It really has been.
They keep pushing these chicks (Lizzie, Hope) with their bland boyfriends (Landon, Sebastian) in the hopes they can recreate the pairings from The Vampire Diaries but it aint working.
Continuing this Malovar shyt into this season was dumb too. Come up with better villains especially when the one they keep going back to is ass. But instead of trying to be creative they just go back to The Vampire Diaries well with Kai.
Also did they fire the dude who played Rafe? Because I figured by now there would be some update form him if he was still on the show.