I saw the made-for-TV adaptation of Scarlett. It includes a cailleach performing a C-section. Is there really anything else we need to know about it?

Oh, I never understood the Ashley obsession. Howard appears to be in a medically induced coma for the majority of the film. And don't get me started on his accent.

I like to re-watch it every few years for precisely these reasons.

Ew, I hope not. I know I'm being optimistic in thinking that Elena should try being single, since she's been a serial monogamist since she was 15 or 16, but if she leaves with that milquetoast, her character will be officially destroyed.

I laughed so hard when Lily said he got his inability to hide things from her.

Yeah, Katherine also did it while Stefan was sleeping to fuck with his head. IIRC, Damon could also call Caroline from afar when he was feeding on her, but that isn't a power they've used since. Sort of like the fog and the crow. Vampires have had fewer powers with each new season, it seems.

As soon as Josh and Aiden started talking about what a wonderful life they would have together, I was like, "OH NO OH NO THIS WON'T END WELL." And it didn't. RIP Aiden. Your eyebrows were something special indeed.

And of course she was a target for any other vampire who wanted to take the cure. Not sure whether human Damon could survive all that. Granted, I doubt he will take the cure at all in the first place.

It was much easier to root for them in earlier seasons, when only Damon killed people unnecessarily. At this point, "Kills an extra" is shorthand for "Oh no this person will now be a threat for 2 episodes, except not really!"

The entire Enzo arc:

She wasn't by the end, and she still refused the cure.

Nailed it, especially re: the D/S relationship. I think the reason they haven't spent time together this season is precisely because the show ran out of things to do with them. Now they can further bond over losing the girl they both loved (even though Stefan and Elena are apparently over their whole thing), but that…

You just want to get secular with him.

I would have preferred the plot if, in S4, she refused the cure simply because she thought that it could serve a higher purpose, but she really didn't. She refused it because she wanted to be with Damon. Then there was that whole scene last season when she and Car were like, "Being a vampire is AWESOME." It just feels…

I feel like they have done the whole "this enemy sounds really scary; I'll bet we can get rid of them easily!" plot every season.

I just hate to see another Elena plot reduced to "A Brother Salvatore is dishonest, therefore eliminating Elena's knowledge and agency."

I feel like if they have to turn SOMEONE back into a human, they had enough options this season that they didn't need to bring back the fucking cure. Alaric was cured by stepping over the fucking town line. I'm sure Kai probably could have cured someone by siphoning out their vampire magic or something.

OH! Okay, I guess that makes sense? And I guess it doesn't really matter if it doesn't?

Same. They messed his character up in S4 (he didn't even TRY to retaliate for getting all petrified and such), but he had a very solid run in S2 and especially S3.

Yeah, Mikael's TVD death episode wasn't particularly great, but it definitely resonated more than this one. But honestly, he just LINGERS and LINGERS on this show, so I was fine with seeing him go away, just as I was fine with Esther turn into birdies or whatever.