Earlier this week Nina Dobrev announced she’ll be leaving The Vampire Diaries at the end of season 6. With a seventh season in the pipeline, what’s the best way to send off Elena?
In short, there’s not one perfect answer. As many of our readers pointed out, Elena is a critical part of the show.
Our thoughts: When it comes down to it, Elena’s presence most strongly affects one other character on the show, Damon. Ultimately, the resolution has to be there for both of them in order for it to be a satisfactory ending to the entire Elena Gilbert saga. If this viewer had her way, Elena would find herself in the hands of an Original who would agree to take away any and all distinguishing characteristics of those she has been associated with. Not the memories themselves, just the ability to name them or identify them so that she won’t be fodder for anyone who might be looking for any of them in the future.
She would then make her way to some undisclosed location with the knowledge that when the time is right, Damon will come to her and they will live out the rest of their existence together. It just seems wrong to kill her off after all the trouble the Salvatore brothers have gone to in order to keep her alive all this time, but it also feels wrong to just pair Damon off with the next available lady.
However they choose to write Nina Dobrev off the show, we hope they find a way to do so that honors all the struggles this group has endured on her behalf while also helping Elena find the peace she has been looking for since her parents died.
We asked fans who follow us on Twitter and Facebook to share their ideas. Here’s what you came up with:
@Hypable they should either give her the cure so she can have real life and be compelled to forget everything/everyone or …
— InHuman (@IAMSamNH_21) April 7, 2015
@Hypable simply just kill her off the good old fashioned way
— InHuman (@IAMSamNH_21) April 7, 2015
@Hypable kill her dramatically.
— Emily Longtin (@Emily_Longtin) April 7, 2015
@Hypable do a body swap for some important doppelgänger reason
— kendravictoria (@kendravictoria) April 7, 2015
@Hypable I think she should receive the cure and then pass away. That is the only way it will be permanent in my mind.
— Mandy (@mandykdv) April 7, 2015
@Hypable They shouldn't do a season 7 without their main character and let Damon and Elena have their happiness together. THE END.
— Paige (@GalloPaige) April 7, 2015
And those were just on Twitter!
Said Erin on Facebook, “Use the vampire cure on her and erase her memory of vampires so she can go live a normal life. She was never a good vampire anyway.”
Said Sara, “Maybe they’ll kill her off violently. It’s going to be so stupid if her character just leaves- not to mention out of character for someone like Elena to up and leave her friends and go it alone. So. I hope she dies and that it’s brutal.”
Added Bill, “Have Stefan go off on her as the ripper.”
Some fans let their emotions get the best of them. “It would be perfect if they didn’t actually,” Iliana told us while seemingly feeling upset. “Maybe if she wasn’t sleeping around with Ian this would not have happened. Good riddance. She is a terrible actress anyway,” said Katherine.
How do you think Elena should exit ‘The Vampire Diaries’?
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