Episode 5×6, “Handle With Care.” Um…weird title. This sounds kind of like the name for a comfortfic. Anyway, on to the episode!
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Cold Open
- Shouldn’t Silas’s mass hypnosis of the town still be in effect? Why is everyone just chill with Katherine and not even recognizing her?
- Heh, a grey streak. And Elena’s still got her growing-out red ones (have I complimented the show on sticking to that subtle bit of continuity, by the way? Almost no show would). I wonder if this means that a third doppelganger is going to show up soon.
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Everything up until the first commercial break.
- Okay, so I had wondered last time why Damon would exclude Elena from the “bring Bonnie back” plan but include her in the “bring Silas back” plan, and now I have my answer: he did include her in the “bring Bonnie back” plan. New questions are when did that happen and why did he change his mind? I mean, considering how much the show wants us to care about this relationship, these are kind of important issues to show on screen.
- I don’t think I’ve complimented Paul Wesley as Silas yet and I really should have. He’s hamming it up with all he’s got, but it’s the best kind of ham, full of energy and verve. I’ve been enjoying it. He probably has the freshest energy of any actor this season.
- This is all going to go so, so badly. I don’t know how yet. But when both opposing sides of the plotline (let’s call them the Silas camp and the Qetsiyah camp) are cheerfully excited about the same exact outcome (mortal Silas dying that exact day) then someone somewhere is woefully overlooking some “oh shit” level of detail.
- What the crap, Damon? You told Elena about everything except for the Anchor? After murdering Katherine in front of her, and then watching her resurrected self walk out the front door, and then watching Silas’s regalvanized (now witchly) self do the same, what the hell did you two talk about all night?
- I want Silas to throw a fireball. No one on this show has thrown a fireball before. That would be awesome.
- Oh come on, Silas knows about Damon loving Katherine. There was that funny call back in “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”
- And yes, by the way, I know that everyone in the show is suddenly calling Qetsiyah “Tessa” now, and it’s pissing me off, because I put off memorizing how to spell her stupid name for half a year until it looked like there was absolutely no way to avoid it and now the show wants to go ahead and take pity on me? Screw it, I’m writing “Qetsiyah.”
- Ah, I want Bonnie back and all but screw it, this actress is cute as a button and I think I’m going to half to be Team Qetsiyah for at least this episode. Continue Reading