Thanks E!Online we have our first official DVD extra sneak peek. A behind-the-scenes look at Tyler’s werewolf transformation. SPOILER ALERT to those who would rather wait and see the clip when they purchase their DVD!
NOTE: I am completely aware of all the other extras floating around YouTube, but won’t be posting on the site. Only official releases from sites given permission will be posted.
Click to watch the video after the jump!
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Thanks to the ever so lovely Judy Yam for tweeting yet another episode still from The Vampire Diaries season 3 premiere “The Birthday”. Things are looking pretty intense between Ty and Car dontcha think?
EW caught up with Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson and they spill on what Tyler and Caroline will be facing when season 3 returns, September 15th.
“We now have a mother who knows her daughter’s a vampire, and we might soon have a mayor who figures out that her son is a werewolf,” Williamson says. “When that happens, it’s certainly building itself to a family feud. That’s the fun Mystic Falls storyline that’s underplaying throughout the entire season.” Adds EP Julie Plec, “When their mothers find out the truth about each of them, they’re gonna have a say in whether the two of them should be together. There’s always going to be push and pull in their friendship as it travels down a romantic road. There’s gonna be people who don’t want them together, including themselves. It’s that forbidden love: we can’t quite stay away from each other, and yet, we shouldn’t be together. And the question will be at what point will they act on that and how will that go?”
Read the rest of the interview at EW.
Zap2It chatted with Julie Plec recently, and she dished on what’s to come as far as the Tyler/Caroline/Matt triangle. Will Matt finally have his moment?
“Matt’s been kind of busing tables on the sidelines for a good portion of this season, trying to understand what’s going on in this non-relationship with this girl that he cares about but doesn’t understand,” Plec says. “We’re about to really heat that up and have him start asking a lot more questions. He’s really trying to get to the bottom of Caroline’s feelings for him and where he wants to them to be as a couple.”
Now that Tyler’s in the doghouse, Matt and Caroline may have another chance at a real relationship. “In the last episode before we go away for hiatus, there’s a really great Matt and Caroline moment that I think will make you very happy,” Plec says.
Read the rest of this great interview over at Zap2It!
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.
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.
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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.
