4.6 We All Go A Little Mad Sometimes I’ll start off with the love triangle, since it’s still a point of interest for most fans who haven’t tuned out yet. At the end of season three, Elena chose Stefan. Then she turned into a vampire and everyone assumed this would lead her to Damon’s brooding arms. When that didn’t happen, Stefan and Elena’s rekindled relationship was more weird and co-dependent than ever, and this week sees our heroine finally make a definitive choice for herself, rather than whining about how hard it is to have two handsome immortals love you. She doesn’t trust Stefan as much as she used to, and has much more in common with Damon now that she’s joined team undead. Despite being tired of the whole plot thread, I thought the final break-up scene was handled very nicely. The writers know they have two opposing shipper groups to please and so far they haven’t kicked any of them while they’re down, so my guess is that they won’t start now. We’ve got a two week break before we see the results of Elena’s now-requited feelings for Damon, but I don’t expect them to jump in the sack right away. Despite the mythology unravelling at break-neck speed and plot lines coming and going at an admirable rate, The Vampire Diaries has always taken its time with the love stories, for good or ill. Delena fans should get their big romance, but in a way that respects the characters. Some of the stuff Elena’s mother was saying really hit home, with Jeremy possibly being better off with a ghost sister than a vampire one. Having killed him (with the family ring on, thankfully), in the opening scene, this isn’t an unrealistic notion and, seeing that Jeremy is the only one keeping Elena from giving up entirely, I can understand her urge to die where she ought to have (twice). Damon came to the rescue, but had her friends not implemented their own plan at just the right moment, she really would have burned to death on that bridge. It’s emotional stuff and, once again, Nina Dobrev does a great job with an often unlikeable character. The episode does a great job of bringing everyone’s stories together, with absolutely everyone contributing to the ‘Save Elena’ mission. Damon and Bonnie go to Atticus for more information on the hunter’s curse, and find out that in order to stop the hallucinations Jeremy has to become a hunter himself. With us only finding out about his potential two weeks ago, it’s brilliant that he’s already hunting down vamps and hacking them to death. The only problem is, the one that bites the dust is one of Tyler’s hybrid pack, and he’s none too happy with Stefan, Caroline and Jeremy for killing his buddy. Read Caroline’s review of the previous episode, The Killer, here. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
