The Vampire Diaries "Catch Me If You Can"

 
     If we haven't already made it clear to you, The Vampire Diaries is our favorite show. So I am very honored to share with you our first post on TVD.
     First off, I never expected to say this but I LOVED Stefan last night! Don't think I'm trading in my Delena card for a Stelena one, it's single Stefan/Stebekah that I love. I think hearing the truth from Elena about how she feels about Damon and how she feels about him helped Stefan to move on, which is great because the whole whiny/self righteous Stefan was driving me insane! Let's discuss the best Stefan moments from this episode:

• The Stefan and Rebekah conversation about  their "crazy sex." in the 1920's. There's more chemistry there than we ever saw with Stelena.
• Stefan coming to the rescue and saying "You're welcome." Snarky Stefan is so much fun. 
• Stefan saying to Elena "You don't know what I look like when I'm not in love with you." It gave her a little taste of what Stefan felt last week and I must say the Stefan not in love with Elena is by far my favorite! 
• And of course.... Hot Stebekah sex! I LOVED this! Stefan needed to let go a little and have some fun. After all, here's more to life brooding/pining over Elena and ripping peoples' heads off. 

     I can't give all of the credit to Stefan, he was amazing this time, but Damon is amazing every time. I love the dynamic between Jeremy and Damon, it's a love/hate brotherly bond and it's always fun to watch. I do find it a little funny that Jeremy is so desperate for Damon's approval. He just keeps bringing up how Damon doesn't care about him. He just needed proof that he is more than just a map and a solution to the sire bond problem and I hope he got it. Sure, most of Damon's concern for Jeremy is because he is Elena's brother and he knows what it would do to her if she were to lose Jeremy. But he still cares about Jeremy and he has been trying to find the safest way for Jeremy to finish his mark, he's not just recklessly creating vampires like Stefan and Klaus. Damon sacrificed his life for Jeremy's tonight, he told him to shoot him in the heart because he knew that was the only way Jeremy would be safe. For anyone out there saying Damon is selfish, explain this move to me. And in turn Jeremy chose to shoot him in the head, risking his life to try to save them both.
      Matt took over for Caroline and Stefan tonight as the judgy anti-Damon voice. Am I the only one who sees that it was Klaus's plan not Damon's that put Matt at risk? Damon let Matt and Jeremy run for it to keep Matt safe and it wasn't his idea to use Matt as bait in the first place. I thought Matt understood Elena's feelings for Damon, but I guess not so much.
      Elena's whole "you can resist compulsion because you love me" thing is a little silly. Does she think loving her gives people(or should I say vampires), superpowers? And correct me if I'm wrong, but Stefan didn't resist compulsion, he bit her. Sure he gave it a good try, but he didn't succeed. And neither did Damon. It just can't be done. Sorry Elena, you're great and all, but there are some things that even love can't overcome.
      It seems to me that Klaus is being a little lax when it comes to the whole "Race for the Cure". He compels all those newbie vampires and then just goes home to what? Relax by the fire? Then when Elena comes to him for help he doesn't seem terribly concerned that his plan is endangered. Not only that, but he could have easily daggered Kol, and he gave up pretty easily when the Gilberts turned down his plan to take Jeremy with him. Maybe he doesn't see Kol as a real threat? I don't know but it seems like if I were Klaus I would e taking matters into my own hands and not leaving so many things to chance.
     So I know there's all this talk about Elena suggesting a "genocide" and people are questioning her morals etc. I honestly didn't see it that way. I know that killing Kol would mean many "innocent" vampires would die, but isn't that going to happen anyway if Jeremy is to complete his mark? And Jeremy can't drag this on forever, his urge to kill his sister will become too strong. I think Elena's plan is a good one. With one kill Jeremy's mark will be complete and Damon will be free of his compulsion. I don't know how he will defeat the original, but I think Jeremy will succeed. If Matt can kill Finn, Jeremy can kill Kol.
      I still don't know what to think of Shane. He is so mysterious. How can he hypnotize and control Bonnie like that? Does he have some kind of superpower or is it just something he has trained himself to do like how he can resist compulsion? I have heard theories that he is Silas, not sure if that makes sense but I guess we will see. I don't think he is all bad though. The people that he has sacrificed he thinks will be revived. Maybe he is misinformed, but nobody on TVD is ever purely evil, not even Klaus.
      There is so much more we could discuss that I'm not really going to get into, like Delena's anti climatic reunion, Bonnie's dark magic, and Caroline and Tyler's absence. But one last question I want to bring up is who was that compelled guy in Shane's office and who sent him? Is there in fact another team in search of the cure? Was it Elijah or Katherine that sent him? I want to hear every one's theories so comment below or tweet us! @televisionistas

-Avalon