Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT At This Point, I Miss The Vampires
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 15 | Aired on 03.25.2010
Town Square: Harper looks around, he's the complete antithesis of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, isn't he. Imagine what it would be like for an African American (from Virginia) to wake up in 2010. He sees cars, phones, skateboarders, underdressed people, especially the women, free people of color. It's too much for him to take in as the swirly cam points out, and I bet he doesn't even know who's president, yet. It's then that he spots an African American woman sitting on a bench. She eyes hims knowingly and nods. Harper approaches her and we cut to...
Mossy Manse: Elena enters to find a drunken Damon wearing pants (only), and they're slung way low. Scott starts singing, "Looking like a fool with your pants on the ground." I say "Oh, I don't know..." before I remember myself. What are those low down muscles called? Are they the obliques? The only name I know for them is obscene. Use your imagination. Anyhow, they're nice and Damon is having trouble buttoning his shirt, or at least he pretends to, so Elena does it for him, and this act feels oddly intimate, yeah? As she buttons him up, she tells him about her search for her biological mother, but Damon thinks it's a waste of time. "Who cares? She left you. She sucks!" He's not all feeling transfer-y. And Elena is not at all looking at his lips. No siree, Bob.
Just then, Stefan walks in. Elena walks over to him quickly, but he's completely nonplussed by the situation. Damon tries on a blazer, declares it too tight, and tells Stefan he should indulge in the occasional sorority girl -- it might fill him out. When he walks past the couple, he buttons one of his own buttons as he eyes Elena pointedly. She realizes she has been had and says, "He's fine!" Stefan says, "He's Damon." Elena says, "Maybe this heartache will be good for him. It will remind him that he has one, even if it doesn't beat." Tactful comment to make to your vampire boyfriend, Elena. She changes the subject and tells Stefan she went to see Trudie Peterson. Stefan tries to cover his concern as he asks how it went. Elena skips any intel about Isobel and tells Stefan that Trudie knows about Vervain and vampires. Stefan then shows her the picture of Alaric's wife (which Elena confirms is her Isobel), and tells her that Alaric learned about vampires from his Isobel. "He believes she was killed by one." Stefan asks Elena to hold off on talking to Alaric for a little while. He knows it's a lot to ask, but he asks her to do it, for him. Elena nods. And we cut to...