The Vampire Diaries | Season 8 Episode 12 - "What Are You?"

Spoiler Alert!

Oh My God, The Vampire Diaries have seriously been steping up this last couple of episodes!

I don't know about you, but this episode, once again, left me on a rollercoaster of emotions!

Obviously we already knew this was going to be an hard episode since last week's one ended with huge twists, so that was what we had to deal with in this episode, plus some really good surprises at the end of the episode!

So, I think I'm going to start with Stefan.

From the previous we knew that Stefan was going to be arrested and all and, since now he's human, that is just a mess. Obviously there's still Damon and Caroline around that can fix this problem, which is what eventually happens. And, while I was watching the episode a second time (because yes, I had to watch it twice because of the twist that happens in the end) I started thinking that, how come we went from Matt being the only human around to basically just having Damon and Caroline as Vampires?! Seriously, this is really weird because now Bonnie, Stefan, Matt, Alaric, Elena and Dorian are the humans and we have Caroline and Damon as the Vampires (since Enzo died. I still think he's coming back but yeah)! It's just an huge twist!

Anyway so, like I said, Caroline goes and fixes the police issue but then another issue comes, Cade. Cade goes to Damon saying that now that Stefan is human he has no use to him and since the deal was for two immortal brothers, the deal is off, but (of course there's a but) Cade is going to kill Stefan and send him to hell unless Damon gives him an old book written buy one of Matt's ancestors. Obviously Damon doesn't think twice and goes get that book/journal. 

At the same time, Matt is dealing with some visions which we then find out that it's because of he's connection to the book. So, Alaric doesn't give Damon the journal, at least, not until they find out why Cade wants it. In order to find that, they hypnotize Matt and that's when we find out what really happened all those years ago. That Matt's ancestor and Bonnie's ancestor created the Maxwell bell and then encountered Sybil and Selene, who forced Matt's ancestor, Ethan, to ring the bell twelve times and send hellfire to the town, killing one hundred people. We also find out that Beatrice, Bonnie's ancestor, was the one to trap Seline and Sybil and the vault and that she also traped Ethan because he was under the siren's spell. And, it was while he was there that he wrote on the journal how to kill Cade. 

Matt then wakes up but, by that time, Damon already left with the journal, giving it to Cade.

Meanwhile all of this is happening, we also see how Bonnie is dealing with Enzo's death.

She doesn't want to talk to anyone so Caroline thought it would be good that call Bonnie's mum, and so she appears at Bonnies house. It was really nice to see her back because we didn't really get much of her so it was nice to see one more character back to this season.
Bonnie's mum helps her with grieving but that's when Bonnie tells her that Enzo has been calling out for her and that she need to help him. Somehow, they find out that Bonnie opened a door to hell and that she needs to close it. Bonnie passes out and so Bonnie's mum sets Enzo on fire, breaking the connection.
So, with this, we realize that those waves we saw in the end of last week's episode wasn't Bonnie getting her powers back but, instead, opening a door to hell, just like when Cade screamed when the village people first killed him, before we became 'the devil'.
Back to the main storyline, and getting to the best part, Damon then goes talk to Alaric, who his really pissed because Damon gave the journal to Cade. Damon tells Alaric that he read the ending of the journal and he knows how to kill the devil. So, they go into the vault and Damon shows him the weapon, the weapon that we earlier saw Ethan with. And, the best part!
While Alaric and Damon are making plans to kill the devil Kai appears and says he has a better idea!
Can you heard me screaming!?
That's right guys, my baby Kai is back and next episode is going to be all about him!
I've been waiting for this moment since the end of Season 6 and it finally happened!
I seriously can't wait for next episode!
The preview for next week looks so cool! With a lot of Kai in it and I'm sure, with a lot of plot twists because, something that I didn't mention earlier, also in the end of the episode, someone kidnaps Stefan! We don't really know who it is but, after watching the episode twice, and watchin the preview about 10 times, I can say it is either Katherine or Bonnie! It is clearly a girl, because the person his smaller than Stefan, so it can either be Bonnie, because she's pissed at Stefan, or Katherine, after getting out of hell just like Kai did.
So, yeah, a lot of mysteries for next episode!
And, about my predictions... A lot of things have been happening like, I said that in this episode we would be looking for a way to kill Cade, which we did, and that next episode Kai would appears, which is also happening. Ok, Bonnie didn't got her magic or it wasn't Enzo who talked to Kai but I said that Matt would be important in this, which he was! Also, in the end of this episode, Dorian wanted to talk with Alaric about something, which he ended up not talking because Damon showed up so, there's still a possibility that Dorian might be related to Cade so... Let's see.
Now, my theory that Bonnie brings Enzo back is a little bit shaky... With Kai's come back, I just thought that the writers could go on another route and make Bonkai happen! It's unlikely, but it can still happen.
In the preview we see Bonnie doing some type of magic or something so, maybe she did got a magic back and she might be trying to bring Enzo back?! Who knows...
But, we also saw in the preview that Kai said he's willing to bring Elena back so... My theory that Bonnie is going to become a vampire probably won't happen.
If she manages to brng Enzo back, she will still want to be with him, but with Elena awake, doubt she will want to be a vampire but, you never know. I'm going to stick to it because that's what I said from the beginning!
About Stefan... I still think he's going to be the one to die and I think my ending is really strong and highly possible so... Stick to it 100%!
And yeah... Now I just have a lot of questions about Kai. Like, What does he want? (because he's not willing to bring Elena back just from the goodness of his hear), from the preview it seems like he just wants to get away from hell, but lets see. Also, Have he been thinking about Bonnie all this time he was in hell? and Are we going to have a Bonkai ending?
Let's see what next episode brings.
Until then, let me know your thoughts and predictions about this weeks episode and how the series is going to end. I'm really curious about what you think is going to happen.
Hope you liked my predictions and I'll see you in my next rant.
Love,
Daniela.