All My Children (The Vampire Diaries)

"All My Children"
The Vampire Diaries episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 15
Directed by	Pascal Verschooris
Written by	Evan Bleiweiss Michael Narducci
Production code	2J6015
Original air date	February 16, 2012
Guest actors
Claire Holt (Rebekah Mikaelson) Torrey DeVitto (Meredith Fell) Daniel Gillies (Elijah Mikaelson) Nathaniel Buzolic (Kol Mikaelson) Alice Evans (Esther) Persia White (Abby Bennett Wilson)

"All My Children" is the fifteenth episode of the third season of The CW television series, The Vampire Diaries and the 59th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on February 16, 2012. The episode was written by Evan Bleiweiss & Michael Narducci and directed by Pascal Verschooris.

Plot

Elijah (Daniel Gillies) finds evidence that Esther (Alice Evans) was casting a spell during the ball and he believes that Elena (Nina Dobrev) lied to him. He kidnaps Elena who tells him that Esther wants to kill them all. Elijah takes Elena into the tunnels and asks Rebekah (Claire Holt) to watch her and kill her if Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) will not manage to stop Esther in time.

Elijah asks Damon and Stefan to stop Esther from completing her plan otherwise Elena will die. In the meantime, Esther asks for Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Abby’s (Persia White) help since to complete the spell, Esther needs to channel power from all the dead witches of the Bennett bloodline. Once the spell completes, the Original vampires will become humans again and Finn (Casper Zafer) is willing to sacrifice himself for his mother' cause. When Finn dies, all will die since they are linked as one.

Stefan and Damon try to kill Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic) at first, thinking that since the Originals are linked, if they kill him then everyone will die. They stab him and everyone collapses except Klaus (Joseph Morgan) who is a hybrid and the dagger does not affect him. Klaus finds Alaric (Matt Davis), Stefan and Damon while carrying Kol and removes the dagger. While Rebekah is down, Elena gets the opportunity and runs away getting to the cave where vampires cannot get in and protects herself.

Damon and Stefan try to find another way to stop Esther and they decide that they have to break the Bennett bloodline so Esther will not be able to channel their power. They attack Bonnie and Abby and Damon turns Abby into a vampire just in time to stop Esther from completing her spell. Esther and Finn disappear, Rebekah lets Elena go and all the Original siblings, except Rebekah, decide to leave town leaving Klaus behind.

Stefan asks Damon why did he turn Abby when he was the one supposed to do it and Damon says because he can see that Stefan tries to get back to his caring self. When Damon asks him how long it has been since he last fed in human blood, Stefan admits that he is not feeding on human blood since the day he tried to drive Elena off the bridge.

Elijah sends Elena a message apologizing for kidnapping her while Rebekah tells Klaus the old white oak tree has grown back and it can be used by someone to kill them. The episode ends with Alaric finding that Meredith (Torrey DeVitto) has vampire weapons, like the ones that were used to kill Brian and Bill. Meredith sees him and shoots him telling him that he was not supposed to see that.

Music

In "All My Children" one can hear the songs:^[1]

"Rubicon" by Ume
"Guarded" by Kevin Daniel
"Teardrops on My Pillow" by Dum Dum Girls
"Fire Escape" by Civil Twilight
"Poison & Wine" by The Civil Wars

Reception

Ratings

In its original American broadcast, "All My Children" was watched by 2.90 million; down by 0.18 from the previous episode.^[2]

Reviews

"All My Children" received mixed reviews.

Carrie Raisler from The A.V. Club gave the episode a C+ rating saying that this episode was "all about moments, mostly because when you look beyond the moments, everything else kind of falls apart." Raisler continues: "Last week showed the tremendous potential of the Original family, showcasing the family members' entertaining dysfunction in all its glory and then immediately giving them a central conflict in their mother’s plan to kill them all. It was intriguing, smart, fun, and very well-executed. All of this great build-up ultimately just made tonight’s easy resolution and scattering of the Originals like leaves to the wind without any sort of resolution that much more disappointing."^[3]

Matt Richenthal from TV Fanatic rated the episode with 4.6/5 saying that it was a heart-pounding episode full of both action and emotion. "There really is no black or white anymore on The Vampire Diaries. The show has created such a well-layered, fascinating universe that viewers can endlessly debate the choices various characters make."^[4]

Diana Steenbergen from IGN rated the episode with 8/10 saying that after last week's revelation of Esther's plan, she is now moving forward very quickly to put it into motion. "The main problem with Esther moving so quickly on her plan to kill the Originals was that there wasn't enough time for tension in this storyline to build. I wasn't at all surprised when the spell fizzled out."^[5]

E. Reagan from The TV Chick gave a positive review to the episode saying that it was a fabulous episode. "[The episode] was another example of why this show continues to be one of the most exciting hours of television each week."^[6]

References

↑ Richenthal, Matt (February 17, 2012). "The Vampire Diaries Music from "All My Children"". TV Fanatic. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
↑ Gorman, Bill (February 17, 2012). "Thursday Final Ratings: 'American Idol,' 'Vampire Diaries,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Big Bang Theory,' '30 Rock,' 'Office' Adjusted Up; 'Person Of Interest,' 'Mentalist,' 'Secret Circle' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
↑ Raisler, Carrie (February 16, 2012). "The Vampire Diaries: "All My Children"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
↑ Richenthal, Matt (February 16, 2012). "The Vampire Diaries Review: Breaking the Bloodline". TV Fanatic. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
↑ Steenbergen, Diana (February 17, 2012). "The Vampire Diaries: "All My Children" review". IGN. Retrieved January 17, 2016.
↑ Reagan, E (February 17, 2012). "REVIEW: The Vampire Diaries "All My Children"". The TV Chick. Retrieved January 17, 2016.

External links

ThinkHeroTV's review for "All My Children" on YouTube

The Vampire Diaries

Creators	L. J. Smith (novel series) Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec (TV series)

Series	Television Episodes Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Characters	Elena Gilbert Katherine Pierce Stefan Salvatore Silas Damon Salvatore Jeremy Gilbert Jenna Sommers Bonnie Bennett Caroline Forbes Matt Donovan Vicki Donovan Tyler Lockwood Alaric Saltzman Niklaus Mikaelson Enzo

Related	Awards and nominations Novel series Original Vampires The Originals (episodes)

The Vampire Diaries episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "The Night of the Comet" "Friday Night Bites" "Family Ties" "You're Undead to Me" "Lost Girls" "Haunted" "162 Candles" "History Repeating" "The Turning Point" "Bloodlines" "Unpleasantville" "Children of the Damned" "Fool Me Once" "A Few Good Men" "There Goes the Neighborhood" "Let the Right One In" "Under Control" "Miss Mystic Falls" "Blood Brothers" "Isobel" "Founder's Day"

Season 2	"The Return" "Brave New World" "Bad Moon Rising" "Memory Lane" "Kill or Be Killed" "Plan B" "Masquerade" "Rose" "Katerina" "The Sacrifice" "By the Light of the Moon" "The Descent" "Daddy Issues" "Crying Wolf" "The Dinner Party" "The House Guest" "Know Thy Enemy" "The Last Dance" "Klaus" "The Last Day" "The Sun Also Rises" "As I Lay Dying"

Season 3	"The Birthday" "The Hybrid" "The End of the Affair" "Disturbing Behavior" "The Reckoning" "Smells Like Teen Spirit" "Ghost World" "Ordinary People" "Homecoming" "The New Deal" "Our Town" "The Ties That Bind" "Bringing Out the Dead" "Dangerous Liaisons" "All My Children" "The Departed"

Season 4	"Growing Pains" "Memorial" "The Rager" "The Five" "The Killer" "We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes" "My Brother's Keeper" "We'll Always Have Bourbon Street" "O Come, All Ye Faithful" "After School Special" "Catch Me If You Can" "A View to a Kill"

Season 5	"I Know What You Did Last Summer" "True Lies" "Original Sin" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" "Monster's Ball" "Handle with Care" "Death and the Maiden" "Dead Man on Campus" "The Cell" "Fifty Shades of Grayson" "500 Years of Solitude" "The Devil Inside" "Total Eclipse of the Heart" "No Exit" "Gone Girl" "While You Were Sleeping" "Rescue Me" "Resident Evil" "Man on Fire" "What Lies Beneath" "Promised Land" "Home"

Season 6	"I'll Remember" "Yellow Ledbetter" "Welcome to Paradise" "Black Hole Sun" "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get" "Do You Remember the First Time?" "Fade Into You" "I Alone"

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