The Vampire Diary

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains some key plot details from Season 2.

When we learned that Katherine was not among those unfortunate vampire souls sealed inside the tomb, it was clear that Stefan and Damon’s complicated lover would show up on The Vampire Diaries at some point. Her sneak attack on Damon during the season finale was just the beginning. Season 2 promises to be, as the CW’s promos shout, the year of the Kat.

“We felt like it would be really cool and powerful to bring in the woman these men loved first,” says executive producer Julie Plec. “Just when you thought you were [deciding] who’s right for Elena — Damon or Stefan — you add the, well, what if Katherine doesn’t want any of that to happen?”

As a result, Nina Dobrev is pulling double duty this season, playing both good-hearted Elena and the Machiavellian Katherine with an unprecedented frequency. “It’s hard enough to play one character, much less two,” Plec says.

Katherine’s arrival is the worst-kept secret in Mystic Falls, as one by one our protagonists are first briefly duped by Elena’s doppelgänger. The effect is disorienting at first, but Plec points to subtle shifts in Dobrev’s performances that make it clear who’s back in town. “It’s all told in her big brown eyes; her portrayal of Katherine, it’s like the life, the good, the humanity has been stripped out of them. And then you add a couple of curly hair pieces and some mascara and you’re good to go,” she says.

Dobrev agrees. “It shows in the eyes, but before you get to the eyes, you’ve got to think differently. I’m not thinking the same things when I play Elena when I play Katherine.” Her different posture and wardrobe also help complete the illusion.”There’s a way that I carry myself when I put high heels on that I don’t when I’m in Converse.”

At first blush, Katherine’s master plan has an anarchical glee. “Why not go back into town and mess with your ex-boyfriend, or in this case, two of them?” Dobrev says. Eventually though, both Plec and Dobrev say that her true mission will be revealed. It promises to be a season-long journey, as Dobrev indicates that Katherine is a woman of mystery. “She’s not going to give it all up and nor does she need to because she calls the shots,” she says. “Everyone is and should be very scared of her.”

First up, the brothers Salvatore will have to deal with the most dreaded ex of all. It’s fair to say that Katherine’s presence will disturb things at the most basic character level. Everyone involved with the show talks about a subtle sibling switcheroo, personality-wise.

Stefan (Paul Wesley) remains steadfast in his love for Elena and in his antipathy for Katherine, maintaining that he never really loved her. “We get to see what I like to call Badass Stefan a little bit more, you know, he’s not going to take any s—,” Plec says. “At this point it’s not just about, ‘Oh, I love Elena and I have to be her guardian angel,’ it’s ‘Don’t mess with me and this town and these people and my girl.’ It’s a much more aggressive stance.”

Damon (Ian Somerhalder), on the other hand, is more conflicted when it comes to Katherine’s reappearance and his still-simmering passions for Elena. “The fun of Damon is that any time we see the romantic leading man shining through, inevitably he’ll do something to screw that up,” Plec says. Indeed, Damon will perform acts both noble and treacherous in the season premiere. “He’s a constant contradiction, trying to struggle against the fact that the two women that are most important in his life are causing him much grief and that his impulses are to both kiss them and kill them.”

But wait, weren’t two characters about to die in the season finale? It’s no spoiler to say that both Jeremy and Caroline find their way back from the brink of their initially life-threatening conditions. But since this is a show that defines “living” really loosely, the future is much more complicated for both of them.

After taking a vial of Anna’s blood and a fistful of pills, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) seemed poised for either death or a life of blood-sucking. “By the end of the first episode, we’ll know whether he’s a vampire or not a vampire,” Plec says. Without revealing that juicy tidbit, Jeremy will continue to struggle to fit in and find some modicum of happiness, especially in the wake of Anna’s death. “Happiness for him is always relative because it’s usually followed instantly by tragic death,” Plec says with a laugh. For now, she says, he’ll make new, unlikely friendships — with people we’ve already met.

As evidenced by her last-minute turn for the worst, Caroline (Candice Accola) has sustained serious injuries. “She’s dealing with the fact that she almost died in a car wreck, what that does to her physically and emotionally,” Plec says. “We’ll see a lot more of her trying to understand her own self and her relationship with her mother and her friends, and then watching where this fun, zippy girl, who has provided a lot of good comic relief, [goes] when she recovers.”

It’s hard being a witch on a show called The Vampire Diaries. Just ask Bonnie (Katerina Graham), whose decision in the season finale doomed many vampires to a fiery death. “Witches are always getting drawn into vampire problems,” Plec says. “I think that was a line that Gram said, and that’s going to be a lot of what Bonnie is going to have to deal with.” Her bold stance against vampires will estrange her from Elena. An added wrinkle is that Katherine will prove to be much stronger than Bonnie, whose spells won’t work when it comes to Elena’s evil twin. “It poses a lot of questions as to why it doesn’t affect her,” Dobrev says.

Then, with a sigh, Plec turns to the subject of the other worst-kept secret of Season 2: There will be a werewolf. If the plot twist sounds familiar, it’s because we’ve already seen the mythologies of both Twilight and True Blood introduce werewolves into their worlds. Plec is confident that her show will do it just as successfully, but she admits that it can be challenging to be in the wake of so many other similar narratives.

“You want to be able to follow all your creative instincts and then you have to turn it around and be like, ‘Damn it, last night’s episode of True Blood just totally did that.’” she says. “It can be frustrating as a storyteller because you actually have to adjust and reevaluate and push away from where you might naturally want to go because you’re afraid of people finding it either redundant or a rip-off.”

As a result, we will see how Tyler (Michael Trevino), transforms incrementally, starting with the most basic emotional shift stemming from his father’s surprise death. “He doesn’t understand why he’s such a d—, why he’s so angry and why he gets in fights with his friends,” Plec says. “Now on top of that, he’s a teenage boy who lost his father.”

Helping him on his journey will be his uncle Mason (Taylor Kinney), who will teach him about the Lockwood family curse. “What we’ll learn is that the werewolves work very hard to not give any details and not share anything in hopes of staying secret,” Plec says. She hints that we won’t see a full-fledged wolf for a while. Instead, in human form, they’ll take on a more gymnastic affect, unlike vampires, who tend to just zip in and out of frame.

If that sounds like a lot to handle in one hour-long show, Plec says that unlike in the first season, stories will start to merge this year. “I think you’ll find more integration between the human and the [supernatural] story lines,” she says. “I wouldn’t say that that means that everyone wakes up and knows everything about everything, but the way the characters are connected to each other will be a [supernatural] story.”

Season 2 of Vampire Diaries premieres Thursday at 8/7c on the CW.

Ready?

In the season 2 premiere, at least one major character dies. That’s all you’re getting, and it should leave you with plenty of questions.

Is it more than one person? Is the death permanent? Does the death or deaths have anything to do with the cliffhangers from last season, or was that just misdirection?

Season 1 left several characters in peril. Jeremy took an overdose of pills trying to kill himself to turn into a vampire. Caroline was seriously injured in a car accident. Jonathan was stabbed by Katherine. However, this is The Vampire Diaries, so none of those circumstances necessarily lead to death.

Read the entire article at BuddyTV.

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Finally! We get to see just a little bit of the new season here in Sweden. This webclip is from iTunes and the US fans can view a short, 30 second clip and download the full version. Unfortunately, we here in Sweden can only watch the preview. So I pulled some strings and got a friend of mine to post a YouTube version from Series News. Can't tell you enough about it and I think all Vampire Diaries fans deserve to see it, so here you have it!

Vampire Diaries scoop, please! — Micah
MICKEY: We’ll learn pretty quickly how Jeremy and Caroline fare in their stare-downs with the Grim Reaper, but the answers won’t be simple… or permanent. Also: The premiere (Thursday, 8/7c, CW) features a devastating scene between Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder. I’ll leave it up to you to guess which character Dobrev is playing in it.

Source: TV Guide

STEFAN FACES A NEW DANGER — Elena, Damon and Alaric take a road trip to Duke University and search through Isobel’s research on folklore and paranormal phenomena to see if they can uncover any clues to the mystery surrounding the Lockwood family. Isobel’s former student, Vanessa, offers to guide them through the research and ends up getting quite an education herself. Stefan comes face to face with a terrifying new danger in the woods, and Tyler makes a shocking discovery about Mason.

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The second-season premiere of The Vampire Diaries proves once again why this series is one of prime time’s more cleverly constructed, well-acted nighttime soap operas. After last season’s finger-chopping cliff-hanger, we get neck snappings, a smothering, an unlikely alliance between two warring brothers, and the line ”Kiss me or kill me!” Oh, and as Ian Somerhalder’s Damon adds, ”Doppelgänger high jinks ensue.”

He’s referring, of course, to Nina Dobrev’s Elena/Katherine, the series’ yin and yang of good and evil, purity and villainy. Dobrev has really risen to the challenge of portraying these two, managing to confuse viewers as to who’s who when Katherine wants to impersonate Elena for some mischief.

This season hauls in Taylor Kinney as Mason, the ”black sheep” brother of the late Mayor Lockwood. Mason has a nice swagger, and it looks like he’ll take up any slack that might have occurred with the death of the Mystic Falls mayor.

But the throbbing red heart of The Vampire Diaries remains the tension between Damon and Paul Wesley’s Stefan, and their mutual attraction to whomever Dobrev is embodying at the time. ”She’s Katherine! She loves to play games!” splutters Damon in the season opener. It’s not long after this that she plays a romantic game with him that will doubtless have reverberations throughout the season. As Katherine says: ”Game on.” B+

George in St. Louis: How about some Vampire Diaries scoop? You’ve been holding out on us for far too long!

Get ready for another awesome twist! I can tell you that a human you already know on the show is going to be turned into a vampire in season two. Any guesses on who? How? When? Where? Why? Don’t start thinking you have it all figured out, smarty pants! It’s gonna be pretty fantastic.

Source: Watch With Kristin via Vampire Diaries Online

Courtney Ford isn’t afraid of blood.

Ford spilled plenty of the red stuff this past season on Dexter as the Trinity Killer’s murderous daughter, now she’s joining the bloodsuckers on The Vampire Diaries as a vampire scholar.

Here’s what Courtney dished to us at Showtime’s Emmy nominee reception about her hot new TVD character, including the true nature of her “research” into the vampires of Fell’s Church. (Hint: Her character might have more on her mind than just books!)

“I play Vanessa Monroe, a Duke University grad student who’s helping Alaric (Matt Davis), Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) with Isobel’s research. It’s a really nice arc.”

Isobel, Elena’s birth mom and Alaric’s wife, was so obsessed with vampires that she persuaded Damon to turn her into one. Is Vanessa going to ask the same favor of the sexy Salvatore brother?

Not a chance, Courtney dished. “Vanessa has a conflict, because she studies all this wonderful mythology and folklore, but half of her is a complete skeptic. Half of her is a believer, and half of her is a skeptic, and she goes back and forth. It’s a big conflict for her.”

When we asked Courtney whether Vanessa would see any action in the romance department, her reaction revealed that she’s obviously hooking up with someone… but Courtney’s lips are sealed: “I want to tell you so much, but I can’t!” she said, laughing. We’re starting to believe show runner Kevin Williamson really does put the fear of death in his castmembers.

Courtney was escorted to Showtime’s pre-Emmys bash by her gorgeous husband, Brandon Routh, so we asked him whether he’d be returning to Chuck this season as Special Agent Daniel Shaw. “Not as far as I know,” he said, “but I’d love to come back!”

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THE CARNIVAL FROM HELL — When a confused and desperate Caroline (Candice Accola) leaves the hospital and joins her friends at the Mystic Falls Carnival, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) wants to take immediate action, but Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) come to Caroline’s defense. Matt (Zach Roerig) is completely mystified by Caroline’s behavior, but still tries to tell her about his feelings for her. Damon has suspicions about Tyler’s Uncle Mason (guest star Taylor Kinney) and uses Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) volatile personality in an attempt to get Mason to reveal his secret. Upset with everything going on around her, Bonnie (Katerina Graham) takes her anger out on Damon.

Steven R. McQueen also stars. John Dahl directed the episode written by Brian Young.

Source: VampireSite.net

Stefan seemed different in the Vampire Diaries finale. Where is he heading? —Katherine
MICKEY: Interestingly, it’s Katherine’s arrival that awakens something in Stefan. “He accepts that he’s a vampire more; he’s less plagued by being a victim and being run over by his brother,” Paul Wesley says. “He becomes more proactive, and he knows how to have fun sometimes.” In other words, get ready for Freaky Friday: Sibling Vampire Edition.

     

Britney in Dallas, Texas: I’m so over Stelena and Delena on The Vampire Diaries. Please tell me we will see more Dalaric!
You can rest easy because we will be seeing plenty of Damon and Alaric teaming up in season two. We asked the show’s very own Buffy (spin-off idea: Alaric The Vampire Slayer!) Matt Davis, about the unlikely duo’s partnership and here’s what he told us: “Our bromance is definitely developing. You’ll see much more of that for sure. I love Ian to pieces and I love working with him and I think our chemistry as friends and the way Kevin and Julie write the two of them together, just the archetypes of the two characters together I think fit really well.” If that wasn’t cute enough for you, Matt recently tweeted a picture of the duo’s nifty supernatural rings with the caption, “Wonder Twin power unite in shape of a bromance!!!” Um, I die.

 

As if “The Vampire Diaries”heroine Nina Dobrev didn’t have enough on her plate. Last season, her character Elena was torn between two of the hottest vampires broadcast television has ever seen.

This year, Nina’s got her own set of fangs as she gears up to bring Katherine Pierce, Elena’s evil vampire doppelganger, back to life.

We met Katherine in a series of flashbacks last year, but if the shocking Season 1 finale taught us anything, it’s that we haven’t even begun to scratch the surface of our new favorite villain. I caught up with Dobrev on the Vampire Diaries set in Atlanta and couldn’t resist gushing a bit about her performance. As sweet as she is, Nina doesn’t miss a beat playing the conniving back-stabber.

With all the attention that Katherine is getting as we gear up for Season 2, I didn’t want to forget about Elena, either. I had to ask Nina — if Damon (Ian Somerhalder) really had kissed Elena instead of Katherine, would Elena have kissed him back?

“I mean, I’m sure Elena has had dreams about Damon,” Dobrev says. “I’m not sure if she was put in the position to kiss him what she would do. I feel like she has high morals, and she loves Stefan (Paul Wesley). It’s always been Stefan.”

Don’t expect those dreams to come true any time soon, vamp fans. “I think that Elena’s feelings for Damon are still friendly,” Dobrev says. “She’s concerned about him, and she definitely cares about him, but she and Stefan have been through so much. She wants to make that work.”

Elena’s love life right now is easy compared to her family situation. The last time we saw the Gilberts, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) had swallowed a bottle of pills and a vial of blood in the hopes of becoming a vampire, and Elena’s Uncle John (David Anders) — who is also her biological dad — had met the wrong end of Katherine’s knife.

And you thought your family was crazy!

“I can’t say what happens to them,” Dobrev says, “I don’t want to ruin the fun! Things aren’t going to get any easier in Elena’s family situation, I’ll say that much.”

Stay tuned to Zap2it for much more from my set visit with Nina Dobrev and the rest of “The Vampire Diaries” cast.

Source: Zap2it

Spoiler TV confirmed episode two and three of Vampire Diaries new season are titled Brave New World and Bad Moon Rising, respectively. In fact, Michael Trevino tweeted a cool set photo of the third episode a while ago. Only 17 days till the year of the Kat starts!

     

Vampire Stalkers was on set while filming was taking place this Friday. As the crew set up at what is called the Old Lockwood Manor, we wondered how much we would see. I can tell you that they set up for what looked like a party scene. They filmed inside and outside. Beautiful lanterns and flowers along the banisters set the scene. We got really excited once they started pulling in the horse trailers. Unfortunately, it began to light and rain, so we didn’t stick it out as long as usual but we had an extra that was filming that night inside, so we still hoped for a few details.


         


You can read the rest of the article as well as Danny Craig‘s experience at Vampire Stalkers. Plus, scroll down for more photos.

KATHERINE HAS RETURNED WITH A VENGEANCE — Picking up on the same night as last season’s finale, Elena (Nina Dobrev) arrives home to a nightmare as she discovers Uncle John’s and Jeremy’s fate. At the hospital, Sheriff Forbes (guest star Marguerite MacIntyre) is comforted by Matt (Zach Roering), Bonnie (Katerina Graham) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) while she waits to hear if Caroline (Candice Accola) will survive the car accident. After a confusing conversation with Elena about the night’s events, Damon is the first to realize that Katherine (also played by Nina Dobrev) has returned. Katherine’s arrival sends Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon on a path to find out what she wants, why she’s back, and how much of a threat she is to the people they love. Meanwhile, still reeling from his father’s death, Tyler (Michael Trevino) is surprised when his charming and mysterious uncle, Mason Lockwood (guest star Taylor Kinney, “Trauma”), arrives to console the family.

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 18, 2010

Disney veteran Tiya Sircar (“The Suite Life on Deck,” “Hannah Montana”) has joined the cast of popular CW series “The Vampire Diaries” in a guest-starring role as Amiee Bradley, a high school student who becomes involved in the supernatural activities in Mystic Falls.

“It’s been so much fun working with such a great cast,” says Sircar. “I’d love to come back for more episodes, but nobody is safe in Mystic Falls! Working with the boys in this show could make a girl’s head spin. They’re all so easy on the eyes. But what’s better, they happen to be really sweet as well.”

Sircar’s potentially recurring role will debut in episode three of the upcoming second season of the series. But Sircar is no stranger to working with hunky leading men. Her role in the 2009 blockbuster “17 Again” had Sircar slapping teen sensation Zac Efron, on whom her character had a major crush. In her next big screen role in the upcoming comedy “Friends with Benefits” Sircar is working with the king of sexy himself, Justin Timberlake.

Named one of the 40 hottest South Asians in the World by Anokhi Magazine, Sircar made the 2010 Sexy & Successful List. After popping up in fashion magazines for her red carpet style, Sircar took time out of her filming schedule last summer to give fans organic and eco-friendly beauty advice as a celebrity guest editor for BeautyBlitz.

For more information on Tiya Sircar, visit http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1587188/.

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