The popular vampire TV show The Vampire Diaries ran for eight whole seasons. It followed the adventures of Elena Gilbert, a teenage girl who becomes torn between two vampire brothers and has to choose which one she's going to date. It also worked with many memorable characters, both on the side of the good guys and on the side of the villains.
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The Vampire Diaries featured many memorable scenes, romantic, heartbreaking, funny, and action ones, all in one package. But since it had so many episodes, it's understandable that there were some mistakes and errors in the continuity. Let's take a look at 10 of them.
When the show premiered, it introduced its first big villain - none other than Damon, the older brother of Elena's boyfriend Stefan. It's important to note that The Vampire Diaries vampires aren't equal, as far as their strength, speed and other supernatural abilities, such as mind control, are concerned.
A vampire's strength depends not only on his age (how long ago he was turned) but also whether he drinks human blood or animal blood. In the early episodes of the first season, Damon uses powers such as controlling the fog and the crows or showing visions from a greater distance to Caroline, which he never uses again, even though they could have come in handy more than once.
Long before Damon joins on the side of good, he dates Elena's good friend, Caroline, even though he doesn't really like Caroline and is using her as a source of blood and a way how to push Stefan and Elena apart. In the second episode, Damon and Caroline share intimate moments but he ruins it when he drinks Caroline's blood and frightens her.
When Caroline wakes up the next morning, she realizes what happened and wants to leave, but Damon stops her. Caroline's clothes change color between the two scenes - she wears pink lingerie in the first scene and white one in the second.
The Vampire Diaries is a show about vampires and other supernatural creatures... and as such, it features a lot of blood. Usually, because vampires feed on someone or kill or hurt someone. Life in Mystic Falls simply isn't easy, as Elena finds out on her own more than once when someone tries to hurt her or drain her blood. Early in the second season, Elena has a large stain of blood on her top which keeps changing its size while the scene goes on.
This continuity error goes on in the next episode as well, since the stain of blood is much smaller in this episode than it was in the last one.
Once Damon changes his mind and decides to join the side of good (even though he still slips from time to time), the position of the main villain goes to Katherine - Elena's doppelganger, who once dated both Stefan and Damon at the same time and who also changed the Salvatore Brothers into vampires back in 1864.
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Elena is scared of Katherine but still goes to visit her in the tomb Katherine's trapped in to get important information from the vampire. She brings her a bottle of blood to make her talk but even though she pours only a little blood out of the bottle, it still ends up more than half-empty.
Elena's whole life turns upside down more than once during The Vampire Diaries. Not only does she learn that there are vampires, witches and werewolves living in the world, she also finds out that her mom wasn't actually her mom, and that her real mother is a vampire.
Talk about harsh news... Elena gets to meet her real mom Isobel, but it soon becomes obvious that Isobel isn't in Mystic Falls to catch up on her daughter, at least not in the way Elena might hope. In one scene, Isobel takes Elena to her gravestone and the birth date on it is different than on Isobel's ID which was shown earlier in the show.
As it's been established before, vampires need blood to survive. And in the case of The Vampire Diaries, they also have to drink blood to complete their transition to a vampire or they'll die. Even though her boyfriend Stefan is a vampire, Elena doesn't want to become one. However, she doesn't get the choice in the end, as she dies and wakes up since she had vampire blood in her body when she died.
Elena chooses to complete her transition, and even though she's reluctant to drink from humans, she ends up feeding on her friend and former boyfriend Matt. She feeds from his arm but when Matt's arm is then shown, the position of the bite marks doesn't fit the place from which Elena had fed.
Stefan and Elena become close partially to the fact that they both lost someone they loved. Elena lost her parents when their car crashed and she was the only one who survived. And Stefan lost his mother, his father, and also Katherine, whom he believed to be dead.
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However, as Stefan later finds out, not only wasn't Katherine dead but so wasn't his mother Lily. In the first season, Elena asks Stefan why his father wasn't buried in their family tomb, and Stefan explains that it was built after he died. Yet it seemed that the heroes expected Lily to be buried in the family tomb, even though she supposedly died long before her husband.
The Vampire Diaries mostly takes place in Mystic Falls, a small city in Virginia when Elena lives and where Stefan and Damon were also born and lived till the 1860s when they became vampires. The town has a rich history, although one full of supernatural events, and despite its relatively small size, it seems to attract the attention of vampires and other creatures who often endanger its human citizens.
As the welcoming sign claims, Mystic Falls was supposedly established in 1860 - but in the first episode, it's stated that the city was actually established much sooner, in 1792, and finally, in the eighth season, there is a piece of information that the city existed even before 1792.
In the second season, the viewers are first introduced to Klaus Mikaelson, a powerful vampire, who plans to perform a magic ritual to unlock another part of his heritage - his werewolf side. Yes, Klaus is a vampire/werewolf hybrid, unlike his siblings Kol, Finn, Elijah, and Rebecca, who are just vampires and form the original vampire family.
Klaus and his brothers and sister are over a thousand years old when they come to Mystic Falls and they claim that they are the oldest vampires alive. Yet, it is later revealed that their father Mikael is also a vampire, and even later, another even older vampire called Silas comes onto the scene.
All of the above mentioned aside, the biggest continuity mistake in The Vampire Diaries doesn't concern the characters' looks, clothes, or even the place where they live, but their strength. As stated before, the older any vampire is, the stronger he or she becomes.
Yet, when the vampires fight in the show, it happens more than once that the much younger and, therefore, weaker vampire manages to defeat the older one, even though he shouldn't be able to. To name just a few examples, Caroline is able to defeat Damon in a fight, Elena was able to beat Caroline in a fight (even though Elena did receive training from Alaric), and to top it all off, Matt, who's a human, was able to kill an original vampire.
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