Enzo's new status: Ghost villain
So how much damage can Enzo really inflict on Damon and Stefan from the Other Side as revenge for killing his love Maggie back in the '60s? A lot more than you might expect.
So how much damage can Enzo really inflict on Damon and Stefan from the Other Side as revenge for killing his love Maggie back in the '60s? A lot more than you might expect.
"You just wait. Just wait and see," Dries says excitedly. "He can do a lot from the Other Side. He's determined to make Damon's life and Stefan's life a living hell. We realize how and why he's able to do that, and it's because all the turmoil on the Other Side is giving him more liberties than other ghosts have had. So his story isn't just about him being the villain but it's also about us getting a new set of eyes into this world, the Other Side world."
Sorry, but more big deaths are coming
Enzo's death won't be the only major one before this season is over. Dries was able to think of three ( three!) major deaths that will happen in the next few episodes, and she says they are permanent deaths. Gulp. Of course, she wouldn't say who was going to die, so start preparing for the worst.
Stefan's big secret
Since Stefan is the one responsible for Enzo's death (even though it was clearly suicide on Enzo's part as the first step of his revenge plan: Get Stefan and Damon to turn on each other), he's going to do everything in his power to keep that and Enzo's death a secret from his brother. He also enlisted the help of Bonnie and Elena in lying to Damon about his BFF's fate. So how will Damon react when he finds out how deep this betrayal goes?
"Well he's definitely not very happy," Somerhalder says. "I think Enzo would have done the same thing. I guess it's the same trajectory and the same sensibility that Damon went through with Katherine, that deep, deep, deep love. It's a delicate thing because Damon knows how volatile he is."
Delena's future
After Damon and Elena's emotional breakup, where is this clearly-still-in-love couple going to go next?
After Damon and Elena's emotional breakup, where is this clearly-still-in-love couple going to go next?
"One of the best scenes from two episodes ago was when Damon said, 'I don't even want to look at you, I don't want to hear your voice and I definitely don't want to be your friend.' That was just so heartbreaking," Dries says. "So as writers, we wanted to see if we could do a whole episode where Damon actually doesn't look at Elena. They do interact when he's rescuing them from Scull bar but they don't actually have a scene together. I love the moment where Damon brings Elena home and puts her in bed and then disappears before she opens her eyes. I thought that was cool because it was, in a way, keeping his promise."
Damon won't be able to keep that up going forward, however. "In the next episode, we'll purposefully throw them in a world together where they can't help but literally be on top of each other, a cabin in the woods story," Dries says. "They can't be away from each other, they can't be close to each other, so we're playing into the drama of that now, this weird purgatory in their relationship. How will they act when they can't escape each other?"
Somerhalder loves the "push and pull" of Elena and Damon's relationship and how it translates onscreen. "It really does make a dynamic component to their relationship. It creates tension, it creates chemistry, all this cool stuff," Somerhalder says. "It's pretty evident and it's there to stay for a while. It's always uncomfortable when you watch it. Like someone running their hands on a chalkboard."
Dries agrees, adding that the writers love being able to play around with that. "Every time one of them is in a room with the other, they don't even have to say anything but the tension or chemistry exists," Dries says. "That's what makes them as a couple so powerful. Even if the storyline is them not dating, it's actually still a love story."
The Travelers' agenda
The two major issues going on now -- the Other Side disintegrating and the Travelers' ultimate goal -- are two separate storylines that don't really coincide with each other. "They're two separate things. If we were slightly more clever we would have found a way to make it all happen together," Dries says with a laugh. "What we're trying to do is give the Traveler's the simplest goal in the world. They just want a place to call home. They're not trying to be bad guys about it but here's what they have to do."
Dries elaborates, "We always get criticized for being so confusing with all this mythology so we tried to make it as simple as possible without all of these rules. The Other Side component is really more our desire to get rid of the Other Side. We want it so that moving forward, when characters do die, it's death. Dead is dead."
So what exactly is the spell that the Travelers are trying to do? "It literally undoes magic," Dries explains. "Like what we saw with Sloane, it strips away her vampirism and leaves her in the state she was before she was a vampire and that state was dead."
"Which is a bummer because she was hot," Somerhalder interjects.
"So if you were to do that to Damon, the same thing would happen," Dries continues. "If they can do this globally, then will it get rid of all the vampires? That's the threat. They care less about vampires and more about undoing the curse that was put on them."
Of course, if the Travelers succeed, then bye-bye everyone on "TVD," right? "It's an unintended consequence, and very welcomed by them," Somerhalder says. "That's one of the biggest bases of the audacity of life. Everything needs a place to live, whether you're coral or a squirrel or you're a person. That need or desire is more powerful than anything other than to survive. So they're determined. There are some really cool scenes coming up with lots of Travelers where you're almost sympathetic for them."
And another unintended consequence is that if the Travelers succeed, all the Passengers they've been putting into innocent people will also die, but according to Dries, that's worth it to the Travelers if they can finally get a place to call home.
Tyler's predicament
Tyler's starring in his own version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" at the moment, with a Passenger riding in his noggin permanently, and the writers are excited to give him a story that doesn't revolve around a relationship.
Damon won't be able to keep that up going forward, however. "In the next episode, we'll purposefully throw them in a world together where they can't help but literally be on top of each other, a cabin in the woods story," Dries says. "They can't be away from each other, they can't be close to each other, so we're playing into the drama of that now, this weird purgatory in their relationship. How will they act when they can't escape each other?"
Somerhalder loves the "push and pull" of Elena and Damon's relationship and how it translates onscreen. "It really does make a dynamic component to their relationship. It creates tension, it creates chemistry, all this cool stuff," Somerhalder says. "It's pretty evident and it's there to stay for a while. It's always uncomfortable when you watch it. Like someone running their hands on a chalkboard."
Dries agrees, adding that the writers love being able to play around with that. "Every time one of them is in a room with the other, they don't even have to say anything but the tension or chemistry exists," Dries says. "That's what makes them as a couple so powerful. Even if the storyline is them not dating, it's actually still a love story."
The Travelers' agenda
The two major issues going on now -- the Other Side disintegrating and the Travelers' ultimate goal -- are two separate storylines that don't really coincide with each other. "They're two separate things. If we were slightly more clever we would have found a way to make it all happen together," Dries says with a laugh. "What we're trying to do is give the Traveler's the simplest goal in the world. They just want a place to call home. They're not trying to be bad guys about it but here's what they have to do."
Dries elaborates, "We always get criticized for being so confusing with all this mythology so we tried to make it as simple as possible without all of these rules. The Other Side component is really more our desire to get rid of the Other Side. We want it so that moving forward, when characters do die, it's death. Dead is dead."
So what exactly is the spell that the Travelers are trying to do? "It literally undoes magic," Dries explains. "Like what we saw with Sloane, it strips away her vampirism and leaves her in the state she was before she was a vampire and that state was dead."
"Which is a bummer because she was hot," Somerhalder interjects.
"So if you were to do that to Damon, the same thing would happen," Dries continues. "If they can do this globally, then will it get rid of all the vampires? That's the threat. They care less about vampires and more about undoing the curse that was put on them."
Of course, if the Travelers succeed, then bye-bye everyone on "TVD," right? "It's an unintended consequence, and very welcomed by them," Somerhalder says. "That's one of the biggest bases of the audacity of life. Everything needs a place to live, whether you're coral or a squirrel or you're a person. That need or desire is more powerful than anything other than to survive. So they're determined. There are some really cool scenes coming up with lots of Travelers where you're almost sympathetic for them."
And another unintended consequence is that if the Travelers succeed, all the Passengers they've been putting into innocent people will also die, but according to Dries, that's worth it to the Travelers if they can finally get a place to call home.
Tyler's predicament
Tyler's starring in his own version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" at the moment, with a Passenger riding in his noggin permanently, and the writers are excited to give him a story that doesn't revolve around a relationship.
"We were like, 'Let's have what happened to Katherine happen to Tyler and make the drama of that, because there's no getting out,'" Dries says. "That knife is gone so he's stuck. We wanted to play that out and give it its due as a full arc. You'll see what happens in the finale. It reaches a climax."
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