IN THE VAMPIRE DIARIES Television Episode January 5, this is
what I saw:
One of the most serious issues in the world, the act of
suicide, was dealt with during this television show in Season 7.
Bonnie had suffered so much for an extended length of time.
Cut off in a world beyond death, she was tormented by a world which daily
reminded her of her life, which try as she might, she could not get back to.
She had helped her friends who had come to this place escape it, but she had
even sacrificed her chance at doing this to help them get out of this terrible
prison.
She had even helped a very evil young man escape it. It was
after all a prison for this powerful man, Kai, feared by even his own family
and witches coven. Should he get out, it would mean life or death for his
group, and he got out.
Because Kai got out, he began immediately a fight to the
death, started in a challenge long ago between twins, now involving a second
set of twins, Luke and Liv, who had become part of the strange and mysterious
lives of the Vampires of Mystic Falls.
As the Vampires grieved over Bonnie, this sadness became
more poignant when they were reminded of Bonnie’s birthday.
This girl had enriched their lives and brought joy to each
of them, and Jeremy, Elena’s brother, had grown to love her.
Caroline, learning the depths of grief through her mother’s
noncurable illness, was trying to hold onto Bonnie in some way, and looking
back at their friendship. Trying in some way to believe in a future with Bonnie
back with them, she recalls a childish thing Caroline did, when she buried
Bonnie’s plush bear in the woods leaving a trail to it. Bonnie had never found
it. Trying in any way to make amends, Caroline goes out, looks for signs of
where long ago she buried her friend’s keepsake, and Stefan follows her out
there.
Time and again, Stefan had rebuffed Caroline when she most
needed him and felt she could count on him. Now her mother on what could be her
very death bed, appeals to Stefan to look at her daughter again as someone who
needs him. Her mother is wise about this, and with her pleas, managed to cut
through Stefan’s heart which could be very cold.
Caroline is openly grieving, this care-free optimist does
find the fact is, the thought of losing her mother is breaking Caroline’s
heart.
Stefan a man who is unreadable is not untouchable, and he
follows her out for the search of past happiness and past innocence. She finds
Bonnie’s toy and it has been damaged. Nonetheless, the spark of hope glimmers
for them both, and Bonnie takes the childish toy and cleans and mends it
herself.
Stefan is drawn into her grief and he shares it and brings
comfort and a shoulder to cry on.
Meanwhile, in hopes of checking on Bonnie, an unlikely witch
uses his power to send them back in some way to see their lost friend. Kai uses
his strength to the max and obviously suffers pain and begins to bleed with
these efforts.
To everyone’s horror, Bonnie is in the act of committing
suicide. Giving up on ever escaping back to her life, she does many things
showing she means business. Seeing this, nonetheless the hold between the world
she is in and their own is brief. Jeremy goes back alone, sees her in the final
plans and literally sees her go into the garage, start the car allowing the
exhaust fumes to rob the garage of air. Desperately, Jeremy in horror tries to
reach her and through some force, he pushes the automatic door which opens. It
is good he did that, because Bonnie was coming to her senses and fighting to
live.
This show was a buffet table of delights for Vampire fans
including:
Enzo’s plan of evil towards revenge against Stefan with an
elaborate plan of conquest of a relative of the Salvatore’s, Sarah; also Bonnie
finding the secret clue to gaining her magic back and escaping her solitary
prison; the murderous Kai having a split personality type situation since
bonding with his good twin, Luke, and last, but not least, proving love can
prevail, Damon and Elena’s romance, rekindling in a splendid way.
