ALARIC!

This is so exciting! I can’t wait.

He is pretty good looking (though not particularly in that picture). They probably upped his age and also chose an older actor so he doesn’t blend in with the rest of the cast (A lot of the cast members playing high school students are technically passed Alaric’s age in the books in real life).

If there is a Meredith coming, I’m sort of thinking she’s possibly older than the other characters (maybe she already graduated high school?) At college or taken a year off to travel or whatever. We’ll see what they’ll have planned.

I like this casting a lot. Matt can play a little younger, look at Ian and Paul, so Alaric is still probably going to be in he’s 20′s. Maybe not as young as in the books, but maybe when the cast Meredith she’ll be slightly older. Either way he had to look older then the other guys on the show.

You know, I still think there’d be no Meredith on the show… I think tv Bonnie is supposed to be a mix between book Bonnie and Meredith… Her looks and her character fits, don’t you agree? But I’d love to be wrong about that :P

I don’t see why both Julie Plec and Kevin Williamson would make a point of publicly stating there was going to be a Meredith if they had no plans to eventually bring her in. I really, truly don’t believe they’d do that to the fans. The fact they even said it in the first place means they understood that a lot of people were disappointed.

Patience, grasshoppers – if you’ve been paying attention this far, you know the story is being stretched and manipulated to fill an entire TV season. And it’s not like there ain’t a lot going on in Mystic Falls right now.

When the news came through and I recognized his picture, the first thing that popped into my head was: “If I want to be a Senator, I need to marry a Jackie, not a Marilyn.”

Yay! With all the slight twists that the story has taken so far, it is good to see Alaric popping into the story! Will be interesting without the Meredith twist in Alaric’s story (though that could be how she pops in later?