That is true and I hadn't thought of that.  Interesting.

I keep wondering about the tombstone.  Kol thought it was necessary for something and I thought they implied that he knew that based on his witchy friends.  So why was it just a bribe?  I'm hoping we'll hear about it again in the future — particularly with the off-hand remark about Q's blood being in it.  Prolly get…

How did people feel about Damon this episode?  Seemed like he mostly walked around getting exposition to happen and then sat around feeling sorry for himself.  It was a weird place for the character to be, I think.

Loved this episode from top-to-bottom: possible permanent death, return of Katherine, lots of assumptions about the Cure dispelled.

I'm hoping it means she's turns off that humanity switch and we get some full-on crazytown Elena.

I thought the same thing you did — why didn't Caroline just go with Tyler?  The only thing I could think of is that she's staying behind to try to distract Klaus and buy Tyler more time to get away (and give the writers more space for Klaus/Caroline to happen).

Yeah, I thought the "breakup" scene was pretty, but I wasn't particularly moved by it.  Knowing that Klaus is likely running off pretty soon means that Tyler will be back, more than likely.

All I thought was "Why does Quetsiya speak Aramaic?  How does that make sense?"

The Salvatores were so worried early on in the season that Elena killing someone would drive her over the edge and make her turn off her humanity.  I'm really interested to see if that happens anyway over Jeremy's death.

I'm hoping that, even if it really does nothing to drive Silas crazy, we still get to see Jeremy haunt him.  Silas is probably already bat-shit insane from being desiccated so long, so I doubt it'll do anything to make him suicidal — but it'll still be interesting to see how Jeremy haunts him (if he haunts him).

It's probably really petty of me that I can't help wondering how she's flat ironing her hair on that island.  Yep?  Yep.

I loooooved that scene with Caroline. It was great to have another character admit they want to stay young and powerful and perfectly in keeping with Caroline's character. After so much weeping over the cure, I'm glad to hear from the other point of view.

I had a lot of similar complaints about this one.  Seemed like the characters were all acting incredibly dumb in spite of themselves.

I'm probably a bit slow on the uptake here, but I just realized that not only was Klaus asking Damon for dating-advice (or how-to-not-be-hated-so-we-can-date advice), he's asking Damon specifically about Caroline.

But wasn't drinking the water why Damon could avoid Klaus' compulsion?  I thought that's how that whole thing worked — otherwise he'd be locked in the basement for a very long time.

Plus, depending on the numbers, there are vampire corpses all over the world now, just lying around for humans to find and science. Not like they had a chance to hide or anything.

Yeah, I think it's kinda weird that there aren't more non-heterosexual relationships — particularly with the thousand year old characters.  And Damon too, I mean, honestly.  It's just getting weird at this point.

I agree with you on the parenting and Klaus. I think he's been killing it since the holiday episode and this episode was absolutely perfect for him.  His rage over Kol's death was awesome.

Awesome episode absolutely, but I'm also fond of the trip to Denver.

This was my first thought as well, but then my husband pointed out that TVD loves flashbacks and Kol talked a bunch about how they were all together for a long time in New Orleans.