Now I originally only started watching TVD 6 years ago because of Nina Dobrev. I had watched her on Degrassi and decided to give a show starring her a shot. Sure she was okay at best at acting but her beauty more than made up for it. I didn’t think much of the show after the first episode but as it went on I was drawn in by all the suspense and mystery and it felt like each episode topped the last one in quality. By the end of Season 3 I didn’t feel it was as great as it used to be but I still tuned in for Season 4 for the Mikaelsons. Seasons 5 and 6 I watched purely because I like the characters but the plot was much to be desired. Back when Nina Dobrev announced in April that she was leaving after the end of the season I didn’t think I would watch anymore since I felt that the show should end if one of the main characters quit and that it probably wouldn’t be as good with someone missing.
Then when I actually watched the last episode of Season 6 I realized the show might actually work without Elena and still has potential if written well. The thing that instantly changed my mind was learning that Season 7 will return to basics and be similar in style to Season 1 with suspense, mystery, horror, romance and secrets. Now I’m definitely going to check it out this fall.
Before I delve further into my thoughts on the new season here’s how Season 6 ended.
Kai casts a spell linking Elena and Bonnie’s lives, rendering Elena unconscious while Bonnie is alive and tries to force Damon to choose Bonnie or Elena. Damon chooses to rip off Kai’s head, leaving Elena unconscious for the duration of Bonnie’s life. In a series of visions or dreams, Elena and her friends and family said goodbye. Liv, dying, urges Tyler to end her life and turn back into a werewolf so that he might live. Stefan pledges to Caroline that he will wait for her. Enzo and Lily discover that Kai had indeed brought Lily’s “family” of vampire witches out of the 1903 prison world and to modern-day Mystic Falls. At the end of the episode, time flashes an unknown amount forward, and Matt, a police officer, is seen cruising through a destroyed Mystic Falls while a Dark Damon stands on the clock tower, watching the town.
Quote taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampire_Diaries_(season_6)
Season 7 information revealed so far includes the return of Season 1 Damon, lots of very unexpected twists and turns for Stefan and Caroline’s relationship, Enzo having to decide whether to side with Lily and the Heretics or with Damon, the season’s Big Bad will be the 6 Heretics who can do magic and are vampires, learning how Mystic Falls became a polluted, run-down mess, the introduction of the show’s first same-sex couple; heretics Nora and Mary-Louise, extremely powerful women and fiercely protective of each other a third heretic named Valerie, who won’t have a peaceful approach to change and a Bonnie and Damon friendship.
With Damon I really hope he will be more like he used to be because I enjoyed how he was in Season 1 and loved all the terrible things he did and said to others. As for Stefan and Caroline I don’t mind the idea of them being together I’m just getting annoyed by how it’s taken so long for them to get together. Hopefully Enzo will be more interesting this season since he hasn’t really done much since the end of Season 5. His whole thing with Sarah was annoying and didn’t lead to much of anything. It will be nice to see more of a Damon and Bonnie friendship. The two things I’m most interested to see is what the new Heretic characters are like and what happened to Mystic Falls in the flash forward.
While I do believe they have enough plot to make a pretty good season what will they do after Season 7. The only thing I’d be interested in seeing is time jumps each season and having the last episode being the return of Elena. Maybe the jump between seasons can be 15 years and by the start of Season 11, 60 years would have gone by. Then at the end of the third-to-last episode of the season Bonnie could die and Elena would return for a 2 hour series finale. So in my scenario the show could go on for 5 more seasons but most likely due to the ratings the show will end after Season 7. All I can ask for at this point though is that the show has a decent ending.
Tune in to the premiere of Season 7 Thursday, October 8th at 8pm.
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