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Wednesday 13 May 2015

The Vampire Diaries 6.16 "The Downward Spiral" Review

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Everyone's on the hunt for Caroline (Candace Accola) and she's off partying with Liam (Marco James) she drinks his blood and bites him cos she loses control and there she was trying to convince everyone that she won't lose control.  Well she did.  Bonnie (Kat Graham) returns to the dorm and Elena (Nina Dobrev) is excited  to see her.  She even brought champagne for when they were going to bring her back.  She's sorry that she was there alone and they were all here living their lives.  Bonnie doesn't want Jeremy to know about her just yet.  Caroline walks in after being on a shopping spree and she's starting over, new sheets, new blowdryer.  See the loss of humanity hasn't thwarted her fashion sense.   Thus throwing a party later on, which Stefan (Paul Wesley) finds out about from Liam.  Caroline tells them that if they leave her alone for a year, she won't kill anyone after telling them that she ate Liam.  Stefan phones Elena and asks her to a rave.

Where he finds Caroline and Stefan tells her he realized they were more than friends but he was afraid to tell her and when he did, she wasn't there.  He sees it in her eyes that he was getting through to her, but Caroline walks off and takes Liam.  She bumps into Enzo (Michael Mularkey) and steals his phone after telling him she wants his help.  He refuses.  Before this Enzo was having tea with Sarah (Tristan Mays) ha, well he was having the tea after she photographed him and told him his vein was "doing funny" things and she caught it on film in the memory card.  Which he uses his vampire speed to take and break.  He tells her she's a vampire and she doesn't react.  Then Caroline crashes the tea party.  He doesn't want Sarah to know what he's doing.

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) wants to know about his mother after digging her up in the crypt and finding it's empty, but Kai (Chris wood) doesn't tell him much.  He wants to apologize to Bonnie first and he knows where to get a 1903 ascendant from.  Damon tries but Bonnie refuses to listen.  Then he takes Kai to the rave but she doesn't want to see his face ever again.

Bonnie demonstrates on Damon as to what it felt like with everything that Kai did to her after he got back.  Yeah Bonnie that's really nice especially after thinking you could ever be his friend.  But hey it wasn't Damon's fault.  Caroline kidnaps Sarah and gets Liam to perform surgery on her just cos Stefan tried to bring her humanity back.  She wants Stefan to switch off his humanity, great now he's got Enzo and Caroline gunning for him.  She tells Elena he can think for himself.  She tells Liam to take out her spleen.  Stefan asks him about that conversation about honesty and he tells them where they are.  She wants him to remove her heart.  SO where was Enzo in all of this?  Stefan attacks and she stakes him, who's been a vampire the longest.

Kai returns and tells Damon that he can't bring their mother back cos the prison she was in in 1903 means she's a Ripper.  Turned in 1858, faked her death and kept moving through Europe, around 3,000 bodies in her wake.  Bonnie calls Jeremy, yet she didn't want him to know just yet, this is her definition of normalcy.  Though he may not like the new Bonnie.  So much for Alaric telling him about her.  Caroline wants Stefan to become a ripper, so was this meant to be a bit of irony, poetic justice or what, just when Damon finds out that their mother was a ripper too.  Is this where he gets it from then, runs in the family?  Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse we've got a vampire Bonnie and Clyde, now that Caroline's made Stefan go bad.  How will Enzo react to her trying to kill Sarah, that was going to be his swan song, kind of and he was going to make Stefan suffer and now he can't do that.  Well she took that from him too!

Lots of secrets in this episode and season.  Damon not telling Stefan about their mother, or that she was alive, even before he found out she was, correction, is a ripper.  Stefan still hiding Sarah from Damon and Enzo didn't tell him either.  Thought he was Damon's friend.  Let's see, are they trying to turn this show into a Supernatural piece, so many secrets between Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) and now Stefan and Damon too.  Through Caroline's selfishness, guess she got the best line where she tells Elena after all this, she still makes what' she's doing about her, when Elena tells her she will feel the pain and she will hate it if she kills anyone.

Seems everyone's split up now and they've all got their own agendas and even if Stefan tells Elena to bring him back, they're all going to have to endure the killing spree first and trail of bodies and will Damon even care this time, or will he try to bring back mommie deadest!  He took a bit of a back seat here since Ian directed this ep, he didn't have much to do.  Didn't Enzo notice his phone was missing. I have to add that Caroline going bad was out of her element and character, so many character dynamics have been changed here and not just Caroline, but Bonnie too.  With all her suffering, understandable, yet she doesn't try to put it behind her.  1994 changed her and has Kai really changed all that much.  He's leader of the Gemini Coven now, but he doesn't seem to be a match for Bonnie's powers.

Lots of selfishness all round in this ep.  Caroline what would mommie dearest think if she knew how far she's fallen and really is this any way to honour her mother's memory, she's made it all about herself now, and dare I say it, that's Elena's territory.  But she couldn't see that.  Is Stefan feigning with the humanity, cos Caroline still didn't tell Elena where Sarah was he couldn't very well ask her if she made it okay, or that Caroline didn't keep her side of the bargain.

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