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Friday, October 12, 2012

The Vampire Diaries- Growing Pains

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The dumb debates are taking over our TV, but they couldn't interfere with CW programming. Yay! We missed this show so much and expect a lot from it. It's one of our favorites. But nothing unexpected happened last night. Elena, Damon, Bonnie, Matt, Jeremy, and Stefan's reactions to Elena's transitions went exactly as we though they would. And then we had the council trying to kill vampires. Like we haven't seen that before. Everything was pretty rushed too. Having lots of action doesn't automatically make an episode interesting.

Hopefully this show has something new to do with these characters this season, other than having a formerly human being a vampire. Which, again, is something we've seen before. Bonnie might be able to cure Elena eventually anyway. The stuff with Gran, Bonnie, and the spirits was promising. Let's have angry spirits! Then our gang can team up with Klaus and Rebekah to defeat them.

Anyway, in this episode, Elena remembers everything Damon ever made her forget. But it's all for naught. She's sticking with her decision to pick Stefan for now. So far, the only new villain we have is Pastor Young. The finale scene was good. He's a crazyyy. We're glad Klaus didn't have sex with Caroline when he was in Tyler. He even tried to call that off (for like a second).

Elena's first feeding should have been on a character who mattered. (MATT-ered, if you're going by the books). We miss Elijah. There are few characters with any punch, mystery, or unpredictability anymore, and he's one of them. Klaus is a sappy, Caroline-loving baby. Damon won't be growing anytime soon. We know everything about everyone else.

Vampire Diaries premieres usually knock our socks off. Not this year. The title of this episode might reflect the current state of the show. It's season four. It's time for things to move forward. It seemed like we had watched nearly every scene in this episode before. We didn't cry. We weren't worried. We weren't creeped out. We didn't even think the Stelena stuff at the end was sweet anymore. It's getting cheesy.

Episode grade: C+
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4 comments:

  1. AliOctober 12, 2012 at 10:24 PM

    I too was a bit disappointed in this episode. Nothing really major happened except for the last scene & the issues with bonnie going dark. Kinds hohum. Certainly not season premiere caliber.

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    1. Ern and LeeardOctober 12, 2012 at 11:10 PM

      We just expect so much more from this show. Leeard loved the premiere, but I got to write the review. Muah haha. I'm always harder on everything though.

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  2. AliOctober 14, 2012 at 3:09 PM

    PS - Seeing that pic of Nina Dobrev makes me feel better about myself. I too have those crazy little hairs at the top of my forehead =)

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    1. Ern and LeeardOctober 14, 2012 at 7:38 PM

      Haha, we didn't even notice her little hairs until you pointed them out. People probably don't notice yours either. No one's perfect. Even Nina. It's a shock though, because she's pretty close.

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