Director Ian Somerhalder
NO
DOUBT ABOUT IT – Ian Somerhalder’s Directorial Debut was an incredible success
in the March 12 televised show on CW of The Vampire Diaries. It was an incredible show enhanced by the
fact that Ian Somerhalder known for his role as the popular Damon Salvatore,
was breaking away from the acting and into this new role, as director.
In
this, the star breaks the ground made famous by a line of illustrious director
geniuses of the past and present. It is a place where only time can tell and
will tell how successful such a venture will eventually be. In this episode of
The Vampire Diaries the directing sizzled with perfection and taut and exciting
promise which could later bring on a dazzle to future work of Somerhalder’s
direction.
He joins a history dating back
at least eighty six years, many of them reflected in the history of the Academy
Awards presentations to sixty-six different directors for their outstanding
movie direction expertise. These awards reflect a quest for excellence in
Dramatic Direction and in Comedy Direction.
At times these awards singled out one film which brought that director
to the attention of the prestigious agency, but at other times, directors were
honored for several films. Always the public at large in shows looks for the
magic mix of Best Direction and Best Picture, to drive them to the show time
and again.
Because of this, directors
have found a place in history in the past for notable shows, such as “Grand
Hotel” filmed in the 1930s.
Sir
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was a director known as “The Master of Suspense” for
his direction of more than fifty feature films in a career which encompassed
British films and then those made in Hollywood
With this directorial debut,
Somerhalder has shown that his efforts in directing show great promise in this
start of an exciting piece of his future in the arts.
Thursday night’s episode of
The Vampire Diaries showed Caroline taking a walk on the wild side. Rather than
feel the pent-up emotions boiling inside her since her mother’s recent death,
and Stefan’s coldness, she has gone rogue, listening to nobody, caring about
nothing. This leads her to a bar incident where she explains to a victim she
intends to basically rip out his heart.
Stefan is trying to track her
down, hoping to pull her back from this abyss, but she has cleaned out her
things from her home and college room and she definitely means business. Bonnie
is a very welcome reward for Elena’s worrying state, and yet Bonnie is not
allowed to forget that awful place she just left. Unfortunately, she had met a
woman in that isolated prison confinement in another place, with Damon finding
out to his horror; it could be his mother who had died of consumption many
years ago. Bonnie has some loose ends herself, and tries to call Jeremy who is
away at art school, and has to leave him a message, she has returned, but he
needs to give her time to sort this entire situation out.
Caroline is just bad as only
these Vampires know how to be, so she callously in her provocative way explains
her sudden eating frenzy as “Guys just taste better.”
She proves she can be cold and
hot at the same time throughout this night of frenzied rebirth of the blood
craving Vampire she is.
Stefan’s efforts to recover
Caroline before she goes any deeper into this emotional roller coaster she is on
makes his way to a warehouse dance party which is obviously very wild indeed.
Bonnie has to fight off one man’s attention and finds she has to resort to the
magic which thankfully she has fully restored. When he tries to charm her with
how “hot” she is, she actually burns his hand from her body.
Damon angers Bonnie when he
tries to get her to help Kai, the man who mistreated her in that other world
with such pain, she gave Damon a taste of this in the only way she could reach
him on how much she would not help him and Kai try to go back to the place
Damon’s mother might be trapped.
This show was fast paced and
yet drew one into the situations which were complicated and yet very real.
Caroline finally in what had to be the worst revenge a rejected lover could
pull on a man, told Stefan he had one choice, he would have to revert back to
the Vampire she wanted him to be, and turn off his humanity. She was willing to
have a college premed student operate on Sarah Salvatore, a girl Stefan had
watched over and protected for all of Sarah’s life. Within just what appeared
to be seconds, with bloody hands and a rib breaking electric saw in the
student’s hands, and a blood curdling
screaming Sarah, Stefan went over to his very dark side.
It would seem that no matter
what happens in these Vampire’s lives, they can open a door and an audience
follows willingly, caught up in the magic of the story and the horror and fear
of the wait for the next episode.
Good Job, Great Show,
Congratulations to all who participated in this remarkable episode of The
Vampire Diaries.
