The Vampire Diaries – Has the Founders’ Council Killer been revealed?

“Dear Diary, A chipmunk asked me my name today. I told him it was Joe. That lie will haunt me forever.”- Damon, mocking Stefan’s diary

They’ve done it again, dammit! The Vampire Diaries has thrown me for a loop, taken me on a whirlwind ride of twists and turns until I landed at a place I never — ever! — thought I’d be. Is Alaric really the Founders’ Council killer? Alaric, sweet, kind-hearted Alaric, who was seemingly screwed over by psycho Meredith? Now I am expected to believe that Meredith not only makes sense, but has Alaric’s best interests at heart. And I do … for now. They really led up to this in such a spectacular way in this episode. When the sheriff was questioning Alaric, and you could hear the doubt in his own voice, wondering if he believed his own alibi … when they teased us with Meredith catching Matt and Elena in her apartment … with the stolen Samantha Gilbert journal finally deciphered by Elena in the nick of time … well-played. I say that a lot, don’t I?

Touching base on the Stefan-Damon relationship has become a must-write for me each episode, and this week has me wondering. I do think that Damon has Stefan’s best interests at heart. Stefan has shown that his cold turkey / blood lust mood swings are worse than my PMS (just a little). Maybe Damon does have a point that Stefan needs to learn moderation, self-control and still be strong and healthy by drinking human blood. I can’t believe I just equated a good dose of blood juice to the likes of antioxidants and vitamin D. … But the fact that Damon will be there for Stefan, to keep pulling him back until Stefan no longer needs him — that was some pretty cool brother bonding. Samon joked through the whole episode about it, but it ended up being pretty powerful.

Anyone else thinking there were a few sparks between Elena and Matt just before Alaric came in? That wasn’t the best part of their scene together though — it was Elena vocalizing why she’s so addicted to the Salvatore brothers. It was interesting to me that Stefan seemed to be all about timing — she needed him to feel safe and loved after her parents died, and because he was a vampire, he couldn’t die on her like they did. Makes sense. Timing. Damon, however, simply snuck up on her and got under her skin. Which one sounds more like true love to you?

This and that:

• “I was hoping we could hang … you know, a little brother bonding. I know we don’t actually hang out. We team up. We join forces to activate our Wonder Twin powers.” – Damon to Stefan
• “Why are you so grumpy?” – Rebekah to Stefan
  “He’s on a Master Cleanse. Trying to be a better man and all.” – Damon
• I still don’t really get why Meredith had all those files on Bill, Brian and Alaric … was she just researching so she could come to her own conclusions about Alaric’s possession?
• I’m wondering how big of a role Sage will play, seeing as the actress has a pretty big CW fanbase since she played Tess on Smallville. It’s likely Sage will have something to do with the whole Samantha Gilbert going crazy storyline.

Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on Mar 15, 2012 @ 22:03 EST5EDT