With the main romance all gone in the American supernatural TV series “The Vampire Diaries,” following the departure of Nina Dobrev’s Elena Gilbert character during the Season 6 finale, actor Ian Somerhalder, who plays Damon Salvatore in the show, says that fans should expect a volatile and sexy series when it returns on The CW network this fall for its Season 7.
The 36-year-old actor, in a recent interview, disclosed that Season 7 of “The Vampire Diaries” will revisit elements from Season 1 and Season 2, which were the years when fans really fell in love with the show.
He added that Season 7 will be hot and intense and it will feature all the stuff that viewers have fell in love with in “The Vampire Diaries.”
Somerhalder said that he has enjoyed watching the first two seasons of the show with his co-star Paul Wesley. He explained that the plotlines of the episodes then were dark but it was awesome.
He narrated that he watched the episode where Damon turns Vicki and they were dancing around in their underwear. Ian told Paul that this should be happening because this is real. Somerhalder referred to it as an amazing piece of television and he wants to get back to that.
When asked during an interview early this month about what is going to happen to the cast of the show without Elena, Ian said that they hope that the show is going to go back to what originally made people fall in love with “The Vampire Diaries.”
He reiterated that the upcoming seventh season of the show will look to encompass the things that were prevalent in the first two seasons, including being dark, sexy, volatile and unpredictable.
Dramatically different
With Elena Gilbert already out of the series, the entire premise of Season 7 of “The Vampire Diaries” will be dramatically different. Without Nina Dobrev’s character, the show will finally find its true identity which is about friendships and the craziness of being a vampire in Mystic Falls.
The title of the show was meant to be that way in the first place but with the love triangle and the romances being highlighted all the more in the series’ past two seasons, it has wandered off course.
While the show creators and the production team may still be thinking of how the series can thrive for its Season 7, the upcoming season will also be a test case if “The Vampire Diaries” can continue to hold its own without Nina Dobrev in it or whether it can go back to its initial premise and make good of it.
Ending the series
In any case, the creators of the “The Vampire Diaries” should consider ending the series on Season 7 in order to wrap it on a high note because further pressing it would make them appear as trying too hard to continue something that is no longer worth continuing.
The Season 6 finale already gave fans a preview of what’s in store for Mystic Falls come Season 7. There will be a time jump and the town will be torn apart by the heretics that also came during Season 6.