S8E11

You Made a Choice to Be Good

The Vampire Diaries · 2017-02-03 · 43 min

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from 27 comments

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what happens

Cade returns to Mystic Falls and presents Damon and Stefan with additional assignments, each with unthinkable consequences. Even with tension growing in their friendship, Caroline and Matt do their best to protect the town’s residents from Cade’s appetite for their souls. Bonnie and Enzo hit the road on a romantic trip, taking the bell with them in hopes to keep it safe.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 27 comments — 14 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 14 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“much-improved back half of Season 8”
Barachiel1976▲ 101about 50–100% inread it ↗
“Stefan getting the cure ruins EVERYONE'S Happily Ever After. They can't take it from him without killing him, so everything's just fucked”
Barachiel1976▲ 101about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Now that is an ending! Haven't felt this anxious over an episode in quite some time”
▲ 62about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Her scream was agonizing, I felt her pain through the tv. What a fantastic ending to a great episode. Once again, season eights' 2nd half is making up for lost time. Bonenzo was so great this episode, but they were too happy. But holy shit, I mean it just HAPPENED all of sudden, no warning no nothing, just bam. I think the shock of it, is what hit me the most. No time to hold my breath or cover my eyes, just to watch in horror like Bonnie :(”

who made it

directed: Carol Banker
written: Melinda Hsu Taylor, Céline Geiger

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Demetrius Bridges as Dorian Williams
Wolé Parks as Cade
RReece Odum as Realtor

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