The Vampire Diaries will start over this fall.

That's how Julie Plec put it during an interview with E! News at the ATX Television Festival in Austin last week, as the producer focused on the main storyline heading into the Vampire Diaries Season 4 - Elena Gilbert as a vampire - and said:

"We're starting a new story. Same world, same characters, same feelings, same everything but for our ingénue, and our heroine, we are beginning."

Considering how transitioning typically emphasizes a human being's most dominant personality traits - Caroline is more bubbly, Damon more… Damon-y - what can fans expect from a blood-sucking Elena?

"Her compassion is her gift and her Achilles heel," says Plec. "She is fiercely loyal, fiercely protective, and very, very compassionate to those around her in that she can see the good and the bad. When all that stuff gets amplified, it's going to make her, hopefully, kind of a badass... it's like the birth of a supernatural heroine."

But Elena was also in a dark place even before turning, experiencing guilt over all the pain she's caused those around her.

How might that play out in vampire form? Explained Plec:

"Elena's dark side, so to speak, is actually in her deep, deep, deep connection to other people, whether they are light or dark. So now that these things get magnified, it is her connection to darker things and darker people, is that going to bloom at all or is she still going to be the infallible heroine? I think that grief can do a lot to send somebody off their rocker a little bit, so who knows what she could go through as a vampire."

No one but Plec and her team, that's for sure. We won't find out until TVD returns in October, but you can relive the past three seasons now when you watch Vampire Diaries online at TV Fanatic!

沪江娱乐快讯:朱莉•普莱柯(Julie Plec)在上周于奥斯汀举办的ATX电视节上接受E! News采访时将埃琳娜形容为“超能力女主角”。当这位制作人谈到《吸血鬼日记》第四季剧情走向——吸血鬼埃琳娜•吉尔伯特(Elena Gilbert)时,她说道:“我们将开始一个新的故事。同一个世界、同样的角色、相同的感觉。除了我们单纯天真的女主角,一切都没有改变。”

“她的同情心是她的美德也是她的要害,”普莱柯说。“她非常忠诚、关爱他人。并且凭着一颗明辨是非之心,她非常、非常地富有同情心。当这些品质被放大时,她将很有可能会变得有点儿爱惹是生非……这就像一个超能力女主角的诞生。”

但是,埃琳娜甚至是在转变之前,就已经有了黑暗的一面。她为她给身边人带来的一切伤痛而感到负疚。而这吸血鬼形态下会怎样呢?

可以肯定的是,除了普莱柯和她的团队,在今年10月《吸血鬼日记》回归之前,我们都不知道将会发生什么。但是,你现在还是可以复习一下前三季的内容的。