I Know What You Did Last Summer
I was so excited about the return of The Vampire Diaries (TVD) so much so that in the month leading up to the first episode of season 5 I watched all four of the previous seasons back to back. I was expecting to maybe be slightly disappointed with this season due to the fact the the originals had left to make their own spin off series but since The Originals (TV show) started a week earlier than TVD I thought that this wouldn't be an issue since I already had my weekly fix of Klaus and Elijah. However, I hate to say it but this first episode of TVD left me feeling slightly disappointed, something that has never happened before.
Summer is over, but Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) are still going strong. They finally got together properly (without a sire bond between them) something I have been wanting to happen since season 1. So the episode starts with them all over each other (a lot) but now that Ian and Nina have broken up in real life, for some reason, I just don't believe the relationship between Elena and Damon anymore. It just didn't seem believable anymore.
Before Elena leaves for Whitmore College she wants to make sure Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) is all settled in after his trip back from the land of the dead.They make up a story that he faked his own death??? Really??? Is anyone actually going to believe that? When Jeremy does go to school two guys start pushing him around. As hunter Jeremy puts them both down. After recently watching season 1 I couldn't help but notice how much different Jeremy is. In season 1 he was a skinny wimp and now he has lots of muscle and can take on two guys a once.
It sounds like Elena compelled herself more than just a place at the university, because Caroline (Candice Accola) is her roommate. Their university is 2 hours away from Mystic Falls. This is something that, at the moment, I do not like. I always thought that Mystic Falls was a perfect setting for TVD and now they are not there.
The girls expect Bonnie (Kat Graham) to join them at Whitmore. (The witch has been “travelling” all summer, which is code for “dead and living in another realm.”) Instead, they find another student named Megan (Hayley Kiyoko) in their dorm. I don't know why Bonnie just doesn't let Jeremy tell everyone that she is dead. This is TVD after all and everyone dies and comes back to life at some point.
As for room mate Megan she is dead by the end of the episode. How predictable. This seems to happen in every TV show. When Buffy went to college she had a room mate that died. When Claire from Heroes went to college she had a room mate that died. When watching this episode of TVD I thought of at least two other TV shows where the college room mate died but I have forgotten them for the moment. I sure they will come to me again soon. After Megan dies Elena finds a photo of Megan with her dad (Greyson not John) on Megan's phone.
Katherine (Nina Dobrev) is human and in need of companionship. She shows up at the Salvatores’ and tries to make Damon her personal bodyguard. Katherine is funny as a human for example complaining about blisters from her heels. Damon offers her his blood in order to turn her again but she refuses. I don't know why. She says that it is because no one has taken the cure before and she is worried that if she dies then she may remain dead. Surely if she hates being human so much it is worth the risk?
Two people who really have been travelling, Rebekah (Claire Holt) and Matt (Zach Roerig), trade Europe for Mystic Falls. On their voyage, the couple met Nadia (Olga Fonda), who’s beautiful but mysterious and during their travels the three of them had a threesome. Really? Can anyone really picture Matt having a threesome? Because I didn't think he had it in him.
Back in Mystic Falls Nadia turns up and does some sort of spell on Matt. His eyes turn black but for now we do not know what she has done. I couldn't help but feel a bit disappointed. I like the fact that Matt is human and normal, at the moment he is the only normal guy left. I hope that Nadia hasn't turned him into some sort of demon.
Stefan (Paul Wesley) continues to drown in his underwater prison, and Elena senses something is wrong with her ex. I was expecting Silas to pretend to be Stefan for so long that I would start to get bored of the story. I was really expecting them to drag this story out for as long as possible. But all of them (apart from Elena and Caroline at college) find out that Silas looks like Stefan in this first episode. To me this is too far the other way. Yes I didn't want the story to be dragged out for the entire season but it seems kind of pointless for Silas to look like Stefan if he wasn't going to have a bit of fun with it.
The town has an end of summer party. Will the people of Mystic Falls ever learn that parties here never go well and someone ends up dead. The poor person that died this time was Bonnie's dad. Silas managed to mind control practically the whole town and then kill Bonnie's dad in front of everyone. I found it hard to feel anything about his death because we hardly knew him but Bonnie's reaction definitely stole the scene. Being dead and all no one could see her but she saw Silas kill her dad and Kat Graham definitely did some brilliant acting here and I did feel sorry for her.
Well like I said this episode left me feeling slightly disappointed but I still cant wait until next week's episode.
