No Spoilers – The Vampire Diaries Season Three Wish List

Well, here we are, in the midst of a TVD-free summer. I figured I’d set up a post where you can talk about your wish-list for season three.

Please keep this discussion Spoiler Free: let’s talk about what we want to happen, not what the script notes our cousin Larry stole from the set says will happen.

To get you started, here are a few of my desires for Season Three:

Delena

Look, folks. I’m not a Delena fan.

I know, I know. I spend the vast majority of my time talking about how awesome Damon is and how lame Stefan is and how everyone should just shut up and do what Damon says. And I stand by all of that. But, I still don’t think Elena is right for Damon. Why?

Because she’s kind of an idiot. The kind of idiot that resurrects an ancient, unkillable, super-powerful and really angry (but well dressed!) vampire and expects him to join Team Scoobie because of some lame-ass speech about honor and trust and other such crap. The kind of idiot that allows an entire county to be killed in order to save her mostly useless witch-friend.

But it looks like Delena is going to happen, anyway, so I have one simple request. Writers? Please don’t turn Damon into a pussy.

Sure, give him a redemption arc. Yeah, give Elena a reason to trust him. But for the love of god, don’t turn him into a clone of Stefan – or even revert him to Civil War Damon. Damon works as a villain, and Damon works as an anti-hero, but Damon will not work as a saint.

Evil Stefan

Now this has me excited. Stefan has showed up glimpses of potential – moments when he’s gone into badass mode in order to protect Elena, and moments when he’s gone into crackhead mode jonesing for a hit of sweet, sweet coed – but these have been few, far between, and mostly unexploited.

I’m honestly hoping for a full-on Angelus arc. I would love to see Stefan as a murder-loving, blood-spilling fiend, but they could go with the junkie-that-can’t-kick-the-habit rout… as long as he’s interesting, and as long as he’s not seven shades of emo.

Caroline

More Caroline, please. She’s the second-best character on this show, and she has chemistry with everyone. I want more Caroline-learns-to-vampire. More Sheriff-Forbes-learns-to-love-Caroline-again. Hell, I even want more Forewood, which I never saw coming. The one thing I do not want is a Werepire pup. If Tyler knocks up Caroline, I am officially done.

Also, I think it’d be hilarious if Caroline ate Matt.

Alaric

The Gilbert kids are destined to have alcoholic guardians, aren’t they? I hope that Alric’s presence (if he does become their guardian) will lead to more Alaric screen time. Also, I really, really hope for a return of the badass, pneumatic-stake-launcher building, demon hunting history teacher from hell. Alaric is one of the best characters on the show, and he’s been criminally underused.

Bonnie

It’s pretty clean that Bonnie’s not going to die, so I’ll ask for the next-best thing: make her interesting.

Bonnie is at her best when she’s faced with something her powers can’t overcome. Not because of some bullshit hand-waving excuse, but because she’s simply not powerful enough to pull it off. When her Grams died, and she just kept repeating “I can fix it”, over and over again… that was great television. Bonnie needs more moments like this.

She also needs to stop being a sanctimonious bitch. If she locked me in a dead-witch-otorium while my lover got murdered by a vampire, I’d be putting a bullet in her back at the soonest available opportunity.