Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Moral Ambiguity For The Win!
By Cindy McLennan | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.16.2010
Mossy Manse: When Damon arrives home and pours himself a drink, he calls out the hooded Jeremy, who is waiting for him. Just before Damon takes a swig of his drink, Jeremy warns him off -- confessing he laced it all with vervain. Oh the boozemanity! So, Germ came to Mossy Manse to disable Damon and stake him, but now he doesn't have it in him, even though "It's only fair. You killed me first." Damon wonders why the change of heart. Jeremy tells him about his father and uncle's vampire hatred, and while he feels the pressure of his legacy, he can't see what good it will do to kill Damon. Well Germ, I don't want the Evil Pixie Monster gone, but were I in your Chuck Taylor's I'd still be thinking about how Damon snapped your neck THE NIGHT BEFORE. I mean seriously? I get that Jeremy is a troubled kid and has been drawn to troubled people like Vicki and reasonably untroubled vampires like Anna, but this... is just too soon. I do think it has to happen, but wow, I did not expect this tonight and now that I've watched more than once, I'm not sure how well it works for me. Anyhow, after Damon cracks that he's not the milk-and-cookies type of big brother, Germ calls him a dick and starts to leave, but Damon stops him, confiding that his father hated vampires, too. "But, it was 1864, and..." He holds up Jeremy's rough homemade stake. "...People knew how to whittle." Heh.
Caroline's bedroom: she's lying in her bed, in her house, so presumably her mother saw her and told her to come in at some point and, frankly, I'm tired of reading otherwise. Stuff happens off-screen, sometimes. Anyhow, when Caroline hears something coming through her window, she hides up against the wall, but it's only Matt. He's hoping she's a bit more herself, now. She tries to get rid of him, but Matt says he's feeling more insecure than he usually does. He confesses that it scared the hell out of him when she almost died. He can't lose anyone else and says that even when he wants to throttle her, he's pretty sure he's in love with her. He's worried because now, it seems like she doesn't feel the same way. Caroline has hand (cf. Seinfeld). She only had to give up her immortal soul to get it, but I'm sure she would have been fine with that. Anyhow, Caroline takes Matt in her arms and kisses him. While she's hugging him, her desire mixes with her newbie bloodlust and her face starts to vamp out, but with her head over Matt's shoulder, she practices her Lamaze and brings herself back to normal. She's a quick study and, oh my word, they're so adorable together. Let's leave them their privacy, shall we?