With many thanks to Warner Brothers, they’ve given fans another chance to win season 1 on dvd and blu-ray! If you’ve been to Ian Somerhalder Online, you’d know that Warner Brothers gave us some gifts to do a giveaway with. Well, they’ve also given us prizes to give away here as well! The Vampire Diaries Complete First Season was streeted on August 31st on Blu-Ray and DVD and you can get your copy now at www.thevampirediariesdvd.com !

You’ll find the rules and prizes down below.

Rules:
1. You may enter only once per household.
2. All entries must be received by September 30th at 12 am pacific standard time.
3. You must answer the question. There is no right or wrong and winners won’t be chosen based on these answers.

How the contest works.
1. Submit a email to contest@ninadobrevfan.com with your name, email address and what your favorite moment of Elena (or Katherine) was in season 1. (see really simple!)
2. On September 30, all entree names will be placed on a small piece of paper and put into a jar. My daughter will then draw three names from the jar and those will be the winners.
3. I will then contact those three people for their home addresses and ship the packages out within 3 days of getting the information.

The prizes
1st place: A copy of season 1 on blu-ray.
2nd place: A copy of season 1 on dvd plus one red hots tin that was given away at Comic-Con of this year.
3rd place: A copy of the book The Awakening by L.J Smith

“I can’t talk much about it yet,” said executive producer Julie Plec to TV Guide, “but one of the big surprises is that Katherine comes face to face with Elena.” The double role proves to be a challenge for Dobrev. She said, “It will be difficult because a lot of acting is reacting to the other person, but it’ll be fun to step out of my comfort zone.”

Katherine, a vampire whom everyone thought was dead, made her dramatic return to Mystic Falls at the end of the first season. She would particularly stir up something within Ian Somerhalder’s Damon who has been separated from her for centuries.

Somerhalder himself admitted that he has to juggle two different personas while Katherine is present. “Damon, with Katherine, is this youthful wide-eyed fun guy who is so intrigued by her – so different from the maniacal, more mature Damon you see with Elena,” he said.

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Having seen the three of you on stage here in LA at this year’s PaleyFest, I noticed the camaraderie you share with your costars – Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder – is very strong.

We’re all really, really close, and we’ve become like a family, and we hang out a lot and work a lot together. That’s the way you develop these great friendships – you get to know all these people. Luckily, I’m surrounded by an incredible group of people who are not only talented and professional and successful, but are also sort of great down-to-earth people.

How did you first come to the role of Elena?

I used to be on another television series called Degrassi. We shot that in Canada, so I decided to move for pilot season and try it out for one year. Vampire Diaries was one pf my very first auditions after coming to LA. I went in, they liked me, but I went back up to Canada to shoot a movie called Chloe, which is in theaters right now. And during that time they asked me to put myself on tape, so I did that, and they flew me down. And I tested with the boys and auditioned in front of the studio and in front of the network and in front of the directors and the producers. It was a very long process, and we did screen tests. And it was very nerve-wracking. You can imagine – there’s people in a room watching you and analyzing your every movement. But it was definitely worth it, a year later.

As producer Kevin Williamson’s pointed out, Vampire Diaries differs from Twilight, in that it focuses on a town, as opposed to a few characters.

Yeah, the show having the town as another character in itself is very true and very important for the development of the show, because as much as it’s about the vampires, they all go back to this town. The fact that they all lived here, and the history of the town and everything that’s happened within the town and the people’s experiences. There’s also the witches and all these other things. These last couple of episodes have been so unbelievably intense. It’s pretty crazy.

How would you describe Elena and the journey she’s on at this point in the show?

We just found out who my mother is, and we’ve found out that she’s alive, and somewhere out there, but she doesn’t want me to look for her. So Elena’s having this conflict and she’s trying to figure it out. She thought her parents were dead, and they are. But then she found out that she has another relative that’s actually out there and living and thriving. And the fact that she doesn’t want her to meet her is unsettling, and it kind of makes you feel like you’re being abandoned. In a way, Elena has been abandoned. But I think she’s not gonna give up. Elena’s not somebody who tends to give up. She’s gonna keep fighting and keep looking. She’s trying to be normal and trying to function in this supernatural world that she has now discovered she lives in. Although now that the tomb has been opened there’s all these vampires running around, and they pose a huge threat. But she’s trying to stay out of it for the time being. But who knows how successful she’ll be? Probably not very, given her history and track record and luck. She’s always caught between all the vampires. [Laughs.]

There’s been a developing sexual tension between Elena and Damon. How has that been affected by the fact that Damon turned Elena’s mother?

Right now I think that Elena hates Damon’s guts. She cannot stand Damon at all. Because somehow as soon as she realizes that he has a redeeming factor, or redeeming quality of some sort, he tends to sabotage it. He’s very self-destructive in a way. And she finds out things like this, like the fact that he turned her mother into a vampire, or that he killed her. It’s crazy. But the thing is, Elena’s the type of person who tries to find the good in everyone. So as much as she hates him and can’t stand him, she finds all these good things in him and that’s what appeals to her and that’s why she develops this friendship. That’s what I would say the relationship is between her and Damon – they have a friendship. And it keeps developing, and she keeps on sympathizing with what he’s doing, because ultimately he’s doing everything out of his love for Katherine. Yeah, there’s some sort of a tension. I don’t know if it’s sexual or what it is. But we’ll just have to see where it goes and where the writers decide to take it, and if it puts any strains on her relationship with Stefan. It may, it may not. We’ll see.

How do you keep the relationship between Stefan and Elena fresh, knowing the show could go on for years?

A lot of it’s in the writing. I have to give all of the credit to our incredible team of writers – Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec.

In the show’s flashback sequences, set in the town’s distant past, you get to play a different character, Katherine. For an actor, how much fun is that?

I love playing two completely different characters. Especially because Katherine is so conniving and narcissistic and selfish – which is so unlike me, I would hope and think. So it’s really a challenge and it’s interesting to step into those shoes and be that person every now and then. But I think that the corsets and the costumes and all that really do help and ad to the character. Because as soon as I put that costume on, I feel like a different person, as soon as the makeup and the hair is all done. I even feel like I change a little bit. And it’s so much fun. It’s so much fun to go back and explore a different time and age and be a different person.

Have you read much of the books? And, if so, are there any cues that you’d like to see the show take from the books as it enters its second season?

The books are a great sort of launching pad for what we have done and deviated from. Because there’s some things you just can’t do or that just won’t translate as well on screen as they do in the imagination of the reader. And of course every person has a different take on the books and they have their own imagination. So it’s hard to cater to and please everyone. That’s not what we’re trying to do. We want to really make the readers happy, the fans of the books, and also make sure that we pay attention and make sure that L.J. Smith’s legacy lives through the books; and then really make that translate. But I think that it’s different. We change a few things. For example, in the books Elena is a little bit more of that queen bee, popular girl, kind of like Katherine is. But we changed that, because we wanted them to be different, and we wanted there to be a distinction between Katherine and Elena’s personalities. Other things that we’ve changed – for example, Mr. Tanner, in the books he was supposed to die at the Halloween haunted house. They’re using it as a great guideline, and they’re taking creative liberties in opening up the tomb, and focusing more on some things. But we’re still greatly inspired by these great stories, and just expanding and going further and upward and onward in different directions.

Is there any particular direction in which you’d like to see Elena go in the second season?

Yeah, I definitely want to see how her relationship between the two boys progresses; and if at some point enough will be enough, and if she will decide that being around these two individuals is really worth all the pain and heartache and all the difficulties that they really put on her life. She had problems before they showed up. But it’s definitely complicated things a lot, their presence. So I’d like to see whether or not she will call it quits or keep going and fighting for what she loves.

At PaleyFest, one young member of audience said she liked Elena more than “other vampire girlfriends.” You laughed at that remark. But what is the secret to playing a vampire’s girlfriend?

[Laughs.] I think that what’s important about Elena – being in the position that she’s in, and my choice to play her the way I have – I think that I want to play her real and play her as I would react to any of these situations; and she has to have a really strong backbone, and really have high morals. And not be that kind of pushover girlfriend who takes the shit from an abusive boyfriend. She has to really stand her ground. She has to be strong.

Thanks, Nina. Have a great summer.

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SPOILERS BELOW

Even the Vampire Diaries cast members themselves can’t believe the shocking twists and the number of people left in jeopardy in Thursday’s “Founders Day.”

“I think you’re going to be asking, is that person really dead?” said Michael Trevino, whose character Tyler narrowly survived, at the Young Hollywood Awards.

For now it seems as though Anna (Malese Jow) and Mayor Lockwood (Robert Pralgo) are goners. “It doesn’t look too good,” says Candice Accola (Caroline).

As for Caroline’s fate? She’s suffering from internal bleeding and Accola shares viewers’ curiosity. “I really don’t know [what’s going to happen]” she said.

“We have two months of agonizing in frustration to find out what’s happening.” (Click here for our discussion of Caroline’s fate and other Round Table topics).

 

Talk about a Founders Day to remember in Mystic Falls.

One thing that’s definite? The return of Katherine, Stefan and Damon’s long-lost love. Nina Dobrev (Elena) is looking forward to playing both parts in Season 2.

“I’m going to be playing two characters at once, so it’s going to be challenging, but it’s also going to be a lot of fun and really interesting,” she the show’s star.

“She wreaked so much havoc before she was even here. For 21 episodes everyone teased everything she’s done, how horrible she is, how complicated she makes everyone’s lives.”

“So now that she’s back you can imagine what next season is going to be like.”

In short: It’s gonna be bloody, gory and terrifying.

“A lot of people are going to die,” Dobrev adds.

Steven R. McQueen, who plays Elena’s brother Jeremy, was excited to be a part of “Founders Day” drama: “I think we all took it as a blessing to be able to play these strange situations that can never occur in real life and just feel honored and blessed.”

“Very eloquently said, right?” Zach Roerig, who plays Matt, added.

The show’s male lead, Paul Wesley (Stefan), initially had his fears about doing so much in the season finale, but he was truly pleased by the way it all turned out.

“Well, I was like, ‘Whoa, this a huge endeavor,’” the hunk said of reading the script. “The last four pages … really take the audience on a little bit of a thrill ride. I mean, the whole thing’s good, but the way it ends is kind of incredible.”

Nina Dobrev agrees.

“I remember sitting in bed reading the script, and when I got towards the end it was so [crazy]. Every single episode of The Vampire Diaries, I feel I am always shocked and surprised. … This one being the finale has to exceed all expectations and go above and beyond,” she said.

“I think it does, and it’s crazy and fun, and I had a lot of fun being crazy and doing bad things.”