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The Vampire Diaries: The Essentials

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The Vampire Diaries barely compresses - it is serialised almost throughout, and published guides agree there is little to cut. What comes out are the standalone detours: the school-dance and holiday episodes, a handful of flashback side-trips, and 'The Originals', which is a backdoor pilot for the spin-off and carries nothing this show needs. No episode-level skip list exists for this series, so this is a judgement from reading all 171, not a sourced consensus.

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81%
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The Salvatore brothers
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Elena
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Caroline, Tyler and the hybrids
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Bonnie and the witches
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Katherine and the Originals
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The Travelers, the Heretics and Cade
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The cure and the hunters
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