Two iconic shows suffered pretty much the same fate, the only difference being that Supernatural lived a little longer!

It was the 2000s, we had and The Vampire Diaries living their best lives, and there were zero worries in the air. Then, everything went south.

In 2013, season 5 of The Vampire Diaries rolled out, and from that point on, the show began to go off the horror rails and into the romance track (this was not what we signed up for!).

Fans are wondering if this was a deliberate thought-through move or if the writers just fell into the same trap that the Supernatural creators had fallen into a few years earlier.

The Vampire Diaries started shifting its focus to relationships after season 2, but it got bad (and then worse and worse) after season 5: all the vampires somehow forgot that they were vampires, romance took center stage, and the show lacked action (at least, compared to the first seasons).

Four years later, in 2017, The Vampire Diaries ran its course, ending after eight seasons (thankfully).

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