That's exactly what I said in my first post.

Kai said no tricks so Bonnie needs to die a real death and stay dead.

Well yeah, I understand that but I'll still be disappointed because they had the opportunity to tie all this up and instead pushed ahead with an entirely pointless two seasons. I don't think they made the most of the opportunity that they had when Nina left.

This is really disappointing to me. I feel like they should let Steroline happen. I don't ship them but it's been a waste otherwise. They seemed to work together. I'm also going to be really unsatisfied if they don't bring Elena back to close the story.

I still don't know why no one else has mentioned the fact that there is a very simple and obvious loophole for the Elena/Bonnie link spell. Spells ALWAYS have a loophole on this show. Remember how many times Bonnie was used to undo a spell cast by a Bennett witch because only a Bennett witch could break it (e.g.…

This is right. The plan was for Damon to really decide whether he wanted to be human with her. He would have drank the cure from her blood. She wouldn't die like Katherine did when Silas drank it from her. She died because she aged the 300 or so years she was. Elena would only have aged the year or so since she became…