@avclub-7cbdf9bce9a6ebda0988f7c45702c176:disqus  Yep, that. Also including "See, Elena doesn't even want the stupid thing. Give it to Alaaaaaric".  The only thing it accomplished was making my cat look at me funny.

Well, the most basic reason for him making a terrible vampire is that he apparently can't handle consuming human blood without going over the edge, like someone who can't have one drink without getting blackout drunk. A perfect vampire or an interesting serial killer would also need to possess enough restraint not to…

Katherine's probably burned so many bridges over the years, I actually wouldn't be surprised if she couldn't find anyone up to her standards who was willing to turn her.

She wouldn't need to move on if she never went there in the first place. If she died pure like Esther said, she was probably never on the Other Side as opposed to wherever dead humans go.

Being really bad at being a vampire. He fell off the wagon, got dragged back onto the wagon, went all mopey, and then repeated the cycle. Occasionally made time for a Bon Jovi concert or two in later iterations.

I'm so sick of hearing about that dratted cure, I totally understand if you checked out then.

I'm not sure even that bright spot is worth putting up with Jeremy full time.  Of course, I spent the whole episode thinking I'd be willing to overlook the innate goofiness of one mystical cure if they used it as the way to bring Alaric back.

1) Damon told Elena that what he wanted was for her to take the cure and she still refused, proving the sire bond is broken. Damon even name checked it specifically for anyone who wouldn't believe it unless it was stated outright.

Didn't Esther tell Elena that Jenna wasn't on the other side? That she died "clean" or something like that, and found peace?

@avclub-bc68599029928a93ff775e686c3be325:disqus  He said Reagan was his favorite president during the product placement challenge in Berlin. That could have just been because there were only two who were trivia question relevant, but I find it difficult to believe anyone would claim Reagan as their favorite without it…

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus  They probably wouldn't have erased if it had been an entire year worth of plot. But the ramifications from YoH were awfully big for the fallout from a single two-parter, especially for a show that was constantly getting notes about how they needed to be as episodic as…

@avclub-b7784c3d4ede54a8f3e13b304f3a991a:disqus  I think Juliet views nearly everyone as replaceable, because if they aren't then it gives them a certain amount of power over her and it'll be that much more devastating when they eventually leave.

She's also incredibly fickle though. Look how quickly she deemed Deacon replaceable because someone new and shiny had turned up, despite having tossed out a long term manager partly because he didn't agree with Deacon encouraging her newer material. Probably smarter to assume that you *won't* be the one to overcome…

Relationships of various types have always been a strong feature, true. But they generally haven't been as one sided or screwed up as they have been all season.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus :Yes, but as far as I can recall (didn't get to rewatch this one too recently) we don't objectively know why or how they decided to come after him, just what they told Crichton. @avclub-c701a997d9bef627835b036efb4eca63:disqus  is right about me thinking that the aliens…

I can think of two reasons why Zhaan wouldn't participate. One is that she's the most likely to protest the mental cruelty of offering Crichton his home only to rip it away. Handily this also explains why the generally self-serving and definitely self-preserving Rygel does come to "check on" Crichton — he's very…

Right there with you. I liked the idea of spin-off because there are too many characters and too little screen time to go around on one show and because having to run Original damage control was seriously hobbling plot options for the Mystic Falls locals (20th century division).

For me pointless but mostly inoffensive episodes are worse than those that go completely off the rails — 'Dull' is a greater sin than 'WTF was that?' most of the time.

That's usually been over how to win a case for their clients or how to fight someone from outside who was coming after L&G as a whole or one of them personally.

According to the information I've gathered over the years from friends who have more patience than I do with people who don't read for fun, "airhead" can sometimes be a plus in the short term as long as it's the right kind of stupid. (This is, of course, assuming he isn't mostly finding his female equivalent.)