Welcome to the world ofThe Vampire Diaries.
The show featured several major eliminations, resurrections, curses, ancient immortals, and blood.
Lots and lots of blood.
Who remembers the Five?
How about Silas, the oldest vampire in the world and yet somehow not an Original.
Maybe you remember the college professor who harmed vampires at Elena’s college.
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The show was filled with meaningless and confusing stories that ultimately went nowhere.
Why introduce the oldest and most powerful vampire to ever exist, only to end him after five episodes?
Who were the Travelers exactly?
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Well, that’s what we’re going to find out.
Bring your vervain, unless you want to fall down these plot holes forever!
Originally the council was formed by the town families like the Lockwood’s or the Forbes family.
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Um, what was the point of introducing the council, to begin with?
How has no one called the military for help?
On a side note, where are all these people coming from?
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Eventually, you’d think everyone would perish.
As long as Bonnie lived, Elena would sleep.
She told Damon she’d see him in sixty years and then fell into her coma.
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It was an emotional goodbye.
When the show starts, the human characters are juniors in high school.
However throughout the four seasons they spend very little time in school.
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In fact most of their time in school features some pretty grisly passings.
How did they manage to graduate at all, and how did they get grades good enough for college?
His story was a very complex one.
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He was the eldest of the Mikaelson children, and the most powerful.
When he did so he became a hybrid, in fact, the Original hybrid.
He then decided to create his own family and sired 12 hybrids, including Tyler Lockwood.
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However, Tyler and the rest of the hybrids tried to sever the sire bond Klaus had over them.
Um, what was the whole point of the hybrid family if that’s what their ultimate end was?
20Doppelganger Drama
OK, the original intent behind the doppelganger was genius.
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Giving Nina Dobrev a chance to shine as both the innocent Elena and the evil Katherine was amazing.
Both characters were from the Petrova family and shared the same DNA.
It became a bit overdone and really didn’t go anywhere.
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There were too many doppelgangers people!
19Bonnie’s Safe
One of the more powerful characters from the original cast has to be Bonnie.
This attention often led to her being taken or worse, eliminated.
It’s a safe bet that Bonnie, everyone’s favorite witch, is going to live forever.
She’s perished more than Jeremy Gilbert, but somehow always finds a way to come back.
While it’s a magical show, it kind of takes away the suspense and shock around her character.
In the show’s inception, Damon had a nifty little trick.
He could somehow control and summon a large fog, as well as summon and control crows.
The crow thing was creepy because he used it to spy on Elena a lot.
However these powers seem to disappear and get ignored after only a couple of episodes.
What was the point of introducing these elements to begin with?
The biggest example of this seems to be The Originals.
The brings increased speed, strength, and resistance, to things like vervain and sunlight.
The biggest example I can find of this on the show is none other than Silas.
