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!

滬江娛樂(lè)快訊：朱莉?普萊柯（Julie Plec）在上周于奧斯汀舉辦的ATX電視節(jié)上接受E! News采訪時(shí)將埃琳娜形容為“超能力女主角”。當(dāng)這位制作人談到《吸血鬼日記》第四季劇情走向——吸血鬼埃琳娜?吉爾伯特（Elena Gilbert）時(shí)，她說(shuō)道：“我們將開(kāi)始一個(gè)新的故事。同一個(gè)世界、同樣的角色、相同的感覺(jué)。除了我們單純天真的女主角，一切都沒(méi)有改變?！?/p>

“她的同情心是她的美德也是她的要害，”普萊柯說(shuō)?！八浅Ｖ艺\(chéng)、關(guān)愛(ài)他人。并且憑著一顆明辨是非之心，她非常、非常地富有同情心。當(dāng)這些品質(zhì)被放大時(shí)，她將很有可能會(huì)變得有點(diǎn)兒愛(ài)惹是生非……這就像一個(gè)超能力女主角的誕生?！?/p>

但是，埃琳娜甚至是在轉(zhuǎn)變之前，就已經(jīng)有了黑暗的一面。她為她給身邊人帶來(lái)的一切傷痛而感到負(fù)疚。而這吸血鬼形態(tài)下會(huì)怎樣呢？

可以肯定的是，除了普萊柯和她的團(tuán)隊(duì)，在今年10月《吸血鬼日記》回歸之前，我們都不知道將會(huì)發(fā)生什么。但是，你現(xiàn)在還是可以復(fù)習(xí)一下前三季的內(nèi)容的。