and Enzo couldn't enter Hazel's place and so he just threw the doorknob at her head and killed her!  Dangerous things doorknobs! Enzo is really fast becoming the Spike from Buffy of this show, accent 'n'all.  No conscience, he just wants to do whatever it takes, no regrets.

Caroline tells Stefan about Tom and that she should have realized he was flirting with her cos she's done that enough times.  Stefan tells her the Travellers won't let him go and that he knew Caroline couldn't kill him. They rest their heads on each other and get some shut eye.  But are woken to the Traveller's chanting and in time to see them go up in flames.  The Travellers drank Stefan and Elena's blood and were set alight by Sloan.  So their blood was enough to bring back Markos.

Elena heads back to Whitmore (how much studying will she get done, ha?) cos she and Damon are not only bad for each other but do bad things for one another. (Yawn).  If he gets closer to her, then she'll kiss him and won't leave.  He kisses her forehead in the ultimate romantic gesture and tells her to "travel safely." Perhaps the wrong use of 'travel' there, ha.

Then we have our suspicions confirmed, that the Travellers are on the move to Mystic Falls cos the world and entire universe revolves around Elena.  Newsflash we knew that since the outset.  Not surprising really when even Liv asked Damon to kill her when he and Elena were fighting over their non existent relationship.  So Jeremy can't be controlled by the Travellers since he's a hunter but hasn't really used his abilities much of late.  Except for picking three fights at school.

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