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Comic-Con: 'The Vampire Diaries' to End With Season 8

"We all have discussed it and we've made the decision that this is it," Plec told fans Saturday. "This is going to be the final season of The Vampire Diaries. It's bittersweet and emotional and we're all going to be crying in a minute. It's been a beautiful run.... Get ready, because it's going to be an epic ride."

The final season also will be a shortened one, consisting of 16 episodes. The show returns Oct. 21 at 8 p.m.

While once the cornerstone of The CW, The Vampire Diaries, based on the books of the same name, has, like many other veteran series, begun to show its age. In the past few years, the drama was bypassed as the network's most-watched show by The Flash as The CW has made DC Comics fare (including Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow and CBS import Supergirl) a priority.

“The Vampire Diaries has meant so much to so many fans around the world, and has meant so much to all of us at The CW,” network president Mark Pedowitz said in a release shortly after the news broke at Comic-Con. “I am a huge fan of the show myself, and I’ve seen every episode. So I am very happy that we can give Julie and Kevin the chance to finish their story the way they have envisioned, and to give viewers a fantastic conclusion to eight spectacular seasons.”

I haven't had a chance to watch the panel yet, but supposedly Kevin Williamson will be coming back for the final season as well? I'm happy that they're going out on their terms anyway, it feels like it's time. It was always my hope that the writers would know from the beginning of that season when the show would be ending, so hopefully this will give everyone a chance to work towards the ending and wrap things up properly.

And TVD being cut down to 16 episodes clears up what some of us were wondering about the number of shows that the CW renewed, it sounds like TVD (and possibly other shows?) will be finishing early to make way for the many other shows on the schedule. Honestly I'm a little bit surprised that they didn't want to end with the usual 22 episodes, but still 16 episodes isn't a bad number, and it will be a good thing if it means taking less weeks off in-between episodes! I assume they wouldn't be taking so many breaks anyway, that they'll want to finish the run early next year so that they can introduce their mid-season shows to the schedule?

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Hi hon! How are you? Good to see you post! I have never seen TVD but it's been rec'd to me in the past. Perhaps someday!

It's probably for the better, though I'm not personally concerned since I stopped watching a year ago. It seemed fitting to stop when Nina left.

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I never went past the third season, I think. I only watched the scenes with the characters that were relevant to me, but imho the show went downhill pretty damn fast, and even worse once Nina left (well, once they killed off Katherine I was like, lol nope bye). I know it's supposedly been said that Nina would return for the series finale, so I wonder what they're gonna do.

I think it is time, but I am a bit miffed about only 16 episodes though.

It always makes me happy when creators know at the start it's their last season. Glad the show will end how they want it to! TVD's been up and down sometimes but I have to say I did not ever expect to love this show as much as I did, glad I listened when the internet kept telling me it was good!

I think it's time, and I'm fairly confident that Katherine will make a return for the finale. Her ending was so ambiguous; we never really saw what happened to her, and I think the writers wanted to leave it open-ended so they could bring her back.

Sad to see this series coming to a close as of next year. I'm still about a season behind. I'm waiting for it to show up on Netflix :3 Ever since Elena left I think the viewership might have dropped with the romance she had with Damon and Stefan. I hope it has a good ending.

I feel like a LOT of shows (and a lot of MY shows) are ending in the next season. I'm not surprised about TVD, and I'm kind of GLAD it ends and I hope they do manage to bring Nina back, like they want to, and I do hope they find a solution for her where Bonnie doesn't have to die to have Elena get her happy ending, but I guess we'll see (and technically if they turned Bonnie into a Vampire she would die and Elena could be back even though Bonnie would be back too, even though I don't know if that would even work)...

Anyway... hope they are writing a good end and I'm now glad I stuck it out. I DO wonder what it means for "The Originals" and if TO will end too after next season. Probably...

I mean, Bones is ending and Teen Wolf too and then there is TVD and BEauty and the beast is ending too and, and Musketeers is airing the last 2 episodes within the next week as well, and then there is Switched at Birth and Pretty Little LIars, all which are going to end soon... so I'm gonna lose a lot of shows in the 2016/2017 season and I bet that's not even all and that there will be some cancellations possibly as well, or other shows deciding to end (like I feel like SUITS might be one of them and the Last Ship as well), so yeah...

Let's see what happens...

In a way, I'm sad that this next season is the last, but on the other hand, I'm ready for it. I honestly don't think they should have continued without Elena and didn't find the seventh season to be particularly interesting, but I'm holding on because this show has brought so much light into my life. Also I heard that Nina might be back in the finale?

Wow, this and Teen Wolf ending. I'll have to catch up with both soon. (I'm in s6 for TVD, and s4 for TW.)

As sad as I am to see it go, it's definitely time. It probably should've ended when Nina left, though I did end up enjoying the second half of last season.

I was expecting this so it wasn't really a surprise. I was actually pleased about the 16 episode order because I assumed they'd do something like 12/13 for the final season so 16 felt like extra :)

Very, very pleased Kevin is back. And I hope that means Bonnie will get a decent ending. Kevin's apparently very fond of Bonnie/Kat so hopefully that means they'll find a way around the stupid sleeping curse so Bonnie doesn't have to die for Elena to wake up.

I imagine we'll get a few breaks here and there but nothing like it usually is because they'll want to finish early enough to launch The Originals in that time slot. (I'm assuming, of course. They could always put a different show there but it makes sense to have The Originals take over TVD's slot.)