Kai Is a Cure-All?

Vampire Diaries Logic Fails: Season 6, Episode 12 — Kai Is a Cure-All?

 

 

Oy vey! How does one even begin to pick apart the logic in a Vampire Diaries episode so built upon nonsense? Like Doctor Who’s timey-wimey explanations, TVD operates within a magical logic completely its own, but that doesn’t mean we don’t ask for a little bit of contextual rationality, you know? Season 6, Episode 12 (“Prayers for the Dying”) was a solidly emotional hour, but it felt less cohesive in its depictions of supernatural (and non-supernatural) logic. Here were the biggest logic fails from the episode…

Everything about Colin. We’re really, really trying not to harp on this whole vampire blood not being a cure-all thing, but when has a person who died with a serious illness ever continued to have that illness after becoming a vampire? Enzo’s tuberculosis? Cured! Elena’s dad cured little Megan of heart disease using vampire blood, too. But cancer? Nope, you have to keep that. Also, if vampires who died with cancer really do keep their cancer, how have Stefan and Damon not heard of this?! Cancer isn’t exactly rare and, on this show, neither is vampirism. And while we’re on the subject of Colin, how and why did he travel hundreds of miles to show up at Caroline’s door? Did Caroline slip her business card next to his EKG machine or something?

Harping on Caroline about killing her mother. Brushing right past how mean almost everyone was to Caroline in this episode about trying to cure her mother’s cancer (I mean, even if she did kill her mom, you don’t say that to her face!), people seemed to keep forgetting that Liz already had terminal cancer and was pretty much already on death’s door. This felt very much like convoluted drama, one of the biggest precursors of The Logic Fail. Also, not the biggest mistake made by this group in the history of the show. Ripper, anyone?

Can Kai cure vampirism? This is a possible logic fail more than a straight-forward one, but still in the theme of the nebulous laws of magic in this world. If Kai can suck all of the magical vampire blood properties out of Sheriff Forbes’ body, then why can’t he do this for actual vampires, turning them back into their human selves the way the anti-magic bubble worked around Mystic Falls? If this is true, then Kai should have been unstoppable when full of magic.
The hospital coffee machine… does not make decaf lattes.

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