Vampire Diaries Producers Talk Season 4 and 5 of the Show and The Originals

Julie Plec dished out details about The Originals pilot, which airs Thursday on the CW, to BuzzFeed.

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1. “We shot 75% of the show in the French Quarter of New Orleans and took almost our entire Vampire Diaries crew on location so they wouldn’t miss out on the experience.”
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The Vampire Diaries writer and producer Caroline Dries, chatted with FearNet about what to expect for the rest of this season of the show and gives us a preview of season five. She also talks The Originals.

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What can we expect for the rest of the season?

They are filming the finale right now, that Julie [Plec] and I wrote. We are proud of the fact that… the first few episodes of the season – 401, 402 – all the mythology we started the show with, the massacres and the hunters – the chickens come home to roost in the finale. Everything we’ve been building towards happens as the students are graduating high school. It feels like a huge payoff. So things should feel surprising, but at the same time, we have really set them up.

We get to look forward to our gang graduating high school. We get to unfold the different layers of Silas as we get to know him better as the villain. There are some huge surprises with Bonnie and her magic that will shake us to our core, I think. We saw how Katherine and Elijah’s relationship kind of came out of left field, and yet made perfect sense – at least to me. We get to see that [relationship] evolve a little more and learn more of Katherine’s story. Then there is Elena, who we saw at prom as this heartless bitch who tried to kill her best friend. The boys need to put a stop to it because Elena is becoming her own worst nightmare. Elena has become the villain of the season at this point. So the Salvatores have to test their own limits with Elena, and do everything in their power to make her turn her emotions back on. It puts a huge strain on them because this is the woman they both love. How do you make her turn her emotions back on?