I love vampire diaries season 1 but the rest of the season? No thanks. It got ruined all the way when real life sweet heart playing Elena and Damon broke up and I think it kinda affected the overall quality of the tv series. Aside from that, they're killing everyone in the series and the story for me went crazy and just like RBNXD said, it's too pink, seems like a teenage love story for me. eeek! The Originals is cool but when I learned that it's a spin off from VD I decided not to watch it anymore. Afraid to get disappointed.