Hope your birthday was a fun one, Patti! 

Of course now we get to trade in the repetitive trance-like state for what is going to seem like an endless loop of
[spoiler]London Bridge Is Falling Down[/spoiler]
Perhaps I'll be lucky and this won't be as painful for me the second time around as well, lol.

I like [spoiler]London Bridge.[/spoiler] The song reflects very well Sarah's current mood. If she's happy, the song is lilting and energetic. If she is sad, it's rather melancholy and slower.

I'm also fond of flutes, so maybe that has something to do with it as well.

(I hope I got the spoiler tags situated properly. It's my first attempt at putting them in manually. Apologies if it isn't correct.

Happy birthday, Webpotentate! 

So I am gathering that only a wooden stake can kill a vampire? Very interesting. I really didn't know that. I mean, I knew that but I never really thought about it. I would have guessed that anything through the heart would kill a vampire.

Doesn't the stake have to be made from the branch of a holly tree?  :-

The only thing I have to say about this episode is, why did barnabas have to wax poetic about a coffin!? Yuck!!! 

I know it's not any different from what others have said about this episode, but I just had to voice my opinion as well. I cannot stand Jason for forcing Liz in to marrying him! 

I actually like the leviathan episodes. We get to see Carolyn working for once in her life!

However I think the writers could have devised a better plot line for Quentin's return, giving him amnesia was quite ridiculous. It didn't fit in with any of the plot.

It was very interesting to see barnabas and Julia at odds with each other, he under the leviathan influence and behaving uncharacteristically towards Julia, she bewildered and hurt by his strange reaction to her.

AlsoThe return of Carolyn's father was an unexpected surprise, I wish more could have been done with this character instead of having him killed off by Jeb.

I liked the Todds a lot. They were a good couple trying to start their own business. They loved each other and were very happy. It's really tragic the leviathans had to ruin their lives. 

When Jeb transforms Barnabas back in to a vampire, why is Barnabas so forgiving and friendly towards him after this? you'd think he'd be furious in the least and behave very hostile towards Jeb.

I always thought the leviathans were aliens. So if they're not aliens, what exactly are they? 

In this episode we get to hear the church bells, or whichever bells they are, tolling the hour. I always enjoy hearing them. 

All in all this episode was very suspenseful and sad.

Wishing you the best of birthdays, Alondra!!!