S1E04 - Silas - (It Was an Animal Attack) Podcast Details

Description

Fadzai and Sandile breathe life into a Greek tragedy with the first immortal, and originator of the Salvatore doppleganger line, Silas.

Once a witch in Ancient Greece, he made Qetsiyah (the only witch more powerful than him amongst the Travelers) fall in love with him, and help him develop the spell for immortality. After he abandoned her at the wedding altar, she discovered that the spell was actually for him and his true love - her trusted handmaiden, Amara. Furious, Qetsiyah killed Amara and imprisioned Silas with magic, burying him with the cure so that he would take it and die alone.

In the fourth season of The Vampire Diaries, The Mystic Falls gang, along with unlikely allies and necessary enemies, are roped into a rat race to find this cure for the vampires of the bunch. This turns out to be a plan of escape by Silas; through a series of psychic terrors and false promises - and the aid of an impressionable Bonnie Bennett - he seeks to bring down the veil separating the Other Side from the living, and die to be reunited with his true love.

Content Warning: Due to the subject matter of this character's storyline, themes and acts of suicide, suicidal ideation, self-harm, and defeated mental state are discussed throughout the episode. Though the nature of these in the text is mostly fabricated by fictional forces, do take it into consideration if such themes are potentially harmful or triggering for you. The following sections have the most detailed discussion:

00:25:47 - 00:27:31

00:32:29 - 00:38:51

01:58:27 - 01:59:18

02:16:53 - 02:17:13

02:55:24 - 02:56:19

In addition, a Greek myth is discussed that contains sexual assault in this section:

02:06:53 - 02:09:46

Audio Note: There is some intermittent background interference at 02:34:39 - 02:34:39; the conversation is audible above the sound.

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