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Saturday 23 April 2011

Kevin Williamson: Bonnie Was Originally Going to Be Dead for Four Episodes


Bonnie and Jeremy Exchange a Look in Season 2, Episode 17: "Know Thy Enemy"
Photo Credit: Annette Brown/The CW © 2011 The CW Network, LLC
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No time for puppy love. Bonnie and Jeremy have important issues to deal with. For starters, discovering how Bonnie can channel her ancestors.
When Bonnie (Kat Graham) “died” while using all her witchy powers to attack Alaric (who was actually Klaus) last week on The Vampire Diaries, we were crushed. Devastated, even. But then, in a what-should-not-have-been-so-shocking twist, she was brought back to life — after the commercial break, natch — and our deepest, darkest fears were instantly pacified.

As elated as we were to have her back, bringing Bonnie home from the other side wasn’t always the plan. At least, not right away. TVD producer Kevin Williamson recently told The Hollywood Reporter, ”Originally we had planned to kill [Bonnie] for four episodes and let Elena be the one who hid her away and surprise everyone with it, but we said the audience would hate us...Then we thought we could do this for one episode and bring her back next week. Then we thought, no, better to do it at the end of the commercial break.”

Cool, right? Considering TVD moves faster than Damon ghoulishly flashing himself across a room, we totes understand the urgency to wake her up. And seriously, what would everybody do when Klaus shows up (in his own body this time) without the power of 100 witches to back them up? Let’s face it: The good guys need Miss Bennett.

Williamson dished that these last-minute storyline changes aren’t as unusual as you’d think. “I remember when we came up with the [Katherine arc],” he told THR. “I said we can only bring Katherine in once or twice … We kept saying we’d see her in three or four episodes, and the next thing you know, Katherine took over.”

Yeah. We hear she’s good at that.

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