Yes, a lot happened on “We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes.” Elena killed Jeremy. Oops. She saw Connor about 30 times (which is why she killed Jeremy). The Brothers Salvatore went to Bonnie to ask for her useless witchy woman help. A bunch of Klaus sire pack stuff went down and Phoebe Tonkin continued to be greatly underused. When it all came down to it, none of that mattered. Let’s talk about why.

Something has  happened to Damon since Elena became a vampire. He realized that on equal footing, he didn’t want to fight with his brother for the love of the same woman. He was willing to accept that Stefan loved Elena, wanted what was best for her and even started telling Elena the truth about Stefan. In the past, when given the opportunity, Damon might have stretched truth, misguided Elena around the truth or even downright lied to keep her from knowing that Stefan was doing things in her best interest. Not any more.

Damon loves Elena enough to allow her and Stefan to be in love. Unencumbered with his interference. I don’t know if it’s because there is an eternity ahead and things could change at any moment, or if he’s really learned something, but it’s very attractive to behold. This Delena fan was more impressed with the possibilities of them as a couple than ever.

To top it off, Elena doesn’t trust Stefan right now. I knew last week that would come back to bite him in the ass. She’s been lied to so many times, the truth is what she craves. That the one person giving it to her is the one from whom she least expects it, at the time when her senses are most heightened? Earth to Stefan! You’re not thinking like a centuries old vampire, my friend. I loved the conversation Damon had with Elena, saying he was going to regret telling her the truth and Stefan would be pissed, but he had to let her know everything Stefan has done lately has been for her. There is a cure.

None of it stopped Elena from being driven by her hallucinations to the river, visiting with her dead mother and attempting to kill herself. Damon knew her well enough to find her (third time’s a charm!), even if it was Stefan who sent him knowing Elena no longer trusts him, and Damon saved her life. It wouldn’t be The Vampire Diaries if Stefan and Damon weren’t conflicted and loving and hating each other at the same time.

Nothing prepared me for Elena telling Stefan what she was feeling for Damon and breaking things off with him. The kicker is I don’t think Damon is going to be able to just pick up and start things with Elena. His conscience has taken hold of him. I imagine him questioning whether Elena knows what she feels, whether he will end up hurt, what it will do to Stefan.  A whole host of things the Damon we knew two years ago would have never done. Of course, I could be completely wrong.

If ever there was a time when Damon could use his best friend Alaric, it’s now. I have a feeling that need is only going to intensify as he realizes what Elena feels for him and how difficult it would be to push it aside. What do you think? Will he grab at the opportunity or try to do the right thing and give her time to understand what she’s really feeling?

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Apparently killing a Hunter has its consequences, which include little things like hallucinations. Elena’s are pretty awful. We saw the beginning of them last week when she stumbled into the bathroom and it was covered in blood. That would be bad enough, but coming face to face with the doppelganger who has given you nothing but heartache in the past, and who you now have essentially become must be frightening!

I love the dynamic we’re seeing with Damon and Stefan in the second clip. They aren’t letting the fiasco of the killing get between their normal brotherly love. Damon always knows the right thing to say to make Stefan feel calmer in the face of adversity, “It’s time to face the music, and the piper, and dance with the devil.”

Klaus has no idea that Jeremy is the next Hunter, yet. How long until he figures that out and what will it mean to Jeremy’s future? We know he’ll be safe from death, but not from harm. I could easily see Klaus wanting to cage him up, but he’ll still need to feed him vampires to kill if he wants that tattoo to grow to lead to the cure. So much to ponder. Check out the clips and be back here Thursday for all the latest on “We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes.”

Clip #1 – Elena’s having visions of ….. Katherine! It’s like looking in a mirror.

Clip #2 – Klaus makes a house call.

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I’m disappointed that after everything Caroline has been through with Tyler she still thinks the worst of him when it comes to Haley. Tsk tsk tsk. I hope Phoebe Tonkin has more to do with breaking the sire bond now that she’s in town, because just standing around isn’t doing her acting skills justice. She needs to find someone to pair up with. My gut says Damon, because they would be so smoking hot, but Damon will remain in love with Elena for quite some time to come. I don’t want Haley used as a plaything.

April, on the other hand, looks adorable with Matt. They are the last two humans left in Mystic Falls. Could there be hope for them? I don’t know what Jeremy put on her wrist, but I’m guessing it’s some sort of protection bracelet. I’m enjoying Grace Phipps and April.

Before we jump into the good stuff, let’s touch briefly on Bonnie. Sorry folks, She’s still a pointless character. She hasn’t had a good story for years and this Professor Shane stuff is just crap. She’s only summoned when needed for a spell. Can’t someone else learn spells? She’s not Elena’s friend. She’s not Jeremy’s lover. What purpose does she serve? If you can tell me otherwise, I’ll go with it.

Onto the good stuff.

Stefan and Damon fighting had such potential, but Stefan killed that by riddling Damon with Vervain. Stefan thinks he’s protecting Elena by saving Connor for a cure, but he was so wrong to think that Damon wouldn’t want to save her I wanted him dead. Not Stefan, Connor. How could Stefan really be so blind not to have figured out by now that everything Damon does for Elena he does for the best of her? He wasn’t teaching her to feed so that she would lose herself and become a bloodthirsty beast, but because he knew she couldn’t survive without human blood. What was her choice? She could run around starving, refusing to eat because of how it made her feel to feed on humans, or Damon could try to make her see some of the fun in being a vampire, even if every ounce of his being wanted her to life to go differently.

Stefan’s lack of judgement in that area worries me. He’s so wrapped up in his own ideas of how to serve and protect Elena that he thinks anyone else who dares must be doing it for impure reasons. That’s why I can’t support their relationship. He thinks he’s putting her first, but it’s what he thinks of her that he considers before he worries about the girl, the woman, Elena. How brilliant was it that Damon told Stefan he loves Elena whether human or vampire and questioned Stefan’s own intentions? It still surprises me how many people ship Stelena. The only thing they seem to have in common at the moment are their Vampire Diaries.

Elena surprised them both by ending Connor’s life herself, didn’t she? By keeping his stupid secrets, Stefan did everything wrong again. He’s his own worst enemy. Even Damon standing up for his brother didn’t make up for the fact that it was Stefan’s inability to be truthful with the woman he loved that caused her to do the one thing he was trying so woefully to stop. In her first killing being Connor, Elena unwittingly made Jeremy the next full time Five member. Now he has to kill vampires, and a lot of them, for the tattoo to take over his body. Who’s going to create them for him to kill? Somebody has to do it, especially if that’s the only way to find a cure. Wait – does a cure even work if you’ve already killed? Or was Stefan just trying to stop Elena from losing her humanity from killing prior to receiving the cure?

Thank you last 15 minutes, for making up for the first 45 uneventful ones that I had to rewatch several times. I daresay it was worth the effort. Next week is going to kick ass. We will have not one, but to vamps to enjoy. Elena and Katherine! Mark your calendars and I’ll see you then!

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I must be one of the few who couldn’t give two flying leaps about historical flashbacks anymore. When they were all about Damon, Katherine and Stefan, I found them fascinating, but when they dropped the entire family of originals on us in one fail swoop, I quickly lost interest. There was so much story left to be told about characters we knew so little about that I felt a bit ripped off. Don’t get me wrong, Elijah was immediately fascinating. Klaus and even Rebekah have added to the story. The complete focus on their family? Not so much.

Enter Season Four and insipid Elena turned conflicted blood sucker. I don’t even care that she chose Stefan over Damon. Her moments of humanity are slipping away. It’s been made all the easier by her inability to drink anything but fresh from the human body blood. She can’t survive on rabbits and blood bags. When she sinks her teeth into a neck, even someone she cares for deeply, she comes perilously close to draining them in delirious pleasure.

It was brilliant timing to learn Jeremy was a chosen vampire hunter just as his last blood relative became his prey. If Connor is one of the mythical Five chosen hunters, and only other hunters can see them, I suppose that means there are only three more to be discovered.  It seems the honor (curse?) is passed on when a hunter dies. Honestly, I don’t really care. Even if the mysterious growing tattoo leads to a cure, would they ever use it? Klaus wants to cure Elena to grow more hybrids. Good luck keeping the cure hidden from there. Was I the only one who was absolutely certain Klaus was going to throw his minion into the room with Connor to be killed so the tattoo would grow? If killing vamps grows the tattoo, make more vamps and kill them until you have the entire tattoo at your disposal. That would take about a day, right?

Rebekah poured her heart out to Stefan, the supposed good brother. He used her to the extent that Klaus killed her AGAIN. How many times is she going to let him kill her? That she lets him do it to her again, and again, and again is the thing that keeps her from being a favored bad girl. How bad can you be when you constantly let your defenses down with the same person? It’s borderline embarrassing.

Which brings us back to Elena. She ended up face to face with Stefan, telling him she feels like she’s losing herself. Truth is, I don’t think she cares. She comes alive when she’s vamping it up more than she ever does when she’s trying to be a normal girl. Whether that’s Nina Dobrev’s enjoyment in playing the part with wild abandon more than the sniveling, put upon lovesick high school girl remains to be seen. I’m hoping for the former.

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