The
Vampire Diaries
Season 3 episode 21 "Before Sunset"
Dear Diary,
Have you recovered? Are you good?
I'm not, I'm still a mess and the emotional turmoil I experienced throughout this amazing episode probably didn’t help.
I’ll
start by saying Rest
in Peace Alaric. I say that because that thing that was wandering around
the halls of Mystic Falls high, spending way more time in a classroom than any
of his students probably ever have was
not the real Alaric. That was ubervampRic, a monstrous creature who kidnaps
fantastic characters, pins them to desks with pencils and gags them with soggy
vervain soaked rags and for that he must die.
Let's discuss shall we.
Rubbing Salt in the wounds
The day after the decade dance or as I like to call it the day everyone wakes up and says "why do we still have those things?"
Between body swapping hi-jinks, lines of salt, VW bugs, mass casualties, learning the Charleston and finding the time to dye your eyes to match your gown, it's a lot of effort for a dance.
We open the episode with UbervampRic just chilling like a villain waiting for the cleanup crew to arrive. A cleanup crew, which apparently consists of only two people, one that went to the dance and one who didn't, who must have gotten there really early to clean up all that salt (sorry, the whole salt thing bugs me 1) how did no-one notice a crazy lady pouring all that salt around that gym or did she promise everyone who saw enough tequila to match and 2) Why did no one just try sweeping the salt aside? The Winchesters would have done it. I'm just saying.)
Within the few seconds it takes from UbervampRic when appears chasing the two vampires through the halls of Mystic Falls High to snapping Caroline's neck and dragging her back through the damning sun, it is made very clear that the old Alaric is gone. The imagine of the once heroic Alaric dragging the lifeless body of Caroline, fighting the pain while he burns, pulling her back into the darkness, is one of two haunting images that stayed with me for a long time after watching this episode.
I love it when a plan
comes together
UbervampRic’s
mission was simple kill the Mikaelson’s. All of them, Elijah (he better not touch
Elijah) Kol, Rebekah, Klaus and once all the Originals are gone, every
single vampire in the world will follow.
Simple
right?
Nope!
Turns out wiping out an entire race of monsters is not that easy.
While
the Mystic Falls Band of Merry Vampires and Friends (this time including Klaus)
are terrible at successfully pulling off their own plans, they are even better
at screwing up the plans of others.
In
quick succession they manage to rescue Elena and Caroline from vampRic, only for
Klaus to kidnap Elena for his own personal blood drive, before they get her
back again and manage to successfully put down Klaus (the task they have being
trying to pull off since season 2) by using the plan they were going to use to
silence vampRic.
Earlier
in the episode, Bonnie the every friendly, broke out the remembrall and recalled
the vampire dehydrating spell we had learnt about sometime mid-season.
The
gist was that Bonnie would give the vampire rescue heroes some of her blood,
kill a human being and while one of the vampires had a grip on vampRic she would
desiccate the afterlife out of him.
The
tides are soon turned however with the spell used against Klaus (who had
actually spent the first half of the episode on Team Salvatore’s side till he learnt how to kill ubervampRic -Common
goals be damned, he had a hybrid army to build and only so much doppelganger to
do it with.)
For
me, the second most haunting scene this episode for me and the one that
instantly comes to mind when I think about “Before Sunset”, is the look on
Joseph Morgan’s (Klaus) face as the ancient hybrid slowly started to desiccate,
being held down by his former friend and his once sire bound protégée. That expression
of shock, horror, pain, grief, sadness and betrayal that cross the actor’s face
is truly heartbreaking and wonderful. There is no way that Klaus is staying in
that coffin right? Even though his siblings would probably find some
poetic justice in that.
Dude’s dead, let’s
party!
Note
to self: Head trauma, severe blood loss and paint fumes do not mix.
After a very bad day that included: being held
hostage by the parental figure she had just started mourning, threatening to
kill herself in order to destroy that parental figure, nearly being drained dry
to create a hybrid army for the fiend who had killed you, your Aunt and basically
been a thorn in your side since day one and still after all this having to try and make a choice between the two loves currently circling around her, you can’t really
blame Elena for wanted to join in the spontaneous party to celebrate Klaus’s “death.”
After
all, wasn't that what they had been trying to achieve since season 2? Time to
party! The whole kitchen scene with the original Mystic Falls gang toasting to
a Klaus free life was very touching and extremely sweet and totally meant that
something very bad was about to happen very soon.
And
very bad it was. Elena, while trying to paint away the bad memories from Alaric
and Jenna’s old room suddenly collapsed.
I’m no doctor but when your unconscious
and blood starts coming out of your nose that can’t be very good.
I’ll huff and I’ll
puff
Other
stuff that happened this episode:
- The soccer ball siege
of Gilbert Hall may just be one of my favourite things ever done on this show, “Missed
Me!”
- Limiting vampRic’s
time to Elena’s lifespan was very clever and a pretty good way to keep your
show’s lead alive.
- Really, again with
the Jeremy killing, don’t you understand what that does to me?
- Anybody else get Dark
Willow chills when Bonnie was doing that spell or was it just me?
- VampRic ratted out
everyone to the council, uncool man, uncool.
- I liked Tyler this
episode. He was good. I approve.
- Did you really think
that there would be a resolution to the show’s major love triangle in the
second last episode? Clearly you have never watched television before.
Next
time, the season 3 finale! Wahoo. Will Elena be alright? Will she pass away
before even making a choice in the world’s cruelest love triangle twist ever,
leaving thousands of fans heartbroken? Will Bonnie go evil? Where is Elijah? What happened to Jeremy’s dog?!!!
These are things we need to know.
Until
next episode, which just between us girls, I’m kind of excited about.
XOXO,
Hannie bee
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