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The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Sixth Season
Review by Suzanne Lanoue
9/5/15 |
I've watched every episode of this show, and
I always enjoy it. It has good writing that twists and
turns, making us wonder what happens next. There is a lot of
romance in the show. It's really more of a soap opera than
anything else. We care way more about who Elena will
love than any supernatural things. I love the actors,
especially Ian Somerhalder (Damon).
There's always been a lot of sadness and
some violence in the show, but it's definitely gotten worse
over the years. That's the problem with any series
that has so many shocks and surprises. The writers have to
keep upping the ante. The shocks and surprises have to get
bigger and bigger (and that becomes more violent and more
action-oriented), until eventually it becomes ridiculous and
somewhat cartoonish.
When almost everyone in the show has died
and come back to life multiple times, and become a vampire
or werewolf, and broken up and gotten back together, and
gone evil (and then back to good), it's just too much after
awhile. This season was harder to watch than previous
seasons because of all that. Also, it was just sadder.
First we had Bonnie and Damon in their fake
world, but then it was just Bonnie for a long time.
They mourned her. Caroline went bad for a while. Let's put
it this way, there was just a lot of death, sadness and
heartbreak. At the end, they killed off Elena, one of
the 3 major stars of the show. Wow. Sure, great shock, but
then again... it's hard to watch as well. It seems kind of
like a big disappointment for fans who've been rooting for
her to choose either Damon or Stefan or Matt. In the
end, none of them get her. They also killed off Alaric's
girlfriend and their baby. That was hard to watch. Poor
Alaric!
I hope that Elena's death revitalizes the
show. I can't wait to see how they deal with it in Season 7.
I hope things get a little cheerier and they find a way to
make the show less violent and have a better direction.
Somehow, though, I doubt they will. I will keep watching,
though.
I would suggest that if you watch the DVD,
you first watch the previous seasons so you know what's
going on. This is a soap!
The Blu-Ray was great, and I enjoyed
watching the features, especially the goodbyes to the actors
who are leaving. I will also miss the actor who played Liam.
He was very good. You can see a great list of the features
below.
MORE INFORMATION:
Winner of the 2015
People’s Choice Award For Favorite TV Duo
and 25 Teen Choice
Awards in Six Seasons!
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES:
THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON
Sink Your Teeth Into The Blu-ray™ and DVD
On September 1, 2015
Contains All 22 Episodes From The Sixth Season Plus Two
Featurettes, An Audio Commentary, The 2014 Comic-Con
Panel, Deleted Scenes, And A Gag Reel
BURBANK, CA (June 2, 2015) – Mystic Falls bids
farewell to one of TV's hottest vampires when The
Vampire Diaries: The Complete Sixth Season, is
released on Blu-ray™ and DVD on September 1, 2015, from
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Season Six is also
available to purchase on Digital HD. Averaging nearly
2.7 million viewers weekly in its sixth season, The
Vampire Diaries remains The CW’s #1 show with young
female demos and will return for a seventh season on The
CW this fall. Fans can get sucked into all 22 one-hour
episodes from season six and gorge on nearly two hours
of gripping extras — including two brand-new featurettes,
episodic audio commentary, the 2014 Comic-Con panel,
deleted scenes and a gag reel. The Vampire
Diaries: The Complete Sixth Season will be
priced to own on DVD at $49.99 SRP and on Blu-ray at
$54.97 SRP.
The
Vampire Diaries continues its sixth season with more
delicious drama to sink your teeth into. In season five,
after a passionate summer with Damon, Elena headed to
Whitmore College with Caroline, not knowing Bonnie
sacrificed her life for Jeremy’s. Meanwhile, Stefan and
Caroline’s friendship deepened as they stood up to the
Travelers, a nomadic witch tribe driven to strip Mystic
Falls of magic and cast out its supernatural
residents. In the shocking season finale, Damon, fearing
he would lose his loved ones on the crumbling Other
Side, made a huge sacrifice to bring them all back —
with catastrophic and heartbreaking results. Season six
follows the characters’ journey back to each other as
they explore the duality of good versus evil inside
themselves. Matt Davis reprises his role as Alaric
Saltzman, recently returned from The Other Side. Plus,
the season will make you misty-eyed as the departure of
a major character will turn lives upside down and leave
us asking what happened to Mystic Falls.
With Blu-ray’s
unsurpassed picture and sound, The Vampire
Diaries: The Complete Sixth Season Blu-ray
release will include 1080p Full HD Video with DTS-HD
Master Audio for English 5.1. The 4-disc Blu-ray will
feature a Hi-definition Blu-ray, and a Digital HD copy
of all 22 episodes from Season Six.
Season six
of The Vampire Diaries stars Nina Dobrev (The
Perks of Being a Wallflower, DeGrassi: The Next
Generation), Paul Wesley (Fallen, Everwood),
Ian Somerhalder (Lost), Steven R. McQueen (Everwood),
Kat Graham (17 Again, Honey 2), Candice Accola (Dating
Rules from My Future Self, Supernatural), Zach
Roerig (Friday Night Lights), Michael Trevino (Cane),
Matt Davis (Damages, Blue Crush) and Michael
Malarkey (Raw). Based on the series of books by
L.J. Smith, The Vampire Diaries is from Bonanza
Productions Inc., in association with Outerbanks
Entertainment, Alloy Entertainment, Warner Bros.
Television and CBS Television Studios. The executive
producers are Kevin Williamson (The Following,
Scream, Dawson's Creek), Julie Plec (The
Originals, Kyle XY), Leslie Morgenstein (Pretty
Little Liars, Gossip Girl, The Originals) and
Caroline Dries (Melrose Place, Smallville). The
series was developed by Williamson and Plec. The show
has received numerous awards, winning a People’s Choice
award for Favorite New TV Drama in its first season. The
series has also won 25 Teen Choice awards thus far.
SPECIAL FEATURES
·
The Vampire
Diaries: Good Bite and Good Luck
·
The executive
producers and cast of The Vampire Diaries say a
final farewell to Nina Dobrev, Steven R. McQueen,
Marguerite MacIntyre, and Michael Trevino, after six
memorable years.
- The Vampire Diaries:
Best.Reaction.Ever.
- Fan reactions to big
moments throughout the season will be curated
from Twitter, fan sites and other social media,
and pieced together to tell the story of season
six via fans’ reactions.
·
Ep.615 Audio
Commentary
·
Writer/Director
Julie Plec provides commentary on her directorial debut
- The Vampire Diaries: 2014
Comic-Con Panel
·
Come Visit
Georgia PSA
·
Deleted Scenes
22
ONE-HOUR EPISODES
1.
I’ll Remember
2.
Yellow Ledbetter
3.
Welcome to Paradise
4.
Black Hole Sun
5.
The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
6.
The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get
7.
Do You Remember The First Time?
8.
Fade Into You
9.
I Alone
10.
Christmas Through Your Eyes
11.
Woke Up With A Monster
12.
Prayer For The Dying
13.
The Day I Tried To Live
14.
Stay
15.
Let Her Go
16.
The Downward Spiral
17.
A Bird In a Gilded Cage
18.
I Never Could Love Like That
19.
Because
20.
I’d Leave My Happy Home For You
21.
I’ll Wed You In The Golden Summertime
22.
I’m Thinking of You All The While
BASICS
Street Date: September 1, 2015
Running Time: Feature: Approx 968 min, Enhanced Content:
approx 120 min
Blu-ray & DVD: Presented in 16x9 widescreen format
DVD
Price: $49.99 SRP
5 DVD-9s
DVD Audio – English (5.1)
DVD Subtitles – ESDH, Spanish, French
Catalog #
1000525940
UPC# 883929444038
BLU-RAY
Price: $54.97 SRP
4 BD-50s
Blu-ray Subtitles – ESDH, Spanish, French
Blu-ray Audio -1080p Full HD Video, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Catalog # 1000526401
UPC # 883929445073
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