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Where did Damon's creepy black crow go?
The pilot of the series was mostly faithful to the first book. One of the big changes, however, was having Damon (Ian Somerhalder) exercise mind control over a scary crow rather than morph into it. But we haven't seen his pet in a while. Where has his feathered friend gone? Plec says the set-up gave Damon too much power too quickly. "We thought that if we're starting there, and they can do all this now, where the hell are we going to go?" she says. Also, "it felt a little comic booky and while people really enjoyed it, the same amount of people thought it was cheesy."

Why did Elena and Stefan ditch their journals?
Early on in Season 1, the show featured a lot of Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) writing in their journals. Then, suddenly, they both stopped! Plec says that's because once the two found each other, they wouldn't need to their journals to turn to. "The power of a journal is when you're lost and alone and feel like you have no one to talk to," she says. "What we have fun with is how to integrate the concept of journals -- from Alaric typing in his computer or the old John Gilbert journals that set off the mythology of the vampire device. And we still haven't laid our hands on a Lockwood journal." Plec isn't ruling out a return to written thoughts either. "There might come a time when Elena has no one to talk to and needs to go back to that journal, but right now she's got lots of people to confide in," she says.

Will Damon and Bonnie grow closer?
Vampires and witches are notoriously enemies, but in Season 2, Bonnie (Katerina Graham) and Damon eventually teamed up to fight the bigger fight. The question is whether or not they will take it a step further and develop the close bond they do in the novels. Plec understands that theirs is a relationship important to book fans, but says, for now, they'll just remain frenemies. "The fun we have with them right now is [going] from two people who have absolutely no respect, admiration or love for each other, whatsoever, but because they share a common goal and share common loves, they come together and are willing to put their differences aside and work together."

How about something new? What about giving Matt and Elena a flashback?
When Stefan entered Elena's world, she and Matt (Zach Roerig) had already broken up. Wouldn't it be interesting to see what they were like as a couple, before the Gilbert parents died and before Stefan's return to Mystic Falls? Plec says she wouldn't mind a gander, but wouldn't go back in time unless it served a significant purpose. "Emotionally, it would be amazing to show that, we just have to find the time when we also can learn something new [about them]... otherwise, it's just a little trip down memory lane. If we can find the thing that changes everything as a result of that journey then I would love to see Elena and Matt coming out of football and cheerleading practice, headed to the grill. I just think it would be adorable."

Source: TV Guide

Jim Halterman: In last night’s episode you had a reference to Twilight’s Kristen Stewart. But do you worry that putting a reference like that in the show would take fans out of the show? Or can they handle it?
Julie Plec: Look, Kevin made his mark and made his entire career by being self-referential between Scream and Dawson’s Creek and while Vampire Diaries isn’t that show it’s still fun to be able to dabble into it for kicks every now and then by mentioning Twilight. We don’t do it very often but when we do we get a little chuckle out of it.

JH: Everybody has been buzzing about casting for still-unseen-but-much-talked-about Klaus. Anything to share?
JP: Nothing to share but it’s been fun reading everyone’s casting suggestions. I think Kevin and I would feel very excited if we could discover a fresh, new face but we haven’t even started yet so it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

JH: Do we know when Klaus will finally appear on the show?
JP: No, no. The mystery of when we are going to meet him for the first time will be on-going. I think on the casting side it said a specific episode but that was just procedural. That has nothing to do with reality.

JH: So, let’s talk about next week’s episode.
JP: Tell me what you’d like to know about next week?

JH: Stefan is in the cave with Katherine. Where is that going?
JP: The two of them together have never been a good thing since Katherine came to town and it’s certainly not going to be a good thing now.

JH: I couldn’t remember – is there are barrier or something on the cave so Stefan can’t just come back out? Remind me how that works.
JP: There’s a witch spell that seals vampires in using sort of the same magic that would keep a vampire from being able to enter a house. Once in, they are stuck there until the spell is removed.

JH: Is Tyler finally going to go through ‘the change’ next week?
JP: Tyler is going through his life change, yes. That is really the point of next week’s episode – to finally put him in that situation. It’s a full moon, we’ve been building to it, he’s been terrified of it [and] last night’s episode really showed what he’s in store for and just how awful it is in fact going to be. It’s a boy-becomes-a-man story for him and it’s not fun and it’s painful and he’s really going to go through hell.

JH: And we all have reference points to having seen werewolves transform in movies and other TV shows so it was scary to see Taylor Kinney back going through that in the video Tyler and Caroline watch.
JP: Yes!

JH: So, key question, will Tyler’s shirt be off as he’s transforming?
JP: [laughs] I can promise that it will be.

JH: He’s been taking care of himself at the gym, I’ve noticed.
JP: Yes, he has! He wouldn’t dare show up to become a werewolf without hitting the gym for a few weeks before. He’s looking good.

JH: And what’s Damon’s part in next week. Is he protecting Elena?
JP: Yeah, it deals with him having to live up to his promise to make sure Elena is protected and the way he chooses to do that is kind of funny. Funny and a little bit Damon-mean as far as Elena is concerned. It gives Damon a good laugh at the way he’s able to keep Elena from getting herself into any trouble. There’s also a new character coming to town named Jules (Michaela McManus) who comes looking for her friend Mason Lockwood and when Damon catches wind of that he realizes he has a problem that needs to be dealt with because, of course, as we know, Mason Lockwood is no more so he has to put the kibosh on the search for him.

JH: Is Jules human or…do we find out?
JP: We don’t know. We’re meeting her for the first time next week so that all remains to be seen.


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