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by LISA GUETZKOW
May-19-2013 - No Comments
How much is a cure worth?
This week's episode finds Jeremy, Matt and April held hostage by Connor Jordan. While Jordan simultaneously seeks to continue his recruitment of Jeremy to the Hunter's life and lure Stefan into easy killing distance to add another section to Jordan's tattoo, Klaus is excavating for the buried sword ...
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The season's third episode kicks off with the fall-out from last week's funeral shooting. Tyler is in the hospital "recuperating," guarded by a deputy. In typical tv-trope fashion the guard is lured away from his post by a noise, leaving Tyler open to an attack by Connor Jordan. The battle is s ...
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Another assembly, another memorial -- must be Mystic Falls. We open with the service for Carol Lockwood, drowned by Klaus before the winter-hiatus. The students gathered in the gym to light candles one by one as Sheriff Forbes gives the eulogy, looking somewhat apprehensive; perhaps because of the b ...
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The opening of "Memorial" offers another recap-style voice over, this time culminating in the fact that Elena is now a vampire. The intro also gives Stefan the chance to declare he will go to any lengths to make sure Elena survives. Now that Elena has completed her transition to vampire, it's tim ...
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This review contains spoilers. Now in its fourth season, "The Vampire Diaries" has demonstrated it has the staying power to remain a cornerstone of CW programming. In deference to potential new viewers, the season premiere kicked off with a character driven montage and voice-over that recappe ...
Read MoreIn a battle between vampires and werewolves, you better choose the right side
This review may contain spoilers. The last time daddy-dearest came to town, his intent was to eradicate all the vampires from Mystic Falls. This time it appears that John (David Anders) is only intent on killing one vampire, Elijah (Daniel Gilles) -- for it is the only way to set Katherine (Nina ...
Read MoreFalling into the abyss of death and despair has never hurt so bad
This article may contain spoilers. Damon (Ian Somerhalder), Damon, what have you done? Fear and loneliness may drive a vampire into the arms of a willing embrace; but anger, frustration and pain only drives a vampire to thirst for blood. Literally. The five stages of grief have nothing on vamp ...
Read MoreThe best laid plans go awry, and half-baked plans go completely to hell
The Gilbert siblings jumped right into the fire with their plans to save everyone they loved. Elena (Nina Dobrev) enlisted Rose (Lauren Cohan) to offer herself up as the sacrifice so that Klaus would spare everyone she loved, and Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) threw himself into Katherine's (Nina Dobrev ...
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In yet another dense and murky episode, there was entirely too much going on to properly focus: there was Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Katherine (Nina Dobrev) making a trip down memory lane in the tomb; Caroline (Candice Accola) confessed her sins to Stefan (Paul Wesley) in order to keep him from crashin ...
Read MoreMystic Falls welcomes a few more new friends, enemies into the fold
This was the episode of Katherine's (Nina Dobrev) curse and Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) gift. Katherine brought the doppelganger curse to Mystic Falls and painted a bright red bulls-eye on Elena (Nina Dobrev), and Damon forsook his own nature to give a gift to Elena. In the aftermath of the take d ...
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