De acordo com o produtor do programa, os fãs odiaram, então eles pararam de mencioná-lo.
Q. Why doesn't Damon use his crow and fog trick anymore?
JP: crow's dead, too many people thought fog was cheesy.
Ela descreveu basicamente como sendo parte da " estranheza da instalação antecipada " que freqüentemente infecta programas de TV antes de obter o primeiro conjunto de respostas do público.
HitFix: Do you ever look back at those first handful episodes and do you ever miss the crows and the fog and the vampire football?
Julie Plec: [Laughter.] No, we don't miss the crows and the fog, for sure. It's funny, because in hindsight, Kevin and I have both read a lot of people in the press and bloggers and fans alike who say that the show didn't really click in for them til about episode six. Yet for us and the actors, we always look back at the first five episodes of the series and say, "Gosh, that was a time when things were simple and clean and very, very based in tension and mystery and character and didn't have to rely so much on frills and action and stunts and visual effects and witch craft." We get very sentimental, as storytellers, for those early episodes. But then I remind everybody that nobody actually liked them very much, so it's OK that we've moved on.