Spoiler Alert! Don’t keep watching if you haven’t yet watched
The Vampire Diaries’ season 6 finale, “I’m Thinking of You All the While.” Kristin Dos Santos of E! writes, “Sobbing. Sobbing harder. Sobbing ‘til we feel we may never have dry eyes again. Elena may not be dead, but nothing is happy in The Vampire Diaries world right now. Turns out we’ve got Kai—one of the greatest/worstest TV villains of all time, probably—to thank for the state of Elena, who is not quite dead–and not quite alive. But we’re actually very happy with this ending. We think that if Nina Dobrev felt it was her time to leave the show, this was an excellent way to go about doing it while still leaving it open for her to return whenever the series actually ends (in 60 or 70 years or so, probably).”