With new mysteries, new villain Silas, and a surprising new friendship between Jeremy and Katherine this season is off to a great start.
At the end of last week's season 5 premiere of “The Vampire Diaries,” we got a glimpse of how this season will play out (shocks and thrills). The first shocker of the season was at the end of the episode when Bonnie Bennett's (Kat Graham) father, the mayor of Mystic Falls, was murdered by Silas (Paul Wesley) aka the Stefan look-alike. In this episode, matters only get worse for Bonnie because her father wasn't of supernatural blood, which means she can't see him in the afterlife. It was a heartbreaking thought going into last night's episode, "True Lies".
There was no happy ending or silver lining for Bonnie this week. She's still a ghost and only Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) can see her and knows her secret. Until later in the episode, when a plan ended badly and Matt (Zach Roerig), is temporarily gone from the living, which allowed him to see her as well. Only then he found out that he'd forget everything minutes later when he wakes up. Before he was awakened, he did tell her that she needs to tell Jeremy that it's okay to reveal her secret and tell people she's dead. It's a good thing the show still has the Gilbert Family ring that brings people back from the dead. What was this, Matt's 5th death? I lost count a long time ago, I'm just surprised he's still a human in the series and not affected by supernatural powers.
Jeremy and Katherine's (Nina Dobrev) friendship is growing in this episode. Sure they bicker back and forth but they do have a lot of drama between them. I don't see them ever becoming best friends, after what she did to him and his friends in the past; but she did save him from Silas and that was a turning point for them. Now that Kat's human, there’s a lot she can learn from Jeremy and I'm looking forward to see what the writers come up with for these two.
I think the biggest moment in last night's episode was when Silas tried to throw an emotional wrench between Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) relationship. He did so by causing her to lose her mind every time she got angry about Damon keeping something from her. Elena managed to overcome Silas's mind control by inflicting pain upon herself by stabbing her leg with the fireplace poker. After cooling down, Elena learned that Stefan (Paul Wesley) has been suffering all summer while she lived happily with Damon and is now on a mission to save him. I think the writers still know how to inject drama into the relationships on this show, for instance, by having Elena be with Damon even though it is clear see she still has feelings for her first love, Stefan. That's not the only problem she has right now. She also has a creepy professor who could secretly be part of an unknown anti-vampire cult at the college, but that task is left with Caroline (Candice Accola) to handle for the time being.
Overall, this was an excellent episode and a good sign the show is going in the right direction this year. I think it's a much easier story line to follow than the originals which took up almost three seasons, dealing with Klaus. They've kind of returned to the basics of the series and for me that works out perfectly fine. I look forward to more episodes to come this season.
Season 5 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on The CW.
“True Lies” was written by Brian Young and directed by Joshua Butler.
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