THE VAMPIRE DIARIES “The Descent” Series 2 Episode 12 - Oh, how I’ve missed The Vampire Diaries. I was hoping that ‘The Descent’ would bring the show out of its hiatus with a bang but it was more of a slow build. I’m still not entirely sure what it was building toward; I wasn’t aware that the big final revelation, that Damon misses being human, was actually a secret. It’s seemed pretty obvious for a season and a half – but at least we have Damonus back. Maybe. Hopefully.
This week: Rose suffered from dementia (and killed a few people) as she slowly died from the werewolf bite, Jules killed a handful of campers as a werewolf (and a policeman as a human), Stefan called Isobel (and instead found UncleDaddy John Gilbert), Damon tried to get a cure for Rose from Jules, and Kickass Caroline became the luckiest gal in Mystic Falls since Elena.
Damon: He’s adorable, simple as. I just don’t understand what his motives are for hiding the fact that he feels. No one really believes that he’s a coldhearted bastard and he knows they don’t. At the most, he’d get a pitiful look from Stefan and a teary hug from Elena (which he got anyway), but what else does Damon possibly get from denying his emotions? Isn’t it hurting him more in the long run? In fact, isn’t it this denial and playing into the whole vampire stereotype that made him breakdown at the end of the episode? Damon is an enigma wrapped up in a mystery wrapped up in hotness.
It got a bit whiny and typical modern-vampire-emo at the end (who do we blame, Louis or Angel?), but then Damon killed the chick anyway. Nice constrast, by the way: the tender, peaceful mercy killing of Rose and the outright slaughter of poor little Samaritan chick. (Did no one ever teach her that it’s safer to drive past and call the cops when you see someone who may need help on a country road in the middle of the night? Sheesh.) Now, if we’re lucky, we’ll see the return of badass, seemingly-stone cold Damonus. I like him; he’s sexy and he offsets Stefan’s blahness. (Don’t get me wrong, Stefan’s lovely, he’s just so frickin’ dull.)
Rose: I actually liked Rose this week. Sadly, I suspect that had much to do with her imminent demise. Nothing against Lauren Cohen, you understand; there’s bound to be a role sooner or later that I like her in, but Rose was pointless. Aside from saving Elena’s life once (which, since Elijah didn’t want her dead anyway, wasn’t really a rescue), all she’s done is snark at people, have sex with Damon, cry and, finally, die. I’m probably being a bit harsh. Put it down to a lack of Jeremy in my life.
Kickass Caroline: In almost every other show I watch, and even in TVD with Elena and the boys, whenever a gal finds two men interested in her, I automatically get irrationally jealous and hate her for being so lucky. (Yes, I know it’s only fiction, shut up.) But Kickass Caroline, Matt and Tywolf made me smile like an idiot. They’re likeable. Kickass Caroline doesn’t have fully fledged vampire angst yet, Tywolf hasn’t hit that ‘ohemgee, we need to find a cure for me’ (I’m a poet and I didn’t know it) phase, and Matt is…Matt. I’ve decided we should call him The Human because, for all intents and purposes, he’s our only non-supernatural aside from Jenna, ‘The Liability’.
Kickass Caroline declares her love to The Human (as much of a declaration as it can be given the delivery) before running away scared. She’s a vampire, he’s The Human, it’s bound to end badly. (I like this train of thought, Caroline, go share it with Elena.) Back at home waits Tywolf who asks why she’s helping him and then kisses her. This in itself would be fairly unremarkable, except Caroline says the line of the episode: “Everyone just needs to stop kissing me!” Oh, Caroline.
She’s the only reason for Matt being in the show right now – he has NOTHING else going on – so part of me wants her to go back to him. But then Tywolf is, you know, Tywolf and the whole vampire/werewolf thing would be fun. (And let’s face it, I’m just curious as to how restrained they can be around each other to avoid the whole ‘one bite means death’ scenario. Not that I’m calling them kinky, but vampires and werewolves are kind of known for biting.)
I’m pointedly ignoring the bit where Jules told Tywolf that Caroline ‘lied’ to him, that there’s more vampires in Mystic falls, and that werewolves are on the way. There’ll be more on that next week, by which point I may have stopped hating Jules quite so much. The bitch. Poor Caroline. Heck, poor Tywolf.
Next week: UncleDaddy John is back! And, okay, maybe Tywolf locking Kickass Caroline in a cage will put a dampener on any possible future relationship. Do we think The Human is going to save the day? See you back here next week.
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