对这部剧集来说，来参加动漫大会的人多半只关心「Stelena」和「Delena」，其他的东西很少谈论。不过，剧组还是透露了一些新季的消息。

● 剧组首先播放了一段简短的预告：在一个镜头中，Damon怒气冲冲地将Matt顶在墙上，大概是因为Elena变成了吸血鬼而Matt安然无恙，Damon认为这件事Matt应该负主要责任；在另一个镜头中，Damon冷冷地对他的兄弟说：「Now the world has one more quarterback. Bravo, brother.」

● Matt成了Mystic Falls仅存的「人类」（当然，这是指核心角色），他在本季的地位会得到「提升」。或许他会为Elena提供「血源」？

● 制片人Julie Plec用了她每年动漫大会都要说的话：「一切都感觉很新鲜，就像全新的一样。我们走了正确的路……更深刻、更让人动情、更复杂……」云云。真希望她能换几句话。

● 几名演员表示：Elena是一个强悍的女孩，现在是个强悍的吸血鬼女孩，她能自己照顾自己；Damon、Stefan和Elena必须在很短的时间内适应他们的新关系；Elena会对自己的新「身份」感到困惑；本季会强化Elena「内心的挣扎」。其中一个最重要的「挣扎」是：Elena一向认为自己和Katherine不同，现在她也成了吸血鬼，她要如何做个与Katherine不同的吸血鬼？

● 演员开玩笑：Elena还有一样东西要向Damon和Stefan学习——Vampire Sex！

● Damon将回归「本质」。Damon曾试图做一个「好人」，但现在不会了——Damon没有办法做好人，因为那根本不管用。

● 扮演Matt的Zach Roerig开玩笑：或许Forbes警长能成为我的爱情对象？晕……原来Matt喜欢熟女？

● Julie Plec暗示，除非确定Klaus不再是个威胁，否则Katherine是不会露面的。至于Katherine本季是否会露面，Julie Plec说了一句《格林》剧组挂在嘴边的话：we’ll have to wait and see.

● 尽管Matt Davis成了CW新剧《戏中迷局》（Cult）的男主角，但不排除他（扮演已死的Alaric）在第四季再次出现的可能。此外，Julie Plec证实Torrey DeVitto扮演的Meredith会回归。

● 第三季把Esther称作「初代巫师」，在她之前是否还有巫师？他们是什么情况？这是第四季要解释的一个问题。

《吸血鬼日记》2012动漫大会观众见面会文字实录

Pre-panel:
Sebastian Roche is in the audience. People are running over to take photos!

3:33 p.m.
Remember, people: The new season premieres Oct. 11! Reel about to be shown…

3:36 p.m.
Reel touts: “To feed? Or not to feed? That is the question.” The ending kicker: “Death becomes her.”

3:37 p.m.
Panel is here: Steven R. McQueen, Zach Roerig, Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder, EP Julie Plec, Michael Trevino, and EP Kevin Williamson, who is moderating.

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3:42 p.m.
Williamson says they’ve been filming season 4 for a week. And Paul jokes that he hasn’t punched Ian yet.

3:43 p.m.
Julie on season 4: “We’ve been in the writers’ room for a couple of months now. We had a longer stretch to think about it this year…and it feels so fresh. It feels familiar in all the right ways and different in all the right ways.” She adds: “Damon and Stefan will have to deal with that change with her.” Also, graduation coming! “It’s a lot of really good, deep, emotional and twisted stuff.”

3:44 p.m.
Michael talking Tyler season 1: “Even I despised the character!”

3:46 p.m.
Nina says playing Elena and Katherine used to be easy because they were so different — vampire and human. Now, it’s “tricky”: “So how to make them different?…I’m going to be figuring it out as we go along.” And this season “she’s constantly going to be struggling with herself and how she’s never wanted to become [a vampire].”

3:47 p.m.
Ian says this season Damon will be unapologetic because he’s done everything people asked him to do up until this point. “If [they] don’t like it, [they] can go [mouths f-word] yourself.”

3:49 p.m.
Williamson: Will this be the season of Matt?
Zach: It will be the season of Matt trying to stay a human.

3:54 p.m.
Paul’s suggestion for the love triangle? “Salvatore sandwich.”

3:55 p.m.
Zach suggests Matt and Sheriff Forbes hook up. Paul wants to jump in bed with Elijah. They’re joking — we think. Nina wants Katherine to hook up with Elijah. “They can throw each other around!” says Ian.

3:56 p.m.
Nina says she “felt like a bad-ass” doing the underwater scenes in the season 3 finale.

3:59 p.m.
Julie loved watching the candlelight vigil for Alaric. Paul outs Matt Davis and tells the crowd that Matt got tears in his eyes while filming that.

4:00 p.m.
The first audience member who gets up to asked a question complimented the casts’ “hot” EW cover! THANK YOU, FAN!

4:02 p.m.
“Katherine will not show her face until Klaus is no longer a threat. We’ll see when that is.” says Julie

4:03 p.m.
Second question was almost censored, and the cast is NOT happy about it. They ask the person in charge to not do it any more. “This is why we flew here and this is why they lined up and waited,” Ian says.

4:05 p.m.
Elena’s transformation was initially pitched as part of season 2. That’s why Julie knew the studio would be okay with making the movie in season 3.

4:07 p.m.
Julie on Alaric return: He definitely has permission from his other show (Cult) to appear. “We certainly don’t like living in a world without Matt Davis in our family. So it’s possible.”

4:08 p.m.
Julie on who Esther, the Original Witch, learned from: “That’s a big question we’re going to be asking this year.”

4:11 p.m.
Ian on the love triangle after Elena’s transformation: “[She’s] going to need help from [Damon and Stefan], and I think the three of them are quite possibly going to learn a LOT about each other. It’s going to be an interesting process.” Paul adds: “We can have vamp sex, which lasts half a second.” He then made a sound to accompany it.

4:12 p.m.
Julie says we will not be meeting Kitsune twins from the books this season. But we will be seeing more Meredith (Torrey DeVitto).

4:14 p.m.
A Hunger Games question!! In the arena “who would you kill first and who would you kill last?” Steven says he’d gang up against Zach because apparently he can hunt turkeys. Nina and Michael say they would team up with Zach because he can hunt. Zach = Cato?

4:15 p.m.
Panel over! Thanks for playing. Stay tuned to EW.com for more Comic-Con fun! The Vampire Diaries cast will also be stopping by our live studio a little later. Keep an eye on our homepage for that!