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The old college try! Sandile and Fadzai close out with Elena Gilbert's last two years onscreen.
The main character of The Vampire Diaries, Elena enters her junior year a few months after losing her parents, trying to reclaim her life. She meets and falls in love with Stefan Salvatore, the charming and mysterious new student, who turns out to be a vampire returned to Mystic Falls. When Stefan's brother, Damon, appears, and people start dying in strange ways in her town, Elena finds herself falling into a dangerous web of the supernatural.
Over the course of the series, she grapples with each new discovery - vampires, witches, werewolves - and how constant threat from ancient creatures changes her as she tries to keep herself and her loved ones safe. She also finds herself torn between her undying love for Stefan, and her undeniable attraction to Damon, all turned on its head when she unexpectedly dies and becomes a vampire herself. But she gets by with her friends, her wits, and her capacity for empathy and cunning in equal measure.

(This episode focuses on Elena in seasons 5 and 6.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of depression, infertility, medicalised torture, mental coercion and manipulation, racism, sexual assault, sexual harrassment, suicidal ideation, suicide, and vivisection.

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Waking nightmare! Sandile and Fadzai chronicle Elena Gilbert's transition into a newly-turned vampire.
The main character of The Vampire Diaries, Elena enters her junior year a few months after losing her parents, trying to reclaim her life. She meets and falls in love with Stefan Salvatore, the charming and mysterious new student, who turns out to be a vampire returned to Mystic Falls. When Stefan's brother, Damon, appears, and people start dying in strange ways in her town, Elena finds herself falling into a dangerous web of the supernatural.
Over the course of the series, she grapples with each new discovery - vampires, witches, werewolves - and how constant threat from ancient creatures changes her as she tries to keep herself and her loved ones safe. She also finds herself torn between her undying love for Stefan, and her undeniable attraction to Damon, all turned on its head when she unexpectedly dies and becomes a vampire herself. But she gets by with her friends, her wits, and her capacity for empathy and cunning in equal measure.

(This episode focuses on Elena in seasons 3B and 4.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of depression, mental coercion and manipulation, sexual assault, sexual harrassment, suicidal ideation, and suicide.

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The mastermind returns! Sandile and Fadzai enter an era of wheeling, dealing, and cunning actions with Elena Gilbert.
The main character of The Vampire Diaries, Elena enters her junior year a few months after losing her parents, trying to reclaim her life. She meets and falls in love with Stefan Salvatore, the charming and mysterious new student, who turns out to be a vampire returned to Mystic Falls. When Stefan's brother, Damon, appears, and people start dying in strange ways in her town, Elena finds herself falling into a dangerous web of the supernatural.
Over the course of the series, she grapples with each new discovery - vampires, witches, werewolves - and how constant threat from ancient creatures changes her as she tries to keep herself and her loved ones safe. She also finds herself torn between her undying love for Stefan, and her undeniable attraction to Damon, all turned on its head when she unexpectedly dies and becomes a vampire herself. But she gets by with her friends, her wits, and her capacity for empathy and cunning in equal measure.

(This episode focuses on Elena in seasons 2B and 3A.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of depression, mental coercion and manipulation, sexual assault, sexual harrassment, suicidal ideation, and suicide.

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In the thirteenth episode of the podcast, Sandile and Fadzai brave a new, supernatural world with Elena Gilbert.
The main character of The Vampire Diaries, Elena enters her junior year a few months after losing her parents, trying to reclaim her life. She meets and falls in love with Stefan Salvatore, the charming and mysterious new student, who turns out to be a vampire returned to Mystic Falls. When Stefan's brother, Damon, appears, and people start dying in strange ways in her town, Elena finds herself falling into a dangerous web of the supernatural.
Over the course of the series, she grapples with each new discovery - vampires, witches, werewolves - and how constant threat from ancient creatures changes her as she tries to keep herself and her loved ones safe. She also finds herself torn between her undying love for Stefan, and her undeniable attraction to Damon, all turned on its head when she unexpectedly dies and becomes a vampire herself. But she gets by with her friends, her wits, and her capacity for empathy and cunning in equal measure.

(This episode focuses on Elena in seasons 1 and 2A.)

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of depression, mental coercion and manipulation, sexual assault, sexual harrassment, suicidal ideation, and suicide.

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In the fourth instalment of the Gilbert Journals, your hosts pull several archetypes from a grab bag of supernatural creatures in The Vampire Diaries: Hunters, Doppelgängers, and Mediums. The most mortal of archetypes, these appear often briefly or for singular purpose, but Sandile and Fadzai will still spend an exorbitant amount of time telling you what makes them tick.

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In the twelfth episode of the podcast, Fadzai and Sandile break the world with magical retcon, Daniella Labonair aka Alex Gilbert.

A late entry in the final season of The Vampire Diaries (and the fourth season of the Originals), Alex claims to be the long-lost twin sister of main character, Elena Gilbert, magically erased from the world and from the minds of the Mystic Falls Gang by a powerful witch. In the midst of the conflict with Cade and his psychic "hell", Alex tries to regain her life and her personhood - as well as her true love, Stefan Salvatore, whom she had to leave behind long before she was removed from existence.

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