The final season of The CW’s supernatural drama The Vampire Diaries is fast approaching. With all the loose ends last season’s finale left us, fans of the series definitely have some burning questions that they hope will be answered come this Friday.
OMFGTV caught up with The Vampire Diaries boss Julie Plec this past summer and she gave us some insight on what viewers can expect when the gang from Mystic Falls returns.
The Season 8 premiere, titled, “Hello, Brother,” should sound familiar to most; it’s one of the most famous lines from the first season of the show, Plec explains.
“It has a lot of elements of earlier seasons of the show that we’ve seen before [but] in a different package where in this case Stefan is the hero brother trying to rescue Damon from the clutches from a great evil,” she says of the season opener. “It’s an evil that we can’t define and an evil that they can’t identify. So there’s so many questions, there’s a big mystery about what that might be.
“So as Stefan is trying to be happy with Caroline, and as Alaric is trying to live his life being a supernatural geek against the father of two kids who need him to come home every night, and as Bonnie is mourning her loss of the two most important men in her life, we start to understand just a little bit about who it is and what it is that has control over her two favorite men and what our heroes are going to do to get them back.”
Getting Damon and Enzo back will prove to be a difficult mission, but Julie reveals that though they are both being controlled by an evil entity, one of them tries their best to help one of their friends get the job done.
“Bonnie will very quickly realize that Enzo is doing everything in his power to lead her to him to get her the right clues to help her rescue him,” Plec says. “The problem is that he can’t necessarily be rescued. The first big shift for Bonnie is when she’s going to realize that she like everybody else are fighting so hard to get Damon and Enzo back, but she realizes that technically for everybody else, the priority is Damon.
“So in a way she takes the responsibility of being Enzo’s advocate and standing by him and saying, ‘I will make sure that I fight for you as hard as everybody else is fighting for Damon.’ So it puts her in an interesting position where she’s gotta say ‘Damon and Enzo are the two most important men to me, but if I don’t fight for my guy, no one’s ever going to fight for him at all.’ So that’ll be a fun dynamic to explore with her.”
Finally, Plec says that the fun of this particular predicament the two vampires are in is because we haven’t seen this before, where the characters are being controlled by an unknown force while struggling with their own sense of humanity.
“There’s a lot of options when you’re in that situation,” she says. “Do you flip it off completely, do you find a little pocket of space inside of your brain to hold onto what you love and try to hold onto yourself, do you throw caution to the wind and just say screw it, I’m doomed, I’m destined for this hell, I may as well embrace it? That’s what they’ll be going through.”
The Vampire Diaries Season 8 premieres Friday, October 21, at 8pm on The CW.