9) Damon gives Elena a rose

Episode: “Under Control” – 1 X 18

Setting the scene: Damon and Elena are at a Founder’s दिन pre-party, where Stefan is drinking heavily, in an attempt to dull his hunger for human blood. Elena expresses her concerns to Damon as the two sit अगला to one another at the bar. But Damon is और concerned about Elena’s brother, Jeremy, who has been asking सवालों about Vicki Donovan’s death.

(Background: After Damon made Vicki into a vampire, she violently turned on Elena and Jeremy. Stefan killed Vicki to save them. Then, at Elena’s request, Damon buried...

It’s a choice that heroines in teen dramas have had to grapple with for ages: the brooding and sensitive good boy versus the unrepentant and dangerous bad one.



And nowhere on टेलीविज़न is that eternal सवाल और fully explored than on the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, where good can be bad . . .



. . . and bad can be deliciously GOOD!

Unlike in other shows, where the “good guy” is so bland and boring as to make the heroine’s choice completely obvious, writers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec actually make a startlingly good case for both the “straight-laced” Stefan Salvatore, and...