Vampire Diaries: Late & Final

(photo courtesy of sucker for vampires.com)

So....

I was so supposed to write about Glee last week but I didn't and I am sorry.

I will try my best to get up a recap/review for this weeks episode.

You can totally watch it online though (Hulu, Fox, etc.)

Vampire Diaries time.

Everytime I watch VD now, I am going to think "Is this the episode Damon and Elena kiss,"

because after Thursday nights episode it is SO freaking obvious these two are sparking.

Did Elena betray Stefan on Stefan's behalf...or Damon's?

Can it really be called betrayal.

The tension is literally killing me.

Stefan is back on "the human stuff" as he calls it and like any good addict, he is lying about it.

"Im fine" Really Stefan?

Is that why you kidnapped and compelled that poor Miss Mystic falls contestant when Elena found out.

"Im not sad, i'm freaking hungry!"

Part of me wished he could have actually said the F-word, but that line was enjoyable and delivered beautifully nonetheless.

You have to feel bad for Stefan, I do, but I have to admit this side of him doesn't suck. No pun intended.

I mean, he is fun, hilarious, and hot.

It's only when he starts doubting his "true self" that he gets miserable, depressing, and scary...still funny though.

Lets talk about Damon, and inevitably Elena.

The roles have been switched and the usually apathetic and fun Damon is now responsible and-what?....caring?

"I don't do forgiveness." Okay, maybe he isn't THAT caring.

He did, however, step in to save Elena from founding family embarrassment and sat with her after Elena literally

stabbed Stefan in the back....with a needle of vervain no less.

It was to save him from himself, of course, but stroking his head and telling him it as okay for slamming her against a wall makes

Elena look quite deceitful.

Here is a great Damon quote to leave you with.

This was after Uncle Gilbert threatened to expose him to the council.

"Go ahead. I'll kill every last one of them. Then i'll sever your hand, take off your ring, and kill you too."

The Hunger: Stefan, you have a drinking problem

To be honest, when I first started watching this episode I was thinking
"What is wrong with drinking human blood"
I mean...your a vampire.
Your in the middle of a kind-of war and human blood makes you the strongest.
I didn't really see a problem with that.
However, Damon and Stefan are two vastly different characters.
Damon is uncontrollable, but in a way that makes you think "Thats classic Damon, breaking people's necks without a second thought" (We'll get back to this)
Stefan, on the other hand, had self-restraint.
Now he has a serious lack of self restraint and its eating away at him.
He not only craves human blood, he needs it.
I say this sparingly because his need is not dire, but it is torturous.
He said his skin feels like its burning, which in my mind seems sadistic to try and keep yourself from drinking human blood.
The only catch is, Elena is pretty human.
Being around her is going to begin to be a chore, as he tries to separate "Elena his girlfriend" from "Elena a human with blood".

Which sucks.
And, as I predicted, I have a feeling Damon is going to swoop in for the kill seeing as he is now the mature Salvatore brother.
Of course Elena "loves" Stefan, but I wonder how long she can "love" him after he is vying for the blood inside her veins.
Poor Stefan, he needs rehab.


So what actually happened in the episode?

Uncle John Gilbert returns to town which means trouble for the Salvatore brothers, even though Damon is the only one aware of it.
Seeing as he is now the "mature" brother, at the kick off party in Mystic Falls, John Gilbert reveals that he knows about Damon and about the Tomb so Damon breaks his neck.
Rather quick, and unexpectedly.
Damon is also getting in cozy with the History teacher Alaric since their "break out Stefan mission" last week.
Not too cozy though, just not "kill on sight."
When John Gilbert comes back to life, Damon realizes he was wearing the same ring Alaric was.
Gilbert inherited it, but is wearing his brother's ring, while he gave his to Isobel who in turn gave her's to Alaric.
Yea, this is complicated (not really...)

Anyway,
Stefan gets drunk at the kick off in order to keep his blood thirst to a minimum, but he is in actuality just acting like a drunken fool-compelling people, dancing with Matt's mom- and Elena is worried.
What else is new.
Stefan almost sucks the blood of some not so innocent rabble-rouser in the parking lot but controls himself, just barely.

Jeremy and Elena had some much needed bonding time, she told him she was adopted.
But she didn't tell him about Vicki.
So, Jeremy-realizing someone must have buried Vicki's body- goes through Elena's diary.
Side note: I forgot all about her diary, which is weird because this is "Vampire Diaries"
I remeber when we would see clips of Elena and Stefan writing in their diaries...not so much anymore.
Anyway, now Jeremy knows everything, but Elena does not know that he knows what she thinks he is trying to figure out.
Now that is complicated.
Maybe Elena should have just been honest with him.
Honesty is the best policy after all.

This episode was nothing compared to last weeks, which was freakin sweet.
But, Damon never ceases to amaze me.

I really think he and Elena are going to share an intimate moment, more intimate than him going through her bra drawer.

A Damon line to finish us off:
“Do you wanna hear the bad news or the really bad news? Do you want to hear how the council is back in vampire mode or how I just killed Uncle John Gilbert?" as he walks away with a smile.
You have to love ruthlessness in a character like his.

Glee is coming up next.
I will probably write it as im sitting in psychology with my head against the wall.
I actually do that btw.
It should be up by tonight, but it was awesome and I will tell you why.

Quick and Dirty: Everybody Loves Hugo

So here is the simple version

Off the Island:

• We are experiencing Hurley's "alternate"
• He is a successful benefactor and chain owner of a fried chicken restaurant
• On a blind date, he runs into Libby, she isn't his blind date btw, who tells him she knows him from somewhere and asks if 1) he believes in soul mates 2) if he remembers her
• He doesn't remember her, but he is taken by her and when he sees her pulling off in a mental health van he is probably thinking "just my luck"
• He runs into Desmond, and we know from the last episode(and last blog) what he is up to"Were you on flight 815"
• He tells Desmond about Libby and Desmond infers that this is his "soulmate" who will help him become enlightened as he had, so he tells Hugo to go after her.
• He does, they have the first date they never had on the island and when Libby kisses\ him he starts seeing the stuff she, Desmond, Charlie, and Daniel Faraday are already in tune to: Their lives on the Island. I wonder however where hers ends, seeing as she died on the island. I guess I could wonder that about Charlie and Daniel as well.
• Desmond runs over John Locke with his car: We can assume he was trying to help him "see" with a near death experience, but this is one of those cliffhangers Lost is famous for.

On the island:

• While visiting Libby's grave, Hurley sees Michael who tells him he has to stop everyone from going to blow up the plane or they are going to die.
• Side note: Michael's best line on Lost "WAAAALLLLLTTT!!!" haha.
• Anyway, Michael also tells Hurley that "people are listening to you now." He must be important.
• Hurley warns Illana, but she is set on blowing it up because that is what she has been trained her entire life for.
• Illana has the dynamite from the "Black Rock" and does not head Hurley's warning about "that stuff [being] unstable." So when she drops the bag on the ground, she blows up.
• Richard wants more dynamite, Hurley says no way and blows up the Black Rock.
• Miles says something very intuitive "Do you always just listen to what these dead people tell you to do" It got me thinking...I KNOW RIGHT?
• Richard splits the group (The Blowerupers and The Hurleyians)
• The Blowerupers (Richard, Miles, Ben Linus) are going to get grenade and other explosives to get ride of that plane once and for all
• The Hurleyians (Jack, Lapidus, an aphasic Sun, and of course Hurley) are blindly following Hurley to do...what ever the hell he says. In this instance, going to "talk" to Not Locke.
• Sayid returns to Not Locke's camp, leaving Desmond tied to a tree in the woods
• Desmond meets Not Locke who takes him on a walk to find out why Widmore brought him to the island.
• Not Locke tells him Widmore is interested in power, and asks Desmond why he isn't afraid.
• Desmond says "Whats the point of being afraid"
• He gets pushed into a well by Not Locke
• Hurley tells Jack he didn't really see Jacob (who supposedly told him to talk to Locke) but Jack already knows
• The Hurleyians all meet to talk with Not Locke.

Interesting things:

• Ben said "No sooner did she tell you who you are than she blows up. The Island was done with her" Interesting. He also says "Makes you think what will happen to you when the island is through with you" Yes, it does. Thats worth pondering. Reading interviews with cast tell me that a lot of main characters are getting killed, I wonder who is next.
• I think I saw Hurley with the Adam and Eve stones from season 1, which means 1) They are on the move 2) We can find out who Adam and Eve are 3) Adam might be Hurley
• Michael tells Hurley the whispers in the forest are people who cannot leave the island. He is one of them. Michael cannot leave because of what he did (Killing Libby and Ana Lucia?)

Finally, I will be reviewing Glee probably later tonight.

Because Lost and Glee interrupted each others time spaces, I just finished watching Lost and am loading Glee on a (illegal) website right now.

Look forward to that.

Sorry this was so short.

Im interested in Adam and Eve theories.

Drop a line.

The Alternate Happily Ever After

First things first: Hello. =]

I updated the site a little, and probably will be doing something different very soon because I really enjoy toying with photoshop.

How is it?

Feedback would be greaaat.

I also am sorry I haven't posted in a while, I am consumed with school work but I will try my best to keep this blog updated.

Which is why I added a twitter

so that whenever I do not have time to update, I can atleast post a small something so this site doesn't seem so dead. 

I also want to make a list of television shows to watch, to avoid, and maybe something about ended series that should be taken into television consideration because they are epic and/or classic. 

Suggestions? Feel free to comment.

Finally, Glee starts next week (April 13th on Fox) so if you are a Gleek, tune in. 

If you are not, try it out, it is critcally acclaimed (though that doesn't always say much). 

Now, onto the good stuff.

This night's episode of Lost.

So, Lost never ceases to surprise me.

I didn't take notes this time (lol), so bear with me as I break this down.

Desmond, as we had seen in the last episode, was bought back to the Island by Charles Widmore who invaded the island with his submarine.

We also know that Widmore is Desmond's father in law, though they do not get along whatsoever because of previous events that transpired.

Widmore tells Desmond that he brought him to the Island, after being shot by Benjamin Linus, in order to do something very important.

Desmond, being skeptical and visibly angry, reacts...unfavorably.

Widmore then puts Desmond in a chamber of sorts where he is being faced at both sides with some type of electromagnetic device.

Previously, we had just seen someone fried to death because of this but Widmore is confident that because Desmond survived the other electromagnetic blast he would come out of this one unscathed.

When it is turned on, we are faced with Desmond's alternate universe.

And yes, I think I was right. 

I think it IS an alternate universe.

Claps for me if it is, lol.

Anyhow, in his alternate universe Desmond works for Charles' business and his very close with him being a most trusted employee.

Charles beckons Desmond to bring Charlie (rock star, drug addict, Driveshaft, Oceanic 815...yes that Charlie) from the police station to his son's concert.

Desmond agrees and picks up Charlie, who is very resistant.

Charlie tells Desmond that he has "seen love" when he was choking on the heroin stash that got him in jail in the first place.

He said love was a blonde woman(Claire?) and he could prove to Desmond what he had seen.

While in the car, Charlie grabs the wheel and steers the car directly into the harbor(I guess its a harbor) rendering himself unconscious.

Desmond loosens himself and when going to save Charlie sees an illusion of Charlie's hand against the glass window reading "Not Penny's Boat" just as it had in "Through the Looking Glass" from season three.

Later in the hospital during a MRI Desmond sees more visions, all of Penny and his son, things that happened after he left the island.

Desmond asks Charlie who Penny is, but Charlie tells him he doesn't know.

He then asks Charlie to come with him but he is told to 'stop worrying about me, and start looking for Penny.'

Failing to successfully get the rockstar to the concert, Desmond is made to go tell Mrs. Widmore in person what happened.

Mrs. Widmore, who we discover is Eloise---previous leader of the island, mother of Daniel, and the woman who helped the Oceanic 6 get back to the island, is unusually understanding about the occurences.

When Desmond is leaving, he overhears the name 'Penny' being read off of a list and acquires about it.

Eloise tells Desmond to stop, stop looking for answers and stop looking for Penny. 

She seemingly knows everything that is happening inside his head, telling him that he has everything he wants especially "the approval of my husband (Charles)." 

Desmond is then approached by Daniel and told that he has also felt something strange.

He saw a redheaded girl in a museum(Charlotte) and immediately knew he loved her.

He had also woken up in the middle of the night and written a quantum physics equation so complex that only "some who had been studying physics their whole life" could have written it.

But in that universe, Daniel was only a musician.

Daniel told Desmond that he believes they some how altered their futures and were living that life right now.

He also told him he knows exactly where and when he would meet Penny.

Desmond then finds Penny, running up stadium stairs (the same way he had been when he met Jack for the first time).

When he sees her, he seems to realize he has loved her all along (the same way Charlie and Daniel felt, I suppose) and asks her on a date. 

Though they just met, she agrees---seemingly fallen for him as well. 

Back in his limo, Desmond asks his driver for the manifest of Flight 815 so he can show them what he has seen.

Back on the island, Desmond is unharmed by the electromagnetic chamber.

He wakes up, seemingly remembering everything from his "alternate happily ever after", and asks how long he was out.

He is no longer upset with Charles and tells him he doesn't need an explanation.

He only needs to know what he has to do.

On the way back, Sayid ambushes the group on the way from the chamber and takes Desmond away who is very calm and understanding. 

"Of course, lead the way." he says when Sayid tells him they are dangerous. 

All of the episodes seem a little disconnected, even though several people invade other's alternate universes. 

But, because Desmond claims to want to tell the other passengers about what they are missing, I think it will all come together soon.

What do you think?

Desmond and Penny make for very good television, their lives are so interesting and the fact that their love is kind of forbidden is really cool (see: Romeo and Juliet...lol).

Daniel Faraday(-Widmore) being back in the picture is very good, since he understands time travel and would be best to explain what is happening.

Since we are getting down to the wire, I expect more answers.

On a side note how AWESOME was the episode on Richard Alpert.

I am very intrigued by his story and if you haven't seen it yet, check Hulu.

In celebration of how awesome Richard became this season, I leave you this.

Enjoy.