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After playing games about whether or not they were interested in each other, Stefan and Elena finally ended up kissing at the end of The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 2.

Following her encounter with Damon, Caroline wakes up with blood on her neck. She tries to sneak out without waking him, but he’s right in front of her before she notices him move. Then she tries to hit him with a lamp, which obviously isn’t going to do anything.

Bonnie now wants Elena to take it slow, after having been the one to tell her to go for it in the first place.

Tyler believes he can hit Stefan upside the head with a football while he and Elena are talking. He believes wrong. Stefan hears that thing coming, turns around, and catches it, then throws it back. Having seen this throw, Elena now wants to talk him into joining the football team. Yeah, he doesn’t really seem like a team kinda guy. Oh, and Matt and Tyler hate him.

When he’s done showing off his football skills, they go to history class, where Stefan again proves to Mr. Tanner that he knows more than him.

After class, Stefan decides to try out for the team. Tanner, also the football coach, just wants to see him get hit, so he’ll give him a chance. Matt and Ty will be happy to oblige.

Caroline shows up at practice and looks just fine, aside from the scarf she’s now wearing.

Stefan proves to be a formidable wide receiver. Even Matt’s impressed. Tyler, however, wants to see if he can injure the new guy. Well, he can try.

Bonnie’s obsessed with numbers today: 8, 14, and 22. Pointless discussion or some sort of clue?

While they’re eating dinner, Damon and Caroline show up. He’s gonna need an invite from someone who lives in the house. As much as Stefan may try to prevent this invite, he’s free to come in anyway.

Katherine died in a fire. It wasn’t exactly what you would call yesterday, though. The fact that she dated both brothers is not lost on Elena.

Stefan likes Caroline’s really nice scarf. Can he see it? No, she can’t take it off. She really can’t.

That night, Elena has a dream that she’s rounding second base with Stefan. When she takes off his shirt, he turns into Damon. As she wakes up, she fails to notice the crow in her window.

Following Damon’s advice, Elena has decided to quit cheerleading. It’s just not important to her any more. She shows up at the game with everybody else anyway. While there, she gets a necklace from Stefan. So what’s this necklace’s purpose?

Bored with the festitivies and angry that Stefan’s already a starter, Tyler decides to pick a fight with Jeremy. After some punches are thrown, Tyler learns that if he wants to fight, he’ll have to fight Stefan. He punches him. No impact. Then Jeremy gets up with his broken bottle and slashes Stefan’s hand. Obviously, this wound heals right away. He pretends that it wasn’t his blood, but Elena knows what she saw.

After that, Elena needs to find out what’s going on. If only she knew a psychic witch. When she touched Stefan, Bonnie got a feeling, a feeling of what she imagines death to be like.

When Damon meets up with Elena, he’ll bet she thinks about him and has even dreamed about him. Right now, she wants to kiss him. That mind control doesn’t work. Guess that explains the necklace.

Although Tyler still hates Stefan’s guts, Matt is coming around.

Stefan has managed to figure out the small bit of humanity still left in his brother. Damon loves Katherine and always has. Not that that humanity will prevent him from killing the coach for no reason.

Bonnie finally figures out what those numbers mean. Building 8, a car with 14 on the license plate, and the number 22 next to the trail of blood. Creepy, but not the most useful vision.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 4 Family Ties, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

The Vampire Diaries premiered last week as the largest launch ever by The CW, hopefully proving to the network that they don’t need pink shows (or Fox remakes from the 90s) to be successful. It also gave me a reason to watch The CW again, which I’d thought I lost when they cancelled Reaper. Episode 1 introduced us to the main likely to be on again off again love interests Stefan and Elena. At the end of the episode, we also met Stefan’s less than good brother Damon, who attacked (but failed to kill) Vicki.

A couple are out in the woods camping. She’s worried about it raining and him staying dry. It’s raining alright. Blood.

Things are changing for Stefan and Elena. They’re happy to wake up and greet the day so they can see each other. Awww.

Bonnie’s found out that she’s technically a witch. I knew it, and I await the British librarian.

Matt reveals that a vampire attacked Vicki, although he thinks that she was just drunk. Wait for it, dude. You’ll be a believer soon enough.

It’s the third day of school, and Jeremy’s already skipped six classes. That story about his parents having died four months ago isn’t going to cut it any more. The fact that he’s on drugs isn’t exactly a secret to the faculty of the school either.

Matt goes to visit Vicki in the hospital. What he didn’t anticipate is that Stefan overheard the whole vampire story and now wants to keep things quiet, so he uses mind control on both of them. Matt knows somebody was in that room. He just doesn’t know who.

Elena and Stefan just talked last night. Caroline just wants him to jump his bones already.

When Vicki wakes up, she doesn’t remember any screaming fit that she had because it never happened except in Matt’s mind. What she does remember is that she was attacked by an animal, a thought planted in her mind by Stefan.

Taking Caroline’s advice and going after the boy, Elena heads to Stefan’s house. That’s where she meets up with Damon. He warns her about “the last one,” Katherine. Stefan interrupts to thank her for stopping by and to tell her good riddance.

That whole animal attack story may not last very long, as Vicki’s now starting to have nightmares about the vampire who tried to kill her.

Elena’s realizing that Stefan is a complicated guy who likes to apologize a lot. Maybe she won’t be shacking up with him after all.

When she returns to the bar, Vicki knows that she knows Damon. She doesn’t know how, but she does know him. She’ll probably be more clear about how she knows him when he takes her up to the roof. He doesn’t need her to be dead, but his brother might. That animal attack story is now completely gone. The vampire one is back, but not the right one. Stefan is getting the blame for the attack. Damon’s plan is to see if he can get his brother to kill again, but it’s not working. With that in mind, Damon makes her forget everything that just happened. She just assumes that her being a druggie is what caused her current confused state.

Upon handing Elena’s cell phone number and e-mail address to Stefan, Bonnie wigs out, asks what happened to him, and walks away.

Aunt Jenna has decided she’s now an authority figure, so she’s ready to bust Jeremy for being a dealer, although she’s still worried that he’s going to get worse.

Rather than closing out the night by writing in her diary, Elena has decided that she’d better just go say all that stuff to Stefan. The talking doesn’t last very long.

As for Damon, he’s found his next victim.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 3 Friday Nights, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.

I tend to shy away from new shows, mostly because they often get cancelled so quickly. But I’ve gotta at least give a vampire show from Dawson’s Creek creator Kevin Williamson and the network that brought us Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel a shot. Since it is from The CW, I’m certainly hoping it at least sucks less than Moonlight did (admittedly, I only watched one episode of that, mostly because I could only get through one). Besides, since it is The CW, this show would have to average about three viewers to not at least get a full season.

This is the story of a vampire named Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley), who’s been invisible for a century, until now.

A couple are driving along through so much fog they look like they’re in London, when they run over a pedestrian. Don’t worry. He’s alive, in a manner of speaking. It was pretty well just a set up. Fresh blood to drink.

So why’d he return here anyway? He has to know her, her being Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrey). When she’s in the car with her friend Bonnie (Katerina Graham), she’s informed that Bonnie is a psychic now, or at least that’s what her grandma says. Well, that could come in handy. Her prediction for Elena: everything will be great.

Stefan’s plan is to enroll in Elena’s school, which totally works for a 27 year old. In addition to his ability to leap off tall buildings, he’s also got a mind control power that allows him to get access without a complete file.

Elena’s little brother Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, grandson of Steve McQueen) is hanging out with the crackheads and stoned on his first day. After yelling at Jeremy, Elena bumps into Stefan for the first time as she’s leaving the men’s room, something which she can’t quite explain.

After school, Elena heads to the cemetery to write in her diary and visit her parents Grayson and Miranda. She must have said she’s fine 37 times today but didn’t mean it once. People don’t really want an answer to the question “How are you?” While there, she’s greeted by a creepy bird and excessive amounts of fog. Vampire guy to the rescue. They’re having a friendly chat, and he pretty much better bail since she’s bleeding.

Jeremy’s got himself a crush on Vicki Donovan (Kayla Ewell), who apparently just considers him her dealer, with benefits.

That night, Stefan shows up at Elena’s house to apologize for his disappearing act and return her diary. She tells him he doesn’t have to stand out there. He’s gonna need a little more of an invitation than that. They head to the local hangout, where her ex-boyfriend Matt finds it pretty apparent she must be have moved on pretty quickly.

When he returns home, Stefan’s accused of being responsible for the killing of the couple in the paper. He’ll be sticking around, though. If he doesn’t belong there, where does he belong? Then he pulls out a picture from 1864 of a girl, Katherine, who looks remarkably like Elena.

In history class, the teacher’s managed to stump everybody about a battle that’s one of the town’s most significant events. Everybody except the guy who lived it. There were 346 casualties, not including the 27 civilians, which is news to the teacher Mr. Tanner.

When Bonnie touches Elena, she sees a crow and fog. Maybe she is psychic.

Having just narrowly escaped being attacked by Tyler and then telling Jeremy to get lost because she doesn’t want to be used, Vicki heads into the woods. Alone. This won’t end well. As Jeremy’s stumbling about and running away from a lecture from his sister, he trips over a body with a bite mark in her neck, but she’s not dead.

If Stefan’s not doing the attacking, who is? That would be his brother Damon (Ian Somerhalder, who looks a lot different than when he played Boone on Lost). So he’s the one with the creepy crow. They haven’t seen each other in 15 years, so why’s he there? Not answering the question, he knows what Stefan’s doing there: one word, Elena.

Bonnie doesn’t think she’s really psychic, but whatever she saw, she has a feeling it’s just the beginning.

What the arrival of Stefan’s brother does provide is an explanation of what that unusual ring he wears is. It protects him from turning into a big pile of dust in the sun.

Vicki’s in the hospital with Matt watching over her. When she wakes up, she just has one thing to say. Vampire.

Through their ordeals of the past days, Stefan and Elena have both realized that the bad things follow them, and it’s not just as simple as forgetting the past. They’re just waiting for something good to fight the bad.

As the episode concludes, Stefan gets an invite into Elena’s house. That’ll be good until he turns all evil and stuff.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of The Vampire Diaries Episode 2 Night of the Comet, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on The CW.