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"Originally we had planned to kill [Bonnie] for four episodes and let Elena be the one who hid her away, and surprise everyone with it," Williamson says. "But we said, 'The audience would hate us. They'll never forgive us.' Then we thought we could do this for one episode and bring her back next week. Then we thought no, better to do it at the end of the commercial break. We finally came down to a commercial break was all we could get away with."Williamson also dished about the surprising presence of Katherine in season 2.
"I said, 'We can only bring Katherine in once or twice.' We had written the first episode and we were down on set watching Miss Nina portray her in that little black outfit and slink her way to set. I said, 'OK, we might need to rethink this,'" He explained, "Katherine took over, we recreated the storyline. She was always supposed to be the puppeteer and the mastermind off-camera, and we brought it on-camera. It gave us another true villain and for Damon another adversary."Personally, I think it's pure genius how the TVD writers continually crank out superb television with twists and turns that would make the windiest country road jealous.
“Greta isn’t too pleased when she discovers her father and brother both died at the hands of Mystic Falls vampires. She is not someone you want to mess with. A lot of the witches on the show follow tradition very closely, but Greta’s definitely her own witch. She’s very powerful.”
“The loss of life is significant and very, very, very tragic, and the fallout of it is really painful for a lot of characters. The episode is called ‘The Sun Also Rises,’ and it’s really meant to say that our characters, at the end of this very, very long night, need to find some glimmer of hope when morning comes because what they go through is really profoundly life-alteringly horrible for them.”
"Damon, who is desperately seeking forgiveness from Elena, starts to relive moments from past mistakes made with Katherine back in 1864. As is always true with these events in Mystic Falls, things go horribly awry."Julie reminds us there's a lot going on in the finale, but because so much of it revolves around things we haven’t seen yet, she leaves us with this small hint.
”What we’re doing is telling the audience that when we hit season 3, there’s gonna be a lot of things changing for our characters and in their lives. We’re excited about it because it just shows that the show has directions that it can keep going in and going in and going in, and we’re never gonna get stuck or tired. We’re just gonna keep tellin’ stories."Special thanks to Shirarose1.
"You'll see the relationship she has with Jeremy really solidify and you start to see them growing as partners. They'll also go through issues, but you really see their growth."
"She is facing life and death responsibilities, so it's going to be up to her love for Elena, how much she is willing to sacrifice and what she's not," Graham says, "Klaus is after Elena to sacrifice her, to kill her on an altar and they need a witch. So besides the fact that killing Klaus, if she even tries to, might take her down, there's also the fact that he needs a witch for the sacrifice."
"I don't feel safe about myself or anyone. Unfortunately, we were told from the beginning that many people will go. I'm no exception."
“It felt so good because it lets him show off a bit, because he’s so good, and it lets our audience be shocked by an unexpected development, and it’s giving us a glimpse into who Klaus is before we even get to meet Klaus, which I also love,” she says. “When [Matt Davis] would ask, ‘What are you gonna do with Alaric?’, I always told him, ‘We’re either going to make you a gloriously integral character that the show can’t live without, or we’re gonna build you up magnificently and kill you epicly.’ I won’t tell you which way that goes, but that’s the promise I made to him.”
“I love that people debate it, because I think it’s actually fun to think of either way, but very deliberately, we used the same language as in episode 115, with the guy that got hit by the bus,” she says. “At the end of each of them, the person who’s been compelling them says, ‘Okay, you’re done,’ and they say, ‘I’m done’ like they’re grateful. So it’s a compulsion like a suicide bomber. I have done the task that I was compelled to do, and now my reason for existence is over. So we deliberately echoed that same language to imply that her death had been written in the cards by Klaus already. Why I loved Isobel taking [Elena] to the cemetery and finding a work-around her compulsion, where she’s not allowed to say anything, is she was able to apologize for not being a good mother and to give Elena that before she did what she had to do. If anything, Isobel in death was able to give Elena a tiny bit of closure.”
“It doesn’t seem right to have a full moon without a werewolf. It’s unexpected, and it’s really, really bad timing.”
“There’s gonna be a lot to deal with, and a lot of our heroes going through some pretty dark times and trying to come out the other side,” she says. “The one thing that we know that we don’t want to do this year is leave 13 threads dangling at the end of the season. So while yes, there will absolutely be cliffhangers in the finale, it’s not gonna be like 97. We want to let the audience feel like they have begun a ride with us at the top of the season and seen it all the way through, and that we’ve delivered a true ending to them.”
"Three huge characters are going to die — solid characters — and it's going to change the destiny of the show,” Kat Graham~Bonnie dishes.
"There's always going to be characters who don't know what's going on, but at the same time they can't be fools forever!" she says.Caroline will have some serious explaining to do, but judging by the picture above, Matt won't stay mad forever. They make a very cute JFK and Jackie, don't you think :)?
"If Katherine's ever working with Elena, or seemingly with Elena, there must be an alternate motive," Nina says. "She's got a master plan and if she's helping Elena, it's to service that master plan somehow."
Looking farther ahead, executive producer Julie Plec says we’ll get to see Elena’s and Stefan’s reactions to Damon’s decision to use mind compulsion on local TV news reporter Andie Star (Dawn Olivieri) to make her his substitute girlfriend/blood donor. “We won’t hit that for a few more episodes, but there will be that moment when Damon’s desire to distract himself from his feelings for Elena blow up in his face, and the allure of Andie starts to leave a bit of a sour taste,” Plec says. (Before that happens, will we at least get to see Damon take another bath? “Damn, I don’t know. I might have to go back and do a rewrite,” Plec laughs. “I feel like every time we’re like, ‘Well, we could set this scene in the bathtub… Oh, wait that won’t work.’”)
The tension between the Salvatore Brothers will also continue to rise, Plec says, as they find themselves on opposite ends of a debate about the best methods to protect Elena. “I am fully a Team Salvatore shipper. I want the brothers to be brothers, and to love each other, and to be good to each other always, but that’s part of the journey of the show,” Plec says. “When you’ve got two guys who have feelings for the same girl, that’s not gonna be easy. And it starts to become particularly complicated as we get to the end of the season.”
“Caroline having chemistry with everybody has been the best surprise to us as writers. Makes it easy to find story. So, hopefully Caroline will not be one of the casualties mentioned above."
“Anything can happen at any time, and not everybody’s going to like it.” Doing the math leaves us with 20 or so people currently calling Mystic Falls their home. So, in true TVD fashion Plec goes on to say that, “A percentage of them will not make it to Season 3.”
“Something that we’ll explore in the future once we get into Klaus and the world of the Originals and future seasons, is that it’s true immortality,” teases Plec. “How lonely must that be?”
“I’ve seen Joseph Morgan running around the set." Then went on to say, I’ve been on set and seen Joseph on set as well.”Can we take this to mean Caroline will definitely be part of the big showdown for the season 2 finale? I think so :).
"If and when Tyler returns to Mystic Falls, it depends on his intentions — why he’s going back. And if that causes Caroline and Tyler’s paths to cross, I think there definitely needs to be conversation had. But Caroline has grown into the type of character that would be able to forgive him but probably not immediately. I think it all depends on how he approaches the situation. The ball is very much in Tyler’s court at this point."
Sources close to VD confirm to TVLine exclusively that Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) werewolf pal will resurface in Mystic Falls at some point before the end of the season. No word on how long she’ll stick around this time, but we’re told Jules’ reappearance will coincide with the town’s next full moon.
How will Caroline’s relationship with Matt (Zach Roerig) change, now that he knows her secret?
It’s going to depend on the conversation that follows up when we come back on April 7th. The teaser showed Matt and Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) having a discussion. I think his priority at this point is to figure out what really happened to his sister and if Caroline was involved with it or not.