Check out this great recap from SB over at Off-Color TV!  Just keep in mind it’s full of spoilers from last night’s episode of The Vampire Diaries “162 Candles”, so if you haven’t watched it yet and don’t want to be spoiled come back later!  Here’s a couple of my favorite snippets and you can read the rest HERE.  And be sure and follow Off-Color TV on Twitter too!

On Lexi:

“She just brought so much balance to the show, and I think it was needing that.  Damon is crazy evil, which is fun but he’s been able to run rampant so far.  Stefan is crazy good, but he’s good to the point of being a little boring (sorry, Stefan, doesn’t mean we don’t love you!) the last few episodes.  Lexi was great because she was a nice mix, proving that maybe in another 200 years Stefan and Damon will be able to achieve some sort of balance in their lives.  She was good in that she drank blood bank blood rather than taking it from humans, and she was Team Stefan, after all, but she also had the fun side of Damon, as well as the snark, and was willing to be a scary vampire if she had to.  And she did have to, to keep Damon in check.  She was so pretty, but not in a generic teen queen way, which I liked, and she was a little sassy but in a cute way, and so sweet to Elena.  It was just nice to have such a multi-dimensional female who was just there, hanging out, not causing drama or tension (not purposely, anyway), and I LOVED her.  Have I said that already?  Whatever, I totally did.  And she and Stefan having a theme song, and it being “Wanted, Dead or Alive,” no less?  Awesome.”

On Bonnie’s Reveal of her secret:

“Running parallel to Stefan having Lexi to talk to, we had Elena feeling pretty isolated, especially when Bonnie revealed her witch secret to Elena.  That storyline appears to be moving now too, which is good, and you guys, can I just say that the witch reveal with the feathers was one of the most beautiful scenes ever?  I LOVED it.  It felt like it belonged in some magical Tim Burton movie, like Big Fish or something.  AWESOME visual, and I like how it really stood in contrast for Elena–it was a secret and she was leery of that at first, but it was so beautiful and fun and nonthreatening/nonscary that rather than be a burden to her, it was a sweet bonding moment between her and Bonnie.  And it made total sense that she wanted to tell Bonnie what was going on at that point–you finally felt like their friendship had some substance.  And I loooved Bonnie crawling into bed with Elena and having a quick girl talk.  It wasn’t tiresome, it just kind of got done what it needed to get done and led us forward.  Perfect.”