The Vampire Diaries (Season One)

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## Season One

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The first season of *The Vampire Diaries* began airing in the United States on Thursday, September 10, 2009. It is a TV adaption of L.J. Smith's series of young adult novels of the same name. There was one week break in October, then two months break from November 19 to January 21. After that, there was a break from February 11 to March 25.

## Season Summary

Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents, 17-year-olds Elena and Alex Gilbert and their 15-year-old brother, Jeremy, are still adjusting to their new reality. Elena and Alexandria had always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now they finds themselves struggling to hide their grief from the world. Elena, Alex, and Jeremy are now living with their cool-but-overwhelmed Aunt Jenna, who is doing her best to be a surrogate parent.

Elena and Alex manages to find some comfort with their familiar social circle – best friend Bonnie, frenemy Caroline, and Alex's former boyfriend Matt, but Jeremy is on a more dangerous path, hanging out with the stoners and using drugs to hide his pain. Jeremy is also trying to figure out why Matt's sister, Vicki, is suddenly rejecting him and hanging out with Jeremy's rival, Tyler.

As the school year begins at Mystic Falls High School; Elena, Alex, and their friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore. Stefan and Alex are immediately drawn to one another, although Alex is puzzled by Stefan's increasingly bizarre behavior when he appears suddenly at the cemetery where her parents are buried. What she doesn't realize is that Stefan is hiding a dark, deadly secret of his own – the fact that he's a 161 year old vampire. At a bonfire party the next night, Alex and Stefan are just getting to know each other when chaos erupts after Vicki is attacked and left bleeding from a savage bite to the neck.

Fearing that he knows who is responsible for the attack, Stefan returns home and finds his older brother, Damon, whom he hasn't seen for 15 years. Damon is also a vampire, and the two brothers have a long and bitter history. Damon ridicules Stefan for rejecting their legacy of violence and brutality, but he understands his brother's obsession with Elena and Alex, since they look exactly like a woman Stefan loved more than a century ago; a woman that Damon tried to make his own. Now these two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at war for Elena and Alex's souls and for the souls of their friends, family and all the residents of Mystic Falls, Virginia.

Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from Alloy Entertainment and Bonanza Productions Inc in association with Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive producers Kevin Williamson ("Scream," "Dawson's Creek"), Julie Plec ("Kyle XY," "Wasteland"), Leslie Morgenstein ("Gossip Girl," "Private") and Bob Levy ("Gossip Girl," "Privileged").

## Chapters

### Chapter One

* Chapter I: **The** **Vicki Chapter: (Ep. 101 - 107)**This chapter deals with the return of Damon Salvatore and his shady influence over the events in the town and most particularly on Vicki Donovan. Stefan wants to get to know Elena and Alex Gilbert, who look identical to the vampire he and his brother loved in 1864. As Damon wreaks havoc in town, he turns Vicki into a vampire. As she was about to kill Jeremy, Elena, and Alex; Stefan stakes her in front of them. Damon offers to compel away the memories of Vicki's death from Jeremy, which gives Stefan hope for his brother.
	+ The main antagonist of this chapter is Damon Salvatore.

### Chapter Two

* Chapter II: **The Tomb Chapter: (Ep. 108 - 114)**This chapter deals with the aftermath of Vicki's death and the revelation of Damon's master plan: opening the tomb of vampires underneath Fell's Church to release Katherine Pierce. Despite Annabelle, daughter of the Tomb vampire Pearl, and her plans to open the tomb, Damon succeeds with Stefan, Elena, Alex, Bonnie, and Grams' help to get in and out of the tomb before the barriers went back up. Shocked Katherine was never in the tomb, Damon is heartbroken as Grams dies from using to much power for the spell, which brought down the barrier in full, allowing the Tomb Vampires to escape.
	+ The main antagonists of this chapter are Damon Salvatore and Annabelle.

### Chapter Three

* Chapter III: **The Lineage Chapter: (Ep. 115 - 122)**This chapter deals with the aftermath of the opening of the tomb, the release of the tomb vampires and Elena and Alex's true parentage. John Gilbert is in town to get rid of the tomb vampires at the Founder's Day celebration with the Gilbert Device, a weapon to immobilize vampires through pain from their heightened hearing. After confirming he is Elena and Alex's father, John later at the Gilbert House tries to explain his motives, only for Katherine, posing as Elena, to cut his fingers off, removing his Gilbert Ring, and she stabs John, just as Elena walks inside of the house.
	+ The main antagonists of this chapter are John Gilbert, Isobel Flemming, and Katherine Pierce.

## Antagonists

*Main Article: Antagonists in Season One*

## Characters

### Main Cast

* Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert / Alexandria Gilbert / Katherine Pierce
* Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
* Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
* Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
* Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
* Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
* Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers
* Katerina Graham as Bonnie Bennett
* Jensen Ackles as Alaric Saltzman
* Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood
* Kayla Ewell as Vicki Donovan

### Supporting Cast

* Malese Jow as Anna
* Marguerite MacIntyre as Liz Forbes
* Rob Pralgo as Mayor Richard Lockwood
* Kelly Hu as Pearl
* Jasmine Guy as Sheila Bennett
* David Anders as John Gilbert
* Sterling Sulieman as Harper
* Chris Johnson as Logan Fell
* Susan Walters as Carol Lockwood
* Mia Kirshner as Isobel Flemming
* Chris William Martin as Zach Salvatore
* Melinda Clarke as Kelly Donovan
* Bianca Lawson as Emily Bennett
* Benjamin Ayres as William Tanner
* Sean Faris as Ben McKittrick
* Unknown / Dillon Casey as Noah

### Guest Cast

* James Remar as Giuseppe Salvatore
* Stephen Martines as Frederick
* Joe Knezevich as Johnathan Gilbert
* Justin Smith as Duke
* Jeni Perillo as Bethanne
* Jasmine Burke as Birdy Mae
* Arielle Kebbel as Lexi Branson
* Gina Torres as Bree
* Brandon Quinn as Lee
* Amanda Detmer as Trudie Peterson
* Terri James as Nurse Haynes
* Ric Reitz as Barnette Lockwood
* Evan Gamble as Henry
* Brian Ames as Billy
* Mike Erwin as Charlie

## Cast

* This season has ten series regulars since it started. Stefan and Damon are the only main characters to appear in every episode of the series to date.
* Vicki Donovan (Kayla Ewell) is the first major character to be killed on the show. She departs the cast in the seventh episode of the season, *Haunted*.
* In an interview Kayla Ewell talked about a possible return for Vicki. She stated that Vicki's death was something that needed to happen in order for Jeremy to go through a transformation and that *"Anything can happen on a vampire show. Dying doesn't necessarily mean that someone's gone forever."*. In another interview she stated that she´s still under contract, but executive producer Kevin Williamson stated in another that they have no plans to bring her back.

## Notes

* The CW has formally picked up nine more episodes for *The Vampire Diaries'* first season, taking it to a full season of 22 episodes.
* During the Season, several characters discovered the secret of the Salvatore brothers:
	+ Alex found out that Stefan and Damon are vampires in episode 5 *You're Undead To Me*.
	+ Elena found out that Stefan and Damon are vampires from Alex in episode 7 *Haunted*.
	+ Bonnie found out in episode 9 *History Repeating*.
	+ Caroline found out in episode 3 *Friday Night Bites*, but then is compelled to forget.
	+ Vicki found out and was turned into a vampire in episode 6 *Lost Girls*.
	+ Jeremy found out in episode 18 *Under Control.*
	+ Alaric already knew.
	+ Paralleling the 1st book in the trilogy, Damon is the main antagonist during this season.
* This season is very loosely based on *The Awakening* and *The Struggle*.
* The CW announced an early renewal for Season Two of *The Vampire Diaries* on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, along with 5 other popular CW TV shows.