The Vampire Diaries Season Six Finale: Everything You Need to Know About Elena's Goodbye and More

Julie Plec, Michael Trevino and more open up about tonight's epic finale. Prepare for so many tears!

By Sydney Bucksbaum May 14, 2015 8:09 PMTags
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It's here. It's finally here.

The Vampire Diaries is going to make us cry all the tears tonight. We know what's coming, but that doesn't make it any easier: Nina Dobrev is leaving the show. For good. Sob!

Not only are we losing Elena Gilbert after six wonderful seasons, we're also going to have to say goodbye to Tyler Lockwood (Michael Trevino), as well as prepare for death and destruction at the hands of Kai (Christopher Wood) as he finally gets his revenge on Bonnie (Kat Graham) and everyone at the beautiful-turned-disastrous wedding of Alaric (Matt Davis) and Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe). We're still having nightmares about that wedding ceremony a full week later!

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"Yeah, it was awful. We talked about it so much in the writers room," executive producer Julie Plec tells E! News. "It might be the worst thing we've ever done in terms of just abject, awful, sadistic cruelty to a character and to a relationship and to the audience. Obviously we didn't set out to be cruel and sadistic, it was just the perfect way to represent Kai as the ultimate psychotic villain that he is. But it was hard for even us to swallow what we were doing as we were doing it!"

And poor Alaric...he's got to have the absolute worst luck in love ever. He finally finds the love of his life, she gets pregnant with twins only to get stabbed in the stomach during their wedding. Oof.

"He doesn't handle it well, I'll tell you that," Plec says. "Without completely spoiling everything coming, I definitely think that the situation is pretty dire."

Things are also looking quite "dire" for Elena, who was knocked unconscious during Kai's attack. Is TVD really going to kill off its main star? Should Delena fans be more nervous for tonight's episode...or excited?

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"Both, definitely," Plec teases. "The result of the episode, as we all know, ends in the departure of Nina Dobrev and Elena. But the journey to get there is equal parts sad and nostalgic and beautiful and romantic as it is tragic and mysterious."

Other words Plec used to describe the finale: "Grieving and hopeful."

Trevino was equally mysterious when he described how fans will feeling after the end credits roll.

"There should be some tears, some sadness," Trevino tells E! News. "But also, it's beautiful the way it ends. It's a new, different chapter. Every season has been a different chapter, but this season especially, after six years, season seven is going to be a whole new show and I mean that in a good way. I think people will be sad for a bit after the credits roll, but then looking back and seeing how things ended up, I think they'll be excited and happy for what's to come."

But what about Steroline fans? After Caroline (Candice Accola) seemingly "broke up" with Stefan (Paul Wesley) before the wedding began, is this relationship over before it even began?

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"Listen, Stefan blew it earlier in the season when he had an opportunity to express how he felt and the domino effect of that was pretty catastrophic," Plec says. "In the finale, he's going to have to make a decision on how he wants to react to her proclamation that she's not quite ready for him. And it's one of my favorite scenes, the one in the finale."

Stefan's going to have his work cut out for him if he decides to fight for Caroline, since according to Plec, she truly meant what she said to Stefan.

"That's the most reasonable and rational that Caroline's been in a long time," Plec says. "There's a tremendous amount of truth to it, from one control freak to another. What she went through was so traumatizing and she is still mourning. She lost her mom. She went on a brief, murderous rampage. She has to clear her head of that. She's got to white knuckle her way through that and I think she's thinking very clearly. I respect the way she's approaching it. Now, I don't necessarily like it because I love them too, but I respect her point of view."

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While Stefan and Caroline may be in a holding pattern, at least Tyler and Liv (Penelope Mitchell) will get "closure" in tonight's finale.

"There is some definitely closure with Liv," Trevino says. "I can't get into it more but there is closure with the romance of Liv and Tyler. It gets pretty emotional."

No matter how you feel about Elena and Tyler leaving the show, Trevino promises this is going to be one of the best episodes of the series. Ever. And that's some high praise!

"It's an amazing script because it ties in everybody," Trevino says. "You have Kai coming in, seeking revenge, and he doesn't just attack one person. He wants to attack everybody and he'll find a way to do it. The episode's emotional, and it's going to bring justice to ending this chapter of Vampire Diaries and season six but also the individual stories of Elena and Tyler. I think fans will be very sad but also very excited to see what's to come, because now that some people are leaving, and more than just Nina and myself, it's going to be a whole new show."

The Vampire Diaries season six finale airs tonight at 8 p.m. on the CW.