'The Originals' 1.07 "Bloodletting" Review

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This week on The Originals we experience what could be called our first crossover event with The Vampire Diaries when Tyler comes to town.

Here’s a little backstory on why Tyler is here if you’re not up to date on the mothership: he came back for Bonnie’s funeral and then in the next episode declared he couldn’t be with Caroline until he’d destroyed Klaus. So that’s what brought the little hybrid that could down to New Orleans. We first see him when we realize that Marcel didn’t take Hayley, because Tyler did and boy does he ever wind up dropping a twist bomb on us. The vision that Sabine likely saw was that Klaus could use the baby’s blood to make an army of hybrids which is something that everyone and their mother immediately believes that Klaus knows already thus thats the only reason he gives a shit.

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Tyler uses a werewolf as a test subject and it works, but that hybrid wasn’t a Klaus sire as it obeyed Hayley.  So magic miracle baby may be more of a threat than anyone could realize. I’m already predicting the little tyke is going to grow up super fast like the trope from many other genre shows, and soap operas too for that matter. After Hayley escapes and Klaus finds Tyler we get what I think all of us wanted, some knock-down drag-out hybrid fighting.  Of course the truth comes out there that Tyler wants Klaus to kill him, so naturally Klaus doesn’t kill him. Eat that Klaroline shippers, it was only because Klaus is a stone cold cruel bastard that Tyler is still alive.  Because let’s be real here, if he told Caroline that Tyler came down trying to kill Hayley and so he had no choice but to kill him then she’d probably get over it eventually. Since ‘her’ Tyler would be considered gone after such an act. Klaus had stopped chasing him months ago and Tyler didn’t come back to Caroline at all over the summer. So he was also the one that reignited things and that doesn’t paint Tyler in the best light to anyone.

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Now Klaus has done a lot of terrible things especially to Tyler so I’m not going to play the pity game with Klaus. He’s not a woobie,  because he knows what he’s done and embraces it--playing the role he’s been given as he tells Elijah.  Everyone has done just as bad if not worse at various points however, and this was an arguement I would make all the time on The Vampire Diaries.  No one cares for long when noble Elijah murders the last witch elder just like no one cares when Rebekah slaughters half a dozen vampires, but if it’s implied that Klaus might know something and he has a grand scheme then everyone turns on him and believes it’s true.  That’s not saying however, that the siblings he’s locked away in coffins multiple times on a whim, or as he calls it, ‘an act of self preservation’ aren’t justified in their quick anger with him.

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It appears that Rebekah might be done with Klaus, and he just doesn’t know it yet.  After Marcel takes her to the Garden, which was apparently meant to be a house he was building for them before she had to flee New Orleans so many years ago, Beks may be conspiring to help Marcel bury Klaus away forever.  Something tells me that Marcel could succeed at it where some pesky teens from Mystic Falls couldn’t. Hell, I could even see that as a season finale moment. Klaus being buried knowing full well his sister was the one who made it happen. But they’re really burning through storyline like they used to in the good old days of The Vampire Diaries, so it’s entirely likely sides are going to change several times over the course of the season.  

Especially because Tyler didn’t just limp off after the Klaus fight instead he goes to Marcel and outs that Hayley is carrying a child that could wipe out the vampire race. An interesting choice of words there, is he implying that the hybrids would kill them all? Or that, unlike Klaus’ method, this child’s blood could make vampires into hybrids? I might be reading too much into it, but I think it’s something interesting to chew on especially because in this canon you can’t make someone a werewolf via just a bite.

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One last thing I want to talk about was the friendship we saw blossom in the episode between Josh, the vampire who Klaus was using to spy on Marcel, and Davina.  It had all the marks of a potential romance until you get reminded that Josh is gay. After Davina painfully clears his head of Klaus’s compulsion she’s supposed to make him forget her, but instead Josh asks her not to because he likes talking to someone normal and this is something Davina’s wanted to be for a while.  Hopefully, Josh doesn’t end up getting her killed because I’ve really come around on her in the past few episodes. Yeah I said it, I like Davina... try not to faint.