The Vampire Diaries

The new fall TV shows are starting this week! After three long months of waiting, I get to look forward to Mondays for Castle and Thursdays for The Vampire Diaries and The Big Bang Theory. I will miss my friends LOST and 24 this season. Farewell old friends...

The first one up is The Vampire Diaries. This series is based on some books about vampires! Yes, what a unique concept! Seriously, I think they took the main characters names and dumped the rest of the books. I read the first three books and, other than those character names, NOTHING is the same. Usually that is a bad thing. In this case it is SO much better.

So, let's enter the world where two brothers are growing up during the Civil War. In their little town, Mystic Falls, there is a vampire problem. The town fathers are aware of said problem and are sharpening their stakes. Unfortunately for the totally hot brothers, Stefan and Damon, they are in love with one of those vamps and her name is Katherine. It is unfortunate for several reasons. First, they both love the same girl and she doesn't seem to mind sharing. Second, she is being hunted by their dad. Finally, they have some of her blood in them when they die trying to help Katherine escape. In The Vampire Diaries' canon, you become a vampire if you drink the blood of a vampire, die and then feed on a human. The brothers wake up really thirsty and decide to just die instead of completing the transformation. Well, that was the plan anyway. Apparenatly, that thirst thing is powerful! There you go...a full season of backstory!

Fast forward to present day and Stefan moves back to Mystic Falls and meets Elena. She is a really beautiful high school girl who tragically lost her parents in a car accident that she alone survived. Stefan is immediately draw to Elena. Why? Well, she is Katherine's doppelganger. The difference is that Elena is good where Katherine was/is bad. Of course, he falls in love with her and she falls in love with him. Enter Damon...the bad boy brother. He is intrigued by Elena but he wants Katherine and he thinks he knows how to get her back. Seems that she and a bunch of other vamps were locked inside the town church and burned right after Stefan and Damon met their fate. What the town fathers in Civil War days didn't know was that a witch put a spell on the church and the vampire were saved. Actually, they were sorta sealed under the church. Being the undead, they grew weak without blood to drink and went into "vampire comas". Damon thinks he can unlock the curse placed on them by the witch and get his beloved Katherine back.

Now, I don't want to give you all of season one...watch it for yourself. Let's just say it is a lot of angst with Elena and the two brothers who happen to be vampires. Oh...they can also walk in the sun with their bewitched rings. Oh...AND Elena's best friend is a witch and one of her teachers is a slayers of sorts. Everyday stuff.

One of the things that season one leads up to is the falling in love of Stefan and Elena. Here is the scene it all leads up to. Please be aware I would call this PG-13 even though it comes on regular TV at 8 p.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7AzaRBqFx0

Too bad for Stefan, he had never told Elena that she looked just like Katherine. She knew he had loved Katherine and she was responsible for turning him, but he had left out that little part about them practically being twins! That doesn't turn out well for him...take a look...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC56neUmLLE&feature=related

Never fear, these two love birds seem to work things out. However, Elena is drawn also to Stefan's bad boy brother, Damon. I think any woman who is breathing can see why. In the following scene, Stefan is suppose to escort Elena in the Miss Mystic Falls (or something) dance and he has fallen off the wagon (back on human blood) and doesn't show up. In steps Damon. Take a look...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VozqaKUcbU

They ended last season with the following scene. Some things you need to know. The boy that crawls into bed is her brother. He has just drank a vile of vampire blood and OD'd on pills to turn himself into a vampire. The guy in the kitchen is Elena's dad who she thought was her uncle until just an episode or two before. Isobel that he talks about is Elena's real mother who, as fate would have it, was turned into a vampire by Damon and was, at one time, the wife of her teacher who is the slayer. Whew! OK...so here is the final scene of last season...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q83dbHGTKA


It's been a LONG three months!