Well, this episode was a handful, and it was a Founder’s day event. In this episode we see a lot of people we thought we would never see again, a miracle almost occurred, one of our favorite characters does something shocking, and something that has been here since the beginning gets destroyed, or does it? It doesn’t sound like much, but it was.

From episode to episode, Elena’s determination and will to get anything accomplished, is (one of the things) I envy. There is just literally NOTHING that could ever make her lose hope or lose faith, she just always has something up her sleeve to keep her going, and I admire that. Her parents are dead, and her aunt is and birth parents are now on that list, her boyfriend has been compelled to not feel anything including love, and her brother is talking to ghosts. And through all that, she still doesn’t lose hope. She still keeps her head up. Amazing.

We see a lot of people we love come back, and people we hate come back. One of the people that came back is Sheila (A.K.A grams) and she is here to help Bonnie “restore the balance of nature”, looks like when the witches said “there were going to be consequences”, they weren’t kidding. Bonnie and Sheila used the talisman (Elena’s necklace) to make all the ghosts return to where they came from. Who else returns? we saw him in the last episode, Mason. You would think that Mason would be here to torture Damon a bit, give him a little taste of payback but…no. As mason said, he was here not for revenge but for redemption. Mason was here to save Tyler, he wanted to protect Tyler and he was teaming up with Damon because protecting Tyler had something to do with how to kill Klaus. Fredrick and his revenge vampire gang also return, and they kill a person from the Fell family in their first day back into the real world, and they also attempt to kill Carol Lockwood, but it was an attempt that failed.

In this episode we see how desperate and how determined Elena really is about getting Stefan back. Elena wanted to get Lexi to help her whip Stefan back into shape, how? well, by using her seeing-vampires-that-are-already-dead little brother to help her. Lexi comes back and she is DETERMINED into getting Stefan’s humanity back. After we, the audience, and Elena saw each and every step that Lexi took to “fix” Stefan, we were all blown away. We see Stefan becoming bipolar and we see him going insane, and Elena was so disturbed she couldn’t even see anymore. Once Lexi left, Elena took her place and told Stefan that she still has hope and that he should regain HIS. She also told him that if he doesn’t change, he is going to lose her forever. 1 word. Dramatic.

Couples scene:

Stefan and Elena: Stefan still doesn’t feel anything (yet) but he was fairly close to. After Elena telling him he would lose her forever if he doesn’t change, you could see the old Stefan back, just for that split second, and you could see that he was helpless, If only Elena stayed a little longer…

Damon and Elena: As much as I would love to talk about how Damon kissed Elena, or how Elena told Damon how she really felt about him, none of that happened. They both mentioned each others names for Elena’s necklace, but they were not together in this episode.

Bonnie and Jeremy: Looks like Anna messed up this relationship. Jeremy kissed Anna, full on, Elena saw them, and Bonnie found out. After destroying the necklace, Bonnie does not want to even hear Jeremy’s explanation, or apology, she tells him to get out while tears were dripping down her face. Jeremy? why? I’m pretty sure nobody saw this coming, except maybe Bonnie herself, since she was worried about Anna just being there. But after the way Bonnie kicked Jeremy out, ad seeing how hurt she looked, I don’t expect this couple to be going anywhere anytime soon.

Characters that weren’t in this episode: Tyler, Sheriff Forbes, Klaus, Rebecca, Michael, Katherine