While I absolutely want Bonnie to get her powers back, like, yesterday (Btwn all the times she's lost them AND them being mysteriously gone like this in the prison world, I'm 50 shades over the recycling!!!), I don't think they're back next ep.
Julie decided it was more challenging to have to solve things without magic this season. Or at least "for most of it," as discussed in one of her ET interviews. She basically said they'd come back around 3/4 in.
And speaking of recycling, she also made clear that Stefan is in for leash (complete with prong collar) at the hands of Sybil. Damon said it in the first ep., that she had something in store for him. So I'm wondering why Stef is so stupidly sniffing around the watering hole, AND why the writers are ceaselessly tormenting us with the "not without my brother" drivel, that I could *swear* The Huntress was supposed to have stabbed out of him.
Do we REALLY need to eat up any fast-dwindling time watching Stefan jerk along the conveyor belt of lost free will---->earning back his freedom??? PLEASE tell me Julie and Kevin have fresher, higher stakes in store for us. Because the ways it's looking right now, is that he popped the early question (um, I could SWEAR I saw that in a [Markos-made] dream once...down to the drawer and "YES!" before "Will you...") for the purpose of a *RECYLED* plot device...except the stakes aren't REMOTELY high enough this time.
It's Klaus taking Stefan from Elena, all over again. Except, even Steroline shippers can hardly be moved to the edge of their couch over the prospect of the two being viciously *YAWN* ripped from one and other's pre-matrimonious side's. There's no nail-biting going on here, just the bullet Stefan dodges just as Caroline starts firing-up the highlighters. Say what you will about Sybil, but she comes by it honestly enough, the Siren not being one for seating charts, anymore than Stefan.
The main difference between Evil-incarnate and Klaus, is that the latter knows the difference btwn right and wrong. The former IS the wrong. Notice how she acted like she was being helpful in swapping Elena out in exchange for herself in Damon's heart? But speaking of that- could it have possibly been a cheaper gimmick?? If it's THAT EASY to both strip away true love AND to alter every memory, what's the point of ANYTHING? Team Good Guy can be defeated in a blink, so 1. that's stoooopid as hell and 2. Why wouldn't she have just done it with everyone in her path? Although...I guess that was pretty much Virginia's point: once unleashed upon the world, that evil would just breed like bunnies and make Silas' Hell on earth seem awfully "PG-13."
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