The Vampire Diaries - Season 2 [US] *Spoilers*

Richard Dower

- thought i'd get in early with a bit of S2 plot/story - spoilers ahead (don't read if ya don't wanna know!):

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a231658/vampire-diaries-exec-teases-elena-plot.html#article_continue

Can Nina Dobrev get any hotter?.... ....me thinks yes....

JP Liz V1

David Anders will definitely be in the season premiere

Richard Dower

^ good work Liz!

Pjays

Any ideas as to when this will be shown in America? Will we be waiting until next year? I am addicted to the show and cannot wait for season 2!

Richard Dower

^ mid September....not too long!

Pjays

Brilliant! I can't wait to see how Stefan's character develops.

DeWitt

Are RTE or TV3 planning on airing this at all?

Richard Dower

^ no idea DeWitt....it's more of a TG4 show, imo.

S2 news: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a234923/vampire-diaries-set-will-go-green.html

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a234899/vampire-diaries-character-to-return.html#article_continue

Is Kayla Ewell coming back?....she looked super hot in her guest spot on CSI Vegas (as a showgirl).

JP Liz V1

DeWitt wrote: »

Are RTE or TV3 planning on airing this at all?

Season 1 starts on TG4 on Wednesday the 4th August at 8:30pm

Richard Dower

^ haha!...i was right when i said TG4 :-)

Richard Dower

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a238577/somerhalder-reveals-new-diaries-hopes.html

"I just don't want to be sensitive Damon anymore. I just want to get back to biting high school girls and stuff." -- LOL!, that's gas....i prefer sarky/bitey Damon as well....but loved seeing Stefan as Damon (lite).

Richard Dower

Good news about Bonnie, under used in the first series...when she came back after her grams died i noticed a character change: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a240239/diaries-graham-bonnie-gets-stronger.html

Richard Dower

Casting news, Taylor Kinney (Trauma) has been cast for S2 of TVD:

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/07/the-vampire-diaries-taylor-kinney-cast-as-mason-lockwood-damon-sinks-his-teeth-in.html

The tweenie girls will love him.

JP Liz V1

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/07/09/vampire-diaries-taylor-kinney/

Ex-Trauma EMT Taylor Kinney is joining the cast of Vampire Diaries in the recurring role of Mason Lockwood, younger brother of late Mayor Lockwood, sources confirm.
Described as Tyler’s (Michael Trevino) “cool” uncle, Mason is sexy and athletic (duh) and possesses an easygoing charm. Though he has more control than his nephew, he can “flip in an instant” if crossed.
Kinney will make his first appearance in Diaries’ second-season premiere on Sept. 9.

He is hot

Richard Dower

Lots of S2 spoilers:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a250884/diaries-katherine-is-a-game-changer.html#article_continue

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a250881/diaries-wesley-teases-transformation.html

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a250855/somerhalder-teases-new-vampire-diaries.html

JP Liz V1

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/08/03/dexter-courtney-ford-vampire-diaries/

Courtney Ford — a.k.a. Trinity’s daughter on Dexter — has landed the potentially recurring role of Vanessa, a grad student at Duke who helps Damon, Alaric, and Elena go through Isobel’s old research.
At Comic-Con last month, exec producer Kevin Williamson hinted that the character may be harboring a secret or two. “She’s not without her own intrigue,” he told me. “It’ll be a nice little part for someone. And it’s a part that could evolve into this massive story line or we could gut her like a fish.”

JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ-Q14ex1Ns

Richard Dower

^ not watching the promo **DON'T WANNA KNOW!**...but some trivia, the song in the promo?, it's Jenny from Gossip Girl!, aka Taylor Momsen' band The Pretty Reckless "Make Me Wanna Die"....right out of the Twilight school of music!

http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2010/08/19/vampire-diaries-season-2-trailer/

Yeah, i can Google...so what?

Richard Dower

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/08/19/sexy-beast-edward-cullen-damon-salvatore/

250,000 votes?....12 years olds right?, hmmm....wonder if Damon will win?

JP Liz V1

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a267353/simon-miller-joins-the-vampire-diaries.html

Simon Miller has reportedly joined the cast of The Vampire Diaries.

Zap2It says that the actor will play George Lockwood, the patriarch of the family.

He is expected to make his debut in the fourth episode of the show's new season in a flashback scene.

Filming is reportedly underway on the episode, which will introduce the Lockwood ancestors for the first time.

Rumours have also suggested that George will be forced to work with Katherine (Nina Dobrev) despite the rivalry between werewolves and vampires.

Miller has previously had guest roles in CSI: Miami and Gossip Girl.

Elmo

This looks like it could get better just saw a few minutes of season one on TG4. I have it set to series record but haven't got around to watching much more of it.

The whole teen thing is a bit off putting (especially when they are all in their 20s) and Vampires walking around during the day.

Richard Dower

^ trust me, don't play into the whole Twilight/teen thing....it's much much better then what people think. It's got tons of drama and twists....and it can be quite brutal at times.
All i say to people is....don't assume, give it a chance!

Richard Dower

HAHA!...Damon kicked that Twilight twats butt!...

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/08/26/sexy-beast-winner-cover/

Ian and TVD won!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Elmo wrote: »

This looks like it could get better just saw a few minutes of season one on TG4. I have it set to series record but haven't got around to watching much more of it.

The whole teen thing is a bit off putting (especially when they are all in their 20s) and Vampires walking around during the day.

Oh definitely give it a chance. I fully understand the doubt that people have about it, I had it myself. I only started watching it in March when I came across a clip on youtube while looking for something else. The first few episodes are the weakest of the whole first season. I saw the episode that was on last night on tg4 and next week is where it really starts to take off.
I watched the first 15 episodes back to back, the way they all end on a cliffhanger, I just couldn't stop watching, and then when I got caught up to US pace it was a killer having to wait a week between each episode.
What bits and pieces I've seen for season 2, well it looks amazing. I can't wait for next week. It's probably the only show I'm proper excited about coming back on this Autumn.
Oh and that spoiler up there about another lockwood who's forced to work with Katherine in episode 4, is good news, because I was worried that they'd only bring her in for like 2 episodes and then kill her off!! So hopefully she'll be around for most of the season

Richard Dower

I think if Nina plays Katherine quite well the character should stick around, i'm also looking forward to season 2!, i hope they got a budget increase as well, add a bit more zest!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Richard Dower wrote: »

I think if Nina plays Katherine quite well the character should stick around, i'm also looking forward to season 2!, i hope they got a budget increase as well, add a bit more zest!

I did read a thing from some guy who works for one of these tv blogs or whatever, and he's seen the first episode, and says she does an excellent job of portraying both characters, and also does a very good job of being Katherine, pretending to be Elena, and it's confusing as hell for the viewer, but in a good way
Also, that promo video up there is basically advertising it as "the year of the Kat" which would be very bad advertising if she was only going to be in a few episodes, so fingers crossed.

I don't know if they need more "zest" as you put it? They could maybe do with turning on an extra light here and there Very darkly lit show :P I can't really think of anything that's missing that would be improved with a bigger budget?

Richard Dower

That'll be the fun part!...Katherine pretending to be Elena....cause havoc!, if Nina can pull it off you could have some major twists and drama!
She had me fooled in the season 1 finale, until fingers got chopped i didn't cop it was Katherine!

By zest i mean a bit more action, like wire work and fights, add a bit of CGI, bit more "vampy"....but not too much :-)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Richard Dower wrote: »

That'll be the fun part!...Katherine pretending to be Elena....cause havoc!, if Nina can pull it off you could have some major twists and drama!
She had me fooled in the season 1 finale, until fingers got chopped i didn't cop it was Katherine!

By zest i mean a bit more action, like wire work and fights, add a bit of CGI, bit more "vampy"....but not too much :-)

Ah yes, some more fisty cuffs would be fun. I hear Bonnie will be on a mission this year, so there could be some good fights there.

I kind of had a feeling it was Katherine from the minute she was walking up to the house at the end. Just the way she looked and talked seemed different from Elena, but at the same time, the way they wrote it and the way it played out, I was kind of confused by the time the kiss happened. It was very well done by all involved. Very clever.

Richard Dower

When she kissed Damon i kinda thought...hmmm, but then they did kinda build up the potential Elena/Damon snogfest, but...Damon gave this kinda look and touched his mouth after Elena kissed him, he was a bit suspicious in retrospect.

Those last 7 episodes were fab!, i loved seeing Stefan go bad!, lusting for blood...he was well creepy with it too!
LOL!...i'm ranting like a 13-year-old girl again :-)

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Richard Dower wrote: »

When she kissed Damon i kinda thought...hmmm, but then they did kinda build up the potential Elena/Damon snogfest, but...Damon gave this kinda look and touched his mouth after Elena kissed him, he was a bit suspicious in retrospect.

Those last 7 episodes were fab!, i loved seeing Stefan go bad!, lusting for blood...he was well creepy with it too!
LOL!...i'm ranting like a 13-year-old girl again :-)

It was funny though because the scene right before the porch scene was Elena telling Stefan how much she loved him and only him. So I'm thinking, right, she clearly has no interest in Damon. Then Damon says his little speech on the porch and now I'm thinking it's not impossible that this could be Elena kissing him She did kind of snarl half way through the kiss though, so that was it then, I knew.

I'm not sure if he knows it was Katherine though. He did kind of look confused right after, but that might just have been shock at the thought that Elena kissed him? Or maybe he does know, I'm kind of leaning towards him knowing.

Bad Stefan was great to see. The episode with the pagent thing, where he took the blonde girl into the woods and he shouted at her "I'm not sad, I'M FREAKIN' HUNGRY!!!!" was hilarious!! I don't know if it was meant to be funny, but I couldn't stop laughing at it:D

I know what you mean about the "13 year old girl" thing. I do sometimes think I'm way too old for anything they show on The CW, but in fairness to this show, it's very will written and acted, so I don't feel so bad about loving it

Richard Dower

See that's what bugs me about this forum!, why i say we have tv snobs...because "it's The CW" TVD gets tainted as another Twilight....when it's not!, i mean, lost of Boardsies like Supernatural and that's on The CW. I'm not deluded to think The CW produces must see/quality tv, but a show like TVD deserves to at least be given a chance and not dismissed out of hand.

hopefully S2 will be a good as the first season, they better not screw it up!

As for Damon, i think the kiss reminded him of Katherine, but he wasn't sure...i'm glad Alaric is staying, he's a very good character, I'd like to see a female sexy vamp biting her way through men, or a succubus.

Richard Dower

Elmo wrote: »

This looks like it could get better just saw a few minutes of season one on TG4. I have it set to series record but haven't got around to watching much more of it.

The whole teen thing is a bit off putting (especially when they are all in their 20s) and Vampires walking around during the day.

The reason vamps wak around in the day was explained, they have rings which were embedded with a spell and that allows them to walk around, no tanning lotion required!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Well I have to agree that most of the shows on The CW are aimed at 13 year olds who want style over substance. Shows like Gossip Girl and 90210 are terrible. They roll out storylines over the space of a couple of weeks, then move onto the next one. They have no character building, no proper story arcs, they're just flashy clothes and hipster soundtracks.

As for the Twilight thing, the books that TVD are based on were actually written long before Twilight, so if anyones ripping anything off it's not TVD. I've never seen any of the twilight films, I saw the trailer for the first one and it just looked terrible. Although I'm sure the people at The CW who decided to run with this show were cashing in on the popularity of vampires again, which is mainly down to the success of Twilight and True Blood.

Also, the vampire stories are always the same no matter what the quality of the story is, vampire guy, human girl, fall in love, mortality issues, love triangle etc. etc. Look at True Blood, it's the same, just with nudity and swearing, and yet it's not "uncool" to watch that.


I think it's testament to TVD writers that I personally wouldn't describe it as "a show about vampires" it's much more than that. It's about the characters, and their relationships, and how they all play a part in this small town, and there just happens to be vampires in it
I also love the way the timeline is. Every episode takes up from where the last one left off, so even though we watch it over the space of 9 or so months, there's only been a few months passed on screen. There's nothing I hate more than a show that's a week per episode, and everythings rushed through, and when something major happens we're supposed to believe that it hasn't been dealt with for a week!!
Ha, now I'm proper ranting

Oh and as for the walking around in daylight thing, it's only Damon and Stefan that can do it, oh and Anna did too right? And Katherine obviously, but they all got their rings off the same witch, so yeah.... at least they don't sparkle in the sunlight.

Ooh pictures, I've seen loads of new ones... Are we allowed post pictures?

T-b0n3

Nice pictures. Does she remind anyone else of a young Sloan from Entourage? Shes cracking anyway.

Richard Dower

OMG!....only 4 days to go!!!!!!!!!!

Haha!....season 1 bloopers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj96SjfPu24

Richard Dower

So here we are folks, vampire day!...i'm expecting BIG things in terms of ratings, i predicted 4.9 million viewers + 2.6 demo in W18-34.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/09/09/cw%E2%80%99s-vampire-diaries-nikita-premiere-tonight-guess-their-ratings/62588

*this* is what i've been waiting for!, the big one, i'll say it again... i have hared pretty much every vampire related movie and tv series, but this show grabbed me!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I am so overly excited about this, I'm kind of worried about myself

Web clip for "The Return", little bit spoilery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyWrlJREnyc

Richard Dower

I haven't watched any clips or reviews or spoilers...much more entertaining that way!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Richard Dower wrote: »

I haven't watched any clips or reviews or spoilers...much more entertaining that way!

I know, but I am weak

The thing I love about this show is that even having read every possible spoiler available for the new season, I still have no idea about what's going to happen. They're very good like that, they release just enough to get you over excited, but still don't really give anything away.

Richard Dower

I wanna see Damon in more vampire romps!...you know in season 1 where he had some girls over for a "snack", haha!

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I know. As much as I liked him evolving as a character, I do kind of miss his old pervy self. Given the events of the finale and Katherine being back, hopefully he'll hang up his halo for a few episodes again. Although I have a feeling that Katherine may be the one doing the romping these days

Richard Dower

I prefer snarky evil Damon...snapping necks and biting hot chicks!
Ooh!...TVD is trending on Twitter!

[Boardsies warning - i'm going into "tween" mode today - deal with it!]

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Richard Dower wrote: »

[Boardsies warning - i'm going into "tween" mode today - deal with it!]

I second that motion

Do you watch online or download it? I know some people stay up late to watch live streams of tv shows, but I can't be bothered with that. I'd rather download a good quality version in the morning.

Richard Dower

Literally hundreads of articles on TVD S2, but i'll select a few good ones:

http://www.tvovermind.com/cable/thecw/the-vampire-diaries/vampire-diaries-top-hoping/30245

Richard Dower

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

I second that motion

Do you watch online or download it? I know some people stay up late to watch live streams of tv shows, but I can't be bothered with that. I'd rather download a good quality version in the morning.

:eek: -- ahem, ....no comment.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Richard Dower wrote: »

:eek: -- ahem, ....no comment.

Legally download of course

Richard Dower

With Katherine as Elena she could wreak havoc on Mystic Falls!...i think Bonnie might have a bigger part to play this season + i wanna see more flashbacks and backstory, like go further back....explore Katherine's story. Also there is nothing stopping them doing flashbacks to other time periods from the Salvatore's, they been around for what 150 years?

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

I think they said there's going to be 3 flashback episodes for sure, and probably a 4th.
Usually I hate shows with flashbacks, but it just works so well in this one.

The flashbacks we got in season 1 were mainly from Stefans point of view, with a bit of Damon thrown in. I'd love to see the exact same events but from Katherines point of view. See what exactly her plans were, why she played with them both, why she turned them both, why she ran off and left them.
Then there's where she's been all this time, and like you said the Salvatore brothers have been around for 150 odd years, lets's see more of that!!
Also, I think we still need to know why exactly Stefan gave up the human stuff in the first place. I don't think that was really explained.

Richard Dower

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Richard Dower

Amazing!....just wow!, gripping, action packed and twisty!...evil Damon is back!!!
I was like OMG! when Damon snapped Elena's brothers neck, one of those shocker scenes....Damon definately did NOT know he was wearing the ring, but i also don't think he realised that Anna's bloood was out of his system either.

Then the end with Katherine and Caroline....is Caroline now a vamp or has Damon's blood left her system?....we'll find out next week!
That was a fantastic opener by all accounts, i also liked it was a direct continuation of the S1 finale, no time passed, they reused and expanded on the finale scenes to open S2.

One thing i didn't like was they made it too easy to know when Katherine was Katherine, they dressed her differnent + different haistyle, i would have prefered if they played with it and the audience, not knowing who is who.

Roll on next week!


Soundtrack album coming out! http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/s62/vampire-diaries/news/a275476/vampire-diaries-announces-soundtrack.html

ITV2 will broadcast season 2 in the Autumn, i keep you updated!

Review of the first ep. http://mythbusters.tvsquad.com/2010/09/10/the-vampire-diaries-season-2-episode-1-season-premiere-reca/

Richard Dower

Episode 2 promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zmBxXQnRog