TV GUIDE: Matt's TV Week in Review: Game-Changer Edition
May 11, 2012
by Matt Roush
With season finales, cliffhangers and reality-competition showdowns abounding as the TV season nears its end, here are some of the turning points that caught my attention...
... BITE THIS: "It's Mystic Falls. Nothing bad ever happens here." Those were the days. That's a younger-and-much-less-wise Elena talking to then-stranger Damon — an encounter he would wipe from her memory, leaving her thinking Stefan met her first — in a Vampire Diaries flashback, part of a wild season finale that saw just about everything change. Most notably Elena, the victim of yet another watery car accident, but this time she makes Stefan save Matt first, and her drowning means the end of Alaric's reign of terror (his resurrection as a vampire/vampire slayer is tied to her doppelganger blood). But because she was fed vampire blood earlier by Dr. Fell — to fix the cerebral hemorrhage from last week's accident — Elena wakes from the dead. Welcome to the vampire ranks, dear, what took you so long? And though we saw Alaric thrust the magic stake into Klaus' paralyzed body, which bursts into flames, Bonnie's latest spell somehow puts Klaus into poor hybrid Tyler's body, meaning Klaus is still alive and all those from his bloodline continue to live. A relief, but how confusing!
But what of the romantic triangle? Elena's heart-to-heart with Matt (the mortal she strung along back in simpler times) is illuminating, describing Stefan as "the person that makes you glad that you've alive" and Damon as the "problem," because "when I'm with him, it just consumes me." Believing the clock may be ticking on both brothers, when Klaus is presumed dead, Elena decides to return to Stefan, who she never stopped loving even when she fell for Damon. She tells the odd vamp-brother out "I have to let you go," and Damon's heard it all before. But what Elena doesn't realize is that when Damon met her first, he read her perfectly: "You want a love that consumes you. You want passion and adventure and even a little danger." Now that Elena's immortal like the rest of them, will that change how she feels?
Bonus points to Matt Davis's moving final scene as Ghost Alaric, appearing to poor Jeremy (the last undead Gilbert for now) to assure the angsty teen "I'll always he here to look after you. You'll never be alone" — even if his sister is now about to start playing for the other team...
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