Last week’s premiere episode was a conclusion of the first season, now, episode 2 of The Vampire Diaries opens up a new chapter as it set the tone to its sophomore campaign!
Episode 2 Review care of TV Fanatic:
There’s a new vampire in Mystic Falls, one quite unlike any we’ve seen to date. Katherine is gone, for now, but her presence still looms. The Lockwoods are definitely not human. Bonnie has some serious powers and will not hesitate to unleash them.
“Brave New World” fleshed out all of these components as brilliantly as we’ve come to expect, thanks to surprisingly strong acting from a CW series. Katerina Graham, Michael Trevino and particularly Candice Accola were terrific Thursday night.
Watching their characters evolve (literally and otherwise) and new stories come together around the show’s core – Elena and the Salvatores – makes this one of TV’s best shows. As TVD begins this new chapter, the transition has been smooth so far.
Caroline wishes she could say the same.
Unlike Vicki last season, she figures out exactly what’s going on all by herself. She is dead. Katherine killed her. Katherine looks like Elena. Now she’s becoming one of the undead.
Can she control her urges? She fought them all night, and did a respectable job under the circumstances. Look at her progress, and the body count could have been a lot higher.
Like Nina Dobrev shifting seamlessly between Elena and Katherine last week, it was fun to essentially watch two Carolines – and we have to say, she makes one bad ass vampire.
We didn’t know she had it in her, which made for wildly unpredictable drama. This also potentially sets up a reverse Stefan-Elena situation with sweet Matt. When will he find out?
Speaking of secrets waiting to be uncovered, Tyler realizes something’s up with his uncle Mason, even if he doesn’t know exactly what. He can thank Damon Salvatore for that.
Convinced the Lockwoods have supernatural powers, Damon sends a sacrificial lamb to get his a$$ whomped by Mason. This same guy is later devoured by Caroline. Not his day!
Brazilian Martial Arts? We think not. Are those even real? In any case, we have a hunch Mason’s werewolf tendencies are about to be revealed, with Tyler’s not too far behind.
While Caroline and Tyler are still coming to grips with what they are, there’s no doubting Bonnie’s power. She was far from pleased with Damon’s mind control stunt, and showed it.
The fact that she can paralyze a vampire could make her quite an adversary if she ever declared war on them. Once again, Elena stepped in to save Damon. Seems to happen a lot.
This isn’t us. Elena told Bonnie this, breaking her concentration before Damon could be engulfed in flames. But who is “us” exactly? Elena is running out of human counterparts.
There’s still Jeremy, one of Damon’s growing list of enemies. In typical fashion, he plotted an assassination of Damon, but then couldn’t go through with it, revealing his own plan.
Katherine was not present last night, but it felt like it. Everyone is shaken up and talking about her constantly, and clearly she has unfinished business … whatever it might be.
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