TV Guide’s Mega Buzz has some scoop on what we can expect from Stefan this season:
Anything juicy on Ripper Stefan on The Vampire Diaries? Thanks! — Val, via Twitter
NATALIE: Juicy is a choice word, Val. Stefan will be sinking his teeth into many humans. “He gets deeper and deeper and the blood starts carrying him away,” Paul Wesley tells us. “He commits to that lifestyle because the blood starts turning him into someone else.” What we want to know is, who’s going to bring him back?
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You know when you walk into a bookstore, and you go the travel section where all the pretty Lonely Planet guides are? The guides covered in pictures that are meant to give you a visual feel for the place? Well heads up, guide writers.
If’n you’re ever planning to do one about Mystic Falls and you want a pic that tells a thousand words, do yourself a favour. Get a shot of the GIANTEST sign you can find that says ‘This Is A BAD, BAD Place For Camping’, put it in lights and smack it there right on the front. Because for all intents and purposes, it would appear that if you go into the woods tonight, every Were that ever there was has decided that Mystic Falls is the place to be.
Alright, darlings. Lets play a game, shall we? It’s a little game I like to call ‘Last One to Swoon is a Rotten Egg.’ Because to be honest: if your heart didn’t stop for a moment or ten – or in the very least, didn’t skip wildly out of kilter – at the sight of the scene that first greeted us in Episode 13, then quite frankly, dearest, you may want to go get your eyes checked. Because ladies and gentleman, Damon Salvatore is IN da HOUSE. (Please excuse my Kanye speak, people – I know it’s terrible. The equivalent of your nanna quoting PDiddy, really, but moving on…)
The great thing about Daddy Issues was that it really did cover a lot of plot bases, from the Tyler-who-loves-Caroline-who-loves-Matt-and-Tyler-too-a-little-bit-sort-of triangle, to the epic ongoing tangle of life, unlife and love that is Damon, Elena and Stefan. Okay, so Bonnie and Jer didn’t get much of a showing this week, but it had been seriously noted by Julie Plec that their time was about to come soon – it just wasn’t this episode.
Jules wakes in the forest after another night as a wolf. Only this time, she’s been busy. She is bloodied up, and gets up to realise that she has slaughtered a bunch of campers in the night. Somewhat remorselessly, she begins to stack them in order to burn them and destroy the evidence. But before she gets very far, she hears the rumble of a police car engine. The officer gets out of the car, to find Jules in a precarious position, hovering over a body. Without missing a beat though, Jules feigns shock and grief, pretending to be a member of the camping group, telling the officer that wolves came in the night and attacked their camp. The officer tells her not to worry, and goes to the car to radio in the emergency. At which point Jules beats him to death with a giant log. As you DO. Seriously. Over you, Jules. You and your givin’ dogs a bad name.
At the Boarding house, Elena has gone to meet Stefan. In his bedroom. Where he appears. Without a shirt. I’ll be honest, it was one of those moments when I found myself being a lot more thankful than usual to find myself living in a house where The Vampire Diaries gets played on a plasma in HD every week. It ALSO made me think that Elena also possibly has a plasma and watches The Vampire Diaries in HD. Why? Because after her tough decision to not be with Stefan until she felt safe again (good luck with that, babycakes) in Masquerade, it would appear Ms Gilbert has been compelled to reverse her thinking about her relationship with her one true love. Loved up, and back in each others arms, they kiss, mutually deciding to stop mucking around and be together. Stefan, unfortunately finds himself ruining the moment, by reminding Elena of the reality they have before them. Klaus is still a threat and they cannot afford to sit and be idle, no matter how ironclad Elijah’s promise of protection appears to be. Elena, however, has no intention of breaking her promise to Elijah to keep herself out of trouble until the time comes. Stefan tells her that she can keep her promise then, but he is not bound to the same promise; tells her of his plans to find and speak to Isobel, in order to find out more information about Klaus and the power of originals. Regardless of Elena’s plans, Stefan has no intention of going quietly into the night. He has an enemy, and wants to find about as much as he can before he inevitably faces him. As they discuss their plans, Stefan takes a shot of vervain, sticking to his Katherine-inspired plan to build up an immunity to the corrosive herb. He knocks it back in one fell, burning shot. Apparently vervain is one hot tamale when it comes to the taste buds of fanged types.
Awesome interview from Paul Wesley and Zap2It. Paul Wesley talks about the upcoming flashback episode (Ep 2.15 “The Dinner Party”). We will get to see a glimpse of Stefan’s lustful and sinful side. Can’t wait! Here’s an excerpt from the interview:
In an upcoming episode, we’ll flash back to 1864 again — but this time, we’ll see just how Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan first adjusted to their new vampire instincts after they turned.
“I’m so excited,” Wesley tells us, his eyes lighting up. “We have a flashback, and Stefan is very Damon-esque. He’s lost; he doesn’t know what to do with himself. He’s living in guilt, so he’s just sinful, and lustful, and very Damon-like — times ten. It’s kind of fantastic.”
In the present, Stefan has found a temporary fix for his blood addiction, as Elena (Nina Dobrev) has been slowly feeding him her own to build up his tolerance and quell his cravings. Back in 1864, however, Stefan hadn’t yet learned the careful control that rules his life now.
Read the rest of the Paul Wesley interview at Zap2It.
Some interesting scoop from TV Guide’s Mega Buzz regarding a talk Stefan and Elena have during their romantic getaway in an upcoming episode. Check it out.
Do you have anything on Stefan and Elena on Vampire Diaries? — Harriet
NATALIE: Now that Katherine is entombed and Elijah seems to be doing his job, Stefan and Elena will take a romantic trip to her parents’ lake house. “They just want to be a normal couple that goes on vacation,” Paul Wesley says. (What could possibly go wrong?) “Of course, danger is pursuing them.” Not only that, they’ll have a capital-T talk about the logistics of a vampire-human relationship, Wesley adds, and the options aren’t attractive.
Oh goodness…check out this brand new promotional poster released by the CW today. Apparently, “there’s a reason he always gets the girl” and I’m sure we will be finding out why very soon in the upcoming episodes.
It seems such a long time ago, doesn’t it. That moment when – after staying with Stefan that first night – Elena wanders across to her boyfriend’s bedroom table and sees a faded, yellowing photograph of a girl identical, sitting there staring back at her with a dark but almost Mona Lisa smile. Indeed, for a long time, Katherine Pierce wafted like a heady but undiscernible perfume at the edges of what used to be this one main story: about a girl, and the two opposing supernatural brothers who loved her.
A world where Tyler Lockwood was still just a jock with a temper problem, Caroline Forbes was just another shallow beauty queen in waiting, and Elena Gilbert was just another human girl dealing with the pressures of life in love with a tortured vampire.
In Katherine’s case, we spent that season being teased mercilessly by the writers about exactly where, when and how she was going to emerge from the murky past to wreak her own particular brand of havoc. And when she finally did, her sheer heartless, conniving viciousness took our collective breath away like a hurricane. From the moment Nina Dobrev stepped into the doppelganger’s shoes, we knew she would be as evil as she was spectacular. (As an aside, I believe this whole second series could simply be re-named ‘Proof That Nina Dobrev Deserves An Emmy or Ten’ and I don’t reckon you’d find many people arguing. Cause wow. Girl, you are BLAZING.)
As such, I don’t know about you, but between Aimee Bradley getting her guts rearranged on the dance floor and Uncle John meeting his own end at the end of a carving knife, there has never been a moment for me where I was able to look at Katherine as a character, and wonder if there was as yet, still, a shred of humanity left somewhere inside her.
Until now. (more…)
This episode marked a turning point in both plotlines and mythology for the show, and the swift and somewhat brutal introduction of three new characters – two in particular – has seen the mystery bar raised yet again to another echelon. I’ve stopped asking myself how they do that, and have now embraced the fact that they just can; kind of like when you’re watching a contortionist fit their entire body through the frame of an unstrung tennis racquet, there really does come a point when you stop asking questions about the how’s and just stick with the WHYS.
With that in mind, here’s my take on the moments that made us all sit up and yell WHAT THE FREAKING SALVATORE at our televisions.
And You Thought YOU Were Having A Bad Day
Elena Gilbert is having a rough 24 hours.
She’s been vicariously stabbed and beaten via a curse (saved only by some quick thinking and a conveniently magic-enabled best friend nearby) and is still smarting from breaking up with her one true love. I’ll be honest here: if I were the human girl who’d just broken up with Stefan Salvatore, I’d be reaching for my PJ’s, a fluffy pillow to cry into and a tub of Haagen-Dazs the size of a nine year old faster than you can say DASHING.
But hey! Don’t just ask her how crap a day she’s dealing with: ask the boyfriend she refused to get back together with; the brother of her boyfriend who is also completely and unrequitedly in love with her, or any number of her nearest and dearest who’ve just spent the night before plotting to kill her Queen of All Evil twin with giant stake guns and tombs spells.
Or, as of this episode, you could likewise ask the mysterious man in the mask who abducted her so suddenly from the Lockwood estate after the Masquerade party.
It’s broad daylight as his car pulls up into an empty field in the middle of nowhere; empty, save for the 4WD with black windows parked out in it, presumably waiting to do a swap. The window of the driver side of the 4WD lowers just enough to reveal a pair of black shaded eyes, revealing two things: a) it is a vampire who organised for Elena to be abducted, and b) that the kidnapper is actually just an average Joe: another quite visibly compelled guy doing the bidding of yet another vampire.
I don’t know about you, but at this point I couldn’t help but think about how compulsion – for all it’s convenience, and save for the few truly noble times we’ve seen it done to a human – really was being used by an awful lot of vampires to make good people do some very bad things, often with rather deadly consequences.
Firstly, apologies this is so late – life called as they say, but strap in. One double whammy of recapping for your reading pleasure coming right up.
You know, you’d think when they were handing out life skills, that some people may perchance have just gotten a little bit more than their fair share. So after the emotional rollercoaster that was Plan B, this little recapper was a little bit lost as to how on earth they were going to top the epicness of killing off Uncle Mase (Oh Taylor Kinney, how I miss you…you and your perfect, perfect shoulders *sigh*), Stefan landing himself up to his eyeballs in a vat of vervain, not to mention THE BREAKUP to end all vampire/human breakups. I mean seriously, writers.
Everyone knows that when Paul Wesley cries at ANY time for ANY reason, somewhere a fairy falls down dead. And we were still recovering from that (not to mention fairydom, which was pretty much decimated population-wise once that bottom lip of his started quivering) when you went and pulled the whopping great awesomeness of Masquerade from your collective creative hat.
So, for my part, here is a quick run down of what I thought were the key moments that made Masquerade one for the recapping history books.
We began this episode with Caroline parked on the brothers’ couch with a stiff drink in hand, regaling Stefan and Damon with the details of a run in with Katherine. Bless her gorgeous, unbeating heart, she’s gone to the Mystic Grill for some wistful Matt-gazing (read: Matt-stalking) time, but unfortunately finds herself in Kat’s unexpected company, who tells Caroline to pass on this message to the Salvatores: if she doesn’t get the Moonstone tonight, she will quite literally make it start raining blood in Mystic Falls.
Starting with the Masquerade Ball, scheduled to take place in just a few hours.
Damon is determined now. He looks Stefan in the eye and says that this is their chance: Katherine will die tonight, and he will kill her. Stefan however, has other ideas. He says no: he is going to kill her. Either way, boys you’re going to need a whole lotta help.
We thought we would create a post on all the really cute TVD related Halloween costumes that were sent to us on Twitter. Here is a great Katherine, but first my favorite…Ian Somerhalder dressed as “Stefan Salvatore”. Too adorable. If you have any costumes you would like to share, please send them to us! Just click our contact and send to our email address!
And check out this great Katherine costume from @Kato_DiGio, thanks for sharing! And check out the rest of the pics on her Twitpic profile!
