Nina Dobrev Shows Her Fangs for the Last Time
May 18, 2015
Elena Gilbert is gone. She’s not coming back… for a seventh season.
After six seasons on The Vampire Diaries, she’s just leaving without warning.
Nina Dobrev who plays Gilbert has been on the show since the pilot, when she was 20 years old. Dobrev is now 26 and said in an Instagram post, “I always knew that I wanted Elena’s story to be a six season adventure.” Well, Nina you got your wish.
Many fans don’t feel that the excuse Dobrev gave for leaving was valid. Frankly, neither do I.
It is a known fact that Dobrev dated her Vampire Diaries co-star Ian Somerhalder for three years, and they broke up when Dobrev wasn’t quite ready to get serious and settle down. There’s a ten year difference between the two, so you can’t really blame them for being at different points in their lives.
When the couple broke up, they said that they were going to remain close friends and continue their professional relationship on the show.
Somerhalder then started dating Dobrev’s best friend Nikki Reed (awkward), and that friendly relationship started to get a little harder to maintain.
The pair’s winter engagement put Dobrev over the edge.
Senior Megan Peters has watched The Vampire Diaries since it first aired, and she had a few choice words for why the star was leaving.
“Nina’s a bad liar. There was no way for her to know when she got the part of Elena six years ago that it was only going to last for six seasons,” said Peters. “How did she even know that it was going to make it that far? The fact that it is coincidentally right after Ian’s proposal makes me think it’s not actually a coincidence.”
Is Dobrev able to tell the future? Maybe she has a crystal ball. I guess fans will never know.
Fans of the show including myself are wondering what the future is for The Vampire Diaries. Can you really continue the show when the main girl is just gone?
All six seasons have been about Elena. Let’s save her. What’s Elena going to do next? Are you team Delena or team Stelena? I mean this girl has been rescued and talked about more times than can be counted.
Senior Lynn Trumpower, who has also watched the show since it aired, has her own theory of the future of the show.
“I think it will be hard to keep the story and the fans once Nina leaves because the love triangle between her and the Salvatore brothers is the main focus of the show,” said Trumpower. “I hope there is only one more season of The Vampire Diaries though because I believe the story has run its course and should be wrapped up, not dragged on until it loses all of its viewers.”
The ending of the sixth season, which aired Thursday, May 14, was a sad moment. Not only do fans have to wait until October for the seventh season to start, but the plot of the show is going to take a serious twist that no one will see coming.
