The Stefan-Elena-Damon love triangle was one of many highlights and most contentious subjects of The Vampire Diaries. The threesome divided TVD followers, who couldn’t determine which Salvatore brother was higher for Elena. However the present selected for them when Elena finally picked Damon over Stefan. Nevertheless, Stefan actor Paul Wesley thought Elena ought to have ended up with Matt.
Paul Wesley thought Matt would have been one of the best companion for Elena
Elena and Stefan’s relationship laid the inspiration for TVD. The 2 had an on-again/off-again romance that, though poisonous, made them fan favorites. Nevertheless, issues between them bought sophisticated when Stefan’s brother Damon glided into the image.
Damon and Elena bought right into a equally sophisticated relationship, finally ending up collectively when the collection wrapped in 2017. The connection could have angered half the TVD fandom and happy the opposite, however Damon actor Ian Somerhalder didn’t need that to occur.
At a Comedian-Con panel, Somerhalder stated neither Salvatore brother was good for Elena and defined why.
“By the way, does no one recognize that this woman should not be with any of these guys?” Somerhalder requested. “We’ve killed every person in her family, everyone in her family’s dead, her house is burned down. She’s a wreck.”
Somerhalder’s onscreen brother, Wesley, who performed Stefan, interjected, “I think she should end up with Matt. It would be great.”
Matt Donovan was Elena’s greatest good friend and boyfriend when The Vampire Diaries premiered. However their teen romance ended when she laid eyes on Stefan.
Nina Dobrev defended her character’s choice thus far the Salvatore brothers by joking that Elena in all probability wasn’t happy with Matt in mattress, so she turned to the blood-sucking siblings.
‘The Vampire Diaries’ showrunner revealed the unique ending circled again to the love triangle
Stefan and Elena had been cute collectively, however she and Damon had a passionate romance that followers loved extra. Nevertheless, in line with showrunner Julie Plec, the unique ending noticed Stefan and Elena reunite as a callback to their relationship within the early seasons.
“I thought that by the time we came back to the end of the series, whenever it was, that Elena would’ve found her way back to Stefan, and Damon would’ve found a different path,” Plec informed Entertainment Weekly.
As viewers know, their plans by no means got here to fruition as a result of the present ended with Damon and Elena reuniting and Stefan dying whereas saving everybody. In response to Plec, the present needed to revise the unique ending after Dobrev left in season 6.
Plec stated additionally they needed the Salvatore brothers to die to permit Elena to reside her human life, however when Dobrev left two seasons earlier, they didn’t really feel the necessity to make the ending about her character’s happiness.
“Her departure sealed the romantic contract between Damon and Elena,” Plec stated. “There was no way in hell I was killing both of them and leaving neither of them with the happy ending.”
Ian Somerhalder needed the Salvatore brothers to die collectively in ‘The Vampire Diaries’ finale
It seems Somerhalder liked the unique ending. On the 2019 Warsaw Comic-Con, the actor revealed he needed the Salvatore brothers to die collectively, Klaus and Elijah–type.
“I never would have let Damon live either,” he stated. “These two brothers showed up in this little town, and they completely devastated the town.”
So, what would Somerhalder’s excellent ending seem like? His Vampire Diaries finale would see the Salvatores jet off to the Caribbean, open a 60-year-old bottle of rum, and watch the dawn as they take off their daylight rings and die collectively “as brothers.”