An Engagement on The Vampire Diaries?! Our TV Rants and Raves

Did Stefan really get down on one knee?! Excuse us while our Stelena-loving hearts swoon.

By Sydney Bucksbaum Oct 24, 2014 2:43 AMTags
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Oh Thursday night TV. Where would we be without you?

From a fandom-breaking engagement on The Vampire Diaries (yes, we know it was fake, but just let us have this moment please!), to a heartbreaking miscarriage on Reign to Fitz absolutely beating the snot out of Jake on Scandal, it was quite a shocking night for all our favorite TV characters.

Some of it, we loved (we're lookin' at you, Stelena!), while others had us screaming at our TVs (Fitz! Whaaaat are you doing to Jake's face?!). Check out tonight's Rants and Raves!

RAVE: The Vampire Diaries: Flashbacks to 1994 where the Salvatores rocked flannel shirts and drove vintage cars? Oh yeah, we are so into this decade, especially when it looks this good! Plus, we finally learned the importance of May 10, 1994, aka the day when Damon returned to Mystic Falls to make nice with Stefan after 50 years of no humanity. And it wasn't even Damon's personal hell, it was Kai's, who it turns out is a mass-murdering witch who can steal other witches' powers and killed his own family and got banished to this "prison" by the Gemini coven. Got all that? Phew!

RAVE: The Vampire Diaries: Stelena's engaged! Well, not really, but watching Stefan "Cooper" fake propose to Elena "Williams" was like a Stelena dream come true! Alas, it was all just so Stefan could show Elena his "system" of starting over in a new town with a new life and a new identity and a new "past." But that new life got a little more complicated when Ivy turned up alive and a vampire, since Enzo fed her his blood before killing her! 

RANT: The Vampire Diaries: Wasted Jeremy is getting kind of old. Yeah, you miss Bonnie (and so do we!) but time to sober up, kid. And good call, Alaric, for ordering that STD check on the player, since we have no idea where he's been all summer long.

RAVE: The Vampire Diaries: The return of Zach Salvatore, five seasons later! Nice to see you alive and kicking, Uncle/Nephew Zach…too bad we all know that in about 20 years, Damon kills you. And in 1994, he even killed Zach's pregnant girlfriend when Stefan refused to go on a road trip with his newly-nice big bro. Of course, Zach didn't remember that since Stefan compelled him to forget. But turns out, Sarah (the girl Jeremy shacked up with and Elena attacked) is the baby that survived Damon's attack, making her a Salvatore! Twist!

RAVE: Grey's Anatomy: Even though our heart broke seeing Callie and Arizona take a break from their marriage, how amazing was it seeing Callie and Meredith as new drinking buddies? Tequila and cheeseburgers never sounded so good. Also, don't mind us, but we're going to be singing, "Vagina! Vagiiinaaa!" pretty much all week now, because that was a damn catchy tune. 

RANT: Grey's Anatomy: Um, Callie and Arizona cannot break up! We are not okay with this! After giving their couples therapy assignment of a month-long break a try, Arizona came back with more enthusiasm and hope for their marriage, while Callie realized in the 30 days without Arizona, she felt free and happy, and she needs to love herself more, and walked out on Arizona in tears. Can some things just not be fixed?

RAVE: A to Z: Thank you for finally bringing up the question that has been plaguing us for a while now, A to Z...when is it the right time to bring a new love interest as a date to a funeral? Or are we the only ones struggling with the moral and romantic implications of that? Really? Just us? Okay then...

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RAVE: Scandal: The back to the basics long case for Olivia Pope to handle is very welcome, but we're going to need a little more to get invested in what is going on with cougar-style Penny from Lost (aka Sonya Walger).

RANT/RAVE: Scandal: Jake and Fitz sang a duet! That was special. Fitz beat the crap out of Jake? That was not fun. Or it was? Depends on whose team you are on (we're split between Jake and Fitz!). We did like how Jake called Fitz out on his ego, but then Jake purposefully riled Fitz up about Olivia…good job on playing both camps, Scandal writers.

RAVE: Scandal: David Rosen's line: "Why are we all trying to be Olivia Pope?" Everything is catching up with everybody. Can David handle his guilt demons? Can Huck overcome his past?

RANT: Scandal: Olivia is a very smart girl. Would she really still be blind to her dad's manipulation at this point?

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RAVE: Reign: Mary's pregnant! This is certainly a joyous announcement, if not historically correct, but hey, we've never been picky about the historical accuracy of Reign before. Why start now?

RAVE: Reign: Watching Catherine interrupt Mary and Francis's morning romp in bed to celebrate their unborn baby was just hilarious and amazing. More of this happy grandma-to-be and less of the murderous, scheming villain, please!

RANT: Reign: Giving Mary the happiness of a pregnancy and then taking it away so quickly with a miscarriage? Harsh, Reign. We know Mary didn't actually have a child in real life, but we wouldn't mind seeing her have one on the show! Can't she just have one moment of happiness in an otherwise heartbreaking and complicated life?

RAVE: Gracepoint: Thanks to Dean finally confessing the truth to the detectives, the Solanos now know what their son Danny was going through before his death, with his feelings of loneliness and petty thievery. And now the detectives have another lead: the creepy Lars Pierson, the man to whom the phone number found in Danny's jacket belonged. 

RANT: How to Get Away With Murder: We ended last episode with that powerful scene where Annalise removed her wig and makeup and confronted her husband about his lies and affair with the murdered student and it quickly followed up in the beginning of the episode...the rest of episode? A little underwhelming. Laurel is just not our favorite character. Sorry! Although it was nice to see a student have issues with Annalise's methods.

RAVE: How to Get Away With Murder: Viola Davis continues to just kill every single scene. Seriously, every scene. We could watch her call her husband a liar for hours. How will she deal with Wes now that he knows her husband sent Lila those penis pictures? We can't wait to find out. Is it next Thursday yet?