Posted by Erin Frazee | November 29, 2011, 11:00 (EST) | 35 Comments
Category: TV Series
If you’re anything like us, you live for the frenzy of Vampire Diaries recaps that emerges every Thursday night/Friday after the show airs. We decided it would be fun to ask some of our favorite Vampire Diaries recappers to share their top three moments of Season 3 so far – oh, and we were right! It is fun.
This week, Erin Frazee takes us on the emotional roller coaster of silent, stolen moments and coming face to face with terrifying realities. You can check out her TVD recaps at TheVoiceofTV.com.
Check out previous Top 3 Moments: Thomas C. Galvin and Dianne Sylvan.
And don’t forget to vote in the Mid-Season Finale Poll: Your 3 Favorite Episodes of Season 3 (So Far)?
Trying to choose my three favorite TVD Season 3 moments so far is like trying to choose which three of my limbs are my favorites. I NEED ALL OF THEM! But, if I must narrow it down, there have definitely been some scenes that have blown me away above and beyond anything a layman would ever expect from a TV show about vampires. Good thing all of us know better. My favorites probably won’t surprise you if you read my recaps. You guys know what I like. That’s right. Unicorns. Even when they’re crying glitter tears and laying in the mud.
FYI: These are in order of appearance, not in order of preference. You can make me pick my Top 3 Moments but you can’t make me rank them. Haven’t my mythical creatures been through enough?
Stefan Calls Elena (EP301 – The Birthday)
Even though The Birthday was an amazing episode and a great way to kick off Season 3, it really didn’t provide much in the way of warning about the breakneck speed at which we would be traveling through the following eight episodes. It did however set a tone: This season was going to be painful. And in the first of many, MANY ugly cry-inducing moments, Stefan moved from under Klaus’s watchful eye long enough to make a phone call to Elena. And though he doesn’t utter a word, the conversation is enough to both give me hope that someday all will be right with the world, and to break my heart into a million pieces because that someday feel very, very far away . “Stefan, if this is you, you’ll be okay. I love you, Stefan. Hold on to that. Never let that go.”
“Look What I Found.” (EP303 – The End of the Affair)
The End of the Affair was so packed full of plot goodies that it easily could have been stretched into two or three episodes. Not our show though. No way. And we’re so spoiled in that regard that it makes other shows I actually love seem like they’re moving at a snail’s pace. TVD is a life ruiner. Anyways, I’m totally getting off track. In the third episode of the season we met a new Original, saw Caroline rescued, made our first trip to the roaring twenties and ran into Miss Katherine. That’s not even close to all of it though. Not long after we’re introduced to Stefan’s scary closet o’ victims, Elena gets caught in there when he and Klaus show up at the apartment. For 30 perilous seconds I am caught in a whirlwind of emotions, wondering for the first time if Stefan will actually do something to hurt Elena, getting angry that something like that would cross my mind, and then hoping with all of my heart that one of them will just reach out and touch the other because they haven’t been this close in months and it must be torture for the both of them. Stefan doesn’t give her away of course, but he doesn’t reach out for her either and at the end of the episode, when he sends her away, telling her he doesn’t want her anymore, I am too exhausted from that moment in the closet to do anything other than join my unicorns in their puddle and weep.
“Turn It Off!” (EP305 – The Reckoning)
I feel like I can’t even talk about this third one without at least a handful of Xanax and a magnum-sized bottle of wine. So excuse me for a second while I get wasted and then I should be okay… Hmmm. Still not really okay. But here goes: In The Reckoning, Klaus has finally had enough of Stefan’s lying and duplicity and feels he must be punished. Only, punishment for Stefan means punishment for everyone (a.k.a. Me). Stefan does his very best to fight Klaus’s compulsion to make him drink Elena. He screams at her to run, he tries to stake himself! He works so hard to keep her safe, to cling desperately to his humanity. In the end, none of it matters because Klaus takes it away. Just. Like. That. And after the love for Elena leaves his eyes, he sinks his teeth in and I can’t help but think back to the night when Elena first learns what he is, when he promises that he’ll never hurt her. That Stefan doesn’t live here anymore.
“What did you do?”
“I fixed him.”
Erin Frazee is a full time wife, office manager and smart-ass living in the Witch City of Salem, Massachusetts. Perfect locale for a girl obsessed with all things supernatural. If she’s not watching television or writing about television for TheVoiceOfTV.com she’s most likely out searching for vampires. You can follow more of her lunatic ramblings on her Twitter, blog and Tumblr.
Thanks to Vampire Diaries Web for the HQ screen captures!
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