Family Ties

9) Damon gives Elena a rose

Episode: “Under Control” – 1 X 18

Setting the scene: Damon and Elena are at a Founder’s giorno pre-party, where Stefan is drinking heavily, in an attempt to dull his hunger for human blood. Elena expresses her concerns to Damon as the two sit successivo to one another at the bar. But Damon is più concerned about Elena’s brother, Jeremy, who has been asking domande about Vicki Donovan’s death.

(Background: After Damon made Vicki into a vampire, she violently turned on Elena and Jeremy. Stefan killed Vicki to save them. Then, at Elena’s request, Damon buried...

It’s a choice that heroines in teen dramas have had to grapple with for ages: the brooding and sensitive good boy versus the unrepentant and dangerous bad one.



And nowhere on Televisione is that eternal domanda più fully explored than on the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, where good can be bad . . .



. . . and bad can be deliciously GOOD!

Unlike in other shows, where the “good guy” is so bland and boring as to make the heroine’s choice completely obvious, writers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec actually make a startlingly good case for both the “straight-laced” Stefan Salvatore, and...