Warnings: spoilers alert, salty comments. The gifs and memes aren’t mine.
- The title feels like a ripoff of A Tale of Two Sisters (a Korean horror movie later getting an American remake). Coincidence?
- So we’re only one episode away from the ‘Always and Forever’ end, and yet somehow they use it to introduce the setting of Legacies – the town of Mystic Fall and the Salvatore school. I’m not the only who doesn’t care about all the little TVD references (that make absolutely no sense to TO-only audience) that keep popping up in the episode, am I?
- Been really a while since Marcel and Elijah share a drink. Guess that means they’ve put all the grudges behind their backs.
- I know Klaus loves and cares deeply about his daughter but watching her in her sleep is kind of creepy in my humble opinion. If I were Hope, I wouldn’t be able to fall asleep if someone sat by my bed and watched me.
- Obviously a problem that can’t be solved by a thousand-year-old seasoned witch equipped with an equally old grimoire can be solved by a pair of preadolescent witches. Makes a lot of sense really.
- Don’t know whether I should laugh or feel sorry for Stefan Salvatore whose diary containing his deepest, darkest secrets are being put on display WITHOUT his consent. I wonder how Stefan would have felt about his dearest wife’s liberty.

- It’s amazing how easy Caroline agrees to let her daughters perform the ritual. Does she not know how perilous it is to let them come in contact with ancient evil power that is known to consume or control witches? Did she forget just a few years ago the Sirens and Cade wanted to take the twins and use their siphoning power?
- … And the ‘Mother of the Year’ award goes to Caroline Forbes Salvatore.
- Oh hi, Alaric, (not) nice to see you. Still the old and kinda boring Alaric I remember back in TVD.
- But he definitely has a lot more sense in him than his co-parenting partner.
- The twins Lisie and Josie (excuse me for being able to tell which is which), well, what should I say about them? True to Hope’s words, they give off mean-girl vibes, and not in the cute way. It may be a cultural difference but their attitude would be considered disrespectful to adults, especially this is their mother they’re talking to.
- And how is shortening their uniform feminist?
- Since we’re talking about the twins, if my memory serves well, Siphoners have to come into physical contact with the source of power in order to siphon it – Kai, Valerie and the pair of Siphoner vampires (my sincerest apology for being unable to recall their names) all have to did it. Even young Josie and Lisie were not exception. And now you’re gonna tell me they can tele-siphon power? Wow. That’s some improvement *insert sarcastic voice*.
- That’s to be expected of Julie Plec, who clearly didn’t remember the rules in her universe. Seriously you cannot just fling in new exceptions or bend old rules to serve the plot. That’s lazy writing.
- All of Hope and Elijah moments are the gem in this episode. Sadly they have to wait until the second to last episode to have their uncle-niece bonding.
- Like younger brother, like older brother. Elijah tips so generously that he’s probably the dream customer of every waiter and waitress.
- A glimpse of the afterlife. Huhm. Since Jackson is up there, I wonder who else is. Mikael and Cami are confirmed to appear on the series finale, so they’re certainly there. Is every supernatural creature who ever walked the earth there as well? What a crowded place, so not peaceful.
- “Not the villain in my story”. Seriously Caroline?! If she truly believes that, well, she has no story at all, because this blonde vampire is neither Elena and Bonnie’s best friend nor Tyler’s ex-girlfriend. I’m so done with this rewriting the whole character just to propel a ship.
- There’s a rumor going that both Klaus and Elijah will die in the season finale (and that they stake each other). While it sounds like bad news to some fan, I’m actually OK with such an ending – though I’d prefer they both survive and live on so that Hope has her father to dote on her and her uncle to share some secrets with (Elijah would be the type to be more chill with Hope dating a town than Klaus). To me, if either Klaus or Elijah died, the other brother would be devastated. It’s been proven again and again during the series that they complete each other and cannot live without the other. So if Julie really had to kill one (or more) Original(s) (we know she doesn’t have to, she just loves to), the least she could do is for them to walk side by side to the afterlife.
- Most favorite thing of the episode: Hope’s ranting about the conception of the Miracle Baby and Elijah’s ‘suffering’ through it.