Thursday, November 11, 2010

"Rose" Recap

This episode marked a turning point in both plotlines and mythology for the show, and the swift and somewhat brutal introduction of three new characters – two in particular – has seen the mystery bar raised yet again to another echelon. I’ve stopped asking myself how they do that, and have now embraced the fact that they just can; kind of like when you’re watching a contortionist fit their entire body through the frame of an unstrung tennis racquet, there really does come a point when you stop asking questions about the how’s and just stick with the WHYS.
With that in mind, here’s my take on the moments that made us all sit up and yell WHAT THE FREAKING SALVATORE at our televisions.
And You Thought YOU Were Having A Bad Day
Elena Gilbert is having a rough 24 hours.
She’s been vicariously stabbed and beaten via a curse (saved only by some quick thinking and a conveniently magic-enabled best friend nearby) and is still smarting from breaking up with her one true love. I’ll be honest here: if I were the human girl who’d just broken up with Stefan Salvatore, I’d be reaching for my PJ’s, a fluffy pillow to cry into and a tub of Haagen-Dazs the size of a nine year old faster than you can say DASHING.
But hey! Don’t just ask her how crap a day she’s dealing with: ask the boyfriend she refused to get back together with; the brother of her boyfriend who is also completely and unrequitedly in love with her, or any number of her nearest and dearest who’ve just spent the night before plotting to kill her Queen of All Evil twin with giant stake guns and tombs spells.
Or, as of this episode, you could likewise ask the mysterious man in the mask who abducted her so suddenly from the Lockwood estate after the Masquerade party.
It’s broad daylight as his car pulls up into an empty field in the middle of nowhere; empty, save for the 4WD with black windows parked out in it, presumably waiting to do a swap. The window of the driver side of the 4WD lowers just enough to reveal a pair of black shaded eyes, revealing two things: a) it is a vampire who organised for Elena to be abducted, and b) that the kidnapper is actually just an average Joe: another quite visibly compelled guy doing the bidding of yet another vampire.
I don’t know about you, but at this point I couldn’t help but think about how compulsion – for all it’s convenience, and save for the few truly noble times we’ve seen it done to a human – really was being used by an awful lot of vampires to make good people do some very bad things, often with rather deadly consequences.
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