The third season of "The Vampire Diaries" was marked by the fact that the show finally took shape as an independent artistic unit: it ceased to be compared with the books and other sagas about vampires. Ratings, however, since the pilot continued to fall. The series took a new challenge and persevered.

A sudden twist

At the end of the second, "The Vampire Diaries" were faced with the fact of falling ratings. The authors of the series took another strategic decision that develop the story linearly, as in the book, there is no way. Kinoformat demanded sharp twists, unexpected events and an abundance of dramatic moments. That is why in the third season of the history of ancient vampires intervened, of which the books are not so many references.

On a recurring role in the project he was invited by Joseph Morgan, who played in the second season clever and cunning Klaus, one of the first vampires on earth. The series appears as Elijah (Daniel Gillies) - one of the most controversial immortals meet characters of the series. To help Katherine (Nina Dobrev) to impersonate a female guile sent sister Claus Rebecca (Claire Holt).

Truth and fiction

The third season immerses viewers in the history of Catherine and vampire clan. Here creators can afford to make an assumption: according to the novel character Catherine comes from a German noble family, but in the series, she is born and grows up in Bulgaria. This assumption made by the authors of the project for Nina Dobrev. The actress was born in Bulgaria, but together with his parents at an early age moved to Canada. Catherine practically repeats its fate. This game fans of the series canon leaves room for imagination and definitely declares that the series and the book saga finally in different directions.

The first series of the third season is consonant with the pilot, these coincidences, too, are not random: in the plans of the creators of the series was to show that they are ready to start all over again and start up the story for another path, to see what happens. This tactic has been chosen in order to keep and strengthen the position of the ratings.

Season was special. He just looked like a smaller adaptation of the novel, and above all independent history. Love triangle Elena, Damon and Stefan diluted even more third-party actors. Its development was the story of Tyler and Caroline, went to a separate time and Bonnie additional intrigue associated with Klaus and Elijah was the basis of the main confrontation of the season. Again, the authors of the project was able to guess what the audience will like them - the decline has slowed down in the rankings. The series was extended for one more season.

Together again

Despite the interesting secondary characters, the plot of the relationship were Elena and the Salvatore brothers. The third season in this plan as a turning - the first time Elena seriously reacted to the possibility to refuse to choose Stefan and Damon. The interest in such developments fueled the actors playing the characters: directly during the show season Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder have become quite often appear together at social events, neither confirming nor denying the information that they are together.

The intense finale just glowed degree of curiosity of viewers who find something romantic in office romances, especially when it comes to romance actors performing the role of lovers. For the passion on screen and off screen Nina Dobrev won a "People's Choice 2011", received a well-deserved, because the third season could fully play twins Katherine and Elena, to play not just because of the different make-up and clothes, but also the voice and body.

The ratings of the third season of the series provided an extension for another year, but, in many ways, this is due to the fact that "The Vampire Diaries" was one of the most successful projects of CW, while other new items can not reach even half this good result. Obviously, all this time, the show kept afloat only by its creators rapid response to the need to make adjustments to the plot and thought-out strategy to attract an audience, and not the high artistic value of the series.

Anna Chizh

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