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lillbet"Lost Girls" was... YOU GUISE. OMG YOU GUISE.
If you like Damon you are in for a MAJOR treat. TRUFAX.
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tvd_fans because, well, I'm not half the fangirl some of them are and they're being nice now but I could see a pale moon rising at some point and my ass getting flamed into oblivion. So I'm bugging you guys instead. YAY. (Also, as I mentioned to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nadinetink a bunch of members over there are in Canada, where the show apparently comes on an hour earlier than on the East Coast. THIS WILL NOT STAND!
WARNING: What is under the cut is a bit jumbled, but then so was the episode. I meant to write a run down of fave moments, but it turned into a recap. SORRY! BUT NOT REALLY BECAUSE I POSTED IT ANYWAY!
The episode starts with Elena going over the clues, driving to the manse and then Stefan running to the front door, just as Elena is and him stepping out into 1864 Virginia-- or something. I'm all kerfuffled now. Apparently the Salvatore boys were besties back in the day, and frolicked like little... wait, what?
Basically Elena gets him to admit things and then he asks her to talk about it with him and decide what she wants to do. She agrees to give him one day. *commercial break* followed by Stefan and Elena's coffee date. You gotta love the self-awareness of this show. When the books came out, there was no Google, and then we get the "Twilight" movie and Bella Swan and Edward Cullen and their "I had an adrenaline rush- it's common, you can Google it" and now:
Elena: "When you Google "vampire" you get a world of fiction. What's the reality?"
So we start off by getting everything out of the way:
Stefan: "I can tell you whatever you wanna know."
Elena: "I know you eat garlic."
S: "Yes."
E: "And somehow sunlight's not an issue."
S: "We have rings to protect us."
E: "Crucifixes?"
S: "Decorative."
E: "Holy water?"
S: "Drinkable."
E: "Mirrors?"
S: "Myth."
And Damon? Is stronger because he eats his Wheaties. Or rather human blood. This is a very good conversation. I'm thinking "Oh yes please. Let's get that whole 'dismantling the funked up mythos bit' over right off the bat. As long as there's no sparkling, I'm happy."
Flashbackiness: I liked the costumes, but I hated Katherine's corsets (sexy, yes, but. NOT. AUTHENTIC.)... but that's another story. Anyway, Human!Damon= adorable. It was very cool to see them horsing around being brothers because later in the episode when Damon is up to his usual tricks the idea of his transformation into the vampire he is now is more dramatic and terrifying. Apparently he went to Harvard and picked up football. CUTE. Girl shows up (not sure why- I don't remember being told why Katherine came to their home, and they are curiously lacking in parents) flirts with both boys, picks Stefan, they have TEH SECKS and there is bitiness. It's nicely done, actually.
Damon is hugely cranky because Stefan has his ring. Cue hilarious phone conversation: "Whatever I've done, whoever I've sucked dry, it's on you... buddy." Damon is, at the same time, trying to clean up his mess from the night before (DRUGGIE BUFFET) and runs across Vicki, who, shocker, IS NOT DEAD. Yet. Takes her back to the manse and gives her a towel to stop the bleeding. "Don't bleed on the couch! Please?" Finally he opens a vein, looking all "Oh for the love of Pete" as he rests his chin on her head and lets her drink. Oh shit.
After a shower Vicki has a new lease on life and wants another "hit" of blood, so VAMPIRE 69! They each open veins (Wrists, you dirty minded True Blood fans. WRISTS.) and go to town on each other. BAD. Followed by some "Risky Business" style cavorting about (Damon with shirt open=YUMMY). Finally Vicki pours out her heart- Mom's in FLA with her boyfriend and Dad didn't wub her enough and her brother is PERFECT *sobs*- and Damon chides her for being such a hopeless wreck and then SNAPS HER DAMN NECK. But before he does that, many one-liners are spouted. GOOD ONES.
TL;DR: Guess who wakes up a bit later all cranky and unhappy?
Stefan and Elena are tripping down Memory Lane (Stefan hid Damon's ring at the site where their childhood home used to be) which means more flashbacks.
Meanwhile, the bodies of Vicki's friends have been discovered. Logan has the watch, the Mayor turns it into a vampire hunting compass, everyone gets armed with wooden bullets (yes, this was in the book, and no I still don't get it- the action of the gun firing should heat the wood and cause it to burn, y/y? MAKES NO DAMN SENSE.).
Vicki wakes up and is tired of Damon's shit so she staggers over to the Gilbert's and cleans out their fridge. When Matt, Elena and Stefan come over she's sitting on the floor in a food coma. Stefan sees what's up (SHE'S TRANSITIONING) they help her upstairs and Jeremy gives her a huggle (Matt sees from the doorway and is all *feels useless* or something), at which point Vicki's fangs come out and she almost DRAINS JEREMY DRY.
But before she can bite, she bolts. Stefan follows, promising Elena he'll help Vicki (because if he wants to be Elena's lover, he's gotta get with her friends, I guess- we have the Spice Girls to thank for this all-important piece of advice. Personally I would have let the bitch die.) Elena and Jeremy clean up the kitchen and get a visit from Damon, who is HUGELY ANNOYED about being ringless and advises our plucky heroine to watch who she invites into the house. Har.
Stefan finds Vicki in the graveyard- WHERE LOGAN *lurks* WITH HIS WOODEN BULLETS- and assures her it's possible to make it work (he's a vampiric Tim Gunn at this point, apparently) without killing people. Vicki wants to go home, so Stefan stands up to take her there and GETS FUCKING SHOT WITH A WOODEN BULLET. LOGAN PULLS OUT A STAKE--
*commercial break*
ME: "DAMMIT!"
Then Damon shows up, tackles Logan (YAY!) and digs the bullet out of his chest: "If anyone's gonna kill you it's gonna be me." gets Stefan to dig his (Damon's) ring out of his pocket and puts it on, and before Stefan can warn her away, Vicki is draining Logan. Eh fuck. Then Jessica... I mean VICKI... is all "I'm sorry!" and then is all *runs away*. Poor Bill! I mean... Stefan. See where this is going, True Blooders? Oh yes, I knew you did! According to the preview, next episode is spent squiring Vicki around on Halloween, trying to keep her in line.
When Stefan reports the events of the evening back to Elena, she says, "Yeah, I think we should see other people." (Well, she says "I can't be with you" but it annoyed me, so I changed it.) But you know she's crushed, because she does the whole "closing the door and sliding down it crying" bit. And Stefan is all "stand real still with brow furrowed on the front porch" bit. And it's sad.
More sad? NO NEW EPISODE NEXT WEEK, DAMMIT. Next one is the 29th. *SIGH.* I wonder if Amazon has this on preorder?
Random: in case you haven't already devoured these, have some Bonnie & Damon,and some Matt & Elena. Basically, Smith wrote some little lost moment fics. Cute, nothing special. Had to *lol* at Matt having $27 in his wallet for his first date with Elena. Back in 1990, I'm sure that was enough for a movie and dinner, but now? Hale to the naw.
If you like Damon you are in for a MAJOR treat. TRUFAX.
I left
tvd_fans because, well, I'm not half the fangirl some of them are and they're being nice now but I could see a pale moon rising at some point and my ass getting flamed into oblivion. So I'm bugging you guys instead. YAY. (Also, as I mentioned to nadinetink a bunch of members over there are in Canada, where the show apparently comes on an hour earlier than on the East Coast. THIS WILL NOT STAND!WARNING: What is under the cut is a bit jumbled, but then so was the episode. I meant to write a run down of fave moments, but it turned into a recap. SORRY! BUT NOT REALLY BECAUSE I POSTED IT ANYWAY!
The episode starts with Elena going over the clues, driving to the manse and then Stefan running to the front door, just as Elena is and him stepping out into 1864 Virginia-- or something. I'm all kerfuffled now. Apparently the Salvatore boys were besties back in the day, and frolicked like little... wait, what?
Basically Elena gets him to admit things and then he asks her to talk about it with him and decide what she wants to do. She agrees to give him one day. *commercial break* followed by Stefan and Elena's coffee date. You gotta love the self-awareness of this show. When the books came out, there was no Google, and then we get the "Twilight" movie and Bella Swan and Edward Cullen and their "I had an adrenaline rush- it's common, you can Google it" and now:
Elena: "When you Google "vampire" you get a world of fiction. What's the reality?"
So we start off by getting everything out of the way:
Stefan: "I can tell you whatever you wanna know."
Elena: "I know you eat garlic."
S: "Yes."
E: "And somehow sunlight's not an issue."
S: "We have rings to protect us."
E: "Crucifixes?"
S: "Decorative."
E: "Holy water?"
S: "Drinkable."
E: "Mirrors?"
S: "Myth."
And Damon? Is stronger because he eats his Wheaties. Or rather human blood. This is a very good conversation. I'm thinking "Oh yes please. Let's get that whole 'dismantling the funked up mythos bit' over right off the bat. As long as there's no sparkling, I'm happy."
Flashbackiness: I liked the costumes, but I hated Katherine's corsets (sexy, yes, but. NOT. AUTHENTIC.)... but that's another story. Anyway, Human!Damon= adorable. It was very cool to see them horsing around being brothers because later in the episode when Damon is up to his usual tricks the idea of his transformation into the vampire he is now is more dramatic and terrifying. Apparently he went to Harvard and picked up football. CUTE. Girl shows up (not sure why- I don't remember being told why Katherine came to their home, and they are curiously lacking in parents) flirts with both boys, picks Stefan, they have TEH SECKS and there is bitiness. It's nicely done, actually.
Damon is hugely cranky because Stefan has his ring. Cue hilarious phone conversation: "Whatever I've done, whoever I've sucked dry, it's on you... buddy." Damon is, at the same time, trying to clean up his mess from the night before (DRUGGIE BUFFET) and runs across Vicki, who, shocker, IS NOT DEAD. Yet. Takes her back to the manse and gives her a towel to stop the bleeding. "Don't bleed on the couch! Please?" Finally he opens a vein, looking all "Oh for the love of Pete" as he rests his chin on her head and lets her drink. Oh shit.
After a shower Vicki has a new lease on life and wants another "hit" of blood, so VAMPIRE 69! They each open veins (Wrists, you dirty minded True Blood fans. WRISTS.) and go to town on each other. BAD. Followed by some "Risky Business" style cavorting about (Damon with shirt open=YUMMY). Finally Vicki pours out her heart- Mom's in FLA with her boyfriend and Dad didn't wub her enough and her brother is PERFECT *sobs*- and Damon chides her for being such a hopeless wreck and then SNAPS HER DAMN NECK. But before he does that, many one-liners are spouted. GOOD ONES.
TL;DR: Guess who wakes up a bit later all cranky and unhappy?
Stefan and Elena are tripping down Memory Lane (Stefan hid Damon's ring at the site where their childhood home used to be) which means more flashbacks.
Meanwhile, the bodies of Vicki's friends have been discovered. Logan has the watch, the Mayor turns it into a vampire hunting compass, everyone gets armed with wooden bullets (yes, this was in the book, and no I still don't get it- the action of the gun firing should heat the wood and cause it to burn, y/y? MAKES NO DAMN SENSE.).
Vicki wakes up and is tired of Damon's shit so she staggers over to the Gilbert's and cleans out their fridge. When Matt, Elena and Stefan come over she's sitting on the floor in a food coma. Stefan sees what's up (SHE'S TRANSITIONING) they help her upstairs and Jeremy gives her a huggle (Matt sees from the doorway and is all *feels useless* or something), at which point Vicki's fangs come out and she almost DRAINS JEREMY DRY.
But before she can bite, she bolts. Stefan follows, promising Elena he'll help Vicki (because if he wants to be Elena's lover, he's gotta get with her friends, I guess- we have the Spice Girls to thank for this all-important piece of advice. Personally I would have let the bitch die.) Elena and Jeremy clean up the kitchen and get a visit from Damon, who is HUGELY ANNOYED about being ringless and advises our plucky heroine to watch who she invites into the house. Har.
Stefan finds Vicki in the graveyard- WHERE LOGAN *lurks* WITH HIS WOODEN BULLETS- and assures her it's possible to make it work (he's a vampiric Tim Gunn at this point, apparently) without killing people. Vicki wants to go home, so Stefan stands up to take her there and GETS FUCKING SHOT WITH A WOODEN BULLET. LOGAN PULLS OUT A STAKE--
*commercial break*
ME: "DAMMIT!"
Then Damon shows up, tackles Logan (YAY!) and digs the bullet out of his chest: "If anyone's gonna kill you it's gonna be me." gets Stefan to dig his (Damon's) ring out of his pocket and puts it on, and before Stefan can warn her away, Vicki is draining Logan. Eh fuck. Then Jessica... I mean VICKI... is all "I'm sorry!" and then is all *runs away*. Poor Bill! I mean... Stefan. See where this is going, True Blooders? Oh yes, I knew you did! According to the preview, next episode is spent squiring Vicki around on Halloween, trying to keep her in line.
When Stefan reports the events of the evening back to Elena, she says, "Yeah, I think we should see other people." (Well, she says "I can't be with you" but it annoyed me, so I changed it.) But you know she's crushed, because she does the whole "closing the door and sliding down it crying" bit. And Stefan is all "stand real still with brow furrowed on the front porch" bit. And it's sad.
More sad? NO NEW EPISODE NEXT WEEK, DAMMIT. Next one is the 29th. *SIGH.* I wonder if Amazon has this on preorder?
Random: in case you haven't already devoured these, have some Bonnie & Damon,and some Matt & Elena. Basically, Smith wrote some little lost moment fics. Cute, nothing special. Had to *lol* at Matt having $27 in his wallet for his first date with Elena. Back in 1990, I'm sure that was enough for a movie and dinner, but now? Hale to the naw.
