Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 80 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Doppelgängbang
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.14.2013
So where were we? Yes. Elena doesn't know that Qetsiyah shoved Stefan's memories back inside him, so she proposes they start fresh and introduces herself. Instead of just telling Elena he now remembers everything, he decides to tell her everything he remembers about the night Silas dumped him in the quarry. Thank goodness Elena cuts him off. Eventually, Stefan explains that Q-Tessa undid her brain frying spell. Oblivious to his pain, Elena tells Stefan this is great and amazing and hugs him. Oh, poor Stefan. We cut to the...
Mossy Manse Parlor. Damon quizzes Stefan on significant dates in their past. It was in October 1852 that Damon (accidentally!) broke Stefan's nose, while teaching him to throw a right hook. And Stefan didn't buy his motorcycle; Damon stole it for him. I literally cannot stand recapping this show's dialogue this season. I don't know why. This season is better than the previous two (at least so far), but I start seething with hatred, whenever the characters start talking. Anyhow, when Damon is surprised Tessa just gave Stefan's memories back, Stefan says it wasn't a gift. As he recalls once again drowning in the safe, he squeezes his glass coffee cup until it shatters.
Elena tries to get him to explain what he was thinking about, but Stefan deflects. Fortunately for him, they're interrupted by the sounds of Amara banging around down in the dungeon (which I originally typed as "jungle" -- wth). As a visual aid in explaining their plethora of Nina Dobrev doppelgängers, Damon brings Stefan down to see Amara for himself and then gives him Miss Crazypants' backstory. She's yelling at people who we can't see. The brothers discuss that she's the anchor to the Other Side. Damon goes into the plan to retrieve Bonnie and explains that Amara is no longer immortal, because she sucked the cure out of Silas. They have to keep her alive until they get Bonnie back. They're just waiting for Silas to get back in town. Damon has to enter the cell when Amara hurts herself. I think she bites her own wrist, but I'm not rewinding to watch, okay? When Damon restrains her, we get a good look at the blood dripping down her face. Try something new, Show. Amara screams at him to let her die. Holding the girl's wrists, Damon tells Stefan, "Let's hope love is blind… or at least deaf."
Jeremy finds the Ghost o' Bonnie waiting somewhere else in Mossy Manse. He tells her it's not going to be easy to keep Amara alive. Bonnie must have been putting her ghostliness to good use (i.e. spying on the action) because she's already wondering what would happen if Amara died while she was still the anchor. Would there just be a flash of light and then nothing? "It won't hurt, will it? That would suck if it hurt." Jeremy tells Bonnie he has three things he wants to tell her. She tells him not to give her a goodbye speech. Jeremy says the fact that this isn't a goodbye speech is the first thing he wants to tell her. That is probably your highpoint for this episode, kids. You should exit, stage left. They don't listen. As his second point, Jeremy thanks Bonnie for sacrificing her life for him. When he tries to tell her the third thing, Bonnie stops him. "If you don't tell me, we'll have to wait until another time, which means there'll be another time." Oh, I get it -- Q restored Stefan's memories, but as a side-effect Bonnie's have been erased. On this show, all people (especially your people, Bonnie) die untimely deaths. The love birds hold up their hands that can't touch each other and we cut to...