Plus 8, even though this was a total dick move on her part. Never realized Katherine and I had so much in common. Katherine still thinks that Elena would choose Stefan. Minus 12 for my fan fiction, and also the fact that that didn’t happen. Then she wakes up and confesses he was her one true love all along and they make out hard. Stefan finds Elena, but they’re sealed in and she can’t leave. “And I forgot he came back to life.” So, minus 3, I guess. Meanwhile, someone at my viewing party (*cough* Trent *cough*) just announced: “I forgot her mom died.” Then Alaric walked in and he added. But question: Can hell really be that bad if there’s a Drybar there? Plus 15.Ĭaroline looking at the picture of her mom. It’s so fun to watch her slip into Katherine’s skintight jeans again. Minus 20, because that was a brutal fake-out for lesser minds. When Elena appeared at the top of the stairs and the music swelled, I announced to my viewing-party guests: “It’s KATHERINE.” Everyone ignored me, but I knew. “I can’t do the emotional reunion,” says Vicki, a thing no one has ever said in the history of this show ever. Is Kayla Ewell the new Bianca Lawson? I think she might be able to play high school for the rest of her life. ![]() Meanwhile Vicki is pushed off the bell tower by Damon. Plus 15 for us knowing this show, I think? Sure, let’s kick things off there. I didn’t think Julie would have Bonnie die young, but the Enzo speech in the last episode threw me. But then Enzo is there, and nope, he’s not letting Bonnie off the hook - she needs to live. Bonnie assures her she’s ready, she’s okay, she wants to be with Enzo. Nina Dobrev in the flesh! But Elena isn’t happy to be awake - it’s not time. (By the way, the finale aired on the date of the 20 th anniversary of the premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I was getting some serious Hellmouth vibes last night.)īonnie, for her part, is in the woods, where she happens upon Sleeping Beauty. Bonnie’s magic overpowered her, and our first scene sees Stefan and Caroline trying to wake Bonnie to no avail. We left off on the penultimate episode with Katherine’s imminent return, and her plans to burn Mystic Falls to the ground. What I care about is the question TVD decided to explore as their final one: What makes a person good, and is redemption possible? Damon died and then was blown back into his body by a psychic blast? Sure. Look, the rules of this show were fast and loose the last few years. It was a beautiful finale, full of epic hellos and farewells, familiar faces, and a twist to rival the cliffhanger of season three. Oh, and also Ian Somerhalder takes his shirt off a lot and I can’t imagine the Future won’t be into that. It was a show about sacrifice and redemption - and the love between two brothers. Because ultimately The Vampire Diaries wasn’t a show about the supernatural. ![]() The reality was hyper but the characters were always real, their struggles and heartbreaks human, even when fighting Sirens and death keepers and doppelgangers. But if I had to bet, I’d say that it will. We won’t know for many years if The Vampire Diaries does. It takes a lot for a show to withstand the test of time. I loved Caroline finding herself in immortality, Matt’s blue eyes, and Bonnie’s devotion. I loved Katherine’s return and Damon’s core wound: He was never the brother who was wanted most (until Elena, that is). ![]() I loved Stefan’s addiction and the way it was handled, particularly in the second season. That’s when it took hold, and it never quite let go. The message was plain and simple: We are not fucking around here. TVD would go on to kill and unkill many of our favorites over the years, but that first one? It was everything. We were drawn in by the sweeping love story between Stefan and Elena, the complicated brother in Damon, and the terror and pain of a town that would never be whole or safe again. The premise was simple: two Vampire brothers in love with the same human girl. And love them we did.įalling in love with The Vampires Diaries happened slow and then all at once (thanks for that, John Green). That is much to the credit of Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson, the creators who made a world that was rich and tragic and nuanced and filled it with characters we could love. It could have floated, but it refused to. It was a teen drama, angsty and full of chiseled hunks. ![]() I have said many times in this space that The Vampire Diaries is and always was far better than it needed to be. Vampires? Really? Wasn’t that pretty played out? The Twilight hysteria was just beginning to crest (all love for Twilight, I have no career without Twilight) and True Blood was, well, a thing. The Vampire Diaries premiered in September of 2009 when kids in headbands were running around the CW snapping photos of each other, and superheroes hadn’t yet emerged as the deafening resistance. L-R: Paul Wesley as Stefan and Ian Somerhalder as Damon in the Vampire Diaries series finale.
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