In this moment, I feel like Elena Gilbert, because I honestly bởi vì not know what to lớn say or where khổng lồ begin. I have to admit that the thought of losing Elena scared me at first. It really scared me. But watching this hour, which is arguably the show’s strongest since season 3, I realized that this might actually be the greatest thing that could have happened to lớn the show.
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In a lot of ways, this hour felt lượt thích the Delena love story had come full circle, much in the same way the Stelena love story did. For Stelena, they fell in love. They had three seasons of happiness, but when it came time for Elena lớn choose between her own life và the life of one of her best friends, Stefan kneivonline.edu.vn her well enough—and loved her enough—to save her friend.
Now, Damon and Elena have had three seasons of love & happiness. & when it came time for Elena to lớn choose between her own life and the life of one of her best friends, guess what? Even Damon Salvatore—the man who once swore that he’d have chosen Elena if he’d been in Stefan’s shoes—kneivonline.edu.vn that letting Bonnie die would never give him a happy life with the woman he loved.
Sure, Elena didn’t die this time, but that symmetry is still there, và by putting Elena in a coma of sorts, it gave us just enough of an emotional goodbye—it’s the last time she’ll see Bonnie, and probably the last time she’ll see Matt, Alaric, Tyler, or Jeremy—but not so much of an emotional goodbye that it was unbearable—Caroline, Stefan, and Damon will all be there when she wakes up.
We start with Damon lying in the road in the very spot where these two first met. Elena asks him, “How bad is it?” But Damon is more focused on the fact that she owes him a dance.
Flashing back lớn present day, we’re at the wedding, where Alaric is sobbing over the body toàn thân of his dead almost-wife, & Damon is panicking at the fact that his blood isn’t waking Elena up. & when Damon takes Elena to the hospital, Kai finishes his plan: He stabs himself in the neck, and as he dies, so does his entire family.
And that includes Liv, who’s currently lying outside the barn with Tyler, who has a piece of glass in his abdomen that will kill him. (Honestly, talk about a red wedding.)
But when Liv notices the full moon, she tells the man she loves—yep! They love each other!—to kill her & trigger his curse so that he will heal. With that, Tyler becomes the second blubbering fool of the night. (Okay, third if you count me.)
Liv reminds him of his promise not khổng lồ waste his second chance at life. She asks him to lớn let her bởi vì this for him. (Man, this girl really loves sacrificing herself for her loved ones, doesn’t she?)
After one final kiss & “I love you,” Liv puts Tyler’s hands over her mouth & helps him to kill her. & now? Tyler’s a wolf again! Cue the breaking bones và (sexy) yellow eyes.
Meanwhile, Enzo has Stefan and Caroline—who cuddle even when unconscious—in his car. He’s taking Stefan khổng lồ Lily, who can’t seem khổng lồ find her heretic friends in a sea of storage units. But even Stefan can’t get her to lớn stop looking for her “family,” despite threatening lớn cut her out of his life.
So instead, Stefan gets to lớn the chase: What did Lily give Kai in exchange for his help? Oh you know, just her blood.
Yep, Kai is a heretic/wampire now! Back at the church, he wakes up và takes a page out of the Stefan Salvatore handbook by drinking his own father’s blood khổng lồ complete his transition. Then he heads outside, where poor, poor Ric is putting Jo’s body toàn thân in the trunk.
And then, the most heartbreaking thing of the hour happens: After Alaric puts a feivonline.edu.vn useless bullets in Kai, he turns the gun on himself and PULLS THE TRIGGER. The only reason Alaric isn’t dead right now is because he let his anger get the best of him và used all his bullets on Kai. Let’s all take a moment to lớn let that sink in … & then haunt us in our dreams.
The good neivonline.edu.vns? It looks like Tyler can control whom he attacks as a wolf, because he bites Kai. That’s one thing Kai didn’t see coming. (Suddenly I really want lớn watch Kai try to convince Klaus to give him his blood.)
Back in a memory lane alternate universe, Matt & Elena are standing on Wickery Bridge, much lượt thích they did in season 3, when Elena finally accepted that the old her had died. As she quotes Matt, “Here lies Elena Gilbert, a fun girlfriend & an amazing friend.” (Only Matt could make “fun girlfriend” sound so sweet và endearing.) But the goodbye will have lớn wait, because Elena’s not ready. Not yet.
In the real world, Damon calls Bonnie with bad neivonline.edu.vns: The doctors can’t find anything physically wrong with Elena. So what’s happening? Well, Bonnie và Damon find out at the same time. See, lớn get revenge on Bonnie, Kai linked Bonnie và Elena. So as long as Bonnie’s alive, Elena won’t be. In other words, Bonnie has lớn die for Elena khổng lồ wake up. Và if Bonnie even attempts to lớn find a loophole, they’ll both die.
So who will Damon choose: Will he gladly let Bonnie die to lớn save Elena? But as Kai puts it, if Damon kills Bonnie, Elena will never forgive him. Now that, my friends, is a TVD twist.
Also, can we talk about Ric’s text to Damon saying that TY is a wereivonline.edu.vnolf và Kai is a vampire? What’s with the all caps? and can we see all of their text messages now, because if they’re all this amazing, I’d read an entire book of them.
Brief pause for a look inside Stefan & Elena’s alternate reality, where we’re back at the season 2 waterfall where Elena told Stefan she didn’t want lớn be a vampire. & yes, she’s back to lớn being a weak human who can’t handle the hike.
Elena tells Stefan, “You kneivonline.edu.vn me better than anyone. You always have.” That’s why he knows how impossible it is to find the words to say goodbye. So Stefan tells her not to lớn say goodbye. Looking into the eyes of one of his soulmates, he tells her, “I can’t vày this, not now. Not ever.”
Back at the hospital, Caroline asks Stefan if he’ll be okay when Elena’s gone. Caroline knows that when Elena wakes up, they’ll still be best friends. “But you, you were soulmates,” she tells him. Stefan agrees, but with some perspective on his life, he’s realized that Elena came into his life lớn be a soulmate, but also lớn be “the only person I’ve ever met who actually believed that my brother was worth loving.” Elena reminded him that he used lớn believe that, too. “Her faith in him brought me & him back together.” So yes, he loved her more than he ever thought he could love another person, but in the end, “I needed him more than I needed her.” #TeamSalvatore
(Who else flashed back khổng lồ Elena telling Damon that he’d be the one lớn save Stefan from himself và not her?)
At the church, Bonnie goes to lớn Kai, just in time for him khổng lồ figure something out. Up until a little bit ago, he didn’t even know wereivonline.edu.vnolves were real. Và considering that the only way khổng lồ turn a guy into a wolf is by magic, then their venom must be magic, right? So, in a move that would make even big bad Klaus Mikaelson jealous, Kai siphons the magic out of his neck wound & heals his own wolf bite. Yeah, that was cool.
Then, Kai throws Bonnie across the room. By the time Damon enters, Bonnie is on the verge of death from a collapsed lung. Kai tells him to choose: Bonnie or Elena. So Damon kisses Bonnie on the head, apologizes, & leaves.
Really? That’s it? Well, let’s just say that Kai is not happy with that ending. The whole point of his plan was to torture Damon for a while. Couldn’t Damon at least have flipped a coin? Heads or tails bởi vì tend to lớn make things a little more interesting.
And as Damon puts it when he re-enters và decapitates Kai: “Heads it is.” Okay, now this is great.
But really, I hope you all have been preparing yourselves, because now it’s time for Elena’s goodbyes. With Elena in a coffin at the Salvatore house, each person gets a chance lớn let her inside their minds and say goodbye. First up, her girls.
Caroline & Bonnie: Back in Elena’s old room—with Elena’s old journal!—the besties have a sleepover & Elena asks them both lớn start journaling. She wants them lớn write it all down so that she can read it one day và feel lượt thích she was there. She then says goodbye khổng lồ Caroline, whom she’ll see again, to thank Bonnie for every time she’s made a sacrifice for her. Now it’s Elena’s turn lớn repay the favor. Her only request: That Bonnie performs their favorite pillow-feather trick one last time. (At which point I yelled “oh god!” through my sobs.)
Matt: Now in a cop uniform, Elena tells Matt that this is how she sees him in the future—as a loyal & good human who spends the rest of his life fighting for others lượt thích him. Although Matt can’t handle the idea of never seeing her again, Elena tells him that based on their odds, she thinks they will.
Alaric: Out in the woods for one of their training sessions—again from season 3—Elena tells Alaric that he can’t fight the pain that comes with losing Jo. He has lớn let himself drown in it, and eventually, he’ll start to lớn swim và every breath he takes will make him stronger. She promises him that he’ll beat it, & in return, he hugs his adopted-daughter-of-sorts goodbye.
Jeremy: Yes, Jeremy makes it back for this. Sitting at the stoner den at the high school, Elena loses it for the first time. But Jeremy assures her that he only came back to lớn tell her that he’s happy and doing what he was born to do.
Tyler: As Elena unchains Tyler, she tells him khổng lồ get out of Mystic Falls and embrace his wolf side. “Let it be the thing that makes you extraordinary,” she tells him.
Stefan: Oh god. Oh god. Oh god. I can’t bởi this. First, Elena thanks Stefan for bumping into her that day in the hallway. After her parents died, she never thought she’d be happy again, but Stefan changed everything. “You quite literally saved my life,” she says. “I love you so much.”
But she assures him that she looks forward to lớn seeing the life he builds for himself while she’s away. (Spoiler: He won’t be in high school.) She tells him to lớn “just be happy” before saying she’ll see him soon. His final words: “I’ll see you, Elena,” as the camera lingers on their hands parting, much the same way they did when she left to lớn go with Klaus. (Only complaint: It didn’t need lớn be said, but I would’ve liked an “I love you” from Stefan.)
But before we get to Damon, here are some more highlights: Kai had cloaked Lily’s family—that man và his cloaking spells—so when he died, it lifted, & now, Lily and Enzo have officially reunited with the heretics.
As for Elena’s body, she will rest in the Salvatore crypt, where Bonnie will put a spell around her to protect her from any vamps who might want khổng lồ suck the cure out of her. Now, as Stefan leaves his brother with the world’s most supportive hand-on-his-shoulder, Damon says goodbye.
Damon: In the street, Elena tells Damon that she kneivonline.edu.vn he’d do the right thing and stand by Bonnie even if it meant living without her for a little while. She then tells him not to lớn sit around và wait for her. She tells him lớn live a life & enjoy it. “Be happy.” The two of them then dance—have they been taking lessons?—taking us back to lớn their first dance with their almost touch.
Meanwhile, Stefan shows up at Caroline’s house khổng lồ tell her that he’s also made a danh mục of how loving her has changed his life. And he knows that she needs time lớn heal. He’ll wait for her. When she’s ready, he will be too. He then kisses her on the cheek & leaves her smiling.
As for Damon and Elena, they manage to share their last “I love you’s” without letting things get too sad, before he dips her, và they kiss one final time. It’s simple. It’s heartbreaking. It’s so, so good.
Now for the twist: Jumping forward in time—not sure by how much—Matt is driving around in a cop car in what looks like a post-apocalyptic Mystic Falls. & up on the clock tower stands Damon Salvatore.
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Altogether, that hour was a beautiful walk down memory lane. It was so well paced và featured such emotional performances that all I want to do is watch it again & cry harder.
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