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"Go back and watch 'Lost Girls.' It's a really phenomenally crafted episode of television. It might be a teen vampire soap opera, but dammit it's a great piece of television ... That one was special."

Leave it to a "Lost" alum to plug an episode with "Lost" in the title, but it's Paul Wesley's (Stefan) favorite, too.

"I think that's when we were like, 'This sh*t is pretty good,'" Wesley told Screener TV. "It was this episode called 'Lost Girls.'"

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"It was my favorite episode ever," Somerhalder told Screener. "My business manager was in town, and he's like a big brother of mine, and we were sitting in Paul's gorgeous apartment in Atlanta, and then the episode ended, and I saw him -- this guy Michael -- and he just said, 'Wow,' and he looked over at us and he goes, 'This is going to go, guys. This is going to be here for a while. You should probably dig your heels in.'"

That guy was right. Fast-forward from 2009 to 2017 and the series is only just now about to say goodbye, starting this Friday, March 10 with a retrospective at 8 p.m. before the final episode begins at 9 p.m.

Here's Mr. Smolderhotter talking about both "Lost" and TVD on "Jimmy Kimmel Live":[via: Screener TV]

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