Collider.com caught up with Candice and some of her castmates to discuss the end of the season.
In the final episodes of Season 3 of The Vampire Diaries, things are ramping up in major ways and, as per usual with the popular show, everyone is in jeopardy. Love triangles will come to a resolution, heroes and villains will be tested, some big mythology moves will happen, and there’s likely to be tears.
During this recent interview to discuss where things are headed for the end of this season, executive producer/writer Julie Plec and co-stars Candice Accola, Michael Trevino and Zach Roerig talked about the extraordinary changes that the characters will be going through in their own emotional lives, personal lives, romantic lives and supernatural lives, along with what to expect from the finale. Julie Plec also shared that she and show co-creator Kevin Williamson already know how they would like the show to end, whenever that ends up being. Check out what they had to say after the jump, and be aware that there are some spoilers:
vampire-diaries-julie-plecQuestion: Will the Stefan-Elena-Damon love triangle be getting more intense for the rest of the season?
JULIE PLEC: Yeah, for sure. Stefan’s (Paul Wesley) whole struggle this year was him hanging on by such a very, very, very tenuous thread for the first half of the season, and then he lost his mind for a nice chunk in the middle, so he’s been terrified of opening himself back up and letting those feelings in. It’s been a slow permeation of his emotional life, over the latter section of the season. Seeing Elena (Nina Dobrev) at her most vulnerable, and needing to give her the support that she’s been trying to give him all season, he’s finally saying, “It is okay to feel. I heard you all those times, when you told me that. It’s okay to feel and it’s okay to have hope. I heard you. And now, let me give that back to you.” All of this is just illuminating for this girl, at this point in her life, with these two men who are so important to her. She has no one. She’s lost almost everyone that ever mattered to her. How do you choose, in a moment like that? The last two episodes of the season are really going to be about her really asking herself that question and trying to understand how she could possibly let one of them go, when she’s already lost so much.
With the new information that has been revealed about what’s gone on with Alaric (Matthew Davis) and his ring, what does that mean for Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen)?
PLEC: It definitely means that the stakes of death and resuscitation are possibly not as intense for Jeremy as they were Alaric because Alaric had something happening on the other side. But, there’s still always going to be a concern of consequences for cheating death, one too many times. It just might not come in the form of a Jekyll and Hyde alter-ego.
So, the ring will still be in play next season, then?
PLEC: Yeah, the ring is going to stay in play for awhile. Ultimately, it’s that coin toss of, “I can’t be in the fray, fighting the good fight, if I can be killed,” so you roll the dice.
Will there be some deaths before the end of the season?
PLEC: There are going to be a lot of people where, at one point or another, you’re not going to be sure if they’re gonna make it to Season 4.
When does a character become so essential to the show that they’re unkillable?
PLEC: No one, ever, is unkillable.
MICHAEL TREVINO: When you’re #1, 2 or 3 on the callsheet, you’re okay. I’m just saying!
PLEC: Would I be so quick to write anybody’s death sentence? No. But, you have to have the risk that somebody can never be seen again, otherwise the death doesn’t matter. Do we like telling people goodbye forever? No. As you’ve seen, we’ve emotionally found a lot of different ways in our narrative to bring people back that we love, for better or for worse. For better, for us. But, this year is not without its emotional casualties. That’s the best way to say it.
So, if no one is unkillable, does that also include Elena?
PLEC: Yeah, for sure! She’s got a Katherine and god knows how many dopplegangers out there. I’m dying to tell the Elena with angel wings story for Season 17. I can’t wait for that! We’ll see where that goes.
Will Katherine come back this season?
PLEC: You will not see hide nor hair of Katherine until Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is gone for good. His survival ties into her appearance, or lack thereof.
Could you really kill Joseph Morgan off?
PLEC: It is logistically possible, yes. It would be very traumatic, but it is possible.
How much are you thinking about what these kids’ life plans are, once they’re finished with high school? Is there a Mystic U., around the corner?
PLEC: We’re still waiting for the official word on Season 4, but we’re feeling as confident as one can feel. We’ve already started talking about Season 4, which will take us through the rest of their final year in high school. As they’re all going through some pretty extraordinary changes in their own emotional lives, personal lives, romantic lives and supernatural lives, they’re making decisions about their future and what that will bring, and all those great things leading up to graduation and the choice of whether they will stay or go. And no, there will not be a Mystic U, although that would make a great crew hoodie for Christmas. But, Grams taught at a nearby university, and Jenna (Sara Canning) was getting her Master’s degree, so there’s something out there that we’ll be introducing and seeing in Season 4.
Will there be more of the Caroline-Tyler-Klaus triangle, before the season is over?
PLEC: Big time!
TREVINO: What we’ve seen with Tyler is that he’s biting his tongue, especially with this sire bond that he has broken from Klaus. But, enough is enough. In the last two episodes, you might see him actually take some action against Klaus and not follow his orders, when it comes to Caroline.
CANDICE ACCOLA: I just love getting asked about Caroline and Klaus because, even though Caroline has made so many mistakes and put her foot in her mouth and fallen for the bad guy, this is the first time where she’s staying true to her feelings and not getting caught up in the guy with the accent. She loves her high school boyfriend. But, in high school, when someone starts putting thoughts into your head about places to travel, semesters abroad, and all these experiences you’re going to have as you grow up and grow older, it’s hard not to think about them. The only way in which she’s wooed, in any way, by Klaus is the idea that there’s another world out there. But right now, in the present, she’s fighting like hell to just have a normal relationship with her boyfriend in high school. That’s all she wants.
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