Everything Wrong With 6x10

Vampire Diaries Logic Fails: Season 6, Episode 10

The midseason premiere of The Vampire Diaries was actually pretty well grounded in reality what with the pervasiveness of Sheriff Forbes’ cancer, but that didn’t mean the episode didn’t come with its share of logic fails — lapses of rationality on the storyteller’s part that we couldn’t help but roll our eyeballs at. Here are the worst logic fails from Season 6, Episode 10 (“Woke Up With a Monster”).

Caroline’s massive impatience. We were all for having Caroline try her blood on a dying cancer patient, but wouldn’t she stick around for at least 24 hours?! We get that her mother is sick and time is of the essence, but she probably had a little bit more time to spare, and the thoroughness of Caroline’s research up until this point suggested she didn’t plan on leaving anything to fate. I mean, at the very least, compel a nurse to keep you updated on the experiment’s outcome. This is Vampire Blood Experiments 101!

Said experiment’s violent ending — and that fact that no one has ever heard of it happening before. OK, we won’t harp too long on the revelation that vampire blood cannot cure cancer. We like that it’s not a magical cure-all, even though it did cure heart disease that one time. However, you’d think that, if vampire blood was possible of metastasizing cancer — or whatever the heck that was that happened to that poor bloke — then the Salvatores would have heard of that. Like, maybe it’s at least a maybe urban legend vampires talk about when they’re up late at night drinking?

Using “murderer” as an exclusionary diss on this show. Seriously, every character is a murderer at this point.

Enzo’s entire storyline. We loved Enzo last year and we still have high hopes that his character could make a 180 and, you know, do something interesting with his time, but his current storyline makes no sense. OK, we get that he hates Stefan and wants to get Damon to hate him, too, but how will Sarah Salvatore help this? It makes total sense that Stefan didn’t want to tell his brother about their relative whose parents he straight-up murdered. Even if Damon is pissed, they’ve gotten through way worse stuff than this. Fast forward on this logic fail storyline, please!

Bonus: logic win of the episode! Matt’s tired exasperation that, 22 hours after the supernatural barrier dropped around Mystic Falls, a human is found dead. Also: Jeremy shamelessly taking the last of the coffee.

The Vampire Diaries airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.