Back
in 2007, when vampires exploded in Hollywood and all teenagers wanted to see
was vampires, a wonderful TV series came out by the name of “The VampireDiaries”. The series was based of the novels written by L.J. Smith about a pair
of brothers who fall in love with a human girl. The show had the romance, the sibling rivalry,
the supernatural world, and the action. Put all those traits together in one
show and it is guaranteed to be a success. After all its success, the show
finally came to an end 2 weeks ago, after 8 seasons and 171 episodes.
The
finale was ok for the most part—although we were promised an epic ending, epic
it was not. In my opinion, I felt the finale was rushed. Putting it into a 2
hour finale would have been better considering everything they were trying to
fit into the normal 1hour show. In the finale we got to see some old characters
be brought back one last time—including Nina Dobrev. Dobrev, who plays the lead
female character named Elena, left back in season 6 to pursue other acting opportunities.
While us fans of the show were happy for her and respected her decisions, it
was still hard to see her leave and not have that character be part of the show
anymore. Dobrev played 4 characters in the show but none were as much of a
badass as Katherine Pierce—who also happened to be the villain in the finale.
In
the finale, our heroes of Mystic falls had to put their heads together to defeat
Katherine who was trying to the unleash Hell fire and set Mystic Falls on fire.
Throughout the seasons, Katherine was made out to be this fierce and cunning
character who only cares about herself and always comes up on top. Well in the
series finale, it would seem she lost those characteristics. She spent a lot
of time waiting around and letting the bothers kill her over and over again
without much of a fight—spoiler alert, Katherine became the ruler of Hell and
thus can walk in and out of Hell whenever she pleases. Perhaps Julie Plec—the
executive producer and finale director-- took this approach due to time
constraint. Whatever the reason might have been they still did a great job
pulling everything off with the amount of time they had.