Did anyone else sob when they killed off not one, but two main characters in the season 5 finale of The Vampire Diaries?
Lets not get ahead of ourselves though, a lot happened in this episode and its best to start at the beginning. Stefan is strolling around the other side when suddenly a hole opens up and pull him towards oblivion. He flys and grabs hold of the corner of a wall. Stefan is just barely holding on when suddenly with a helping hand comes Lexi."Now I've saved you from real and metaphorical darkness. I think you owe me a beer." she exclaims. We then pan to a shot of Caroline sobbing by Stefan's corpse. The scene is fire lit and heart-breaking. Especially seeing Elena exclaim "Stefan!" and Damon's face look impossibly sad. No-one is too worried though. They have a way to bring everybody back, right? Enzo lost it though. I like the re-introduction of Silas if only for one episode. Even if he was considered 'a villain' I really enjoyed his character. You tell Paul really liked embracing his bad boy attitude. My favorite line of his is when he inquires "How can someone so perfect be so sad all the time?" referring to Stefan, his shadow self. Lexi was also fun in this episode. She pointed out the thing we all wanted too. Caroline's not so hidden affection for Stefan. It was beautiful how she sacrificed herself in hopes Damon could come back to the land of the living. Back to the episode, Bonnie tells almost everyone the truth, there's no way to bring everyone back including herself. Meanwhile the travelers have conducted their magic stripping spell. No-one can enter Mystic falls without dying. Except for Matt and Jeremy, the only humans in the group. So they start to hatch a master plan to bring everyone back. Sheriff Forbes will lure all the travelers to the mystic grill. Then Matt and Jeremy will break a gas pipe filling it with flammable gas. Damon will take his car and drive it into the grill killing himself and all the travelers in the explosion. Caroline and Elena convinced Liv to do the spell to let everyone pass back through Bonnie in the same manner as Markos did. They did so by killing Luke so she would have to do the spell. When Elena hears about Damon's part in the plan she freaks out. Then she comes with him. It goes well after that. Everyone passes through as Liv sobs her way through the spell, including Alaric! Then its Damon turn. Luke has already passed back and can see the spell is killing her. So her whisks her away. And Damon and Bonnie are trapped on the crumbling Other-side... The goodbye between Elena and Damon is heart-breaking. It made harder by the fact she can't see our hear him. He brushes hair away from her face as she sobs. He talks about how loving her has been the epitome of the life. He couldn't have been any happier with his life, knowing she loved him. Alaric comes in and hugs her as she exclaims "He's gone, he's gone" Then we see Stefan sitting with Caroline, he is reeling after the loss of his best-friend and brother. She lays her head on his back to comfort him. Next we see Bonnie on another bench calling Jeremy. She tells him the truth, he tells her not to hang up, but she does her last words to him, "I love you Jeremy" He runs shouting her name. Just as her arrives we enter the other side with Bonnie. The world is shaking and white where there should be shadows. Damon takes her hand as they face the oncoming white light eating up the other side. She asks "Do you think it will hurt?" He answers "I don't kno-" then the flashes to white and the logo appears leaving viewers with only their tears. During all this sadness they were playing 'Wings' by Birdy in the background making it infinitely sadder. Overall I give this episode 5 stars out of 5. It was perfectly sad, romantic,and intense. I don't think could have ended the season any better.
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