I was really hoping we'd see Elena eat someone or talk about eating someone pretty quick after turning her emotions off.  That just seems like the next logical step for a vampire that doesn't care about all that human stuff anymore.

Actually, the more that I think about this, the more I like this plan.  Q sends an experienced vamp hunter in to kill Silas.  Odds are, though, he dies waking Silas up (or immediately after he wakes).  Hunter's curse makes Silas insane (however long it takes).  Silas takes the Cure and offs himself.

Boo.  All my Silas-raising-Alaric hopes and dreams are dashed: Matt Davis left the show for creative disagreements with the show.  Sadness.

You make a lot of excellent points and I find myself nodding my head at your comment a lot.  But it also left me with further questions (when really I should give up on this making sense and just wait and see what happens).

All he has to do is bring back Alaric and I'm fine with him murdering (almost) anyone else he wants in return.

@avclub-011d0b4fe6835bb3d37ef4e0ea713de6:disqus I wouldn't want them together in any kind of relationship situation, but I wouldn't mind revenge/anger/grief sex at some point.  With lots of guilt and remorse for Damon sprinkled on top.

I was thinking about my hair straightened on an island in January near Nova Scotia.  Even with amazing product, the humidity in the air would curl that shit right up after a day or two of sleeping on it.  They're surrounded by water.

I think I read some fanwank somewhere that said that maybe the Bennetts are matrilineal witches (or something) and they always pass the Bennet name down in the female line.  Otherwise, I gave up thinking about Bonnie's last name back in Season 1 — brain hurt too much.

Yup.  What was that all about? Was it just feeding Silas blood to wake him up?  Doesn't really sound like a massacre to me.  Plus Bonnie seemed plenty powerful enough to get into the tomb under the well or whatever.

I like this for so many reasons — now I wish that I'd thought of that 00 designation as well, damnit.  (I'm gonna call new Hunter 007 in my head from now on — wonder what number Jeremy should get?  005? One of the ones that died.)

You're right that we don't know how many it takes.  I've been assuming 12 because of all the other massacre numbers (12 humans, 12 hybrids), but really they never said that on-screen (or at least I don't think they did).

Yeah, I eventually just gave up on the whole language thing — lots of stuff on the show starts to fall apart.  I guess I was just frustrated that they specifically pointed out the language switch on the sword (to Aramaic) which made me start thinking about it all way to hard.  Really, the reason that sword is in…

He's Damon's future new drinking buddy.

Even if I buy into Klaus speaking Aramaic (which people have given reasonable arguments for) I still don't understand why you'd put that language into a sword made for people who I don't think spoke Aramaic — what did the original hunters speak?  Italian or something else?

Unless she's on a remote island in Canada, then she takes the time to straighten it.

Does anyone think that the whole setup for killing Silas is more complicated than any Bond Villain plan ever?

@avclub-f7f8eb12e0f61a9321597157c0d61791:disqus  This was my exact thought as soon as we started talking about bringing people back from the dead.  I miss Alaric so much.  He would have never put up with all the love triangle nonsense that went on for the whole first half the season or at least he would have been…

I totally agree.  I've been re-watching earlier seasons and I miss the Damon who might eat/kill anyone at any time, no matter how dumb it might be.

Yup, he clearly was set up as the most intelligent person around, between all his awesome vampire hunting stuff and his determination to kill Silas.  I love it when the Gang is shown to be less impressive than outside characters — whether it's brains or power.

Stefan comes close when he isn't being all mopey, but there is nothing quite as marvelous as Damon in all his rash, psychopathic, sarcastic glory.