Vampire Diaries Scoop: Meet Rayna, Season 7's Lethal New Vampire Hunter 

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) as Rayna, a vicious vampire hunter who “returns to the world of the living after being taken out by her enemies,” TVLine has learned. Described as “fierce, driven, smart and confident,” Rayna literally can’t rest until she’s exacted her vengeance — which probably 

(Also, no, we’re not going to address the fact that she looks 

like Elena. Nope, not even going to bring it up.)

fans, your knee-jerk thoughts on Rayna? Drop ’em in a comment below.

They are bringing in too many new characters. The show isn’t doing so hot and TVD always has difficulty with keeping focus to the main characters. This season we’ve been given a full blown history on the heretics and now we’ll get a life lesson on the huntress, it’s too much.

Yes.TVD has always failed to service their already large cast, adding more characters is just laughable!

I honestly like this even though I agree about bringing on too many characters but she sounds more interesting and dangerous then all the heretics put together. Now if she has chemistry with Stefan I will be on board!

Ok so she looks hilariously similar to Nina Dobrev (atleast in this pic).. but the whole flashforwards & huntress storyline has be totally intrigued.. So I’ll let it pass.. Hopefully they make her look considerably different on the show..

I clicked on this to see the name of the actress. I am going with the older sister of Victoria Justice.

Because the show is tanking. they’ll try anything to bring back viewers. since Dries and Plec wrote this show into the Dulena ground people left and have no desire to come back.

So are they trying to turn this into Buffy?

As someone who didn’t even care about Delena in seasons 5 and 6, I don’t think they were the main reason for failure. A lot of good writers left the show and writing for every aspect of the show has steadily declined in recent years. Now Delena isn’t even on screen anymore but the show is still bad. It’s sad because it used to be phenomenal in the early years.

LMAO “(Also, no, we’re not going to address the fact that she looks exactly like Elena. Nope, not even going to bring it up.)”

Hmmm…YES she looks A LOT like Elena (Nina Dobrev)!!! There I said it!!! uh oh!!! LOL

It’s not only physical appearance, even Rayna sounds like Elena. That may be a stretch but come on, billions of girls names out there, they could’ve gone w/ something radically different, had they wanted to. And I agree with Luke up there, too many characters. I dunno why tvd keeps doing that…

I’m really curious about the casting call for her role haha “Calling all alledged nina dobrev lookalike”

What TVD should be focusing on is the core characters because look at what happened today. They released a new poster and its of the heretics meanwhile TVD S7 aka Damon and Stefan’s poster is full on photoshopped. This might be Julie’s way of subtly hinting at a new spin off with heretics. Clearly Nina is not set to come back yet but the only way to have gotten me excited about a hunter is if it had been Katherine herself this makes me think that they wanted to go that route but had to use their back up plan

I lover her! Absolutely love her! She’s truly perfect! She really is. I am so excited!

I am too! Can’t wait until they unravel her story and how or why she’s after Stefan. Not to mention she’s the one that gave Beau that mark too. Her story and the flash forwards are exciting. Love the mystery and hope it lives up to the intrigue.

Interesting the actress already played a character with the same name (Reina) on The Suite Life on Deck. She’s better known for her work with Disney than NCIS

Let me guess who she looks like.. Chrissy Teigen?! Right! I got it!

They bring new characters each time but then the writers do not develop well the storylines of the current ones. For example. Matt is always underused and isolated. His story is always seem unimportant and secondary, while they bring new characters who are the focus on the show.

This is what I’m afraid of too. They hype up this huntress and then she’ll be lame and underdeveloped and then she’ll be easily killed. I really hope Julie/Dries doesn’t mess this up.

I thought Elena story was dead once the actress left the show. The season began and they still mention Elena. WHy the producers or the show cant let go on Elena and move on?? Plizzz!! ANd now to make things worse they bring in a new female character who look exactly like Nina Dobrev!! Isnt that lame and stupid?? Please let go of Elena and move on Julue Plec

They won’t let go of Elena ever, because the second Nina wants to come back they will write her in and not skip a beat. There is no doubt in my mind that at the very least, they will find a way to bring her back in the eventual series finale.

This new girl is just to return, even superficially, to that old Damon/Elena/Stephan dynamic. Maybe she’ll be Matt or Tyler’s new love interest?

She is gorgeous and looks so much like Victoria justice.

Isn’t Alaric and Jermey vamp hunters. Bring back Jeremy if you want a vampire hunter also is just me or do they clearly can’t just kill Elena off! Is clear in the writing that the plots only there for excuses for shipping and this new character being a hunter. She not going to hunt crap!

its so hard to not have elena on the show that they should have just made this new girl the new elena being she looks exactly the same, even though lots of people would hate that, i mean otherwise how long will the show last like how many more stories could they actually do in this show

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