The Tribune

The college years are the point at which everything tends to go wrong for teen dramas like The Vampire Diaries, with not even the mighty Buffy escaping the teething pains that tend to go along with losing the comfort of high school hallways and family dinners. The Vampire Diaries has grown up faster than most, of course, with most of the characters either parentless or going on world adventures during the summer. Maybe this show can dodge the decline that so many others have gone down?

Judging by this first episode, it's a possibility, but part of that means that the show is simply continuing on in the same manner. The only fresh elements of the premiere either involve Elena and Damon's relationship or the big college adventure with Elena and Caroline, but otherwise this is business as usual. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course, and a couple of the problems people had with season four have been improved upon over the break.

We've lost the original family to their own spin-off series, but Mystic Falls doesn't feel empty in the slightest. We begin the episode with Elena recounting who’s been sleeping with who over the summer in an email to Bonnie, who’s dictating her replies to corporeal boyfriend Jeremy so that no one notices she’s been dead for three months. Matt and Rebekah have been having threesomes (yes, really, on the CW) in Europe, Caroline has been packing for college and missing Tyler, and Katherine has been adjusting very badly to her newly human state. Who am I forgetting? Oh yes! Stefan’s still stuck in a box at the bottom of the lake and nobody cares. Poor Stefan.

If you saw Angel season four then you can pretty much guess what Stefan’s storyline consists of in this episode – lots of hallucinations about how much of mess his life is in. The thing is, on Angel at least his dream sequences revealed inner-demons we might not have explored otherwise. The Vampire Diaries version of this plot consists of an angel/devil on the shoulder scenario in which Damon tells him to turn his humanity off and Elena tells him to keep it on. The only thing that might make this a bit more interesting is the promo tease that these conversations have actually been two-way. We’ll have to wait and see.

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