Vampire

Klaus is finally out of the picture.   And I'm not mad about it. Not because he was the bad guy, but because his character was so annoying. Klaus really was one of the reasons this show started to bother me. Everything became centered on killing him.   Now, Klaus is essentially dead. Bonnie uses a spell to desecrate Klaus, which is the same thing her mother Abby did to Kalus' father (well not really, so we previously learned, because Klaus' father was a werewolf) Michael.

Were you expecting Bill Compton to have a master plan? To be nice Bill all along and not some crazy vampire religious zealot? It could have happened that way. But yeah, it didn't. The opposite happened. When Eric and Sookie track him down in his Massive Master Authority Crazy Person Bedchamber, Bill has just staked Salome (I'd say R.I.P. to Salome, but it wouldn't mean it), having tricked her into drinking "Lilith's blood" that he has spiked with lots of silver. Some major "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" stuff here (before she's staked, Salome even says "she chose wisely)

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes something supernatural in the baby carriage. Just in case you weren't invited to the ceremony, you'll want to know that the vampire Edward and the human Bella get married in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part I. " Talk about a mixed marriage! Many of the young women in the audience vicariously will imagine themselves as bridesmaids at that unusual event. Although this fourth installment isn't likely to win new converts, it definitely knows how to please its target audience.

Lilith is one tricky chick. As if Bill isn't full of himself enough, she appears to him (naked and bloody, of course) a few times, tells him he's the chosen one to lead and to drink her. All of her. But she does the same thing to another Authority Chancellor, and angry religious Bill promptly chops off his head. Lilith later appears to Salome and says the same thing. Bill, thankfully, isn't around for this appearance. Clearly, Lilith isn't the right person to follow -- in case you were confused.

Mothers love their children no matter what. Apparently that statement is true even for the witch mother of the original family of vampires whose hybrid son “killed” her.   This episode, Bonnie and her mother Abbie, through their combined witch powers, are able to open to magic-sealed coffin. In it was Klaus' mother, who goes to Klaus and asks if he knows why she is here.   “You're here to kill me,” he responds through tears.   She says: “Niklaus, you are my son. And I am here to forgive you.”   Then she turns to Elijah, Rebecca and their two original brothers (Elijah undaggered the others)

Despite the title, the CW's "Vampire Diaries', now in its third season, is not all about vampires. Though it started out eerily similar to the overrated "Twilight series" - human girl falls in love with vampire boy (or really an old man stuck in a boy's body) - the show has progressively added onto its supernatural storyline.   Throughout the first two seasons we were introduced to witches and werewolves. Now, in the third season we're dealing with an idea other vampire/werewolf shows and movies have not yet tackled (or have been smart not to)

"The Embrace: A True Vampire Story," by Aphrodite Jones. Pocket Books. 384 pages. $23.Aphrodite Jones is a vulture of crime. Every year or so she swoops down in the aftermath of some bizarre murder, picks over the grisly details and a few months later regurgitates a book. She's on daytime talk shows; Hollywood's got her phone number.Her latest bit of journalistic voyeurism, "The Embrace," examines the sensational murder of a Florida couple in 1996. Sensational because the accused were five teen-agers who dabbled in ritual blood-sucking and occult practices.

If a shrill, high-decibel squeal suddenly disrupts the Sunday peace and quiet from sea to shining sea, blame Stephenie Meyer. Probably every teenage girl you know (and more than a few of their mothers) started reading Breaking Dawn, the fourth and final volume in Meyer's vampire saga, when it was released at midnight Saturday. So these 3.2 million fanatical readers are about to discover whether the heroine, Bella, ends up with the unearthly beautiful vampire, Edward, or with the devoted werewolf, Jacob.

This week's featured adaptation is "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" and the movie reviews are decidedly mixed. The film fits into the classic-cum-monster genre popularized by Seth Grahame-Smith and others, and shows a new side of Honest Abe, wailing away at Southern vampires with his trusty axe. ( The Baltimore Sun has a gallery of other famous vampire hunters .) Here are some exceprts from movie reviews: Los Angeles Times: "Vampire Hunter's" dramatic intentions are way ahead of its ability to execute them, so even capable actors such as Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Rufus Sewell don't make much of an impression.

Klaus is finally out of the picture.   And I'm not mad about it. Not because he was the bad guy, but because his character was so annoying. Klaus really was one of the reasons this show started to bother me. Everything became centered on killing him.   Now, Klaus is essentially dead. Bonnie uses a spell to desecrate Klaus, which is the same thing her mother Abby did to Kalus' father (well not really, so we previously learned, because Klaus' father was a werewolf) Michael.

I almost quit watching this show tonight. And not just this episode but the entire "Vampire Diaries" series.   Why you ask? Because the writers almost killed off Alaric.   So back in her own body, Esther comes up with this plan for how to kill off her children and the entire vampire species. She decides to turn Alaric, while he's really his evil alter ego, into a vampire. She believes his hatred of vampires will only intensify when he's a vampire and he'll become an unstoppable vampire hunter, just like her husband Michael (though he was obviously stopped!

Everyone knows I'm Team Damon, so the Elena kiss was the highlight of the episode for me. Too bad Jeremy broke it up before it got even hotter!   So tonight Elena and Damon go get Jeremy in Colorado, because they know Klaus knows where he is. Also they wanted him to contact Rose, so they could try to trace Damon's and Stefan's vampire bloodline to one of the originals.   Rose points them to Mary, the vampire who turned her, but when Damon and Elena show up at Mary's house, Kol has already killed her.   No solutions on the bloodline front tonight, which is a good thing for Caroline, who was reunited with Tyler this episode.

Alaric's gone crazy, but I almost went crazy out of boredom from tonight's "Vampire Diaries" episode.   The only promising moment was when it appeared Damon was going to have a threesome with Sage, a vampire from his past that returns this episode, and Rebekah. But it didn't happen. Damon just hooked up with Rebekah and Sage came in after to read her mind.   Sage was trying to help Damon figure out what Rebekah was up to and they were successful. She learned Rebekah was trying to find out about a white oak tree that once existed in Mystic Falls.