How do you do it, Arrow?
First you pull out a massive retcon(Sara's alive) and then have the gall to make that retcon as complicated as possible(Oliver knew she didn't die in the sinking of the Queen's Gambit but he did think she died in a later incident!).

I really liked it, Elijah focusing on her neck(and the vein in it) and on her lips, probably my favorite scene of the episode.
Creepy/erotic, old/young, dead/alive, I liked how it was framed to be unnerving as it is instead of the usual "100+ year old vampire lusts after high schooler and let us just ignore the ick…

Oh man, I completely forgot about that whole "kill an Original and you kill the line of vampires they have made" deal.

- Marcel's physical confrontations with the Originals remain inert. There is no way he could win a fight with Rebekah, Klaus or Elijah. So … why … just why? What made these character terrifying back in season 2 of TVD is **** blocking the show here.

I couldn't disagree with this review more. I really, really liked this episode.

At least the flashback this time wasn't 100% useless, progress.

Everything worth saying has already been said so I'll just sum up with: Canary, Sin, Boom, Parkour, Clocktower, Boat, Ra's!

John from Cincinnati fans, unite!

This is so bad, I'll shower them with never ending praise if they go there.

I'm confused as to how you are using Western religious concepts concepts to refute my distaste for the sudden inclusion of Western religious concepts.

But the world hasn't been out of balance, excluding the Fire Nation's aggression in A:TLA. That is something pulled completely out of nowhere for this season.

But the thing with Shiva is that it wasn't just one thing(the Destroyer) it was also the other(Benevolent). Shiva was basically what Rava and Vaatu were when they were entangled, which is exactly my point. They were in harmony and now because of Wan's actions they are not.

Man could do good or evil, as I said(and you even say) above it was all about the deed(Zuko must choose, he isn't fundamentally one or the other), but good and evil weren't the spiritual underpinnings of the show's mythology, the show is heavily Taoist and has never had any use of Western religious concepts. Like…

I wish there was, I loved the Jazz-inspired score that used to accompany Republic City.

It has nothing to do with whether he is forced to do something or not, he was at fault(interfering with Rava& Vaatu)and is now atoning for that deed.

That may be so but he still isn't a divine figure, he is now something closer to a cursed one. Instead of a unifying being, the embodiment of harmony, the Avatar is now a lineage of people charged with atoning for Wan's past mistake.

Besides looking and sounding amazing, seriously this episode looked and sounded amazing, I didn't much care for it.

"X-Files’(and season 2 of Millennium!) Glen Morgan will write and executive produce the series"

Really great article but, as Nibble Magoo said above, no one will listen/care.

Now I really want to read Sweet Valley High. Socially forbidden romance? Tire slashings? Rumbles? Death? That all leads to a surf contest?!