Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough I don't know why

Oh man. Lots of grieving was going on this week. Elena went through all five stages in just one episode.

So Jeremy's dead now. I hope you saved some tissues for that.

DENIAL

The Vampire Diaries is a strange show. You have this town where people die on a daily basis, yet we still feel grief and anger when the writers kill them off. We sort of know that none of the characters are ever safe (remember that time they killed Vicky) but it still shocks us.
This episode (4x15 - Stand By Me) wasn't only about death, though, it was mostly about loss. Everyone lost hope, siblings, friends and their sanity TONS!

Elena was is denial for about 75% of this episode. She thought that Jeremy would totes come back to life because he was wearing his ring. But, Jeremy was supernatural now because he had a tattoo (LOL wut?)
Stefan and Damon figured out that she was going to lose her nuts when she came back to reality, so they played along while Damon stayed on the island to look for Bonnie. I guess they thought she still had her necromancy skills.

But instead of Bonnie, he ran into a bad-ass blonde

Rebekah was NOT happy about a hussy stealing her cure! She had enough respect to not throw some confetti in the air when she found out Jeremy died, but she made it pretty clear that the cure was more important than helping Bonnie bring back the dude that killed her brother.

Stefan, Elena and Jeremy's body beamed themselves back to Mystic Falls where Caroline was trying to scrub Kol off the kitchen floor. I feel like this is something that should've happened much sooner.

ANGER

Caroline and Stefan discussed what to do about Cray-lena so loud. She's a vampire now, you guys, you need to keep the tap running while talking about her! But oops, Elena was totally eavesdropping.
I must say, Elena made A LOT of sense in this scene. She had a point - Jeremy's supernatural destiny was fulfilled when he opened Silas' tomb, was he still supernatural?

Jeremy always had the potential to become a hunter, therefore he was ALWAYS supernatural! Howcome the ring worked before the tattoo? Okay, so he became supernatural when the tattoo appeared, won't he stop being supernatural when the tattoo's gone?
So much inconsistency! I can't even keep up anymore.

So Stefan and Caroline went to talk about Elena on the porch (sure, she can't hear you guys there, right?)
Then Caroline smelled a rat.

No, seriously. She could smell Jeremy's body decomposing. Have you guys ever smelled a dead body? Yeah, me neither, but I have smelled a dead rat, and I feel like those odours are almost the same.
She decided to go home and tell her mother about all the shit they're currently in and call Tyler. This show...when last have I seen an adult on it?
Oh, right, Meredith showed up and tried to persuade Elena to release the body, otherwise the smell was never gonna come off the sheets.
Elena was incredibly rude to her about it, but then Matt walked in.
I was doing really well this far, but then I saw Matt's face and I was just like...

I get that Jeremy was Elena's last relative (Goodbye Gilbert name), but Elena always had Bonnie, Caroline and Matt, even when her parents and Aunt Jenna died. Then she had Stefan and Damon. Matt has been alone since he was introduced. His sister died, his mother's a slutty mcslutface and his father is like dead or something (I dunno).
Jeremy was the last friend Matt had. The only one who wasn't dealing with supernatural occurrences on the daily.

BARGAINING

Bonnie didn't take the news well either.

 

Starting forest fires and shit.

Shane calmed her down long enough to brainwash her.
This is the story - Qetsiyah gave Silas two options when she locked him up: either take the cure and die, or desiccate. The reason Silas never took the cure was because that little witch created 'The Other Side' (you know that place Ester lives) for supernatural creatures. So if he died, he would be stuck there forever. Remember how Shane was all "Silas can bring back the dead"? He can't -  he can only help Bonnie lift the veil to that place. So he can't just bring back who he wants. EVERY supernatural creature ever created would return.

Rebekah was giving Damon a hard time for staying on the island instead of going back with Elena but then he said something really barf-worthy, but also sort of sweet:

Damon: "I wanted that cure for her because it's what she wanted. You might think I'm afraid to go back, but I'm not, because I know what she needs. She NEEDS me to bring her best friend home."

Rebekah was still all whatevs and she took Galen to her cave of wonders.

She really wants the cure, you guys.
Galen showed Rebekah the mask Silas was wearing in his tomb. So basically, no one knows what he looks like. Except Bonnie (*spoiler*)

Turns out the island isn't so different from the LOST's. The Shane that Bonnie was talking to all episode wasn't even Shane, it was Silas. So Silas can shapeshift? Can vampires do that? I don't even care.
Anyways, Silas is really creepy. He reminds me of Gideon from the sixth season of Charmed

Silas: "They were a necessary sacrifice, for the greater good"
Gideon: "Sacrifices must be made for the greater good"
That cant be a coincidence.
Also, they sort of look alike.

Speaking of Bonnie, she ran straight into Damon's arms.

Then they beamed themselves back to Mystic Falls in Damon's ride.
Bonnie was talking crazy!! She was all "Let's bring back all the dead people!" And Caroline and Matt were all "Bitch, you cray" and Elena just sat there.

Then April called (LOL) and asked to speak to Jeremy.

Elena: "Jeremy can't come to the phone right now. He's not...I'm sorry. He's dead"

April must've have been like 'Aw man, not another one!'

DEPRESSION

So Elena finally came to terms with the fact that Jeremy's ring was just jewellery now and she could smell the funk happening up in his room.
She lost it all kinds! She knew they'd need a cover story and the best one she could think of was burning their house down! This lady...does she know fire spreads?
There was so much crying, screaming and falling to the floor happening in this scene. Is that an Emmy I smell, Nina Dobrev? (LOL, jk, you're on a vampire show)

Elena was all "I can't, it's hurts, make it stop!" so Damon told her to turn it (her emotions) off. (I'm sure that's not going to backfire later)

We all knew Elena was gonna turn into Katherine at some point, so YAY!

This was my favourite scene ever:

Damon: "Humanity means nothing when you have no one to care about, Stefan"
Stefan: "She had you."
Damon: "She lost her brother. I'm not enough. Not this time.
Stefan: "Listen Damon, I know that you and I, we've been through some bad spots, lately, especially when it comes to her."
Damon: "Yeah, well...guess none of that matters anymore."
Stefan: "I just, uh, I want you to know that, uh..."
Damon: "I know Stefan."

I'm crying.

ACCEPTANCE

So, everyone bounced and Elena decided she really still wanted to burn shit up, so she totes burned the Gilbert house down.

CGI fire burned everything in the house while Elena, Stefan and Damon walked away like bad-asses.

RIP Jeremy (for real this time)

Phew!

"They should have called this show 'Bitches be trippin', because bitches be trippin'!" - Shalia Muthafukin' Anthony.

I hope they give Matt the magic ring. Also, Caroline: Tyler's having too much fun in Las Vegas to answer your calls. Just go check on Klaus.

P.S If I don't see Daniel Gillies' or Joseph Morgan's face soon, somebody's getting stabbed.

If you haven't already, read this poem: Death is Nothing at All by Henry Scott Holland.

Life means all that it ever meant, it is the same that it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity.

I'm your weekend special

Humans suck, you guys. We are literally the scum of this earth. We steal, rape, kill, pollute, waste, litter. We care about nothing but ourselves. We are the weakest species on this planet and, I'll bet, in this universe!

We probably weren't always like this. I think the last time the human race was entirely decent, was when we were still hunters and gatherers. But even then, I bet there was that one asshole that had two helpings when everyone else just barely had enough to eat.

We really are becoming dumber and dumber as each generation is born. I blame technology. IT's moving too fast for our brains to catch up, so we've become so lazy, we rely on it to do everything for us. I also blame reality TV. Everyone wants to be a Kardashian. Little kids are aspiring to be a Slutty McSlutFace who made her fortune by having sex in front of a handheld camera.

I hope there are people out there who are like me and wish the world implodes. If that doesn't happen, I have a plan B - remember The Village? We do that. That's all I've got so far.

Enough seriousness! Let's see what happened on TV this week!

The Good Wife

Remember when Lockhart/Gardener was broke? LOL, neither do they

They paid off all their debts and already had their bonus 'cheque plans. Now that they had tons of MONAY, the rest of the equity partners weren't as willing to share the wealth as they were back when they offered Alicia, Cary and two other fourth-year associates equity partnership. Alicia figured out they only wanted them as equity partners in order to use their buy-in fee ($600 000) to pay off some debts. Cary and Alicia were not happy and kicked Will and Diane's butts in mockcourt.

Cary tried to convince Alicia to jump ship and open up a new firm with him (Florrick/Argos), but in the end, the partners only offered Alicia the position in order to keep her happy. I hope Cary does leave and maybe even joins Louis Canning's firm. I don't like the way Diane and Will treat Cary and I don't like that Alicia does bad things for them.

Alicia eventually accepted the offer. She was probably thinking about her children and how she needs to support them. UGH! Those kids are the worst! Seriously! Chris Noth and Julianna Margulies are your parents, be cooler! I'm definitely not Team Zach or Grace.

Elsbeth Tascioni was in this episode and my heart exploded! I really heart her a lot and I loved that she's helping Eli with his case so he can get back on board with Peter's campaign.

Also, Will and Alicia kissed *yawn*

P.S How did no one notice that Kalinda lost an entire person?! #WhereisNick

Once Upon a Time

YAY! Family reunion time!

Turns out Baelfire is Emma's boyfriend, Neil, from that one time. He's also Henry's father. Yup, Rumpel is  Henry's granddad and basically Emma's father-in-law. Well done to this show for getting to the point and having everyone confront each other in ONE episode! If this happened in Salem, Henry would have had kids of his own before finding out about Baelfire and his mother (I should stop watching Days of our Lives).

The only snag is, Rumpelstiltskin heard from a Seer that a little boy will come between him and his son, so he wants to murder Henry now. Dum dum duuuuum...
The Seer totes looked like Florence Welch on crack. And without eyes.

New Girl

Things are still hecka awkward between Jess and Nick after they sucked face all kinds that one time.They all tried to distract themselves by fighting over the apartment's parking space. It was a funny episode, but there were only like two Nick faces in it, so, they could've done better...

Schmidt found out about Jess and Nick's awk-kiss and brought up the 'No Nail' contract Nick, Caoch and him wrote up when Jess moved in. Basically, if any of them nail her, she has to nail the other two. 

Jess:  Let me be very clear here: I am a strong, self-sufficient woman and I will not be nailing you, Schmidt, or Nick, or Schmidt. Notice I said that twice, because I don't feel it's sinking in. There will be no nails, or screws, or hammers in this. Building. Area. Generally. The whole thing!

Then Schmidt and Jess totally kissed!

Winston ended up with the parking space and Cece is dating that guy from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World again.

The Mindy Project

I just wanted to post this photo of Mindy dressed as Falkor.

This show is way-amazing and everyone in the world should watch it. Mindy Kaling is my hero.

"Watching Mindy's minute, it really was sensational, and if I may say: also educational. That's Mindy, bye-bye!" 

Arrow

BEST. EPISODE. EVER (so far). Mostly because ROY! Aw yiss, Roy Harper's here and he's totally gonna bang Thea then steal her nickname! LOL, this show, I know it's totally watching Young Justice on the d/l. 

He even speaks like YJ's Roy. Also, he wore a red (maroon) hood the whole episode.

A new villain, Dodger, who is also Bridget Jones' best friend on his days off, was introduced.

I like him. He uses tasers on people.
Because, again, this is a CW show, rich people found a reason to unnecessarily spend money in order to raise money for a charity, I'm assuming. More importantly, Felicity got to look extra pretty.

Felicity got all dressed up and there wasn't even a little flirty banter between Oliver/Diggle and her. Very disappointed with you, Arrow.

There were plenty of island flashbacks but who really cares, right?
#TeamFelicity #TheaandRoy #Rhea #hashtag

And now, bear with me as I channel some serious Gossip Girl 'tude:

Spotted: Felicity Smoak taking recycling to a whole new level.
My spies caught Little Miss Arrow wearing one of BCBGMAXAZARIA's metallic lace dresses to a Starling City fundraiser AFTER Caroline Forbes looked oh-so dazzling in the same dress at the Miss Mystic Falls pageant earlier this year.

Both these blondes look très jolie, but, who wore it best?
Let me know in the comments section.
xoxo

Next time on Serial Sia:
How to stop a hussy from burning your house down.

"Like everything else that's wrong with America, it can be traced back to the Kardashians"

I can't count the reasons I should stay, one-by-one they all just fade away

Just two weeks ago, we were treated to the firework show that was Kol's death; turns out this show had more heartbreak in store for us, folks. It's like, what is this even? Les Miserables? This episode (4x14 - Down the Rabbit Hole) had so much blood and betrayal!

So the island...sorry, I almost fell asleep and died.

The entire season decided to pin its hopes on this stupid cure, so when they finally got to the stupid island, I expected smoke monsters and four-toed statues. Instead, I was treated to lovers' spats and lame magic. Shame on you, The Vampire Diaries.

Back in Mystic Falls, Caroline had to listen to how two vampires and an original vampire lost an incompetent witch and hunter.

Caroline was like "Seriously?!", but only in her head. Their plan was to find the cure first and to do that, they needed the sword. Caroline went off to find it but no before being hecka rude to Klaus. Harsh, lady! The dude saved your life last night! (The fact that he was the reason you were dying in the first place doesn't count)

Speaking of psychopaths, Damon was having a rough day. The competent new hunter, Galen, had him tied up and decided to grill him about what his friends were planning.

I get that Damon's a 'bad-boy' and what-not, but I just can't take this this attitude seriously after seeing all those De-LAME-a scenes. He had a few good one-liners, though:

Damon: "Do I look like I know anything about tattoos? Look at my skin; it's flawless"

No it's not.

Oh, right, Bonnie and Jeremy...
Bonnie cut her hand and Jeremy ripped off his shirt to use it as a tourniquet.

Then Bonnie did her best "<3 U" face

 But uh-oh! Remember Shane said dropping blood lets you speak to the ghosts of your loved ones? Turns out he ate too many island mushrooms... This is where the blood really goes:

The dude was famished.

This episode took WAY too long to reveal the big twist in their quest. As someone who's never read the books, I saw this coming since the day they mentioned the cure.
But first, Caroline had to change into a cute outfit. Tyler and her then used the sword to try and decipher Jeremy's tattoos.

The sword's hilt was a cryptex which they'd use to decipher the symbols on Jeremy's wonderland.

LOL @ how Caroline defended her knowledge

Caroline: "It's called a 'cryptex'"
Tyler: ...
Caroline "I've seen The Da Vinci Code"

There was, however, one problem - it was in Aramaic, a dead language; a language only Klaus knew. Eventually, Klaus caved and decided to help them, but it wasn't all good news.

YUP! There's only ONE dose of the cure!!! I almost fell off my chair in surprise! Nope.
It's called The VAMPIRE Diaries! Did everyone think they'd let the characters get what they want and live happy lives? Psh. What show have you been watching?

It was actually Galen who told Damon/us that the cure was meant for Silas and Silas alone, but Damon called him "Shrek" in that scene and I didn't want to mention it, because YUCK!

Firstly, Galen is totally Irish. I may not be Irish, but I have ears. Everyone on the internet seems to think this dude is Scottish...why?! Saying "Aye" all the time doesn't make you Scottish, it makes you a pirate. If you thought this was a Scottish accent, please eat some yogurt - you need more culture.

Now, we NEED to talk about Stefan('s self esteem)

Elena was all up in that since Damon told her he didn't want her to take the cure. How was she even surprised that Stefan wanted the cure? If you could stop being a serial killer, wouldn't you want to? She was all "Why didn't you tell me, ex-boo?" and he was all "Nunya beez". But they ended up having a nice moment which Elena ruined by touching his hand. Elena's a damn ho-bag. At least Katherine was straight-forward about her whoreness.
Rebekah was NOT happy about the hand-holding going on.

By this time, we had 3 teams:

Team Stefan, Rebekah and Elena, Caroline and Tyler - All looking for the cure for themselves and to use on Klaus
Team Shane, with Bonnie and Jeremy - Shane forcing Bonnie to wake Silas up so he can bring back his dead family; and
Team Galen - He wants to cure Silas  so he can kill him.

Team Galen was still trying to get to Silas' cave when they realised someone else was on the island -  Team Awesome?

Team Shane, with Bonnie and Jeremy managed to open the passage to Silas' tomb. Bonnie did random magic that made Jeremy's tattoo disappear (and Galen's too) but caused some of the ceiling to cave in.

Oh, Bonnie! What exactly did you grab hold of??
Part of the ceiling sort of fell on Shane's leg, so he wasn't in the best state to walk so BONNIE LEFT HIM THERE!

+1000 points to Bonnie Bennet!
Bonnie pointed out something everyone else was thinking - how did THEY make it that far on their own? Bonnie is the worst witch in the history of Wicca and the only thing Jeremy is good at is taking his shirt off.

Then 'Grams' showed up! But we knew this wasn't Grams... The real Grams would have made Bonnie feel ashamed of herself for being a disgrace to the ancestors, this Grams was too focused on being alive again! Then Jeremy told her it couldn't be Grams' ghost because he would have been able to see her if she was real.

Team Everyone Else was trying desperately to catch up and Klaus told Rebekah the big news. Rebekah's his sister, if he wanted anyone to have the cure, it would be her.

Klaus pretty much effed it up for the rest of them. Rebekah wants the cure for herself, revenge on Klaus isn't as high up on her list as it is for Tyler or Caroline, so letting him speak to Rebekah on loud speaker was a dumb move on their part.

This was my favourite part of the episode - Stefan told Elena to jump off a cliff. And she totes did! But she's a vampire, so she didn't die. BOO!

Rebekah's a very sympathetic character, she loves too much for too long and she definitely still has feelings for Stefan, so when she theoretically offered him the cure, I was pretty pissed that he was still willing to give it to Elena. As much as I root for Stebekah, I enjoy it more when Team Rebekah's doing awesome things. Stefan totally deserved it.

New Team roster:
Team Stelena/Forwood - They want the cure for Klaus, so he doesn't kill them/Tyler
Team Damon - He wants Elena to be cured
Team Galen - He still wants to kill Silas
Team Shane - Stuck under a rock, irrelevant
Team Jonnie - irrelevant

Tyler obviously had no faith in Stefan and Elena getting to the cure first, so he decided he needed to leave town to avoid Klaus' wrath, but then Caroline tried to talk Klaus out of murder. It turned into a Klaroline moment when Klaus confronted Caroline about not wanting the cure:

Caroline: "We all want the cure!"
Klaus: "Do we? Do you?"
Caroline: "It doesn't matter. There's only one so it's not like I'm gonna get it anyway"
Klaus: "But if you could, you wouldn't. Would you? You prefer the girl you are now to the girl you once were. You like being strong, ageless, fearless. We're the same, Caroline." 

Caroline: "Show me... Show [Tyler] the same mercy that I would show you"

Klaus was being a right douche in this episode and only agreed to giving Tyler a head start, but he was still going to disembowel him. So Forwood had to say 'Goodbye'...again.
I may be a Klaroline shipper, but Tyler and Caroline had some rough times. First, they had to deal with being two completely different species and not only that, species that hated each other, then when Tyler became a hybrid, they had to deal with Klaus' sire bond and all-round douchemonster tendencies. Now, when they almost had a happy ending, Klaus took it away from them. On the other hand, remember what Klaus told Caroline back in episode 6? "Just know that if Tyler were still sired to me, he never would've hurt you. I wouldn't have let him" (Forget about the time he told Tyler to bite Caroline). Team Klaroline 4EVA.

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The cure! *yawn*

Everyone was at the caves getting stabbed, blown-up or jumped from behind.

"I wonder who would Elena saw" - said no-one who watched this episode. We all knew awesome was coming soon...

Bonnie and Jeremy got to Silas' tomb first. Silas' frozen body was holding the cure, and the only way to get it free was to feed Silas their blood and wake him up.

Jeremy refused to wake Silas up in order to get the cure, but his buddy, Galen, had other plans

OH NO!
Poor everyone! Elena got jumped, Damon was tortured the entire episode, Rebekah's chest was blasted open, Shane's leg broke, Bonnie got STABBED and there was only one cure! This quest hasn't been the kindest to any of them and it was a waste of their time. If only someone had warned them to stay away from Silas and stop looking for this useless cure... oh wait.

Bonnie getting stabbed wasn't their biggest problem. Klaus could finally leave Elena's living room. He tried to convince Caroline that he was becoming a better person and she was the reason, but Caroline was too angry about him wanting to kill the love of her life to care much. My heart broke for Klaus as he looked defeated and walked away, but Caroline is still awesome.

Jeremy got hassled by Galen TONS! He even started crying at one point, but then everyone's favourite hussy showed up and effed them all over! KATHERINE'S BACK YOU GUYS!

I love Katherine, you guys! She's exactly like Elena, only with a better attitude. She's all "I know I'm a ho, what of it?"
She's had experience with waking up desiccated vampires and she got right to it. Poor Jeremy!

Katherine's got the cure! What exactly do we think she's got planned? Does she secretly want to be human again? Doubt it. Judging from the pictures of Nina Dobrev and Daniel Gillies walking around sets together, I'd say Elijah's behind this whole coup.

The episode ended dramatically, although I'm not sure why.

Yes, yes, Jeremy's dead. But isn't this, like, the eleventh time it's happened this season alone? Was he wearing his ring? I think he was. I've seen him with it lots of times since he became a hunter, so why would he stop now? Does his ring not work anymore because being a hunter makes him a supernatural being now? SO CONFUSED!

And these are all from three DIFFERENT episodes when he was already a hunter.

From what we've been told, Jeremy's death seems real. So R.I.P Jeremy Gilbert.
So Jeremy's dead and Bonnie's dying, that seems more like them than what we were shown in this episode. I'll miss bad-ass Bonnie...
Silas is awake! What now?! I'm looking forward to him learning about 21st century life when he gets out of that cave and I bet Bonnie is Qetsiyah's doppelganger and he'll probably want her dead! 

The next episode brings us closer to the return of Elijah!! DANIEL GILLIES, yay!!

Here's an adorable video Joseph Morgan posted a few weeks ago:
http://telly.com/2NINPO - Could Candice Accola get any cuter?????

P.S. Tyler obviously went to Las Vegas.

Life sucks, get a helmet.