Damon and Elena

9) Damon gives Elena a rose

Episode: “Under Control” – 1 X 18

Setting the scene: Damon and Elena are at a Founder’s 日 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 下一个 to one another at the bar. But Damon is 更多 concerned about Elena’s brother, Jeremy, who has been asking 问题 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 电视 is that eternal 问题 更多 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...