Spoiler alert! If you haven’t watched The Vampire Diaries season finale, stop reading now.
The cure: It went to unwilling recipient Katherine. Elena shoved it in her mouth right as Katherine was about to rip Elena’s heart out at the end of their epic brawl in the school hallway. We’d thought Stefan had the cure: Elena had given it to him, after Damon gave it to her. But then flashback to Stefan returning it to Elena because everything he’d done this season was to get it for her. Truth: The Katherine twist was a surprise, but also a bit of a letdown. I’d wanted it to go to Stefan. But Paul Wesley got a consolation prize…Silas’ true face: As Stefan was about to bury Silas in the quarry, he realized the body was missing. Silas appeared as Elena and explained that the spell that had turned him into stone was broken when the witch (Bonnie) who bound it died. And then the big reveal: Silas created the immortality spell 2,000 years ago. He could never die, so nature needed to find a balance — a version of him that could be killed. A shadow self. A doppelgänger. Stefan thought he was looking at Silas’ real face, and that explained the Petrova doppelgänger. “Not exactly,” Silas said. The reflection in the car window: STEFAN. “Hello, my shadow self,” he said to Stefan. Then he staked him in the stomach, asked him if he knew what it was like to starve for 2,000 years, put him in the large safe, and pushed it into the quarry. So not only was Stefan buried alive, the safe filled up with water as it sank. BRUTAL. Everyone will just think Stefan has left town. So will Silas pose as Stefan now in Mystic Falls, or will he go off to do whatever in another city? Does this mean everything Silas said about wanting to die and be with his one true love was a lie? Couldn’t he have done this to Stefan a lot sooner? Theories? Regardless, Wesley should have fun next season. Continue Reading at EW!
