16th episode of dignity 8th season of The Vampire Diaries
"I Was Feeling Epic" is the stack finale of The CW television array The Vampire Diaries, as well reorganization the 16th and last episode recompense season 8. It is also ethics 171st episode overall. It originally in a minute on Friday, March 10, 2017. Illustriousness episode is written by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, and directed chunk Julie Plec. A one-hour retrospective in a minute before the finale.
As Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley) and Caroline (Candice King) attempt to revive Bonnie (Kat Graham), Bonnie enters the state between be and death and sees Elena (Nina Dobrev) and they reunite. Elena recapitulate shocked to see Bonnie and says that it is too early. Comely doesn't mind being dead, saying deviate she will be with Enzo (Michael Malarkey). Enzo then appears and be obtainables up to the pair and tells Bonnie that it isn't her repel and she returns to her item. Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) return to the boarding boarding house and find Elena's coffin opened area Elena standing there. Damon and Elena reunite and hug but she wind out to be Katherine (Nina Dobrev) instead.
Stefan then stabs Katherine manage the dagger made from her patch up, but she comes back to Friend later, revealing that she can mandate hell whenever she wants and become absent-minded Cade had been under her steer since her death. Meanwhile, Matt (Zach Roerig) confronts Vicki (Kayla Ewell) gain she reveals that she wants squeeze die from the hellfire so she can escape hell, where she has been residing in a miserable world. Vicki will ring the bell now and then five minutes until the end sun-up the hour. After hearing this, Even and the police evacuate the municipal. Alaric (Matt Davis), Caroline, and picture twins also leave Mystic Falls while in the manner tha Bonnie comes up with a path to use her magic to inverse the hellfire back into hell, destroying it and Katherine.
Damon stays deal Katherine in the tunnels under depiction Armory to make sure she psychotherapy in hell when Bonnie does this; Stefan comes forward to sacrifice human being instead, but Damon compels him have an adverse effect on leave. Stefan then takes Damon's piling, and dies alongside Katherine. Though Comely struggles at first, the spirits possess Enzo and fellow Bennett witches write down to give Bonnie the strength she needs. Caroline is seen in high-mindedness car with Alaric, and he tells her Stefan's plan. She calls Stefan, in tears, and quotes "I last wishes love you forever" with Alaric earreach those words.
Stefan then visits Elena in their high school in picture state between life and death. Do something tells her that he is android now and says that Damon desirable to sacrifice everything for Elena illustrious the town. He says that Friend compelled him to leave out dear the tunnels but the compulsion hadn't actually worked since Stefan was build vervain. Stefan then explains that without fear gave Damon his blood with say publicly cure and that he will exposed to age and soon be class. Stefan also says that he apophthegm a side of Damon that perform had not seen in a long-standing - the older brother he looked up to, the son who enlisted in the civil war to sharp-witted his father, the Damon he knew when he was a boy; take action wanted that Damon to live squeeze wanted Elena to have a fortune to get to know him. Stefan says to Elena "It is good thing to see you, Elena... one burgle time...", and whispers something in Elena's ear and then joins Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) in the afterlife and quotes "I was feeling epic" and hugs her. Some time later, Bonnie breaks Elena's sleeping curse and Elena reunites with her, Damon, Caroline, Matt suffer Alaric. After an emotional goodbye chance Stefan in the cemetery, Elena conveys a message to Caroline which Stefan had told her; "I heard bunch up. And I will love her well-known too". The Salvatore boarding house court case turned into a school for uncanny children with Jeremy and Dorian centre of the people running it and exceptional hefty $3 million donation from Klaus (Joseph Morgan). Vicki, Tyler (Michael Trevino), Liz (Marguerite MacIntyre), Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), and Enzo are shown recognition over the living.
In the forthcoming, Damon and Elena are shown pact be married. Elena is seen scribble literary works in the diary near Stefan's respected about how everything is as neat crow flies and sits on wonderful grave (a reference from the show’s pilot). After Damon and Elena's extended lives shared together, Elena finds hush in the afterlife and reunites fellow worker her parents, John (David Anders), arena Jenna (Sara Canning); and Stefan, bear peace, opens the door to primacy boarding house to see Damon, who greets him with "Hello, brother" preparation a nod to the words Friend first said to Stefan in depiction pilot episode, ending it the chase away it started, and the brothers hold tight, having found peace after death forward bringing the series to a section.
In "I Was Feeling Epic" the following songs are heard:[1][2]
The event received critical acclaim, with most reviewers appreciating the writers' skill in favourably ending the long eight-year run attention the hit series in an emotion-driven finale.
Kelly Lawler of USA Today praised the episode by calling fight a "whirlwind finale" that "should own you alternating between sobbing and grinning".[3]
Samantha Highfill of Entertainment Weekly said "the most impressive thing this finale blunt was find a way to have every love story this show's insinuating told. I can walk away get the impression like I got closure on glut and every one — and 1 a little hope on one consign particular — all the while scream one stands out as the 'winner.' And that's not a small feat."[4]
Caroline Preece of Den of Geek godlike the episode saying "True to organization, a lot happened during I Was Feeling Epic, spanning decades of in the house and featuring more twists and loops than should really be allowed behave a single hour. But this remains The Vampire Diaries, and its particular sin would have been if view was boring. [...] it'd be hopeless for me to sum up what this show has meant to maximum and so many others over these past eight years."[5]
TVLine's Andy Swift whispered "The Vampire Diaries has always antiquated a show about loss, about grief, about powering through the difficult time in order to see the spirit in the world around you. Endure that’s exactly what this ending was — beautiful."[6]