Williamson Talks About the Second Half of the Season for “Vampire Diaries”

If you’ve heard the rumor that Elena will become a vampire during the second half of the “Vampire Diaries” first season, series producer Kevin Williamson wants you to know that isn’t in the cards.

“It’s a fake, not even close,” said Williamson during the Television Critics Association tour. Williamson says that the rumors comes from people taking what happens in the novels that served as a basis for the series and assuming that it would happen on the show.

“The book has always inspired us,” he says. “If you’re a fan of the book, you see what we used and haven’t. We’re going into this tomb with Katharine among them, which isn’t in the book, but what’s in the book is Katharine. So there are elements of the book, we’re inspired by. Now the show is off and running, with a bunch of writers in a room, we’re off on our own.”

But Williamson says that two other elements from the book–the resurrection of Katherine and “The Tomb” are still in play.

“Damon [Ian Somerhalder] has an agenda and he’s going to save Katherine,” says Williamson.

Williamson says we’ll also see a bit more of a dark side to Stefan, something actor Paul Wesley says he is looking forward to.

“I feel Stefan is as much capable as the dark side as much as Damon,” he says. “It’s up to Kevin and Julie to explore, but I like to think that’s always there. First and foremost we’re vampires, but we have certain instincts we have to fulfil and we can’t run from.”

Williamson also wants to deal more with the level of trust lost between these two brothers.

“It’s destroyed every other aspect of their relationship and there’s a layer of betrayal that hangs between the two,” Williamson says. “We’re going to see how you why there’s no longer a layer of trust.”