There was one particular Damon moment that backfired on the writers.
Every story needs a good villain.
What does Damon want?'
Nina Dobrev as Katherine Pierce on ‘The Vampire Diaries.'.The CW
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“We can’t have a lovable villain,” says Williamson.
But the fan response was not what Plec and Williamson had intended.
“They [were like], ‘Poor Damon, poor Damon, he’s so misunderstood!
He just loves Elena so much,'” Plec recalls.
“We were aghast.
We were like, ‘What have we wrought?
We have basically accidentally created the poster couple for toxic masculinity.’
The women loved him and we couldn’t understand it at all.
That was a moment.”
Thankfully, Damon wasn’t the show’s only villain by that point.
“That set the standard forVampire Diaries,” Plec says of the season 1 finale twist.
We can never let our audience down with a finale.
There were some that were better than others, but we took our finales seriously."
And to think, it wasn’t always the plan for Dobrev to play both characters.
“In the books, they called it a striking resemblance.
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