The Vampire Diaries is finally back! Yes, we know it returned last week, but Season 5, Episode 12 (“The Devil Inside”) was a true return to form for TVD, something we haven’t felt since “Original Sin.”
There were plenty of twists and turns on “The Devil Inside” — from Tyler and Caroline explosive fight, to Katherine and Nadia completing the spell to remove Elena’s spirit from her body completely — but what made the episode so strong were its character moments.
With so many characters on TVD, it’s sometimes hard to get to all of their storylines. However, “The Devil Inside” did this perfectly. Damon, ashamed of himself for pushing Elena away, loses himself to his own demons when “Elena” (read: Katherine) breaks his heart. Then there’s Caroline, who is quick to write herself off as a terrible person after her hook up with Klaus, especially after Tyler finds out and blows up at her. (And when we say “blow up,” we mean “nearly attack her in a hybrid rage.”) Even Tyler, who we haven’t always been the biggest fan of in the past, got some character development in “The Devil Inside.” Klaus has caused Tyler a lot of pain — he turned him into a hybrid, slaughtered his pack, and killed his mother — and by sleeping with Caroline, he took the last thing Tyler had (even if he selfishly gave it up when he left for New Orleans). It’s hard not to feel a tad bit sorry for Tyler, but he still had no right to snap at Caroline. Thankfully, Stefan gave him a punch in the face for us. The friendship between Caroline and Stefan is one of our favorite dynamics on TVD (case and point: when Stefan doesn’t make her feel like a terrible person for sleeping with Klaus because he slept with Katherine), so here’s hoping they don’t complicate things with a romance.
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