The 10th episode of Season 7 of the American supernatural drama TV series “The Vampire Diaries” also marked the midseason premiere of the show on The CW that aired on January 29.
And true to Ian Somerhalder’s previous statement about the midseason premiere episode, it is actually one of the most entertaining and very inventive to date that “The Vampire Diaries” has ever been in the course of six and a half seasons.
It is a time-loop episode where Damon Salvatore, played by Ian Somerhalder, after being caught in the Phoenix stone during the fall finale’s attack, wakes up during the civil war at about the moment when he received a letter from his brother Stefan, played by Paul Wesley.
Valerie has just left his brother in the lurch and his letter to Damon is a collection of complaints about how hard it is for him back in Mystic Falls with their father. Eventually, Damon decides he must go and help his brother immediately.
He was fighting for his life while at war so he requested for two weeks leave. His officer gave a condition that he would be allowed to go on leave if he and a team of soldiers would arrest a group of deserters holed in a nearby farmhouse. Unfortunately, the deserters were prepared and everyone who was sent to apprehend them, except Damon, was massacred, details the Den of Geek.
The farmhouse incident is actually the first time that Damon got blood on his hands but he and his partner covered it up after the fact. He has since repressed the guilt, deemed insignificant after he became a vampire and committed hundreds of other atrocities.
Eventually, Lily pops up in Damon’s civil war dream so he woke up already back in Mystic Falls, and thinking that he has been saved by Bonnie and the rest of the gang.
But when it was revealed to be yet another dream within a dream after Julian kills Stefan, the loop begins over again and Damon was back at war.
The episode actually had the audience guessing which of the scenes are real and which are not. Clearly, just when everyone thought that “The Vampire Diaries” had run out of steam, it came back quite strong and with a very inventive episode at that.
Highlighting Steroline more
While fans of “The Vampire Diaries” already know that Stefan and Caroline Forbes, played by Candice Accola-King, will not end up together in the future despite the present-day Steroline, the romance will be highlighted some more in the second half of Season 7.
Executive producer Caroline Dries revealed that the second half of Season 7 will see Caroline and Stefan continue to be in a relationship and that they would be given a lot of screen time.
Fans and viewers know, because of the three-year time jump that was shown early in Season 7, that Caroline will end up with her former professor Alaric, played by Matt Davis, notes Design & Trend.
Dries added that the second half of the seventh season of “The Vampire Diaries” would be more about Steroline which will make sense once it plays out because it is a very complicated and not a natural love story.
Reason for the end of Steroline
In an earlier episode of Season 7, it was shown that Caroline was telling her personal assistant that she does not want to have anything to do or hear the name of Stefan.
The showrunner said that the second half of Season 7 would show Caroline’s reason for hating Stefan. She explained that viewers will understand all the drama that happened that basically forced Caroline to move to Dallas and be engaged to Alaric, and start a whole new life where she became a producer at a news station.
Dries also said that Stefan will have a lot of dramatic things thrown at him and those are the reasons why Steroline will slip away.