The Vampire Diaries
Season 3 episode 11 – “Our Town”
Dear Diary, here lies your Vampire Diaries recap of “Our
Town” an outstanding episode in which our favourite Mystic Falls residents celebrate
life with a funeral and throw a party that ends with an emotional bang. If last
episode had been about holding on, this episode was definitely all about
letting go. Caroline let go of her life as a human, Elena let go of the girl
she was before she started making out with vampires, Bonnie let go of Jeremy,
Stefan let go of his sanity, Tyler tried and failed to let go of Klaus, Klaus
lets go an unexpected amount of charm and the Mayor didn’t really let go of
anything except confirming what we already knew, that she is terrible at her
job, so becoming BFF’s with a mass murderer and his legion is just another day
at the office (The Mystic Falls tourist grab must be “Come to Mystic Falls, there’s
a chance you’ll stay forever”)
Caroline while all gun-ho for Elena’s 18th
Birthday, was not so keen for her own, and it turns out she had a few dozen
good reasons to have been wary. Not only
does Tyler show up outside the school to break up with her (apparently they
hadn’t officially broken up following the Homecoming
dance) but she also became the target of Klaus’s retaliation against Team
Coffins, all while trying to cope with the reality of being stuck at 17
forever. As Caroline puts it, it’s a filler year, it’s the year you spend
planning your 18th birthday. It’s probably one of the reasons that
Edward Cullen was always so cranky (that and the fact that he sparkled.)
It wasn’t all bad though. In between the break-up and the
near death experience, Caroline’s friends throw a funeral for Miss Forbes, as a
way to celebrate her past life as a human but also to let it go, plus there was
magically lit candles, cake and tequila in a tomb. I’m sensing that ‘morbid and
damp’ will be the next big trend sweeping through the birthday party scene.
While they are having a nice, if slightly passive
aggressive time, in which I find myself agreeing with Bonnie (I know!) Caroline
decided to drunk text her ex-boyfriend to come and join the wake. Unbeknownst to
the birthday girl Klaus, while swearing black and blue that Tyler has all the
free will in the world, had actually tricked Tyler into nibbling poor Caroline,
and as we know from the “Damon’s in danger of dying and we’re desperate” subplot
of the season 2 finale, this was not good for Caroline’s health at all.
But just when it looked like all host was lost, a
handsome, English, original vampire swooped in to the rescue. No it wasn’t,
Elijah (I swear those coffins are staying shut just to torment me) but Klaus.
What? I know. After initiating the bite from Tyler, Klaus following the day’s exploits
with Stefan, makes a pit stop on his way home to his villainous construction
site of death, to cure Caroline bit the dust. What followed was a truly marvellous
scene, that shouldn’t have worked, but was so charming and gentle and
well-acted, that you could hear the shippers, writing “Klaus + Caroline 4eva”
on their notebooks already. For Caroline who spent the episode afraid of losing
her human life, was now presented a whole new world outside of Mystic Falls,
something that may not have had happened before she turned. Plus did you see
that bracelet.
Where Klaus is going with this I don’t know, but that’s
probably because I’m easily distracted by shiny things.
In other news, Elena and Damon were both dealing with the
emotional ramifications of their midnight make-out session differently (One of
them was happy, the other one confused, I will give you three guesses which one
was which.) While Damon believes that they are right together, just not right
now, Elena was too busy dealing with Stefan has he fell right off the deep end.
While I understand that Klaus is the bad guy (most of the
time, shiny things remember) Stefan’s crusade against Klaus is becoming unreasonable
to a degree. Stefan claims that Klaus took everything from him, Elena, his
brother, but what we watched during the first half of the season was those two characters
fighting tooth and nail to get Stefan back, even after everything he had done. His vendetta, did not call for the emotional
torture he put Elena through, threatening to turn her on the same bridge her
parents died at. He nearly torn Damon apart last season after he took away
Elena’s choice to become a vampire or not, and here he was doing the exact same
thing, but it an unbelievably horrible way. If he has lost Elena, it’s no
longer anyone’s fault but his own (in related news Paul Wesley knocked it out
of the part, not just this episode, but his entire journey from hero to ripper
this season has been magnificent to watch.)
“Our Town” worked
all the way through, nearly every moment was fantastic. The only thing I think
I could fault would be how anticlimactic Jeremy’s goodbye seemed, but I am
taking that as a sign that Jeremy will be coming back; I think that is the only
way I’m going to make it through.
Last Bites:
- Matt Donovan is perfection.
- I’m intrigued by the direction that they are taking
Meredith Fell. I liked the fact that she was straight up and down to business
not even trying to hide the fact she knows about the Vampires, but there is a
bit of mystery to whether she is evil or not, which would be an interesting
change to the book series (based on Alaric’s interest in her and his track
record with women, she’s most probably evil or she will be turned into a
vampire by the series end)
- Is there any authority group less threatening than the
Founder’s Council, why was anybody concerned that they might do something. What
do they even do at council meeting:
Council member 1: “Only thirty-six dead teenagers this
month”
Council member 2 (a Fell): “That’s eight-four less that
last month”
Council member 3: (most likely also a Fell): “We’re the
best”
Until next episode diary, where I may need to write “he
killed Jenna” on both my hands in case Klaus decides to break out the jewellery
again.
Con amore,
Hanniebee
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