When Season 7 was airing, I was skeptical of watching because I wasn’t that big of a fan of Season 6 so I didn’t. Well, I did enjoy Kai and his evilness, but couldve done without some of the other stuf like Elena forgetting Damon. It wasn’t until I started seeing the buzz about Season 8 being the last that I decided I wouldn’t wait until this season was on Netflix to finally watch it. So I did what any smart person would do and binged season 7 three days before season 8 premiered. I’ve never made a better decision. Season 7 made me remember why I loved watching TVD all of these years. And the finale definitely made me want more! The premiere was everything that I thought it’d be, so I’m satisfied. ‘Hello, Brother’ was a good start to the final season of the show and I know that we’re going to be taken for a serious ride. Let’s dig in!
When we open, it’s a few months after the season 7 finale and everyone is tired. Bonnie, Stefan, and Caroline have been looking into everything that they could to try and find out where Damon and Enzo could be. Turns out, there has been a large number of people turning up missing on the west coast and Stefan knew it was them. In typical VD fashion, the next scene involves a couple driving down a dark, foggy road discussing their relief that the ‘vampire craze’ is over with. Enter Damon standing smack in the middle of the street. The couple luckily misses him and crashes into Enzo instead. This plan was classic Damon from every time something went wrong and he decided to lose himself. It was nice to have Enzo added to the mix even though he expressed his dislike for the middle of the road plan as it hurt, a lot. Damon and Enzo hijacked the couple and their car and made their way to the slaughterhouse. Basically, Enzo and Damon are slaves to the mysterious creature and they are tasked with bringing in the worst of the worst to the warehouse. After surveying who in the couple was the worst, the male won and will be fed to whatever is controlling them while the girl received a more noble death, a bite from Enzo. Honestly, the boyfriend was trash so he deserved what he got. Who sells their dying cancer ridden grandmother’s medication?! A trash person that’s who! All of that before the title sequence? I wasn’t ready.
Back in Mystic Falls, Caroline and Stefan are enjoying some sexy time while Bonnie has been tasked with keeping the diary for Elena. She has clearly broken down. Especially when she tells Elena how they’ve gotten nowhere with finding Damon and Enzo. As she’s playing her guitar, one of the strings breaks and we flashback to when it happened before and Enzo was there to fix it. This obviously breaks our girl all the way down, tears. While Bonnie is dealing with the loss of the two people she’s closest too, Caroline is worried that the new nanny that Alaric hired is too hot. We learn that Ric is in charge of the armory now which is great for him considering how excited he was when they first got there in season 7. Ric is definitely in his element working there. It’s like we’ve gone back in time to when he first joined their group. Caroline obviously needs to get her mind right because she’s worried about the wrong things. The hot nanny isn’t the problem, the real issue here is that the two interns (one of which was named Georgie who is played by Allison Scagliotti aka Mindy from Drake and Josh) he has just shown him a hidden wall in the vault that has no cell service.
Caroline is working at the news station in Mystic Falls, so while she’s off to work, Stefan and Bonnie head over to the crime scene of the latest victim. Throughout their whole killing spree, Enzo and Damon have never left a body behind so Stefan is hopeful. Bonnie, on the other hand, has given up on hope because of the amount of pain it causes her.
After dealing with the girlfriend, Enzo returned to the slaughterhouse to find Damon reading Fifty Shades of Grey and I was dead. Honestly, it was only a matter of time until he got his hands on the book so I LOL’d. All of the killing is starting to get to Enzo since he still has some humanity left in him while Damon, on the other hand, has turned his off in order to feel and care about nothing. At work, Caroline’s main goal was to figure out what Virginia St. John told Enzo was in the vault since the audio had been messed up. Meanwhile, at the crime scene, one of the cops shows Stefan and Bonnie that car and how it was dented from possibly hitting an “animal” and the girlfriend is attached to the front of it. It’s then that Bonnie realizes that she was strangled with a guitar string before/after she was bitten. Caroline researched the area and found that a creak nearby had run red with blood. And not too far away from where that happened was a slaughterhouse that was closed due to “drainage issues”.
Caroline later receives a call from nanny Seline and of course, we knew things were going to take a turn for the worst. Virginia shows up and slits her throat so that she could snatch Caroline’s daughters for opening the armory and letting whatever was inside out. Caroline got there before that could happen so she fed Seline her blood and told her to take the girls out so she could handle Virginia. Apparently whatever “it” is has come for the girls and before Caroline can learn more Virginia bites her tongue out of her mouth and bleeds out.
Stefan does find the slaughterhouse as well as Damon, who didn’t want to be found. He basically told him that his humanity switch was ripped out of its socket and that he never wanted to see Stefan and his hair ever again. Stefan, of course, didn’t believe that and wanted to get him out. But Damon did was he always does, and pushed him away by telling him that his life has been over since Stefan took it from him by forcing him to become a vampire. Ouch. Damon did not have to go there, but it worked and Bonnie and Stefan left. Now Stefan is the one who’s hopeless and Bonnie reminds him of what he told her before she goes into the house. Once Bonnie is home, she replays everything that they saw at the crime scene involving the wax and remembers Enzo reading her a story from The Odyssey. Said story talked about candle wax in a person’s ear as well as being tied to the mas of a ship just like the female victim was! The story that he read her was about Sirens. Could that be what we’re dealing with here? Bonnie called Ric to see what he knew about the subject and he believed that she’s probably right considering all of the things they’ve been through. Nothing was really too out there for Mystic Falls.
Damon and Enzo are out on the town at an art show to pick up their latest victim who used human blood to paint with was creepy AF. Damon had a heart to heart with Enzo and told him the best thing he could do would be to flip his switch, that way, the creature can’t see who he’s thinking about and cause them harm. Which explains why Damon flipped his. On their car ride back to the slaughterhouse, Damon is replaying the time he first met Elena which proves that he still has some humanity left, if only Stefan knew. After feeding the trash dude to the creature, the duo is leaving for the night, but not before the find out where the random singing is coming from. A woman has emerged from the blood water and appears to be finally full. So our Siren theory has been confirmed, but what does she plan to do?
This episode was a great opener to the final season and the big bad plot seems like it’ll be very interesting. I’m excited to see where we go from here! What’d you think of the premiere!?
The Vampire Diaries airs on Fridays at 8PM on The CW
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