Vampire Diaries creators explain the series finale title – EW.com

We met, and we talked, and it was epic, but then the sun came up and reality set in.

When Elena Gilbert first said those words to Stefan Salvatore in the second episode of TheVampire Diaries, she was finding a reason whythey couldnt be together. Their lives were just too complicated. But by the end of the hour, Stefan would remind her of just how epic their connection was, repeating those words before kissing her for the first time even after reality set in.

However, what was happening onscreen wasnt the only thing that was epic about that moment. Co-creator Kevin Williamson will never forget reading that interaction and what it meant for the show. [Co-creator] Julie [Plec]wrote that beautiful monologue, and I remember reading it for the first time and just crying, Williamson tells EW. And then Stefan came back and said it to her again, and Iremembertearing up. I thought we were onto something special. When you shoot a pilot, you never know if anything is going to work. But its those second and third episodes where it starts to come together. And thats when you know if the show has legs.

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And even more than signaling something special for Williamson, that moment introduced a theme that the show would carryall the way through toits series finale: It hasto be epic. I did a lot of the early writing and Kevin did a lot of the re-writing, Plec says. We were trying to figure out the show as we went and I wrote the scene where Elena says, We met, and we talked, and it was epic, but then the sun came up and reality set in. And I remember Kevin circling it on his script and giving it a triple check. A triple check from Kevin Williamson is, I love this line.'

So it was no surprise whenthe line or at least the sentiment came backin episode 8. Using her sage vampire wisdom, Stefans best friendLexi convinced Elena to give Stefan a chance by explaining that, When its real, you cant walk away. And when Stefan thanked his bestie for helping him out, she simply said, I was feeling epic, a line that lives on years later and is now the official title of the Vampire Diaries series finale.

During the first season of this show, when Julie and I were not sleeping and we were just writing non-stop and were completely out of our minds, we wrote the episode where Lexi pulled a solid for Stefan in the bar and pumped up Stefan in Elenas eyes, and shes like, I was feeling epic. That line became Julies favorite line of the entire show, Williamson says. From the very very beginning, we kept saying in the writers room: It has to be epic. We want an epic moment. This whole show has always been about epic moments and that was the line.

So when it came time to end the show, there was really only one type of finale that Plec and Williamson wanted to write: An epic one. It had to be epic, Williamson says. What better title than the callback of what was one of our favorite lines in the whole show? Epic hasbeen our mantra from day one.

The Vampire Diaries airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.

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