Tonight’s episode is brought to you by Shipyard’s Pumpkinhead Beer. And I mean that literally. Because I’ve had a really long, stressful week day, and very much looked forward to forgetting myself in whatever alcohol I could afford, only to be two beers in (and I am quite the lightweight, I assure you) when I realized that there is only four hours left until “The Killer” will no longer be on Hulu.com, and if I want to recap it after it leaves the site then I’d have to go to one of those scary Asiatic sites where copyright law is meaningless but you always risk a virus (which, I admit, is still how I manage to watch HBO). Generally I wait until I’m specifically in the mood to enjoy the show, but I’m nothing if not a multi-tasker. So I will watch “The Killer” and continue to get smashed while typographically reacting. And when I’m done I’ll decide if it’s funnier to publish the devolving post as-is or if I should wait for the morning and edit it a bit. [Note from the future—I smoothed it over a little but mostly let it stay as is.]
Anyway, episode 4×5, “The Killer.” Since episode 4×3 “The Rager” was about someone who felt rage a few times for understandable reasons, I have to assume that “The Killer” is about a person who kills a few times for the same. Which means that, oh…any of these characters could be the killer. I think this is like when they named episode 1×7 “Haunted” when it barely applied and have since burned using that title for all the millions of episodes where it would be more appropriate. But I digress. Figurative eight o’clock and it begins.
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Cold Open
- I like that Conner goes back to his Winnebago toting a severed human head in a makeshift sack and that’s somehow not the messiest thing in his trashed home. Heh.
- “Why do you think I sent you to Mystic Falls? There’s no shortage of vampires, that town’s practically infested,” says Professor Shane. This sentence would make sense in 1865, when there were nearly thirty vampires living in a newly founded, sparsely populated antebellum town. Let’s see for 2012: Damon, Stefan, Elena, Caroline, Tyler, and whatever Original is passing through for the moment. So around 5+ permanent residents, in a town that has to have at least several hundred citizens (and that’s assuming it’s a very small town). Not an infestation. My single grade in high school had more goth kids than that. I think Professor Shane must be a bit of a drama queen.
- Aw, the only times we’ve seen Jeremy working he was either haunted by ghosts or held at knife point by a vengeful killer. He should never go in that back room. (And Elena should never go to Wickery Bridge. And caring adults should never move into the Gilbert house.)
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Everything up until the first commercial break.
- Yay! The diary entries are finally back!
- …Crap, the diary entries are back. Why did I miss these again?
- Now Connor is pointing out my questions from last episode regarding the vervain…and doing a really clumsy job of lampshading it. It’s not like Jeremy or Matt’s plots (in all likelihood) would have gone any differently if they remembered what happened. I’m not sure what the writers are going out of their way to do here.