‘The Vampire Diaries’ season 7, episode 11 preview

Since Stefan is going to help Klaus deal with the prophecy surrounding the falls of the Mikaelsons, it is possible that the latter will help his friend defeat Julian. He will find out though why Damon is that way in the coming episode. “What we get to see in the next episode is [that] Damon really, really, really messed things up, and Stefan, who had his own journey that we didn’t see and we’re not going to see the way we saw it with Damon, Stefan’s been through that, and we’re trying to create a little bit of intrigue”.

This episode of The Vampire Diaries was like a very awful supernatural version of that movie Groundhog Day, where Damon is forced to relive the same day over and over only to realize that no matter what he does he will come to the same conclusion he always does: The family he’s forced to get the deserters from always dies, and he’s always stuck mourning for his mother. And the repercussions of Damon’s time in the Stone will reverberate throughout the upcoming episodes.

It’s not that I don’t appreciate the story telling technique here, but it’s that it’s so overdone and confusing that if it’s not done right we’re left disappointed and annoyed.

We suppose that the one reason we don’t have too much to worry about here when it comes to Caroline’s fate is that we have seen her in the flash-forwards clearly still alive. During both he must let himself feel the suffering: when he sees his brother on fire, when he sees people dying, etc. But he doesn’t let the suffering set in, he continues to go back and forth, so Bonnie’s spell doesn’t work and Stefan, Caroline and Matt standby.

What was real? What wasn’t? Even though Damon is free of the Phoenix Stone, Julian (Todd Lasance) still has much influence on him. It’s frustrating, and yet still manages to end up as one of the most entertaining episodes of the season despite these frustrations.

Who else has been having withdrawals from ‘The Vampire Diaries, ‘ while it’s been on hiatus?