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Tuesday 18 November 2014

The Vampire Diaries 6.3 "Welcome to Paradise" Review

                                               
This ep once again is about recriminations, past events and yet again Elena (Nina Dobrev) moving on from Damon (Ian Sommerhalder) and trying to get on with her life, operative word being: her life and failing miserably yet again, (I'm going to be guilty of using the word 'again' too many times, ha.)   This time round it's her turn to play Caroline (Candace Accola) as she plans a party for the old gang and invites everyone.  Even Stefan (Paul Wesley) turns up but it's not for the party, or even Caroline, just to get his revenge on Enzo (Michael Mularkey).  Not just for telling him he'll inflict a lifetime of misery on him for Damon, but for killing Ivy.  Which Caroline didn't know about.  Though he's right in that Enzo needs to be curbed from the killing, he appears to go about it the wrong way.  However Enzo really doesn't have a clue if he thinks that saving Stefan from the vampire hunter, Jay (Matthew Barnes) will actually call him even in Stefan's books.  Far from it.  Though Enzo's line was funny, "I just thwarted a vampire hunter and Stefan turned into one," or along those lines!  It's not just Damon who gets the rib cracking one liners!

Then there's Matt (Zach Roerig) realizing he knew Jay since he was ten and he had no idea that he was a vampire hunter and he was training him to kill.  This party really was just another chance for Elena to get a new love interest, I mean how many does she want, or need.  Right about now she's meant to be there for her friends, getting over Bonnie (Kat Graham) which she tells Caroline she hasn't done, as she's still got her clothes, but she's more interested in jello shots like the good old days.  With everyone tip toeing around not mentioning Damon and how madly she loved him.  Poor Damon not knowing she's forgotten him, it's for the best me boy, it really is.

Jeremy (Steven r McQueen) discovering that the compelling only works to a certain extent outside of the border since the girl being compelled by Caroline no longer got the ice she demanded when she got to Mystic Falls, she overcame it.  So he was paying attention to something besides 'dog bite' girl, Sarah (Gabrielle Walsh) and just what is she up to, cos she knows Elena attacked her now. Tyler (Michael Trevino) being left to deal with the kegs and with Liv (Penelope Mitchell) as she fights her attraction to him.  Well that's just it, everyone in this show needs some romantic connection otherwise, they just can't breathe! ha.

Elsewhere Bonnie insists that there's someone else with them, since the pork rinds in the market have disappeared.  So there's a third person around.  Damon just bickering with her and still thinking this is his hell, as Bonnie tells him to give her his ring and end it all.  Even if he did leave his car here, but how could he have, when he was driving it and rammed it into the diner last season.  Bonnie saying Grams must've sent her here for a reason.  So Bonnie's point being proven as Damon finds said third annoying person, Kai (Chris Wood) at the market eating pork rinds.  He's been watching them for four months and knows all about them and how bourbon makes Damon calm, then angry, then calm again.  But he said the same thing I did about the bottles, if one has vervain, they'll all have vervain cos he couldn't be sure which one he'd take.  Bonnie comes to save him from the patio furniture stake and uses magic to set fire around him.

He tells them he planned it all cos he knew Bonnie would save Damon and she's their ticket out of here.  But I would have liked to have seen Damon inflict torture onto him with the poker!  Damon and pork rinds, yeah, since when?  Ha.

Enzo turns up at the diner and Tripp (Colin Ferguson) is waiting for him, though vervain doesn't work on him immediately, Stefan stakes him ensuring he'll finish the job and kill him off as he's introduced as another member of the founding families.  Can't tell if Stefan actually wants Enzo dead (okay he does, but I thought he was using him) or if he's just getting on his good side to see what he's up to.  I mean I'm sure Tripp knows the Salvatore's are vampires.  How could he not?

Caroline getting peeved at Stefan cos he doesn't care about anyone and not even her, and just wants to do his own thing as usual, so selfish of him, but that's juts like Elena, so that's why they were meant to be together, though she won't admit she has feelings for him.  Now who didn't predict that ages ago!

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