XO Damon

 The Vampire Diaries 

Season 3, episode 13- “Bringing out the dead”

Dear Diary, in the first two minutes of this episode Klaus and Elijah got into a giant fist fight in the middle of his newly renovated mansion, Caroline and Matt got more screen time, four of the hottest brother’s on television sat down for dinner and mysterious coffins were opened just in time for everyone to get dressed up in time for episode 14. Oh Diary, it’s like the writer’s had been reading, well you.

Yes people of the world or the two people reading this, this was a good episode. Well, I think so, you can disagree. To begin Elijah’s back!! I may have mentioned this last recap, but the point still stands and he got a haircut. What! You may ask. Someone lopped off the awesomeness that was his hair. Don’t panic, it looks great. The hair doesn’t make the man; the man is just attractive no matter what.

I will give you five more minutes to visualize and then we shall begin. Ready.

Family it seems is the watch word this episode, with each of our characters dealing with some family drama or the other.

“Hey Stefan, remember when you killed dad? Might want to dial down the judgement until dessert.”

We caught the original Salvatore in the middle of a squabble this episode. You know, about the usual brotherly stuff:    

“You kissed my ex-girlfriend!”

“You tried to drive her off a bridge!”

“You released an ancient but attractive killing machine that royally screwed us over the last time he was around!”

“Stop rearranging my giant bowl of soaps!”

Stefan, for some reason mad about the release of Elijah (Shut up Stefan, they will hear you and take him away again) and is still all about the downfall of Klaus, reluctantly, as in he really has no other choice in the matter, agrees to dining and dancing at the Original Manor.

Damon, the mastermind of the elder original vampire’s release has organised a sit-down between some of television’s hottest brothers (Not every hot brother on TV was there. The Winchesters weren’t there. The Winchesters would kill them) so that Bonnie and her mum had time to open the Klaus-killing coffin.

Elijah, who had been made aware of his circumstances surrounding his release through a Damon signed love letter that had been left in his coffin and seemed to be all aboard the Hybrid killing train. As you discover though, like everybody else at the dinner party, he was working his own entirely different angle.

The dinner party scenes were awesome. The actors looked like they were having a blast and the characters they are portraying despite the complicated back stories, still move and act like two sets of brothers.  All four very different from each other, but they are not without their similarities.

For one thing as we find out, but kind of suspected, they have all been in love with someone that looked exactly like Nina Dobrev.

It seems that many moons ago, Elijah and Klaus loved Tatia, the original Petrov, an exquisite beauty from there village who already had a son. It seems Klaus and Elijah couldn’t play nice over their shared loved, so like any good mother would do when her kids misbehave, she took their toy away.

Then she used its play in a powerful magic spell to create a brand-new race of monsters.

Mums, they do the wackiness things.  

The story of the thousand year old love triangle, seemed to resonated with Stefan and Damon, but not enough to agree to Klaus’s plan to let Elena live a long and happy life as his own private hybrid   fuel station, if the Salvatore’s leave her alone.

The tag team duo of broodier ad broodier just give up the Gilbert can they even if it means that she is most likely going to end up becoming a vampire or turning up dead. Oh supernatural love triangles and your pesky morality problems.

In a moment set to mess up, yet delight shippers of all ages, Damon and Stefan, who is expressing emotions that we still knew he had in him, acknowledge the fact that they are both in love with the same woman, except neither of them seem to happy about it.

“You are exactly who your mother and I hoped you’d grow up to be.”

Let’s take a moment to remember the life of Bill Forbes. Father, husband, ex-husband, vampire hunter, councilman. You hurt Caroline, we may never forgive you.

I don’t think it is possible to praise the actors on this show enough, but wow they are not too shabby.

Candice Accola knocked it out of the park as the young girl grieving for not only the loss of her father, but also for the fact that he would rather die they become the one thing he hates that she can’t change about herself.

If your heart didn’t break for the Forbes family during this episode I’m sorry but you may just be made of cement. Or compelled, which I’ll accept.

“I refuse to believe that your luck with women is that tragic.”

The death of Bill Forbes brought back a lot of painful memories for Elena in “Bringing out the dead.” Because this show moves so slow but so much still happens, you forget that not too long ago Elena lost her own father as well. In fact, young Miss Gilbert has lost five parental figures in the time it took to even cast Bonnie’s mum. The fact that she is still able to comfort Caroline through her own grief is pretty remarkable and completely justifies why she wants to hang onto the only member of her family she has left under her roof.

The dynamic between Elena and Alaric is really great to watch. She doesn’t look down on his whisky dialling ways and he doesn’t play the “I’m the adult” card. They both care and take care of each other, and that is helping them get through all this madness, which includes Alaric’s increasingly disastrous love life.

There were two surprises in store for the gut-busting Gilberts and swash-buckling Saltzman’s when they awoke that day:

1.    The Sheriff was doing actual police work. I’m pretty sure she was breaking like all the chain of command guidelines for evidence, but still its police work.

2.    The stake used to kill Meredith’s ex-boyfriend wasn’t Buffy’s but was part of the Gilbert’s arsenal complete with Elena’s finger prints.

Why everyone’s minds went straight to Meredith and not Katherine, who does share many of the same traits that Elena does.

After a long night of sadness at the Forbes house, Elena accompanied by Matt (who is perfection, you know, I know, more and more people should know it) arrives home to find that Alaric has been redecorating the Gilbert house with his own death scene (why he went upstairs after being stabbed, I think is going to haunt me forever.)

Elena, a magical creature in her own right, has to now stab her friend and the closest thing to a father-figure she has left.

I’m glad Matt hugged. If there is anyone who constantly needs a reassuring hug it is Elena.

“We’ve been at this for over an hour!”

 

So Bonnie’s mum is back in Mystic Falls and despite constant reminders that she no longer has any magical powers having been expelled from Hogwarts, they still put her in the vampire-proof tomb to get her to figure out in one afternoon what they have been trying to do since Homecoming. Solid Planning.

I like how sassy it’s made Bonnie though. More of that please.

Those who have read my other Vampire Diaries recaps, firstly THANK YOU! And secondly you probably are aware of my feelings regarding the use of magic as a cure for all.

We need to kill Klaus, MAGIC. We need to stop Elena from turning into a vampire when she dies, MAGIC. We need to do other stuff this season, MAGIC.

Suddenly after just over 60 minutes of trying, Bonnie and Abby find a symbol in the margins of a book and know exactly how to open the magically sealed, shovel-proof coffin.

It works. Yay for progress!

“You’re free to go. This is family business.”

Someone who is not happy about the progress, Klaus.

 If you guessed that the Original Mama was inside the coffin or just saw Alice Evans in the credits at the beginning and figured out what was up, you are correct.

Elijah who has been playing the dutiful brother all night as Klaus threatens to barbeque Stefan reveals his master plan. The eldest Original has un-daggered the rest of his ancient siblings just in time for the mother of all mother issues walks through the door to wreck havoc on poor, poor Klaus’s afterlife.

He just wants to form an army and kill his enemies in peace and people just keep coming in and ruining it. As well as everyone did this episode, Joseph Morgan gets to take all the prizes. When his siblings started emerging from their forced slumber not very happy with him, the looks from horror to sadness to regret to  anger to just being a lost little boy whose brothers and sisters don’t love him anymore and whose afraid that his mum is there to punish him was fantastic.   

I do have to say I am a bit disappointed about the coffin reveal. I was pulling for Dracula or Count von Count from Sesame Street to emerge and take on Mystic Falls.

“I count three, three love triangles AH AH AH AH AH AH.”

So that is where we leave our vampiric, witchy, hybrid and human friends. The Original Witch is back offering smiles and happiness which I’m sure is not at all a front for some other master plan we have yet to discover yet and Meredith apparently has an alibi for “murdering” Alaric. Yay progress!

Until next time when people will be wearing tuxedos and I will try very hard to pay attention to the story line.

Try not to fall in love with any doppelgangers while I’m gone,

Hanniebee.