‘The Vampire Diaries’ season 6 spoilers: Boss on new bond for Ian Somerhalder’s Damon
The book series on which “The Vampire Diaries” is based, there is a strong relationship that forms between Damon and Bonnie. Where has that been on the show? Well, not really anywhere … and for good reason. The characters played by Ian Somerhalder and Kat Graham really have not been handed that much of an opportunity to bond … at least not yet.
Could that be changing in the future, though? It at least seems reasonably likely, based on what we have now from where the two characters ended their story in season 5. After all, you had the two parties seemingly “crossing over” to a new world.
While executive producer Julie Plec of course stopped short of saying to E! News that these two characters are going to have some sort of otherworldly hookup now that they are trapped in this situation, she did make it clear that these two will at least have some sort of opportunity to develop a bond thanks to their unique circumstance:
“To me, in spite of what [Bonnie and Damon] had in the books, that kind of relationship would only be born out of chemistry, and an on-screen connection … Ian and Kat are super close. They love each other. They’re very excited to work together. There could be instant chemistry there that we all sit back and watch like we did, frankly, with Klaus and Caroline, with that very first scene. There was never any plan to have romance but he cures her on her freaking birthday and all of a sudden, the world is melting.. So you never know, but what we did want to do is we wanted to service the Bamon relationship from the books and at least give those two characters an opportunity—that we never thought we’d have frankly cause they never liked each other, and for good reason—to bond and get close and to be comrades. So it will start there, and it may never go any further—that’s not the plan, but you never know.”
In the end, we’ll just have to see where this story goes … but so far, Plec seems to be doing the right thing by keeping her options open.
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