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The Good Stuff:
The day drinking to celebrate Katherine’s demise, in which each of them remembers a way that Katherine Pierce screwed them over. Remember when she killed me? Drink! Four bottles of bourbon later…(And Caroline admitting that she’s probably better off!)
Nadia, desperate to save her mother, hatches a plan. She kidnaps Matt and buries him alive in the woods and then demands help in saving Katherine or else Matt gets it. Of course, Damon refuses to volunteer. Of course, Elena and Stefan DO volunteer. (Those two really deserve each other.)
Damon gives Katherine sedatives so he can sneak into her mind and torture her, because he is REALLY bitter about all those years he spent trying to save her.
Nadia snaps Damon’s neck and pleads with Katherine to use her body, so she can live. As Damon comes to, Katherine gives a touching speech about having lived for five hundred years, and encourages Nadia to live her life. She’s ready to die. Damon is impressed by her selfless act, because apparently Damon doesn’t learn.
Neither does Elena. She takes a moment alone with Katherine, who hates her and has repeatedly made her life hell, to FORGIVE HER. Because she’s just that convinced of her own good nature. Give it up, Elena, you’re a vampire. Kissing ass is for humans. Anyway, Katherine grabs Elena’s head and chants the Traveler spell and STEALS HER BODY. She wakes up and checks herself out in the mirror and practices being Elena Gilbert, but quickly seems bored by it. Nadia calls to ask if everything went as planned, and HELL YES it did.
The Bad Stuff:
KLAUS AND REBEKAH?! Really? Rebekah tags along with Klaus, who apparently only came to gloat over Katherine’s impending death? She saves Matt, which is convenient as he’s running out of air and Caroline is too busy avoiding her feelings for Klaus to properly look for him. I hated this part. First of all, with all of the shit going down in New Orleans, the odds of Klaus wasting time just to check on Katherine’s death are NOT GOOD. Secondly, after all of the tender moments and genuine feeling generated between Klaus and Caroline, their story ends with a tawdry romp in the woods if he agrees to go away forever? Ugh. I was hoping that eventually Caroline would go to New Orleans, maybe when TVD ended, and meet Klaus and there would be feeling and meaning and something real. Instead we got shame sex in the woods. HATE.
The scene at the end where a bunch of dead people pop up because Jeremy can see ghosts and Bonnie is the anchor to the other side was sort of annoying. Either BRING ALARIC BACK or let him rest in peace, but quit fucking with us. Nobody cares about Vicki except Matt, and since no one cares about Matt it was sort of a filler moment. Or maybe everyone was supposed to be so distracted seeing their dead friends that no one noticed Katherine body-swapped with Elena? Don’t know, don’t care.
Thoughts:
Of course Katherine Pierce wasn’t going to go quietly. As Stefan pointed out, she’s KATHERINE FUCKING PIERCE. She’s not going to be bested by death. She’s going to fuck over as many people as she has to to save her own ass. I love that she’s so evil, yet so likable. Imagine the shenanigans she’s going to pull being back in a healthy vampire body. Next week can’t come soon enough.