The series "The Vampire Diaries" was released on the American channel CW in 2009, when the craze sagas of supernatural beings is gaining momentum. Today, viewers easily get confused when choosing a fantasy drama Evening: airtime flooded werewolves, vampires and witches, in the highly competitive television series creators have to work hard to stand out in this variety.

The girl and two vampire

"The Vampire Diaries" based on the book series of the same name, written by Lisa Jane Smith. Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec chose these stories to the script of his serial dramas, however, soon became the story of the series is strikingly different from the printed version, so hardly "Vampire Diaries" can be called a full screen version.

The action of the series takes place in the fictional town of Mystic Falls, Virginia, which just draws supernatural beings from all over America. Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) after the tragic death of one parent is with his younger brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) in their old house, she has to cope with the loss of loved ones and mature. At school, she meets with Stefan (Paul Wesley), which immediately imbued with sympathy. Stefan tells her that he has returned to Mystic Falls to live in a mansion that once belonged to his relatives. After it moved to the city and Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) - brother Stephen and his eternal rival in a romantic relationship with women.

Soon Elena finds out that ancient vampire Salvatore brothers are accustomed to conceal the true nature of people. She drew their attention the fact that a double Katherine Pierce: vampire once drew themselves brothers, and then vanished. My friend Helen Bonnie Bennett (Katerina Graham) discovers in himself the ability of witches. Elena is in a world awash with supernatural beings, in which it suschestovanie More recently not Veria, now surrounded by the vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and not all of them harmless.

Love triangle

The series "The Vampire Diaries" since the release was compared with the saga "Twilight", which overturned the attitude to the genre of fantasy and films for teenagers. Both projects are adaptations of popular novels for young people with a love triangle as a developing action element. "Twilight" came to the big screen, "The Vampire Diaries" were offered to viewers in a TV serial drama. Both stories are similar plot: a small town that holds many secrets about their unusual inhabitants and it is impossible from an evolutionary point of view, love the girl and a vampire.

While the crew of the "Twilight" went on ordained novels trajectory and filmed one book after another, the writers, "The Vampire Diaries" faced with the fact that the television series with the horizontal development of the plot from batch to batch is not the best option: the audience need intrigue and, preferably, in each series, not in one of the three. Thus, they are fast enough away from the transfer of the novel in the film images and began to invent their own stories, which had to audience taste. Currently, the series supports two types of narrative - the horizontal and vertical: cross-cutting theme connects all series of the season, but each of them individually tells a little story. Love triangle, however, remains the same dramatic component of the series for four seasons.

Nice to live not forbid

The fourth season of "The Vampire Diaries" was released in autumn 2012 in the new TV season. The series is one of the most popular programs on the channel CW, which provides him an extension for three years in a row. On CW this project is a real find, a channel aimed at young and female audience, it is rarely possible to compete with such giants essential as CBS, but they are in the lead in the fantasy series, and after the unexpected success of "Supernatural" set the fashion in this direction.

"The Vampire Diaries" is a beautiful not too deep drama with elements of a love story and a horror movie - a perfect combination to conquer those yet eighteen. By the third season of the authors, wishing to keep the audience interested, make darker story, adding in the course of the narrative remarks about morality and family values. A similar thing happened with the TV series "Supernatural", which is of uncomplicated story about brothers-hunters to evil turned into a drama of religion, faith and honor. "Vampire Diaries" in spite of such plot quirk continues to hold the leading position in the channel and are more likely to be renewed for a fifth season.

Anna Chizh

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