Why does Chris Woods have to be so hot? His hotness makes it nearly impossible to completely hate Kai, and he definitely deserves to be hated. I'm not saying I hate that he figured out a different way to get back, but I am saying I hate that he tried to commit infanticide and maybe also killed his sister in the process when she posed no great threat to him given the fact that she absolutely would not want her children to merge AND she gave up her magic so Kai wouldn't die and kill the entire coven. Kai apparently used astral projection to get out of his prison world and into the present day in order to stab Bonnie or otherwise injure her so that he and his Heretic brethren could return to Mystic Falls to wreak havoc on his entire family and anyone who has ever dreamed of crossing him.
It's the convenient and frustrating thing about magic in the movies and television.
With magic comes loopholes and with loopholes come retcon. Lily Salvatore would not be in the dungeon for long. EEP!)įrom Bonnie's opening dream sequence where she envisioned Lily telling her about a loophole two things became clear:
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Until Kai showed up, stabbed the bride in the stomach repeatedly, and then blew the windows out of the barn after giving everyone in there a migraine. Luke, meanwhile, is dead, surprisingly no-one after being sidelined all year.How GORGEOUS was that? The flowers. They’re not twins, but narrative convenience trumps the established rules, and now Kai has exactly what he wanted all along. A lot of people, me included, have wanted those two together romantically since around the season two mark, but right now it’s just a joy to see the show explore a different kind of intimacy – rare on a show that insists on forcing love triangles wherever there can conceivably be one.īut this wasn’t the only thing going on this week – we also saw Kai and Luke merge. She’s at least in-character, making Liz’s sickness and possible death about her, her life choices and her relationship with Damon, rather than about her best friend.Ĭontrast it to Stefan generally being an A+ friend to Caroline throughout all of this. Unfortunately, the ongoing Elena problem was out in force, with the show wedging her into scenes that would have benefited from her absence, presumably to keep up the appearance that Elena is still our protagonist. The show could easily have chosen a story in which Caroline had contributed to her mother’s death, Damon had blamed her and Stefan stood by her, but we’re instead doing one where Caroline gets used to the idea that there’s no miracle cure, but just the slow, painful process of losing a parent before you’re ready to. The emotional beats are pretty familiar – Caroline starts avoiding her mother before she’s even gone, Stefan tells her his own story of loss, she goes back to the hospital too late to say goodbye – but both Candice Accola’s performance and the fact that this isn’t actually the end of the story make it feel fresh. The pace of Vampire Diaries has always been such that there’s always something new vying for our attention and our affections, but this storyline appears as if it’s going to be here for a while, the ramifications even longer. Putting her at the centre of this, then, will be the secret weapon to making us care. Ninety per cent of these characters are divisive for the audience, but I don’t know of a single person who doesn’t like Caroline Forbes.