In what was quite possibly the best episode of the season so far, The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Episode 4 gave us quite a few shocks!
And I’m not just talking about the sight of Jer’s biceps again as he and Alaric bro-bonded in the woods wearing sweats and working out. I’m actually surprised Alaric didn’t just say “screw it!” and go pour the two of them a bottle of bourbon after they shared pain olympics stories.
Seriously, last night’s ep was one reveal after another. Like, a deluge of plot developments and turns in existing stories and it was quite remarkable.
For starters, that whole promo of Elena asking Stefan to take her away with him was a big, misleading tease. Like we should expect anything less.
As it turns out, he’s just not okay with playing along with this “Elena hates Damon” story we’ve seen as we watch The Vampire Diaries online.
THANK GOD!
He spilled the beans about it as he spilled blood on the floor. One of Stefan’s coping mechanisms for dealing with his grief has been picking fights with the locals and getting himself knocked around a little bit.
I guess nothing says starting over like a good bar fight? Eh.
So yes, he told her that she actually loves Damon and had Alaric compel her to forget about it. She went to Alaric, righteously indignant, about how he could possibly have allowed her to go through with it and Alaric handed her quite the level-headed journal entry which confirmed Stefan’s story and told her to start over.
So glad this forgetting thing isn’t going to be our main arc this season, but still kind of annoyed we had to go there at all.
In 1994, Damon revealed to Bonnie and Kai that the worst thing he ever did was kill every boarder at the Salvatore boarding house, including his Uncle Zach’s pregnant girlfriend.
Hiiiiiiii, Uncle Zach!
That pregnant girlfriend? Present-day Sarah’s mom.
Sarah survived, thanks to a doctor who did an emergency c-section, and she is miraculously without complications. The reality of this being plausible, since Gail was clearly dead upon hitting the floor, is so slim it’s actually IMpossible, unless, of course, there was a previous Dr. Fell using vampire blood to heal the sick and wounded, but that seems unlikely.
Anyway, there’s another Salvatore out there. So let’s just roll with it.
(Seriously, writers, 6 months along? You couldn’t have made her term? THAT we would have maybe believed. Or? Just say nothing about how far along she was. The incubator line was unnecessary.)
Bonnie doesn’t want to return to their regularly scheduled living because Kai is a serial killer hellbent on destroying his coven. The Gemini coven. And they’re all locked in his Hell, which just happens to coincide with the “worst” thing Damon ever did.
WEIRD.
Tripp Fell has Enzo and Matt knows it. And that’s where I leave you. For now.