: Some viewers found the Kelly Donovan subplot to be a distraction, with one IMDb reviewer calling it the episode's weakest point and noting it felt like a "boring soap opera".
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: The episode’s emotional core centers on the revelation that Elena’s birth mother, Isobel Flemming, and Alaric Saltzman’s presumed-dead wife are the same person. : Some viewers found the Kelly Donovan subplot