I watched The Vampire Diaries January 29 and this is what I
saw
As a Vampire Dairies fan, there were a lot of things which I
have seriously hoped for in The Vampire Diaries and it happened. Color it a
very satisfying episode with the witches finally coming to the showdown over
Witch supremacy and most of all who would merge together as twins so that the
stronger would come out and satisfy a rule that on their birthday this had to
happen or else the Gemini Witch Coven would end.
For some time now, the Vampires had found themselves
becoming more and more involved with these witches and their fight to the death
for supremacy.
The dad was trying to force the issue but Luke in the end
linked with his older brother. This was made possible since Kai had been held
in another world for many years and did not age and when he got out, that made
the linking possible since he was kept at the same age, and was now the same
age as Luke. So they fought each other for the price of saving the coven and
also becoming the leader.
At the same time as this duel was being carried to its completion,
the Vampires were dealing with Caroline’s mother, Sheriff Forbes, dying of
cancer. Caroline resorted to turning her mother into a vampire after trying
this out on a dying man at Duke
University . She thought
it would work, but the first results were a delusion and the man came seeking
her out because of his agony and confusion and pain. As he tried to kill
himself before her very horrified eyes, Damon in true vampire passion jerked
the man’s heart from him and settled this by the man’s death.
Caroline temporarily fled from her dying mother’s hospital
bed and with one thing leading to another, Damon came up with a plan, let the dangerous
Kai come out of sedation and run free if he would save Caroline’s mother by
absorbing the things from her which would lead to her suffering a horrible
death and perhaps another horrible life as a vampire with magnified cancer
problems.
Kai did do this for them, but in his diabolical way, he
turned this into something ugly by causing the poor woman to have a heart
attack and flat line due to the severe stress to her system which he had
caused.
Efforts of a physician at the hospital failed to save her
and she was dreaming of Caroline and even a nightmare of Caroline showing the
most horrible vampire side to her. Then Caroline, persuaded by Stefan, acting
as a friend, came into the room and her mother fought back into consciousness.
With tears her mother asked Stefan to help Caroline in the
future to deal with her own mother’s pending death.
With all efforts to change things failing, Elena and Damon
have been trying to arrange time together so that they can see what is left of
their own relationship and to fight her amnesia concerning their relationship
which she had asked be done some time ago.
Suddenly Elena falls into Damon’s waiting arms wanting him,
loving him, kissing him, and telling him that she does see that life can be
short and is not to be wasted.
Somewhere out in a dark and windy place, Jo finds her
younger brother with her twin brother, both passed out from the strain of their
struggle. As she cradles the younger brother, the ruthless Kai wakes up,
confronts her and vanishes.
This was an exciting episode of The Vampire Diaries and I
look forward to future episodes as the vampires share their complex
relationships and do battle with future villains and apparently one of them
will definitely be the formidable Kai made even more magically powerful by
linking with his brother’s magic.