Vampire Diaries Season 1 Script

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Therewas hope and speculation that the actress would reprise her role as Elena Gilbert for the show's series finale. Fans finally got confirmation Thursday afternoon, when Dobrev took to Instagram to post a photo of the script for season eight, episode 16, which also serves as the supernatural drama's final episode ever.

The photo only shows the cover of the script, but that still reveals a lot of information. We now know the episode's title is "I Was Feeling Epic" and that it was written by series creators Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson. Plec is also serving as the finale's director.

Fans will remember Dobrev left the series in the season six finale to pursue a film career. However, her character wasn't killed off. Rather, Elena was the victim of a curse linking her to best friend Bonnie: As long as Bonnie lived, Elena would remain in a magical coma. Damn those magical comas.

While it's now official that Elena will appear on screen, viewers will have to tune into the finale to see exactly how the series is bringing her back. Will Bonnie die? Will the episode feature a big time-jump so Bonnie can age? Will Elena appear in a dream sequence? And will Damon even still be alive to reunite with Elena?

The FOX show Raising Hope follows young father Jimmy Chance (Lucas Neff) who conceived his daughter Hope (Baylie/Rylie Cruget) in a one-night stand. The show has worked with The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy to write messages about safe sex into the script. Greg Gayne/2012 Fox Broadcasting Co. hide caption

For an egregious example of a silly product placement, look no further than the CW show The Vampire Diaries, where a character actually says "I Bing'd it" of a search online. But believe it or not, product placement can actually be serious and socially conscious.

Take the Fox comedy Raising Hope. Earlier this year, the show's main character, who'd been a teen mom, caught a high school girl in bed with her boyfriend. "I'm gonna show you where this can lead to!" she screeched. "I'm your ghost of teen pregnancy future!"

"We met with one of the writers last summer," says Marisa Nightingale, the senior adviser of its entertainment media program. "And they came up with an episode that incorporates some of what we talked about but in the very irreverent, funny tone of the show."

The campaign does not pay for placement. The nonpartisan not-for-profit works to make strategic connections with influential Hollywood gatekeepers, such as Susanne Daniels. She started working with the organization back when she was in charge of programming for the WB network. Daniels admits she was skeptical at first about letting a nonprofit work with her show runners and writers.

"There's always a hesitation of, 'Is this going to somehow tarnish the organic nature of the development,' " she says. "But that didn't happen at all. In the case of the campaign, I think it only enhanced the programming."

Daniels now sits on the campaign's board. One of her former employees, TV executive Gina Girolamo, works with the group as well. She's now in charge of more than a dozen teen-oriented shows, including Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars.

"They're on the ground in a way that none of us are," Girolamo says of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Girolamo became involved with the organization in the 1990s, when she was a young producer focus-grouping kids about TV shows.

Girolamo says this nonprofit gained traction in Hollywood not just because it's generous with its research and statistics, but also because it never, ever tries to dictate story lines or dialogue. As a result, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy has worked with hundreds of shows over the past 16 years. It helped with Glee's first-season story line about a pregnant cheerleader.

Nightingale contributed to a story line on the show Parenthood about a teenage girl's decision to have sex. She helped make sure it showed realistic conversations between parents and kids, complete with false starts and missteps. In one episode, the daughter lies to her mother about having had sex, and the mother lies about how old she was her first time. The truth comes out, in uncomfortable spurts, and it's not easy for anyone.

"Over the course of subsequent episodes they repaired their relationship, and it was very real and messy," Nightingale says. The idea was to model the kind of discussions parents and kids might have, especially ones that perhaps don't work out as well in the beginning.

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy is uniquely well organized and also uniquely positioned. You can imagine it's a lot harder for nonprofits working on poverty, or Lyme disease to integrate their messages into television programming than one that focuses on teenagers and sex.

When it comes to the gothic and horror supernatural genre, vampires have consistently been explored in both shows and movies. Over the years, there have been multiple interpretations ranging from romantic fantasies and action to comedy and supernatural horror. Among many notable entries has been the CW teen drama starring Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, and Nina Dobrev, which has earned acclaim as one of the best vampire TV shows.

However, the concept of a teen drama revolving around supernatural forces did not seem appealing to Somerhalder, who played the role of Damon Salvatore in the series, when he first received the script. The actor recalled throwing it away believing the makers were attempting to bring The Twilight Saga to the small screen.

He has featured in and produced several documentaries about climate change and regenerative agriculture, including Years of Living Dangerously, Kiss The Ground, and most recently Common Grounds, which advocates for sustainable and eco-friendly farming practices.

Laxmi Rajput is a writer at Fandomwire. She finished her Post Graduation in Broadcast Journalism and worked as a Business News writer for a year. But her interest in entertainment and pop culture compelled her to find a way towards Entertainment Journalism. She has worked across various fields and has 2 years of experience in content writing. She likes reading, music, movies, and traveling. She aspires to become a fiction writer in the future.

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