Where exactly are The Vampire Diaries' Bonnie and Damon? Viewers are finally about to get that highly anticipated answer.
"We'll figure it out in the next episode," executive producer Caroline Dries told a small group of reporters following a screening of the Season 6 premiere. "They're discovering it along with the audience. [The final scene was] to tease people [and say], 'Don't worry we haven't forgotten about them.'"
But before that glimpse of Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Bonnie (Kat Graham), the premiere picked up months after Season 5's fateful events: Elena (Nina Dobrev) began a hallucinatory hobby, Caroline (Candice Accola) was out of college while Tyler (Michael Trevino) began, Alaric (Matt Davis) was teaching at college — blood bag now in tow — Matt (Zach Roerig) took up a new sport in Mystic Falls, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) made out with a new girl and Stefan (Paul Wesley) was a mechanic down South. Although some of the gang has attempted to move on with their lives, it's clear that others are desperately holding onto the past. For Elena, the pain is too much to bear, and by the end of the season opener she asks Alaric to compel her to forget that she ever loved Damon. Will he actually grant her wish? Read on for Dries' answers to that question and more.
How will Alaric respond to Elena's request for compulsion?
Dries: That's a big part of the next episode. Damon is his friend too, so for her it's a hard decision, but for him it's like, "I don't know if I can do this to my friend." So, that will be his emotional journey in the next episode.
What's going to develop between Alaric and Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe)?
Dries: What we wanted to explore is that he is a vampire hunter who was turned into a vampire and went crazy and died. Now that he's back, he'll have some emotional baggage. But he's also an adult figure in the show. So, as Elena is going through her drama and Jeremy [goes] through his drama, he can't just sit there and mope about his problems. So, he internalizes a lot of stuff. One of the conflicts he's having is he hates being a vampire ... so how [does he] go on a normal date or be a normal guy again? She's going to bring that side out of him and that's what the struggle is going to be. And I like that he's so overtly flawed. We're not going to play a blood lust story for him. It's more [an] "he's uncomfortable in his own skin" story.
What's the deal with Tripp (Colin Ferguson)?
Dries: He came about because we wanted to show Matt thriving in Mystic Falls without supernaturals. Every episode Matt is having his life in jeopardy or someone is threatening to kill him. So, what's Matt's life like when he can not have a death threat every five minutes? We wanted to give him a father figure, so that's where Tripp came out of. But it's Mystic Falls: Not everyone is who they say they want to be, but he'll ultimately become an interesting, layered character that's not necessarily a good guy or a bad guy, but represents a normal person's point-of-view unlike the whole vampire world.
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LOST IN…? | So where are Damon and Bonnie hanging out? “We’ll figure it out in the next episode,” Dries reveals. “They’re discovering it along with the audience.” Could the presence of Collective Soul’s 1993 ditty “Shine” and Damon’s flannel attire mean that they’ve gone back in time? “It’s supposed to make you ask questions like that,” is all Dries would say. (Hmm, could the upcoming 1990s Damon/Stefan flashbacks in Episode 4, which “help tie together a bunch of storylines,” have something to do with all this, too?)
FORGET ME NOT | Overwhelmed with the idea of feeling the loss of Damon for eternity, Elena asked Original vamp Alaric to compel her to forget she was ever in love with the elder Salvatore. But will Alaric actually go through with her request? “That’s a big part of the next episode,” Dries replies. “Damon is his friend, too. For her, it’s a hard decision. But for him, it’s also like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this to my friend.’ So that will be his emotional journey in the next episode.”
And although it may seem like Elena’s love life is dead, what with Damon gone and Stefan cutting off ties to Mystic Falls, Dries assures, “We definitely keep the love stories alive. They may not play out in a traditional way, but they will feel very satisfying. … I think it’s done in a way that feels fresh for a show that’s in Season 6 and has had these same characters in this love triangle for a long time. I don’t really call it a triangle because Stefan has become more of like a soul friend of Elena’s. He’s dealing with his own stuff, but these two are still very connected. It’s more of, ‘How do we maintain Elena and Damon’s love story while he’s not present?’”
ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST | Stefan’s new love interest will be sticking around “for a little while,” providing a glimpse into what Stefan’s “process is as a vampire, starting over and living a different identity,” Dries describes. Part of beginning his new life, as we learned in the premiere, is abandoning any hope of bringing back Damon – not that everyone shares that pessimistic outlook. “Enzo is going to turn out to have had a different reaction to Damon’s death,” Dries previews. “He’s not going to give up on him. His point of view on Damon is in direct conflict to Stefan’s point of view on him.” Meanwhile, Enzo and Damon’s other “bro,” Alaric, won’t be drowning their sorrows together any time soon. “If anything, they will not be the best of friends,” the EP teases.
FORGET ME NOT | Overwhelmed with the idea of feeling the loss of Damon for eternity, Elena asked Original vamp Alaric to compel her to forget she was ever in love with the elder Salvatore. But will Alaric actually go through with her request? “That’s a big part of the next episode,” Dries replies. “Damon is his friend, too. For her, it’s a hard decision. But for him, it’s also like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this to my friend.’ So that will be his emotional journey in the next episode.”
And although it may seem like Elena’s love life is dead, what with Damon gone and Stefan cutting off ties to Mystic Falls, Dries assures, “We definitely keep the love stories alive. They may not play out in a traditional way, but they will feel very satisfying. … I think it’s done in a way that feels fresh for a show that’s in Season 6 and has had these same characters in this love triangle for a long time. I don’t really call it a triangle because Stefan has become more of like a soul friend of Elena’s. He’s dealing with his own stuff, but these two are still very connected. It’s more of, ‘How do we maintain Elena and Damon’s love story while he’s not present?’”
ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST | Stefan’s new love interest will be sticking around “for a little while,” providing a glimpse into what Stefan’s “process is as a vampire, starting over and living a different identity,” Dries describes. Part of beginning his new life, as we learned in the premiere, is abandoning any hope of bringing back Damon – not that everyone shares that pessimistic outlook. “Enzo is going to turn out to have had a different reaction to Damon’s death,” Dries previews. “He’s not going to give up on him. His point of view on Damon is in direct conflict to Stefan’s point of view on him.” Meanwhile, Enzo and Damon’s other “bro,” Alaric, won’t be drowning their sorrows together any time soon. “If anything, they will not be the best of friends,” the EP teases.
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I hope Alaric doesn't go through with compelling Elena!
ReplyDeleteI'm also excited to see more about this place where Bonnie and Damon are at.
alaric better not compel elena just do not do it, maybe the 90's flashback episode isn't a flashback but that they're actually in the 90's
ReplyDeletei wonder if there is any truth to the rumor that both Damon and Bonnie will be coming back 'human' : Ie Damon is no Longer a Vampire and Bonnie is no longer a Witch.
ReplyDeleteit would be interesting if Alaric compel Elena to forget.. Damon & Bonnie need to stay on the other side for a bit longer.. Stefan getting a new love sounds good to me but hope its something real, and pls not with Caroline, she already hook up with every guy in the show, enough already ! .. i dont care about Matt & Jeremy, they are both boring.
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ReplyDeletecompletely agree with the Caroline part, she slept with every guy on
the show already except Stefan and Jeremy and she needs to give it
rest and when she slept with Klaus she fell face first off her high
and might pedestal that's why she judging Damon/Dalena. I'm tired of
watching Caroline hoping on guy after guys dick, leave Stefan alone
and get over yourself.
I don't mind if Damon came back human, I think would make interesting character development for him but I'd want Bonnie to come back as a powerful witch/being who lets Elena deal with her own problems and stand on her own two feet for once. I'd want her to put her own life above all else and be the take no shit Bonnie she once was before she let Elena started to make her question her decisions to do what's best for the entire town not just her before she started putting her life on the line for Elena and her friends why they took her for granted. I only want Bonnie to help if it's necessary not try to fix every little problem of Elena's because she whiny and narcotic she can't deal with anything. Elena's not the only one with problems people just always deal them a hell of a lot better than her. I don't know if Beremy would still have a chance after this but I know he's hurt by her actions and he still misses her, this other girl is just how he trying to deal with the loss of Bonnie and his way of grieving doesn't physically harm anyone else unlike Elena's grieving process.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking maybe they are time traveling too! Maybe that's what grams did to help Bonnie find peace in the season 5 finale in attempt to give her a second chance and help her find peace in her life, save herself, and the Bennett line. I think 1994 was the year her mother abandoned her and her dad to start a new life. I think Bonnie was 3 years old, what if she has the power to stop her mother from leaving somehow if her and Damon actually are back in time? That would probably fix a lot about Bonnie's life think about it, Bonnie probably would have grown up as a witch with her mother and her grams as mentors instead of learning about her powers when she was a teenager, her gram probably wouldn't have died she would had more power to help her grams with the tomb and with her, her grams and her mother power combined, Bonnie wouldn't have struggled to learn everything on her own, her mother probably wouldn't have been turned into a vampire, she wouldn't have struggled to learn everything about magic on her own and she wouldn't have been vulnerable to Shane or people like him who wanted to use her and take her for granted because she was insincere about her powers and didn't know any better, she would have probably known from the beginning that expression is dangerous and that there was only one dose of the cure that was meant for Silas and the consequences behind the cure, maybe with the help of Abby and her grams she could have found away to duplicate it and use it on any vampire who have been a round for centuries and a threat like Klaus was by making them human, letting them grow old and die the Bonnie could have made Mystic falls a better place to live instead of following behind Elena and company with their stupid selfish ideas because she would have had Grams and Abby to show her the way. Jeremy probably never would have died, her father probably wouldn't have died, and she never would have died either. I've given this way to much thought, I just want a better life for Bonnie to come back to if they are time traveling and she can can come back.
ReplyDeleteIt would kind of be a way for the writers to start over and fix the crap storm this show has turned into and it would be more interesting than the mundane story-lines they have and it would draw a lot viewers back if they did focus on Elena/Dalena bs all the time
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