No doubt about it: there’s some strange things happening on The Vampire Diaries this season. Caroline’s magical pregnancy takes the cake for the wildest storyline ever, and appropriately, it’s taking center stage in this Christmas-themed episode.
On the surface, it would seem Christmas is going on as usual outside of Mystic Falls. Bonnie and her new friend Nora are running the Toys for Tots collection. Caroline and Alaric attend their first birthing class. Stefan and Damon even go on their own Santa pub crawl, until they find Julian took that literally and feasted on a restaurant full of dead Santas.
It really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that Julian is taking Lily’s death hard. Damon still doesn’t care that he was so cold to his mother as she breathed her last breathe on this earth. Stefan’s the only one with any ounce of compassion, but he can’t save his brother now. He whispered to Lily’s coffin at her small but beautiful burial in the snow that he would fix Damon for her. By the end of the episode, both brothers are daggered.
Caroline’s off dealing with her pregnancy cravings and weirdly heightened hormones. She and Alaric start going to a birthing class, and she’s already read up on the homework so she knows what to expect. What she should have also braced herself for was the whisperings between onlookers who see this as a professor and his student having a baby together. There’s so much more to the situation, which is only just beginning. Damon and Stefan briefly discussed what this means for the future, and of course, it seems only natural that Caroline will stick around and raise these babies as her own even though Jo is their mother. On top of everything, I’m just confused about why they all think this pregnancy will work out like a normal human’s. A supernatural conception with witch babies doesn’t exactly point to all signs for a normal birth.
I mentioned Damon and Stefan’s bonding, which I thought was going to reveal a bigger plot twist that Stefan’s daughter did survive and is alive. That’s certainly still possible for the future timeline on The Vampire Diaries, as it was just revealed that Stefan and Valerie are together again in three years. Makes somewhat sense, I guess, but only to really hype up the inevitable Stefan/Caroline reunion once The Vampire Diaries completely catches us up to that time.
Other than a lot of chit chat, the most action came from Julian fighting Stefan and Damon. He has the completed sword necessary to trap a vampire’s soul in the phoenix stone. In a classic move, he and Damon are face-to-face, and it’s hard to tell which one was just semi-fatally stabbed. Of course, it was Damon. The only problem with this is, it’s such a cheap cliffhanger because the emotional stakes aren’t there. Unlike the apparent major character death on The Originals, we know he’s alive and well in the future. Same goes for Stefan. Nothing was accomplished by daggering both of them. I would have preferred all of Damon’s ribbing on Stefan about almost being a daddy to lead up to the surprise ending that he is in fact a father!
What did you think of the winter finale of The Vampire Diaries?
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