The Vampire
Diaries
Season 4 episode
11 – “Catch me if you can”
Dear Diary,
A vampire, a
hunter and a Quarterback walk into a bar. They are greeted by a hybrid who has
just killed every single person in the bar and is waiting for them to transition.
The Hunter is shocked and appalled, as is his friend the quarterback. The
vampire however is very non-plus about the whole thing he’s all “rah rah it’s
the only way rah rah I want to sleep with your sister again rah”
The hybrid tells
them that the hunter is to kill all the new vampires to complete the magic
marker etching on his arm.
The hunter goes
“this is a cure must be a really big deal for you?”
The hybrid rallies
back “Not really, you should see me when something important is at stake!”
Hello, hello is
this thing on. Ok, I might just compel you to forget that. You’re on vervain. I
thought everyone had run out...........
WELCOME to season 4 episodes 11 of The Vampire Diaries,
entitled “Catch me if you can.”
The Original Status: Was a movie, than a musical now it’s the
name of this episode.
We open in the same situation we were in last week, like if there
was a seven day break in between but nobody moved. Mystic Falls time, am I
right?
What follows is a completely and fully compelling hour of
television that leaves you wishing you had a Tardis on hand to whisk you onto
the next instalment to find out what happens next (I lost my Tardis somewhere
around the Triassic period, don’t tell my mother she doesn’t know I prefer it
stay that way.)
It’s a race!
Competition can
be a good thing. It makes you work faster, push harder but it can also be
dangerous. The movie Rat Race (from which this recap gets its name I thank you)
while being very, very funny also highlights what people are willing to do when
an unknown power offers them something they really, really, really want, while
never questioning why they were given the opportunity in the first place. In
the movie’s case it was John Cleese and a million dollars, in the case of the
Vampire Diaries, it’s a crazy vampire-hating brotherhood and the possibility of
a cure for what ails some of them.
There are three
four teams currently in the race for the cure- Team “we are doing this for
Elena,” Team “we hate our brothers,” Team “the boss is crazy, but he has his
reasons,” and the newest runner Team “we make our minions bite out their own
tongues than die.”
Every single one
of them has their reasons and they are willing to do anything to get it.
The idea of the
cure for vampirism has been dominating the lives of our Scrappy Gang since the
season premiere (Bonnie went to the spirit world remember) and has reached such
a fever pitch that nothing else matters to each group except getting it before
someone else, so they can control its use. Even the moral compass of the show is
willing to go to the extremes to get the magic spell (or drink or lotion- what
is the cure even, can they share it, do they get a choice once it’s out in the
open, why should they trust a the cure devised by a bunch of people designed to
wipe out vampires? no-one asks these questions.)
A terrible, very not good, but it might work
idea
A season back
there was the question thrown around would, destroying an original vampire be
worth killing the thousands of potentially innocent vampires like Caroline or “Stefan.”
Was taking out the many worth it to save the lives of the few vampires they
knew. At the time the answer was no (many because they didn’t know who belonged
to what bloodline but still) this just a hop, skip and a car crash and sire
bond later and suddenly the 1/5 of the world’s vampire population’s got to go.
This is a really
fascinating and dark turn for Elena, that I love and I hope they address. Elena
who has received a lot of (and often well-deserved) flack for her decisions and
choices throughout the series run but in one pronouncement our lady of compassion
has just decided to take out an entire line of vampires to save a few people,
get a cure that she never really stated out right that she actually wanted and
get her boyfriend back.
This show!
We’re the Mystic Falls police force. We don’t
need jurisdiction.
Across town this
episode in the land of equal poor decision making, Bonnie, who we learnt was
very much under the thrall of Professor Shane, was also making a turn towards
the dark side.
We know Shane is
crazy, April and Rebekah know Shane is crazy and now the Mystic Falls high
council know he’s crazy and they are not too happy about it. Does he know how
long it took them to put their secret vampire-covering up club together, a
really long time.
Bonnie, who put
a lot of trust into a guy who drugs her with magic tea and gives her human bone
as a present is unhappy to learn that he has not been giving her the full 411
on how dangerous her magic can be and is even more upset to learn that he
killed a whole bunch of people.
This is when “Dark-Willow”
Bonnie kicks in and it is scary and awesome.
What Stefan looks like when he doesn’t look
like usually looks like to us
Other stuff that
happened:
- “You don’t know what I look like when I’m not in love with you” may be the single greatest line ever. Sassy un-ripper Stefan was a delight to behold over the hour. He was snarky, he was sexy, he was angry, he was hurt, he was sexy.
-Stefakeh, Rebfan, Stebekah. Any other suggestions?
-All my nightmares start with Matt running through the woods and nearly being killed by a vampire so the first few seconds of this episode were not a good time for me.
-I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY don’t want them to kill Kol. He is just doesn’t want a monstrous man-witch unleashed on earth is that so wrong. As I stated before everyone is so wrapped up in finding the cure that they haven’t every thought of checking whether Kol is right about the danger of Silas. Dark, evil Bonnie is fun but has she every question or pushed harder to get Shane to open up why he wants this tomb unearthed. It’s all well and good to be human again but if Silas is as bad as he seems, maybe a few of them may want to reconsider staying immortal for a bit longer. Plus Kol used zeal in a sentence, don’t kill him.
-The most unintentionally hilarious thing ever- Damon running after Jeremy in the tunnels shouting that he was compelled and was going to kill him.
That is it for
episode 11. Until next time: Who was the
behind the mystery team – Elijah, Katherine or Eric Northman? Will Kol make it
to the spin-off series? What happened to Jeremy’s white tank top? These are
important things we need to know!
Stay safe in the
Gilbert house my friends ‘til we meet again or until a vampire compels us to
think that we saw each other but we really didn't,
XOXOX
Hannie Bee
