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CarrieAnn
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Just wanted you to know that I really love this comment and could spend way too much time thinking about what "X" really is for each character.

Oh, I thought that was covered when she called out to the blonde girl who sort of ran off, and Tyler said, "They're all in hiding after being decimated by vampires" or whatever.

It kinda makes sense, but I've never really understood why other hybrids can't make new ones.

I don't see how she was uninterested. I mean, yeah, she had other things on her mind for the bulk of the episode—like being chained up, having her uterus/baby stuck with a needle, being fed on by a hybrid. And at the end of the episode, she told Elijah he could leave if he didn't want to go through a bunch of werewolf

I find Klaus and his man-pain so tiresome. (Not JoMo's performance, but the character as written.) He can stake Rebekah for 90 years, but if she tells him one white lie, she is the worst person in the world, single tear, no one ever loved me enough.

I think vampires can feed on werewolf blood as well as they would any human, but probably don't do it very often because of the risk of dying from a werewolf bite.

I don't know… I don't think that's really been the story this season. If you look episode by episode, there was this thing with Qetsiyah and then the time Silas brainwashed her into torturing Damon. Those are the only two times she's been the one in danger. Pretty weak sauce compared to other seasons. If anything,

I think that was the point—Amara had already taken the immortality potion stuff when Tessa found them, and there was only one cure, so Tessa couldn't kill Amara unless she was willing to let Silas stay immortal. That's what Amara said to Silas tonight. So instead Tessa somehow subdued Amara and kept her confined for

Yeah, the dialogue seems looser and funnier this season, and the actors seem to be having a ton of fun. As much as I love(d) Human Elena and Normal Stefan, without them this season, there weren't any angsty characters around. Well, Bonnie, but she doesn't count because of aforementioned problems with her story. Maybe

Yeah, somehow while I think B- is the right grade, I also enjoyed the heck out of this episode. It was just a little too silly and ITA with Carrie about the problems with the Bonnie and Silas storylines.

Exactly—I don't think she needed to throw herself between Damon and Katherine or desperately fight to keep her alive. I definitely believe she'd feel conflicted about helping Katherine, and that conflict would make her pause before taking action. But at the very least, a "Damon, stop" would have made me believe the

I think Damon was telling her the plan, and then when Katherine rang the doorbell, he was basically at the point of explaining that they needed Silas cured so that he could do whatever blah blah blah to the Other Side. So he did that whole, "Who on Earth could THAT be?" so that Elena would get what he was trying to do

OK, there is a LOT that I have apparently blocked out about last season. :)

Wow, I don't remember Grams being in the last two episodes at all!

Wait, how did Stefan know that Bonnie was dead? Did Qetsiyah tell him? Maybe he assumed they knew? He also didn't have that much time to talk to Damon, and didn't know his brain was going to be fried (although… I have some speculation about that), so it didn't seem like the most important thing to say at that moment,

Really going deep on this topic now, but in the S4 premiere, it seemed like something pretty bad happened to Grams while Bonnie was trying to save Elena, so she may not even be on the Other Side anymore.

Oh, AND, Lexi obviously knew what was happening to Stefan, so you'd think she'd go on a hunt to find Bonnie to pass the message along to Jeremy. (I do get that there has to be a push and a pull on each side, so it would be easier for Lexi to communicate through Bonnie.) Anyway, I think the writers could pretty easily

Yes, and if Lexi sticks close to Stefan and Alaric sticks close to Damon (or at least in the Other Side Mystic Falls area), why haven't they run into Bonnie? I know we don't really get how this all works, but Mama Original was definitely working with some witches on the Other Side (so was Grams, I think). So the

When Elena is rightfully dressing herself down for not noticing that Bonnie was dead, she says, "She didn't come home for her dad's funeral!" Jeremy says that to Damon too. So, yeah, everyone knew that her dad had been killed. They bought Jeremy's explanation that she was too upset to come home, and was staying