Could be—we may never know. Either way there was a huge amount of bloodshed all over the city that night…

Interesting. Well, in Portland, mayors are sworn in the following January, so Mayor-Elect Renard has plenty of time to wrap things up before departing the Police Dept.

Exactly. Also:

For mayors (and other elected officials) Election Day is not the day they begin serving in office. They're usually sworn in the following January, so it makes sense that Renard would be wrapping up his tenure in the Police Dept (and meeting with candidates for his replacement, whom HE would appoint).

Agreed. I did feel like everyone made incredibly stupid decisions, though (granted, it's TVD, but still). Stefan still has hallucinations weeks after being freed, yet he immediately frees Damon — even after seeing his obviously squirrelly behavior while chained? Damon KNOWS he's still fucked up, yet goes off on his…

And love how we're supposed to sympathize with Damon even though he 1) threatened mass murder to get Tyler to take him to Elena's body, and 2) smashed Tyler's head into the concrete and left him to die. Those wacky Salvatore brothers!

Well, it wouldn't be an episode of TVD unless one or both Salvatore brothers treated Bonnie like crap…and she put up with it. Sigh…

Not a Mod, but calling a poster names because he/she disagrees with you is childish and shitty behavior, IMO.

Excellent point. If I were in that restaurant, the first thing I'd tell the cops is, "She had platinum blonde hair, and, uh, a hoodie."

Also, NBC's promotion staff has done a shitty job reminding viewers the show even exists. Yes, they ran some ads this week promoting Grimm's return, but otherwise the show is ignored. The cast never shows up on TODAY, the Tonight Show, Late Night or the Universal-owned chat shows like Ellen, and they didn't even bring…

"Nick needed to be more supportive of her, especially when she obviously felt bad about the Juliette/ Eve reveal…"

How is Nick being a dick to Trubel? He's given her shelter and food and been really supportive, IMO — especially given how shady she's acted since going off with Chavez. He yelled at her this episode because she seemed to be keeping the truth about Juliette's death from him — which she WAS!

Who KNOWS what shady Trubel knows now? I love that girl but the fact that she lied to Nick (even by omission) is making me seriously side-eye her at this point. Plus she has never given him a full explanation of what she was doing with Chavez and Meisner.

Just because Eve (apparently) has no feelings for Nick doesn't mean she doesn't want to blow off some steam now and then with a tall, handsome Zauberbiest. And we know Renard has a weakness for powerful Hexenbiests…I wouldn't put it past the writers to hook them up again in the future.

"Phew! Someone else is worse than us!"
— STAR Labs Security

Yeah, I have to say I HATED the idea that they were bringing Juliette back, because I was so impressed that the writers killed her off in the first place. I mean, killing a core character who had been with the show since episode 1 was a genuinely gutsy move, and I was really looking forward to seeing Nick rebuild his…

Agree that the scenes with Rhonda and her fellow inmates were the funniest part of the pilot. "So you're not really a white supremacist?" "Oh no, I am — I just wouldn't have put this (swastika) in sure a crappy place." I can tell Megan Mullally is going to have a lot of good lines.

Marissa Cooper. Not even close.

Well, it's not like Fonescu has anything else to sell, and he was pretty stupid to bring his only valuable possession to a criminal fence operation with no backup whatsoever. I was shocked he wasn't shot on the spot, TBH.

Honestly, there's no real trajectory to the season as a whole, not just the vampires' plot. What was the point of Eph's DC trip? Are there any ramifications from that? The Daywalkers were introduced, then slaughtered. Fitzwilliam joined the group…for an episode, until he was killed, too. The Silver Angel had a…