I tried this extremely reluctantly in the summer this year and was expecting to hate it. It took a few episodes for me to get into it, but since then I've been hooked. I think it's misadvertised as a Twilight-esque angsty romance show, because that's such a small part of it and it's way beyond that. I love the kind of unofficial team that's forming (Elena, Stefan, Damon, Bonnie, Jeremy, Caroline, and Alaric) to take on Katherine. I didn't expect her to get caught out and trapped so soon - I wonder who's after Elena and who the team are gonna have to team up with Katherine to overcome. Obviously it's whoever Katherine faked her death to avoid and then needed a werewolf to defeat, so it must be a pretty big threat.