Yay!!! I loved Joseph Morgan as Klaus too! And I love his accent. Now that he’s officially arrived, I hope causes all sorts of hell in Mystic Falls. Bring on the crazy!

Wonderful recap! Love it, everything you said is SO true!
Loved that Andie stayed and obviously cares about him – and Damon totally freaking out on this, not bearing to be loved at all. Not used to it, is he? It’s freaking scary if you long for feelings like this for so long and not getting it… He was never appreciated, always the one to blame, and now this intelligent smart and good looking woman says she cares about him. But it’s not Elena – still I think that’s not the main reason that made him freak.

But wasn’t that the Damon we all love!?? Angry, determined and yet hurt? That episode was just amazing, have to rewatch it tonight.

The way Damon reacted to Elijah, while understandable, is kind of stupid. I don’t know what Elijah is planning or how he intends to keep Elena alive , but Damon’s not going to find out now is he? Plus, it’s unlikely Stefan and Elena are going to willingly let him in on whatever they’re planning now either. So Damon has left himself completely out of the loop on the whole thing now.
In fairness it was probably easier for Stefan to apologise because he didn’t really do anything when you think about it. He said sorry for his part in it, which if we think back was what exactly? Damon on the other hand masterminded the first attempt and obviously was involved in the second one as he took the dagger to the lake house. He actually has something to apologise for. Still, would it have been that hard to lie to Elijah just to stay in the loop? It’s not like Elijah demanded that he be team leader and everyone had to follow his rules. The term cutting off your nose to spite your face springs to mind here.

THANK YOU! At least you understand where I’m coming from I also think that this competition between Stefan and Damon, bad move. They should put there feelings aside for now. Concentrate on saving Elena and everyone else. United we stand divided we fall, that’s what they should be thinking. I knew all those quotes I’ve heard over the years would come in handy. LOL

Don’t remember where I read this, not anything to do with TVD, but one cure for a wolf bite was killing the wolf that bit you. So just thought Damon being bitten would be a good cliff hanger and maybe Jules did the biting and then Damon would have to kill her. Just me and my active imagination. lol

Seriously, what is it with Katerina and brothers, she always gets them fighting over her.
I think that was the best flashback episode so far, it showed elijahs human side and just made me like him more, but why does he want his brother dead so badly?
I also wonder if Klaus´ blood could heal a werewolf bite, that would be useful (since I´ve read the synopsis for the finale, I´m just a little afraid for Damon)

Stefan is frantic that he loses her to Damon, isn’t he?

Otherwise he would not try so hard to act the opposite, painfully respecting her doings and all that. Knowing she’ll appreciates it. Even if it gets her dead – but least he bolstered her … *haha*..

And didn’t it look like when Andie stood in the door compelled to leave, she actually did not want to go?

And another thing: Elijah said that the brothers won’t be harmed by him – leaving out that his brother might do the job…

And (third and last one): Elijah is the vampire who feels love and is fighting it. Just like Damon (was). And he is the brother who is NOT loved by beautiful Katerina, as she’s obviously fallen for the brother Klaus. Many parallels here, aren’t there?

Sometimes i think that Stefan was compelled by Klaus

Especially because it seems that he is on Elena’s side but not on his brothers side which makes no sense to me.
Damon is just trying to protect Elena in his own way and Stefan in return tells him that he will never have Elena’s respect. Why!!
Damon deserves Elena’s respect, sure he does things that Elena doesn’t want but he is trying to protect her and the people she cares about. Not to mention that he was the one that saved Bonnie not Stefan. Damon tries to do everything Elena saids and even agreed to do it when he was let back into his house.

Damon is nice to Stefan, but there is a time when enough is enough and that is what happened in this episode. Stefan talking to Damon about not having Elena’s respect , crossed the line since Damon is trying to protect her and have her respect at the same time.

Stefan didn’t act like he was worried about Elena in this episode but Damon did. They gave Elena there house to she can stay in it not go walking around with an original. Stefan showed Elena that he trusts her and her judgment but i think he gave her too much freedom in this episode. Damon didn’t want Elena to leave the safe house so that she can be safe and she seemed to be offended by it.

Damon not trusting Elijah is normal. Damon has trust issues, every time he trusts someone they stab him in the back and he is the one that gets hurt. Elijah can kill Damon (as well as Damon’s only family, Stefan) anytime he wants and Damon no longer has a way to kill Elijah because Elena gave Elijah the dagger. Damon first need to see that Elijah can be trusted before he can actually trust him.

Does anyone else think that Elijah seemed hurt seeing to brothers fighting? Elijah seems to understand Damon and doesn’t like the fact of 2 brothers fighting. When Elijah said that probably Damon will come around he seemed upset because he knows that if Damon is like Klaus then he will never trust Elijah.

Katherine’s scenes were fun and i liked how she pretend to be compelled.

At the end of season 1 cliffhanger. Didn’t everyone including Damon think that there was no way the device would work because they thought Bonnie had fixed it. It wasn’t until the very last minute that Jeremy’s girlfriend told Damon that the vampire tombs were all there. This is why I think Damon and everyone should act like there on Elijah’s side. Last minute details are important in saving Elena.

Anna went to Damon because she, like everyone else, knew he would do whatever it took to keep the town safe. Thanks to Bonnie not being truthful with anyone, things went amok.

Actually, if Elijah is on the up and up and wants to kill Klaus, which I doubt but am hoping for, the Salvatore brother that he will go to is the one that did not roll over, which is Damon. I am sorry guest, you will never convince me that Damon should have apologized to Elijah.

At the time all evidence pointed, and for me still does, to the fact that Elena would have to be sacrificed and die and that was part of Elijah’s plan. Absolutely Damon was going to find a way to kill Elijah. That I never doubted.

Maybe Elijah did in fact discover a way to save the doppelganger in 1492, but Klaus did not care. It will not matter now either. Don’t forget Elijah had no problem ripping off Trevor’s head and compelling poor Slater to kill himself and compelled Katherine to stay in the tomb until Klaus arrived. Klaus blamed Elijah for what happened with Katherine back in 1492, which branded Elijah as an outcast. I also think Elijah is the “Original” that Johnathan Gilbert met and obtained information from. Elijah, came to Mystic Falls in search of Katherine. In my opinion Elijah wants to get back into Klaus’ good graces. It is not a power struggle like I thought at first.

I really like Elijah and I hope I am wrong about his motives, but all indications are he will allow the sacrifice to take place.

Thank you so much for pointing that out. That he has Andie as a distraction because he couldn’t have Elena. How was Stefan suppose to react to Damon’s admission? With a laugh and a hug? Stefan does respect Elena even though she may very well be wrong about her decisions at times. If they both respected and tried listening to her she wouldn’t keep running off with her hair brained schemes. That is what Stefan is trying to do even though he hates it and it kills him. The reason Stefan made the comment to Damon is because he was right. Damon won’t have her respect because he never listens to her and he got mad at Stefan because he knew Stefan was right. I don’t hate Damon I just hated everyone bashing Stefan for standing up for himself.

Just watched the episode…again. Klaus and his laugh, scary. Looks like we are in for one hell of a great ride. I believe Elijah. Afterall he has proven several times before he is a man of his word. Elena was smart to take matters into her own hands and go straight to the one person who knows Klaus better then anyone. Thank you Klaus for not killing our Ric. Kat is just so funny. She’s locked up with a crazy man but still has time to drink, dance and have a little fun. Jenna kills me, LOL She got so much information it literally knocked her out cold. With all due respect to Damon fans. He is a loose canon. If he would just think things through before he acts on them, perhaps there would be a better outcome. I loved what Stefan said to him about respect. I don’t think he was trying to be cruel when he said it. I think he just wanted to open Damon’s eyes up to the fact that maybe if he’d start respecting the people that Elena loves…Elena would in turn respect him. In Stefan’s defense he’s trying to save the woman that he loves. Apologizing to Elijah…few comments. They did try and kill him, he (Elijah) does seem to be trying to save (help) Elena. I do like the comment…keep your friends close and your ememies closer. Even if Elijah is up to no good. The fact that Stefan and Elena are working with him…they’d be able to see it and hopefully do something about it. The fact that Elijah sent the wolves packing should have been a red flag for us. LOL If the wolves would have stayed, then found out that the whole wolf changing on cue was fake. The wolves would have lost it and would be attacking vampires/witches and the originals oh my. LOL

She doesn’t respect him at all. He’s killed her brother and is a sexist and an abuser. I don’t see how she could ever be with him.

I am so glad Alaric was back at end of episode, not a fan of his when he played Klaus. Good casting of Klaus, dont LIE to ME was priceless.

Utterly GORGEOUS comment. I wish I could take this comment, dip it in solid gold, and mount it over the proverbial fandom fireplace. THANK YOU. You and I are obviously watching the same show. Shame more people aren’t watching it with us.

Actually, Stefan did want to talk to Damon about on the road trip and Damon wouldn’t go there. I am truely not a Stelena shipper because I am team Stemon. Personally, I wish the Delena would happen so Stefan can be define as more than the person just standing in Damon’s way.

You’re right, I totally forgot about that. But I still think there’s been a lot of manipulation going on. Maybe manipulation is too strong a word, but it’s been obvious for ages that Damon loves Elena and they’ve all been OK with that because maybe it would keep Damon in line, but realistically nobody has ever seemed to think about what effect it was actually having on Damon. And given that it’s almost an exact repeat of what happened with Katherine they should’ve known that it wasn’t just going to go away.
Again I’m not saying that it makes Damon right, or that it makes anyone else wrong, but I do think that maybe they are all guilty of ignoring what was actually happening there. In the last episode it was Damon that acknowledged that he wanted Elena to Stefan, and it was only because he was actually implying he would do something about it that Stefan got mad, and rightly so I guess. But it seems a bit ridiculous that they didn’t see this coming eventually.

I see where you’re coming from in terms of Damon maybe feeling he did nothing wrong, and what he did was to protect Elena, but if you look at how Stefan worded his apology he didn’t really apologise. He said he was sorry for the part he played, but he did it to protect Elena and he’d do it again if he had to.
Now given that Damon has spent most of this season doing what everyone wanted him to do and playing along with all their plans even when he didn’t really agree with them, would it have been so hard for him to play along this time? Do the same as Stefan, apologise, explain it as protecting Elena, keep himself in the loop and still go off and do his own thing anyway. No big deal.

I think the real issue here was what Stefan said to him a few minutes before. Like I said Damon has been playing along all this time, trying to keep himself in line, fighting his natural instincts as a vampire, and struggling with it as we saw with Andie, and Stefan basically tells him nothing has changed. He’s still the bad guy and he’s wasting his time with Elena. Now this may well be the case as far as Elena goes but to hear it like that and then for her to march in with Elijah and demand an apology and for Stefan to jump to it so quickly, well I think it was probably the straw that broke the camels back.
It would have been interesting to see how he’d have reacted if Elena had come in before Andie left and the brothers hadn’t had time to have the row. Would he have agreed to it then? I kind of think he would have.
All that said I still think it was an incredibly stupid move on his part, albeit an understandable stupid move.
I actually mentioned it somewhere else about how everyone else has kind of been using the fact that Damon loves Elena to manipulate his behavior and get him to behave. Stefan has known about Damon’s feelings for a good while now and yet he chose to just let it go on because it was beneficial to them that Damon would protect Elena. I’m sure Elena has to know how he feels as well, and although she’d never been anything but clear on the fact she doesn’t feel the same way, she still uses it to keep him doing things her way. I think the way the rest of them have handled Damon’s feelings for Elena has been pretty unfair, and I think they probably just assumed that Damon would do as Elijah wanted because it was Elena asking. And, although I think it was a terrible time for him to find his backbone again, I was still kind of glad to see him not be manipulated by his feelings, but still he really could have picked a better time to rebel.

A Hybrid in Mystic Falls… woooohooooooooo drama!!!