If you’re looking for details on a television show’s upcoming season, who better to talk to than the show’s writer-producers? Just before hitting the stage of The Vampire Diaries panel, Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson spent some time in the pressroom for some more intimate conversations on the show’s third season.
SPOILER ALERT: These interviews contain MAJOR season one and two spoilers.
While Plec never crosses over into spoiler territory in terms of the new material, she certainly doesn’t hold back in the least when it came to discussing what to expect come September 15th. She speaks quite a bit about Jeremy’s (Steven R. McQueen) fate, as he’s a young guy struggling with love as well as an immense amount of loss. As for Katherine (Nina Dobrev), Plec assures, “We haven’t seen the last of her.” Speaking of bad, Plec explained, when Stefan (Paul Wesley) falls off the edge “he’s pretty hardcore.” They made a conscious decision to take the character down a “dark road” and they intend to keep him on that path for quite a while. The question is, does that make Damon (Ian Somerhalder) the better brother? “By no means are they swapping personalities,” but she confirms there is a bit of a role reversal. Plec also notes the growing relationship between Caroline (Candice Accola) and Tyler (Michael Trevino). “We’ll see [if] the friendship lasts and if it stays just friends, ‘cause it’s kind of inevitable that there’s gonna be some naked action happening there eventually.”
Plec covered quite a bit, but as there wasn’t time to get through everything, our table was lucky to have Williamson sit down right after to fill in some holes. “Stefan has taken off with Klaus,” he explains. “That’s sort of the first chapter of our story,” Damon and Elena’s search for Stefan. She’s attracted to one and in love with the other, so she’s torn and even more so now than ever because of the circumstances. As for the evil portions of the show, Klaus is villain numero uno, but, “with Klaus comes a whole host of problems and people and characters.” Williamson also goes into depth about the choice to kill off Jenna. Williamson admits part of the decision stemmed from his inability to do much more with the character. “Unless I had turned her into a drunk alcoholic who’s having orgies in the bedroom at night – I’m not that fascinated by that character.” He experienced a somewhat similar issue with Kayla Ewell who played Vicki Donovan, however, as we find out at the very end of season two, her run on the show isn’t over just yet.
Check it all out for yourself in the video interviews below.
