The Vampire Diaries: Stakes Through the Heart, and Who's to Blame?
We think that this show gets better every week, though to be fair, the Halloween episode of a vampire show should should be pretty awesome. This one was. Whoever's writing Damon's dialog gets an A+, and can we please say that Ian Somerhalder's comic timing is fantastic? It is hard to chose the best Damon moment of this episode, but the show started off around the 5 min mark with a bit that had us choking on our frosty beverage. Damon, Stefan, and Vicki are hanging out and looking mightily bored in the dusty library/office/room of indeterminate nature. Stefan offers Vicki a cup of mystery substance in a heavy pottery cup that looks like it would have been a hot collectible on eBay 10 years ago.
Vicki: What is it?
Stefan: It's what you're craving.
Damon: Don't lie to the girl. It's so NOT what you're craving, but it'll do in a pinch.
Vicki: What is it?
Damon: Yeah, what is it? Is it skunk? St. Bernard? [stage whisper] Bambi?
Stefan: Go on, give it a try.
Damon: She's new. She needs people blood. She can't sustain on that stuff.
Vicki: Yeah, why can't I have people blood?
Damon: Yeah?
Stefan: Because it's wrong to prey on innocent people, Vicki!
Damon: You don't have to kill the feeds, just find somebody tasty and then erase their memory afterwards. It's so easy.
Stefan: (more protestations, etc.)
Damon: Don't listen to him, he walks on a moral plane way out of our eyeline. I say, snatch, eat, erase.
In moments like these, it's hard to argue that nice guys don't finish last. Particularly if the girl in question is a newly turned vampire/former junkie. Who really thinks that Vicki's gonna go for Stefan's humanitarian approach to the afterlife when Damon is so much more fun and people blood is apparently so much more tasty?
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We have to give Damon some credit for trying not to be too bored with his newly made vamp Vicki. He did manage to set her loose and out of Stefan's control, knowing full well that new vamp shenanigans were sure to ensue. We particularly appreciated Damon's clever use of Holocaust imagery to get his way. Everyone knows you can't win if your opponent references that range of tragedies. The line that made Stefan be quiet? Damon: "She's been cooped up in your room all day...She's not Anne Frank!" That was a low blow, and the sort against which our conscience-ridden kind Stefan is powerless.
Ah, a fantastic high school Halloween party where everyone's sporting a really well made and well thought out costume. Jeremy's eager to meet up with his beloved Vicki, Matt's eager not to lose Vicki in the crowd, Elena's eager to keep Jeremy away from Vicki, and Stefan's eager to keep an eye on Vicki and her fangs out of anyone. All amid the darkly lit maze of the confusing high school geography among well costumed and presumably inebriated high school students. On whether or not she wants an Adult Beverage, Caroline's response is, "I'm going to drink until someone is hot enough to make out with." Maybe in Mystic Falls, high school goes past age 21?
Of course this fête isn't chaperoned by any of the town's anti-vampire council! They're too busy...doing....well, something anti-vampire. Happily, one of the council members gets tricked into flirting with Damon! Ohhh, he's crafty, that one. And she's a widge naïve for someone hot on the "stake-the-vamp-in-town" bandwagon. Oh, she's wearing vervain! And now she's spilled all the council secrets to Damon. Council: 0, Vamps: 5.
Don't you just hate it when you're making out with someone and then they draw blood with their new fangs? Jeremy sure does. If only he could have kept himself from bleeding when she nipped his lip, those kids could have had a happy future together. As it is, with the bloodlust upon her, our poor neophyte vamp Vicki turns on Elena, forcing Stefan to stake her. Which he didn't really want to do, honest! Sigh. And we were just getting used to her.
Ohhh, you don't think that Damon will provide the council with Vicki's staked body as evidence that there's nothing to worry about anymore, do you?
We quite like the conscience-less Damon. He's fun! He's feisty! He's everything our parents warned us about! So we have mixed feelings about his volunteering to help Elena by altering Jeremy's memory. Ohhh, don't lead us to believe that the bad vamp has a heart of gold underneath all that tarnish. That's just too difficult to resist.
Comments
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Posted by: charlie rodriguez | December 22, 2009 3:15 PM
Why do these posts always have some sort of sarcastic comment about the kids acting too old on this show?Hello.Gossip girl.90210.Oth.They were all in high school.They had parties, with drugs, and alcohol, and way more messed up parents.It's the same here.So its just confusing,and annoying, when the show's insulted because there isn't enough parental supervision or "high school accepts students past 21"
Posted by: rabonbon | November 9, 2009 12:31 AM
I really like this show, and I didn't think I would.
This episode was awesome, the best out of them all so far. It kinda sucks that Vicki is dead.. I actually really liked her! I thought at the end that Elena was talking to Stefan about erasing Jeremys memory?? And I don't understand why she would want him to think Vicki left town or whatever.. I mean, everyone is going to know she is dead.. including her brother. I get that she doesn't want him to remember seeing it.. but you can't just be like 'OH SHE LEFT TOWN!' because she's freakin dead.
Anyway. maybe I missed the part where Elena was talking to Damon about altering Jeremys memory. I'll have to watch again!
Posted by: Natalie | November 1, 2009 1:25 AM