The End of an Era—“The Vampire Diaries"

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.