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"I Was Feeling Epic": Eight seasons ago, Elena Gilbert met Stefan Salvatore. They talked all night. It was epic. And in flavor ii, when Stefan's best friend Lexi played relationship whisperer and told Elena that "when information technology'south real, y'all can't walk abroad," she explained to Stefan that she decided to be his wingman because, well, she was feeling epic. And now, in the serial finale, it was Stefan's turn to do something — or more accurately — something else that was epic … and it cost him his life.
Let's get into it for ane final recap, and no I didn't weep as I wrote that. (Yes I did.)
The activity starts with Bonnie's collapse. Stefan'south trying CPR to resuscitate her, simply information technology's non working. And when Caroline'due south vampire blood doesn't work either, we flash to the forest, where Bonnie'southward wandering when she sees Elena lying in what looks like a very comfortable bed. Elena, excited to see her all-time friend, hugs Bonnie earlier realizing what this ways: If Bonnie's here, that means Bonnie is dead, and that's not okay with Elena. Bonnie was supposed to live a full life and grow sometime, merely as Bonnie tells Elena, "I can be with Enzo now… I'm set up."
But Enzo's not. Appearing to Bonnie, Enzo tells her that it'due south not her time before he pulls her back into the light, which causes her to wake up. Later hugging Caroline, Bonnie turns to Stefan and tells him, "I saw her. I saw Elena."
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Back at the bell tower, Damon and Matt prove upwards to stop Vicki from ringing the bell, just equally she tells them, at that place'south nothing they can do. Damon, desperate to disprove that, throws Vicki off of the bell tower. (He's always had a thing for killing her.) It doesn't accept long for her to return, and after he "tests his theory" by breaking her neck, it's official: Vicki is simply going to keep coming dorsum to life. And then, Damon leaves Matt to endeavour to become through to his sister while he plans for Matty Blue'due south inevitable failure.
Vicki explains to her brother that Katherine has instructed her to ring the bong every five minutes until Mystic Falls burns. All Vicki knows is that she can't get dorsum to hell. She'd rather be expressionless and gone, which she will be once she rings that bell for the twelfth time. So Matt, realizing he can't stop his sister, activates the evacuation protocol citing a "gas leak." The best part? Him maxim, "Yes … again." Poor Mystic Falls and its gas leaks.
Back at the Salvatore mansion, Stefan and Damon are trying to figure out their side by side move. As Damon puts it, Katherine "played the long game and finally beat us." At least that's what he thinks before he rounds the corner and sees that Elena'due south coffin is empty. And when Elena rounds the corner, Damon gets his reunion…
… sort of. Damon rushes to Elena and picks her upward in a hug before realizing something. In an instant, he drops Elena, mostly because she'southward Katherine. Her response? "Rude." Ugh, I have missed her so much.
After a "hello, brothers," Katherine explains that Elena is still in her spiritual coma. Equally for where Elena's body is, Katherine borrows a line from flavor 1 Damon and tells them, "That'south for me to know and for you to dot dot dot." And here's where we get the total explanation for what's been going on this season: Since the moment Katherine Pierce outset arrived in hell, she did what she'southward always washed all-time — manipulate men in places of ability. She'southward had Cade wrapped around her finger, which is why he showed such an interest in the Salvatores. "He wanted you because I wanted you," Katherine says.
And now, she gets her perfect revenge. At ten p.thou., all of Mystic Falls, including Elena'south torso, will fire. "And I'm guessing 1 of your two Salvatores is going down with her," Katherine says. But the question is: Which one?
Stefan stabs her with the bone dagger they had made in the last episode, which buys them a picayune time before she inevitably wakes up. With that, they prepare out to find Elena. Damon and Stefan carve up up to cover more than ground and Caroline promises to meet Stefan at the school, but Ric is non a fan of that plan. He's getting the girls out of town, and he wants Caroline to come along. Caroline tries using the archetype, "It's Elena" alibi that has worked and then many times before, but now, Caroline has daughters who demand her. As Ric tells Caroline, "I don't demand to remind y'all what it's similar to lose your mother." Yeah, Ric's non pulling whatsoever punches at this point, guys.
Caroline promises to become to safety, just showtime, she has to meet upward with Stefan. Speaking of Stefan, he gives united states i last glimpse at the history classroom — where he and Elena once had history together — earlier he finds her body in the boiler room. The problem? Apparently Kai helped Katherine spell that room so Elena can't go out.
Stefan calls Damon and tells him that they take to get Katherine to break the spell, simply as per usual, Katherine is a couple steps ahead of everyone. Kitty Kat is back in all her glory — curly hair and all — and she informs Damon that she's non looking to negotiate. Not this time. Because she'due south about to get everything she wants: Mystic Falls upwards in flames along with everyone in it. Damon calls her out on being jealous of Elena because "Stefan and I both would cull her over you." But two tin can play that game. Permit's non forget that Katherine knows where to hit the Salvatores so it hurts. Every bit she targets Damon'southward biggest insecurity, she says, "And she would cull Stefan… because I would. Any woman would. Stefan is the better man." Washed with this conversation, Damon stabs Katherine.
Still looking for a way to disengage the spell that has Elena trapped, Stefan, now joined by Caroline, calls Ric and Bonnie, who are on their way to the Armory. Stefan begs Bonnie to help. After all, it'due south not but Elena; Damon won't leave her, so Bonnie has to salvage them both. But Ric is done saving the 24-hour interval. He tells Caroline it'due south time for her to leave town and to take the tunnels that lead to the Arsenal. He then hangs up before Bonnie can fully make up her mind.
At the high school, Stefan tells Caroline that he has to talk to Damon. He at least has to try to convince his brother to leave. But Caroline promised Ric that the girls wouldn't grow up without a mother, and Stefan understands. "Family first," he tells her. But every bit Caroline reminds him, they're a family now. "Don't make me leave yous," she says through her tears in a moment that's certain to rip your heart out. But Stefan has to motility fast if he'southward going to convince Damon, and he can't practise that unless he knows she's safety. "He'south my brother," he tells her. And like he said, family unit first.
And then with one final "I honey you," Caroline heads to the Armory, where Bonnie is currently in the middle of, once once again, finding a manner to salvage the twenty-four hours. When Bonnie sees the research that Ric and Dorian had started for "Project Hail Mary," a.m.a. finding a fashion to destroy Cade's hell, she gets an idea. Ric had come to the conclusion that they'd need a few million volts of mystical energy to destroy hell, which roughly translates to: the amount of energy contained in hellfire. Bonnie quickly calls Stefan and tells him that Katherine has to be in hell when she destroys it, and he'due south willing to do whatsoever it takes.
By the time Caroline gets to the Armory, she has to go out Bonnie behind to get out of town with Ric and the girls. As Bonnie puts information technology, "I'yard gonna save the world and y'all need to arrive that car and drive away." Ric promises to fill Caroline in, so she leaves her all-time friend with one concluding thought: "Don't do anything stupid, Bonnie Bennett." And as she's done so many times before, Bonnie promises she'll exist fine, all the while knowing there's a proficient run a risk she won't be.
Returning to the tomb where Katherine was supposed to accept been when Damon first came to boondocks looking for her, Damon informs the adult female he once loved that Bonnie has figured out a mode to salve the twenty-four hour period — she'due south going to draw the hellfire through the tunnels, thereby protecting the boondocks, and then transport it straight back to hell where Katherine and Damon will be waiting patiently for it. As Damon tells her, he's looking forrad to dying at her side. (And how fitting that Katherine should die in the very tomb where she was supposed to spend all those years desiccating.)
At to the lowest degree, that'southward Damon's programme. Just Stefan has something else in mind. E'er the martyr, Stefan shows upwardly, and subsequently Damon daggers Katherine — she's virtually caught up with Elijah at this point in terms of how many times one person can be daggered — the brothers have their most emotional conversation to date. Damon, ready to cede himself, asks Stefan to tell Elena that he did this for her, to pay for his past mistakes. Just Stefan has mistakes to pay for likewise: He owes it to Bonnie and Enzo. He owes it to a lot of people.
Damon is quick to remind his brother that he wasn't responsible for Enzo, but when Stefan argues that he's responsible for every drop of claret he'southward spilled, Damon chimes in that he's spilled more. When it's articulate neither is going to cave in the battle of "who needs redemption more," Stefan tries a new approach: He's human at present. He'll exist dead in threescore years. Damon, meanwhile, has an eternity with Elena ahead of him. As truthful every bit that might be, Damon tells his brother that eternity will mean a lot less without him.
"You think I want this? I just got married," Stefan tells his brother. But it's been most 2 centuries since Stefan fabricated Damon become a vampire, and as he tells Damon in what might be my favorite line of the unabridged hour, "I accept fought to turn you into the man who deserves the happiness that'southward out there right now, so let me do this for you." Just Damon's nevertheless not budging. And then Stefan follows that with: "So let me do this for me."
And this is where I accept a break considering I'thou crying writing this. But we're not done with the tears all the same…
After this season brought us our first "I love you"s from the Salvatores, the finale gives us our start "I love yous" substitution from them. Damon says, "I love you, picayune brother," earlier Stefan can say it back. But here's where it gets tricky. Stefan is human… which means Damon can compel him.
With tears in his optics, Damon compels Stefan to walk out of the tunnels and non terminate until Damon's death breaks the compulsion. "I am the big brother," he tells Stefan. "Deplorable I wasn't better at it until now." Stefan so turns and walks out.
Ii weeks agone, I talked about how I always felt like Damon had to sacrifice everything to salvage his brother in order to achieve the redemption that the show had been working toward. And for the second time in two weeks, he's proven that he'due south gone from the human being who in one case promised his blood brother an eternity of misery to the one who'southward willing to exercise annihilation to let his brother live. And if I'm beingness honest, considering of that, there'south a part of me that was going to be okay if Damon was the expiry that ended this show. Merely that's not what happened…
Dorsum at the bong tower, Matt brings his begetter to encounter Vicki — non to talk her out of what she'south doing but just to let him run across his girl one last time. (Also, major props to this bear witness for bringing back Tiki'south grandad, the very man who recognized Stefan in season 1, thereby causing Elena to look into his by and observe that he was a vampire.)
Afterwards one final hug, Matt and Peter head to the boondocks square, leaving Vicki to ring the bell for the 12th time. But before she does, Ric tells Caroline Stefan's programme — to sacrifice himself to relieve everyone — and she does the but affair she can do: She has Ric pull the car over and so that she can call Stefan.
She leaves him a voicemail, and just when I thought I could handle this chat, Caroline says the best thing she could say in this situation (and also the affair that volition make me cry the hardest): "I need y'all to know that I understand." She tells him that she will honey him forever before reiterating that, above all else, she understands. And how amazing is that? Seriously.
But then, Vicki rings the bell for the concluding time, and as hellfire explodes, Bonnie is able to take command of it and direct information technology through the tunnels all the style to the Armory. But needless to say, this is the most difficult thing Bonnie's e'er done — and arguably the coolest matter a witch had done with fire behind flavor 2's "sun and moon" ceremony — and she needs help. Luckily, Enzo is in that location… forth with all the Bennett witches, including Grams and Lucy! It only took six seasons, but Lucy finally came through on her promise that Bonnie would see her again!
Together, the badass Bennett women send the hellfire back to hell. As Bonnie says earlier she collapses, "I did it."
Suddenly, nosotros're within the loftier school, where Elena is awake, and we hear soundbites from before seasons, including Stefan request "Is this the Men's Room?" But as Elena rounds the corner, she once again bumps into Stefan.
Elena, naturally confused, asks for an explanation. Stefan tells her that he's non sure if Bonnie's okay, only what he does know is that Damon wanted to cede everything to save Elena and salve the town. He was ready. Stefan explains, "I'thou human now. He compelled me to get out." But Damon should've known better: Stefan would never spend a day as a human without ingesting vervaine.
We flash back to the moment before the hellfire came back through the tunnels, when Stefan returned and injected Damon with his blood, thereby giving his brother the cure, undoing the very matter that caused Damon to promise him an eternity of misery all those years before. Merely as Stefan forced his brother into vampirism, now he forces him dorsum into the life he wants: a human being 1 with Elena.
In that moment, Stefan knew his blood brother wouldn't practice something stupid. Without the cure, Stefan would age and die, and then in that location was no longer any reason to save his life. So, with Damon out of the manner, Stefan held Katherine in place and only before he daggered her, told her one last time to, quite literally, burn in hell.
And then, just earlier he airtight his optics and accepted his fate, Stefan turned to Damon and said, "Goodbye, brother." OH MY GOD I Have SO MANY EMOTIONS.
Jumping back to Stefan and Elena in the hallway, Elena slowly registers what Stefan is maxim. Damon is fine, just Stefa … he did what he had to practise, he tells her. "Tonight I saw a side of Damon that I hadn't seen in a while: the older brother I looked up to, the son who enlisted in the Ceremonious War to please his male parent, the Damon I knew when I was a boy. I wanted that Damon to alive, and I wanted you to take an opportunity to go to know him." Contradicting Katherine's statement from earlier in the episode, Stefan tells Elena, "He's the better man. He'southward the correct man."
I accept a pocket-sized issue with Stefan, who'due south just sacrificed himself, maxim that Damon is the "better human being," merely the point is that Damon has finally completed his evolution. He became a "villain" when his brother forced him to become a vampire. And now, almost 200 years later, he's back to being the guy he was earlier he died, and not just considering he'south human, but considering the self-described selfish vampire has learned to put others get-go. In terms of redemption, this 1 moment has delivered information technology for both brothers: Damon because he was willing to sacrifice himself, and Stefan because he did.
Information technology's also a potentially unintentional nod to the season 2 finale, when Damon, on his deathbed thanks to a werewolf bite, told Elena that he thought she would've liked him if she'd met him when he was human being. And now, finally, she'due south going to get to know that guy.
Returning to the moment, Stefan wipes a tear from Elena'southward face equally he tells her, "It'south good to see yous, Elena. 1 final time." The two of them hug before he whispers 1 final message in her ear. Then, mirroring the moment when she left with Klaus in season 2 and the moment they said goodbye in the flavour vi finale, they let their hands slowly separate. They've finally come to the terminate of their love story. And that's 1 of the things I love virtually about this moment. Information technology does not take anything away from Damon and Elena's dearest story or Stefan and Caroline's love story, but by the simple fact that Stefan told Elena that his brother was the right man in this scenario, it brings us back to the love triangle that was the foundation of this show for and then long. It'southward a beautiful flash to the fact that maybe there was a future in which Stefan and Elena establish their way dorsum to each other. Nosotros'll never know. But now, because of Stefan'south decision, he's ended their story. But he's also the reason their story began.
By putting Katherine's comment about Stefan existence the better man in the start of the episode and bringing it back here, it makes the triangle relevant again without undoing years of other relationships. Only similar in the season 3 finale, information technology came down to which brother, but this time, it wasn't about who Elena would choose. Instead, it was near which blood brother would make the ultimate option, and once once again, it was Stefan. So maybe, in a fashion, it was ever going to exist Stefan, whether it was virtually getting a girl or making a sacrifice.
I also but have to tip my hat to both actors in this scene. I experience similar in that location's so much they're juggling here. They tin can't make the moment romantic, because that would experience odd, but they accept to acknowledge that they're saying adieu to an epic love, and they handle it so perfectly. I'grand sure some of yous will disagree, and I respect how you feel, just for me, I feel like this moment respects all the ships.
And finally, there's the beautiful callback as The Fray's "Never Say Never" plays, the aforementioned song that ended the pilot, when Stefan showed up on Elena'southward porch later the blaze and she invited him inside. It was the start of their love story — that was the dark that they would talk and it would be ballsy. And now, it marks the (also ballsy) terminate of their honey story.
Walking down the hallway away from Elena — which took me back to the moment he did the same in season iv after hearing her say she loved Damon for the kickoff time — Stefan opens the doors and enters… peace. And waiting for him is none other than Lexi, leaning against his Porsche. "That was beautiful," she says, to which he responds, "I was feeling epic."
Cut from Lexi and Stefan's reunion, nosotros get Elena's final "Honey Diary." As she wakes up in Damon'southward bed, her voiceover — mirroring sentiments she said in the pilot — says, "Dear Diary, Today will exist unlike. Today I will smile and it will be genuine because today is the day that I get to live once again." (Much in the aforementioned way that Stefan helped her effigy out how to alive over again after her parents died.)
Just then, Elena wakes upwardly to find Bonnie watching over her. Later all this time, Bonnie plant a way to break Kai'due south spell, and as she puts it, "It took some time but I recall I finally figured this witch matter out." They hug, and then in a moment that absolutely destroys me, the reality of the situation sets in for both of them. Elena asks where Damon is, and Bonnie lets her know that he's with Caroline… "saying bye."
As nosotros caput to the Salvatore crypt, Elena's diary entry continues, "This life volition be skillful and beautiful, but non without heartbreak. In expiry comes peace, merely pain is the cost of living. Like love, it'south how we know we're alive." It'southward a sentiment they've repeated throughout the series: Elena telling Stefan to feel something, annihilation — that our emotions are what make united states of america human. Stefan then told her the same after Alaric died. But this time, it's nigh losing Stefan.
Damon and Caroline stare at Stefan'due south grave marker, which claims Stefan is "now at peace," and Caroline believes that. "We'll come across him over again," she tells Damon, but he's not so sure. He's pretty certain they'll reopen hell for Damon Salvatore. Merely in a truly heartwarming moment for these characters who've come up and then far — remember when Caroline was basically Damon's boob? — she tells him, "Don't be so certain." Somehow, Damon has won over Caroline Forbes, and that's proverb a lot. Between losing Liz and losing Stefan, they've come together, and much similar Alaric said last calendar week during the wedding, loss is what brought all these people together.
And while nosotros're talking about bringing people together, Caroline walks out to find Elena standing in that location, and finally, Damon gets his reunion, kissing Elena like he means it.
Elena and then sits Caroline down to tell her what Stefan whispered in her ear: "Tell Caroline I heard her," he told her. "And I will love her forever as well." He got her message!!! (And now I'thousand crying again. Just kidding. I never stopped.)
As a final goodbye, everyone pays their respects to Stefan. Caroline leaves the snow globe he gave her once upon a fourth dimension on his grave, which Damon follows with his daylight ring. Later all, Damon's human at present, and information technology'due south all thanks to Stefan. Too on the grave? If you expect closely, Elena left her necklace. The first real thing he did to protect her all those years ago.
Equally Elena's voiceover leads into many others, she says the truest thing almost losing someone, "Life goes on."
In a final montage, nosotros detect out that Matt received a bench for his efforts as sheriff of Mystic Falls, and he's fifty-fifty contemplating running for mayor. As for Tyler and Vicki, they lookout Matt with pride before turning and walking off to their peace.
Bonnie is working on keeping her promise to Enzo: She's going to live this life to the fullest, and that starts with traveling… with Enzo by her side, whether she knows it or not.
As for Ric and Caroline, they've opened the Salvatore Boarding Schoolhouse for the Young & Gifted, which Damon decided was Stefan's final wish. There, Jo looks over her daughters but as Liz looks over hers. And then there's Jeremy Gilbert, who's returned to teach children? That doesn't audio similar the best idea. (What does he teach? How to chop wood while in a super tight tank?)
Merely THAT'S NOT ALL. After it opened, the school received a $3 1000000 donation from… KLAUS MIKAELSON! And with information technology, Caroline received a letter, which I've transcribed in full considering I love all of yous:
"I have often imagined the paths your life might take, simply your chosen future is more noble than I always fathomed. Please have this contribution to your virtuous crusade. I exercise wait frontwards to thanking you in person, anytime. Still long it takes. Yours, Klaus." Notwithstanding LONG Information technology TAKES. Guys, I can't. I CANNOT with this. And according to Ric's voiceover, "That is the offset of another story." BUT IS It A STORY THEY'RE GOING TO TELL?!
From there, nosotros cut to Elena leaning confronting a grave outside the Salvatore crypt, where she visits Stefan every bit she writes in her green periodical. She went to med school, afterwards which she returned abode to Mystic Falls. It's where she wanted to grow old, and according to her, she did, though her age is kept a question mark.
Writing the end of her story, she says, "And that's my life: weird, messy, complicated, sad, wonderful, amazing, and above all, epic. And I owe information technology all to Stefan. When I met him, I had lost my parents and I was dead inside. Merely he brought me dorsum to life, and I'grand going to live it as best I can for as long as I tin can."
Just before Damon shows upward, a crow lands on the roof of the crypt, some other pilot callback sure to make you lot feel things.
Joining hands with Damon, we run across that Elena's wearing a wedding ring. Her voiceover tells us that Damon'south worried he won't see Stefan again because he doesn't think he deserves peace. "Simply he's incorrect, considering I know peace exists," she says. "Information technology lives in everyone we concord honey. That is the hope of peace — that 1 day, later a long life, we find each other again."
Jumping ahead to what I assume is Elena'due south decease, Damon disappears from the picture equally she turns to realize she's back home. And waiting for her on the front end porch she one time burned to the basis are Aunt Jenna, her mom and dad, and fifty-fifty Uncle John. (I guess Jeremy was busy at the school.) With that, the girl who lost her parents in the pilot gets them dorsum in the series finale as she ends things with a Gilbert family unit hug.
Then we cut to Stefan, and this is when I absolutely lose it — the moment I realize how this show is about to end. Standing at the Salvatore house, Stefan opens the door, and in that location stands Damon. "Hullo, brother," Damon says, just this fourth dimension, he's not the ominous villain hither to ruin Stefan's life. This fourth dimension, the Salvatore brothers have been reunited in peace, because later all, family get-go, correct?
In their redemption, they're reunited, and nosotros end things on a Salvatore brother hug, otherwise known as the best possible way to end the show.
I have a lot of feelings well-nigh this finale. There are things that didn't work perfectly: I would've loved for it to take been two hours to give some of the scenes more fourth dimension to breathe. So much was happening in that final deed that I think it would've benefited from giving viewers more fourth dimension to really feel each moment. And on a smaller calibration, I'g not entirely sure how invested I am in the "Caroline and Ric open up a schoolhouse" story, only at that place's also a lot that worked.
As I mentioned earlier, I think the virtually impressive thing this finale did was notice a fashion to honor every love story this bear witness'due south ever told. I can walk away feeling similar I got closure on each and every ane — and maybe a little hope on one in particular — all the while not 1 stands out equally the "winner." And that's not a small feat.
If I'm beingness completely honest, I had always imagined an ending more forth the lines of what co-creators Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson starting time dreamed upward in season two, but I likewise empathize why the prove had strayed as well far from the honey triangle for that to piece of work. So in terms of where the show was today and what worked for that, I think they did the best they could've done.
If nosotros're talking nearly big themes, and the redemption of it all, I love the idea that a show about vampires ends with peace. And while I don't fully understand how peace works — a potential flaw for some viewers — the betoken is that this show ultimately was nigh family unit and love. Who knew a show that was born out of loss and followed the lives of blood-sucking creatures would turn out to be so, what's the right word, epic?
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