“If they did [die], the show would pretty much be cancelled with that last scene”, Executive Producer Caroline Dries laughed in a Q&A that followed a screening of tonight’s episode. There will be complications, and some of them could be risky unless some of her friends come to her rescue. “What we get to see in the next episode is [that] Damon really, really, really messed things up, and Stefan, who had his own journey that we didn’t see and we’re not going to see the way we saw it with Damon, Stefan’s been through that, and we’re trying to create a little bit of intrigue”.
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After which, Damon was handed a letter, which turned out to be from his brother Stefan (Paul Wesley). “However, when Damon’s actions inadvertently put everyone he loves in Rayna’s path, he is forced to make things right before it’s too late”. Luckily we live-blogged this week’s episode/Groundhog Day special. With that being said, though, there are a lot of other ways the character could be damaged, including emotionally as a result of everything that she goes through over the course of the events leading up to it.
However, at the end of the episode, he told his dying mother that he hated her, but more than anything that he has lost her twice and this would be the third, without telling her what he never did: “I’m so sorry, give me a chance to make it right”.
Having seen the Groundhog Day-esque hour, E! The Phoenix Stone has taken him back to the first time he ever committed murder, when he accidentally slaughtered an entire family hiding Confederate deserters.
The Originals season 3B premiere will see the onset of the conflict between the Mikaelsons and the Strix, a group made up of the world’s oldest vampires and who are said to be responsible for many of history’s greatest atrocities, including wars and plagues.
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“Vampire Diaries” season 7 will return with episode 10 on a new timeslot on January 29 at 8 P.M. ET on The CW. Stefan going over to New Orleans won’t be happening until later in the series.
