Before we begin, if you have not read the books, you should buy/borrow/shoplift them now because they are amazing and the movies can only dream of being in their shadow, in terms of awesomeness.
Before we begin, if you have not read the books, you should buy/borrow/shoplift them now because they are amazing and the movies can only dream of being in their shadow, in terms of awesomeness.
Episode 4×12,”A View To Kill.” Not much thought on this title. It sounds like they’re trying to make a pun off of A Time To Kill only, for some reason, they chose a more effeminate version of the title. Or maybe it’s a play on A Room With A View…and now I’m picturing the teams of vamps arguing over hotel space. This title is so awkward and oddly specific, let me Google it. Okay, “A View To Kill” is a James Bond movie. So maybe it means that some classy British guy with a license to kill is going to come to town and–Oh crap, it’s going to be a Klaus episode, isn’t it.
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Cold Open
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Everything up until the first commercial break.
To reiterate, this is only meant to analyze the first half of the season (i.e. the first eleven episodes). I have not seen any episodes from this point on. If, in episode twelve, the main three perform a murder-murder-suicide in a Buddhist monastery while April collapses Mystic Falls into the Hellmouth, I don’t yet know anything about it. In other words, everything I analyze and speculate may roundly be defeated in as little as one episode.
Anyway, there’s no real distinction between Parts One and Two, except that they were way too long for one single entry, so I broke them up by category. Part One covered the heroes, Part Two is about everybody else. I was going to do the themes too, but I’m so far behind in current episodes that next episode up has already come back as a rerun. (Those who are sticking with me, you are awesome). So themes may or may not come later.