Thoughts: Nostalgia's A Bitch
Wow, amazing episode kind of..
The episode was very entertaining.
I loved Bonnie and Caroline when the show opened, I'm especially happy that Bonnie shared scenes with someone other than Enzo.
I thought Damon was going to be a Phoenix Stone thought up Hell, to callback last season, little dissapointed.
Ripper Stefan is pretty Damn harsh.
Matt and Damon was the only really developed anything this episode.
Sybil was helping... For what again?
also Ripper Stefan shows up, cracks the third best line (we had a lot of good lines too) of the ep, "Nah", and offers to help Sybil get the bell from Seline (with Matt and Peter)
In order to speed it along Caroline asks Matt first to give the bell to her, Matt then says Damon deserves everything he's getting (TRUE) and no matter how many people get caught in the crossfire, all anyone cares about is Stefan and Damon.
Oh yeah Stefan only cares to help so Damon can pull his weight in their deal with Cade.
When Bonnie and Caroline head into Damons mind, they run into Henry he tells them to get out.
When they try a second time, they hit the Mystic Grill, with "Enjoy The Silence" playing in the background, Vicki Donovan shows up in Damons head, which looks like it's in the Ep 2 timeframe.
Matt brings Peter to Vickis grave and tells him they can make the man responsible suffer.
Before they, and Seline can ring the bell, Stefan shows up and threatens everybody. Seline offers him a better deal.
So this Bell, it can rip open a door to Hell, which is full of Hell fire, which destroy a town.
Stefan compels Matt to ring the bell before leaving, But Peter couldn't bring himself to kill Matt, and someone else stopped him.
Caroline runs into Sheriff Forbes in Damons mind, comes out to her about being a Vampire, to which takes Caroline to torch her..literally torch.
Bonnie runs into Grams, who tells Bonnie a classic line from S1, and believes Bonnie can bring Damon back. Caroline tells Liz that she's forgiven Damon for what he's done, because he was her moms best friend. This is the writing that I found irky tonight.
Bonnie finds the Salvatore crypt, realizes in his mind, Damon thinks everyone would be better off if he was dead. Tyler Lockwood shows up and tell her to leave.
Stefan shows back up and goes in Damons mind, where Damon offers to apologize to him, when Ripper Stefan (like all of us) scoffed, Damon continued and was using his apology to trigger Stefan's anger, which obviously worked. Stefan continues to tell Damon to go ahead and forgive him, because he's about to "Burn Mystic Falls to the ground". When Stefan gets out of his head and is facing off with Bonnie and Caroline, Damon pops up and "Kills" Stefan. We gets this moment where Caroline smiles at Damon, lol.
Damon is the one who stops Matt, after doing so AJs probably my favorite moment in the episode, when Damon does his best to apologize for what he did to Vicki. Development? What?
After, Caroline tells Stefan she's okay with Damon being his humanity and not her, btw anyone putting best down that 8x15 is titled "We're planing a June Wedding"?
Damon after an entire season, reads his letter to Bonnie from S7, which I can't quote word for word but it was pretty apolagetic.
Never thought I'd see a day where I prefer Humanity Damon to Humanity-less Damon.
To close out the episode, Cade returns to Earth, telling Sybil and Seline that the bell rang enough times to open a gate to Hell. He then, proceeds to Burn both Sirens alive.
8.5/10 episode. I can't wait for next week again.
Finally Cades around.