The Vampire Diaries - Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons sets up a big plot development regarding Esther’s intentions and how the “blood of the doppelganger” is important in her desire to kill her children in order to “undo the wrongs” she committed with her magic, turning her sons and daughter into vampires.

I just want to say I LOVED something said to Elena by Rebekah, regarding how “it isn’t always all about you”. Typically it almost always is, so for once someone tells her that it isn’t. I think that is a nagging trope for The Vampire Diaries: Elena always being the center of EVERYTHING. I enjoy when the series actually goes off the arc and gives others more to do that doesn’t align with how it effects Elena.

Klaus eyeing Caroline as a love interest, leaving gifts like jewelry and a dress, inviting her to the ball set up by Esther (this is all a ruse in order to secure blood from Elena and get her kids together so the ritual she plans to conduct will immobilize them, a binding spell, with help from son, Finn (Casper Zafer), who gives his blood willingly), in Klaus’ newly renovated mansion, will certainly features stops and starts as The Vampire Diaries has always been at its purest, a Gothic Soap Opera. So Caroline will try to avoid Klaus, as Tyler still appears to be someone she cares about, but like a lot of beautiful women, she’ll be too attracted to the bad boy, unable to deny her desires. She goes to the ball after seeing that Rebekah has invited Matt. Matt and Caroline never could get going and Caroline and Tyler was just too beset by dramas infiltrating them…mostly Klaus. This kind of soap opera melodrama isn’t really my cuppa tea but I tolerate it for when The Vampire Diaries does unleash its nasty side. It does appear that Klaus has a legit interest in Caroline, willing to not give up when she plays hard to get.

Elena does reveal to Matt that Damon is just hard to get out of her system, that he’s under her skin. No matter how “Bad Damon” always seems on the precipice, about to return, Elena—with her disappointment and confrontational nature that demands him to look inside at what is wrong and address it—does appear to penetrate that hard layer that would perhaps otherwise remain impenetrable, if it was anyone else. Damon, for instance, does go to rescue Matt from the “tough handshake grip” of Kol Mikaelson (Nathaniel Buzolic), when Elena shows concern. Even after Stefan might accuse Damon of self-destructing everything, he did what he felt was right at that time. Beats Damon just being an asshole and wrecking shit. Damon, in fact, spends Dangerous Liaisons trying to keep Elena from meeting Esther alone, while she convinces Stefan to help her get that time, which results in Stefan violently subduing Damon so that this can happen. I don’t think anyone thought Esther would be able to successful kill her children…Elijah, with his concerns regarding how his mother was willing to just forgive Klaus, would continue to pursue the answer to that nagging feeling of why she was interested in Elena. Elijah would be a major bone of contention in Esther’s mission to remove her created monsters from the earth. 4/5