The Vampire Diaries: Each Season Ranked, According To The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer – Screen Rant

The Vampire Diaries began with the premise of Stefan and Damon Salvatore returning to their hometown, Mystic Falls. At first, the biggest threat was the war raging against the Founders determined to remove vampires from their town, and the vampires wishing revenge. Later, the series expanded beyond that.The Vampire Diaries began turning each of their central characters into the supernatural until Matt Donovan was the only human left on the series. Otherwise, nearly everyone else was a witch, vampire, or werewolf.

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Loyalties were constantly strengthening or changing as villains changed each season. The villains also were known to be more or less threatening, depending on the season. This is each season ranked, according to the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer.

The Vampire Diaries earned their audience with well-written characters and several plot twists. Each character had a relevant story arc, character development, and growth. From vampires and werewolves to various types of witches, the Mystic Falls gang never had it simple. Yet, they always dedicated themselves to removing the threat from their hometown and protecting their friends.

The Vampire Diaries never shied away from killing off characters, and eventually, fans would get used to watching their favorites die just to come back to life later. Yet, viewers always wished that their preferences would never end up permanently gone from the series.

A shocking plot twist in the season three finale finally made Elena Gilbert a vampire in season four. Yet, Elena's desire to be human sends the gang on a journey to find the cure to vampirism. The storyline also focuses on Silas, an old witch with one goal in mind. Among the problems also includes Elena's sire bond to Damon and the continuing underlying question regarding the central love triangle. The fourth season stresses a shocking ending, with Bonnie's death and Silas' true form revealed.

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Season four is also the last that the Mikaelsons are heavily included, as they leave Mystic Falls for New Orleans to beginThe Originals as the season comes to an end.

The Vampire Diaries used its first season to explain the backstory behind Stefan, Damon, and Katherine. Damon was the central antagonist in the first season, dedicated to rescuing Katherine from the tomb.

In his drive, Damon was impatient, and while his interest in Elena was clear, Damon was also using Caroline whenever he pleased. Stefan and Damon's arrival in Mystic Falls was the catalyst that created the chaos in Mystic Falls afterward. Season one well defined each character, allowing the series to be a hit out of the gate.

As the first season without Elena Gilbert and Katherine Pierce,The Vampire Diaries needed to step up its game to fill the void left by its original main character. As nearly everything in the series surrounded Elena,The Vampire Diaries needed to come up with a way to avoid that trap and focus on the characters that were still around.

Season seven featured a time jump, proving how severe Elena's magical coma state was, and the stakes involved with her situation. It also features the storyline revealing that Alaric and Jo's babies had survived Kai's attack, as they had been transferred into Caroline. It also included the long-awaited reunion between Stefan and Klaus during "Moonlight on the Bayou," the first half of the crossover event betweenThe Vampire Diaries andThe Originals.

Stuck in a prison world, Damon and Bonnie unleash havoc when Kai Parker escapes as well. As a sociopath, Kai wished to kill his family to take control of the Gemini Coven. Considered an abomination by his family, Kai's siphoning abilities drove a wedge between him and his family, and later more so between Kai and his twin sister Jo when they learned about the Merge. Kai's parting gift before dying left Bonnie and Elena's lives linked together, making only one allowed to live at a time.

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Season six is also the first time Caroline turns off her humanity after the death of her mother, forcing Stefan to as well. Forcing Stefan to turn off his humanity eventually leads to the reveal that Stefan and Damon's mother had not died as they thought, but instead had turned into a vampire. Her place on the show counted as one of the season's antagonists and introduced the first Heretics. Just before Elena's magical coma, she finally recalls all her memories of Damon when Elena takes the cure and becomes human again.

Season three is the first that viewers got a front-row seat to the worst side of Stefan. Forced to turn off his humanity and leave Mystic Falls with Klaus, Stefan goes on Klaus' journey to create more hybrids. As Damon and Elena search for Stefan, they do not find the person they knew. Instead, without his humanity, Stefan is a much darker person.

Season three especially emphasizes the love triangle as Stefan is out of the picture, leaving Elena alone with Damon. Season three is also the first to introduce Rebekah Mikaelson and reveals the truth about Stefan's past during the 1920s that Klaus had compelled Stefan to forget.

The first to utilize Katherine as a central antagonist, season two, makes the stakes higher for the main characters. Katherine took pleasure in making life challenging for Elena, Stefan, and Damon, always a few steps ahead of them.

However, it was her secrets that kept season two interesting. Katherine was doing things for Klaus to gain her freedom after running from the Original Hybrid for five-hundred years. Another major storyline throughout season two includes the reveal that Tyler Lockwood has the werewolf gene, as do his paternal family members. Yet, the most significant change for any main character was Caroline's transition into a vampire.

The truth about Elena and Katherine as doppelgangers is finally explained by Qetsiyah, a powerful witch from Ancient Greece. Elena is not the only one with doppelgangers, as season four revealed that Silas' pure form is the original body and face of Stefan. Silas and Amara's story finally comes to an end when Amara transfers the abilities as the anchor to Bonnie and Stefan kills Silas. Silas and Amara die together, but Stefan does not get the satisfaction he thought would come from killing the man that trapped him in a safe underwater for three months.

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Yet, the season's most significant obstacle is the collapse of The Other Side, which would take Bonnie and Damon with it. However, before disappearing with The Other Side, Bonnie pulled off one last heroic act of the season, allowing several characters to come back to life crossing through her.

The final season brings several storylines to aconclusion. With Cade, leader of Hell being a central villain in the season, everyone tries to defeat him. While Cade does die, he is not the last antagonist of the series.The Vampire Diaries brought back fan-favorite villain, Kai Parker toward the end to reveal the real antagonist of the final episode. Kai was placed into another prison world, left desiccated untilLegacies.

However, it has all lead back to the biggest bad in the series, Katherine Pierce. Eight seasons from the premiere, Katherine is still the worst they have ever dealt with, and she has returned as the leader of Hell. Finally, Katherine is defeated, and Elena wakes up. The series finale shows that Elena would eventually reunite with her family while Damon would return to Stefan.

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