She wouldn’t be the only one looking for a little consolation either. Another huge reveal on this episode of The Vampire Diaries – who is this Nadia (Olga Fonda) chick that seems to have it out for Katherine (Nina Dobrev)? Oh, that’s right, it’s her daughter. Apparently, becoming a vampire is a calling for women in this family gene pool just as much as the doppelganger phenomena is a curse. We haven’t experienced many moments over the seasons where Katherine has proven that she still has a thread of humanity, but there’s always been a softness to her when she brings up her family. That compassion doesn’t extend to her family in the present sense i.e. Elena (also Dobrev), but I imagine at least part of her sympathetic act toward Nadia was sincere.
In case you haven’t thought this through, Nadia is a vampire like Katherine. That means that at some point she stopped being able to have children. In order for the Petrova blood line to have continued, and Elena to exist today, she must have had a child before she stopped being technically alive. Although this was really a huge bombshell for fans (and, Katherine, let’s not forget her), it’s a really compelling plot twist and something that I’m thrilled to see happen to the show. I don’t think I’ve been this excited to see how anything plays out on The Vampire Diaries since Klaus and Caroline started making googly eyes at each other.
Although the team behind The Vampire Diaries has picked up the momentum, we’re still hitting these slick spots that wreak with predictability. The moment Dr. Maxfield’s (Rick Cosnett) eyes lit up while examining Jesse’s (Kendrick Sampson) vampire bites, was the same moment we knew for sure that he was well-versed in the vampire lifestyle. Now that the council is all but disbanded in Mystic Falls, finding a new aggregate of vampire-hating humans was the next step in securing a revolving door of story arcs for the show. If all the villains are of the super natural persuasion, things tend to get a little one-sided.
Do you think Dr. Maxfield’s warning to Elena was out of reverence for her father, or was he just trying to stir the pot? What is step 2 of his experiment now that he turned Jesse into a vampire who’s “a perfect candidate” for whatever he’s planning? I’m almost glad that Katherine didn’t die after Damon (Ian Somerhalder) fed her to Silas (also Wesley), but what does that mean? And, what will a human/witch Silas be like?
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Until next episode.
