I always thought the age difference was like 4 years, but I just googled, and it seems like there's a 7-8 year age difference. Stefan was supposed to be 17, and Damon 25, when they turned. But still, it was a bad call to do the flashbacks this way. They should have just made them seem like dreams, where Damon was just…

Is there any chance Kol can come back, in this body? Because, I really need him to do that. I saw Daniel Sharman tweeting his appreciation for the show, but I was hoping that nothing was official?

Oof, excellent point. I was excited about it; now I'm sad.

No problem—it happens to all of us. The internet trained me to read posts starting with "sorry" and "um" as condescending, but I know they're not always meant that way!

I'm not sure what you're saying—your points here have nothing to do with anything I posted?—but it seems like you believe that because there are some examples of characters of color on this show, there's no way the show can be problematic when it comes to race? OK!

I bet you could have said this less condescendingly, but ok.

But also, half the reason he hates Stefan is that he's decided Stefan is a bad brother to his BFF Damon. So, his brilliant plan is to ruin Damon's great(^6)-grandniece. Perfect. Airtight.

Fair point! I'll revise to say that Elena TRIED to be a good sister in the early seasons. Jeremy was clearly important to her, and she made mistakes (again, 17 years old), but he was a priority for her. In later years, it's just been lip service. Tell, no show.

Yeah, that was a nice scene. I really liked SMcQ in the scene with Bonnie in the garage too. Glad he got a few good moments before he left.

I have tons of issues with this show's handling of race, but appropriation is probably the lowest of my concerns, personally. Part of appropriation is that taking something from a culture and exploiting it in your own culture, or profiting from it, particularly in a way that exceeds what someone from the original…

Yeah, I was fine with the show/Jeremy letting Elena off the hook for not being the world's best sister right after she was orphaned. I always felt like she was a good sister for the first two seasons. She was 16/17, not old enough to take care of him, but she tried anyway. (RIP Human Elena, ILYSM.)

Based on promos for next week, and hints they've been dropping, I suspect we were prevented good Caroline/Liz scenes because Caroline is going to lose it. And if we'd had good, substantive scenes of the two of them saying goodbye, it might not be as convincing that she would go off the deep end? I don't like it, and…

"Okay, Enzo. Sure thing. You seem like a chill guy with good ideas."

I don't think Sin knows that Sara is dead, or that Laurel has Single White Female'd her. There was a moment during the fight when Sin looked over at Laurel crying over Wildcat, and she realized it wasn't Sara. So that's why she talked to Quentin about it—she thought he might know what was going on. No one on this show…

Yeah. There aren't as many vampires running around MF anymore though, so I'm actually okay with it being Elena this time. Plus, it did give her that moment of being pretty awesome with the flame-throwing. I could use 100% more of that and 100% less of her self-centered whining.

But have we seen vampire blood heal chronic diseases of this nature? I'm actually fine with the idea that it doesn't heal things like that—that it heals injuries, but that cancer is not an injury and doesn't act like one. So the vampire blood could help in the moment by healing injured tissues, but the cancer would…

I mean, I think it was Elena because that's what the plot required, but I do think he wanted a vampire because he needed that person to stay alive while he practiced on them. And he hates Damon, so hurting Elena hurts Damon, and that's a win-win.

Argh, those kinds of comments are why my respect for JP and CD is pretty low. I mean, do you…watch your own show? Enzo killed himself; it's no different than if Stefan had been driving a car and Enzo had leaned over and yanked the steering wheel to steer them into a tree. Stefan happened to be holding the stake, Enzo…

I'm keeping hope alive that 6A was not an aberration, and that when Bonnie finally gets back, they will let her remain super awesome. That's my only concern about this season—it really did improve over the past two seasons so drastically, but I worry that the things that worked really well will be ignored in the…

Yeah, that didn't seem like an Elena joke at all. Elena has no sense of humor, first of all, but definitely not that kind. Anyway, I was still kind of relieved that that's all it was, because I just don't buy the emotion from Damon and Elena anymore, so the less I see of it, the better.