4.21 She’s Come Undone Surprisingly, however, the episode was so good that these quibbles aren’t what dominated my viewing experience. From what I gather, fans of the show have not enjoyed this season at all, so to have a couple of strong episodes leading into the finale might be the only thing to save it from a significantly reduced fanbase going into season five. This was one of those episodes, and all signs suggest that the next two will be just as strong. Cutting a long story short: Elena has her feelings back on and she’s mightily cheesed off with Katherine. The trouble is that Elena’s vow to kill her doppelganger once and for all might clash with Bonnie’s own plan to give her invulnerability. We don’t see too much of Bonnie this week but we do find out that she’s using Katherine in her dealings with Silas, promising her the same protection their nemesis has in exchange for the tombstone. She’s also promised (a promise that is magically binding, no less) to lift the veil after all, and we can only hope that she has a couple of tricks up her sleeve to prevent the world from ending when she does. But let’s get into what the love triangle was up to this week. As we saw from the previews and last week’s teaser, Damon and Stefan plan to torture an emotion out of their ex-girlfriend, and they’re willing to go to extreme lengths. Elena’s self-inflicted full body burn was a striking image. Predictably, however, nothing they do works, and even bringing Katherine in just makes Elena more determined to prove them wrong. That is until they use the most human and personal thing still left in her life – Matt. He’s always been the Xander Harris of this show and this week he got to pull his own ‘Evil Willow I love you’ speech. The clever thing was that the speech didn’t make a darn bit of difference and she ate him anyway. Stefan and Damon knew this and elicited a response by snapping his neck right in front of her. Our emotions (if you’re, like me, very fond of Matt) are Elena’s emotions, and the stunt finally closes the dark Elena chapter of season four. I was impressed by this scene mainly because, despite looking at things from every angle I could think of, I truly believed Matt’s time on the show was over. We know that Damon wouldn’t hesitate to trade Matt’s life for Elena’s humanity if he felt it necessary, after all. Next week it’s all about the return of old faces, however, as it appears Bonnie succeeds in her plan to drop the veil. The good news about this is that we might see Jeremy, Jenna or Alaric again but the bad news is that Kol’s dodgy accent is back in our lives. Read Caroline’s review of the previous episode, The Originals, here. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
