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Tonight on The Originals we had some flashback fun times in 1920, because who doesn’t love seeing some backstory without the horrible wigs?
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Before going into the flashback fun, have to wax poetic about how I’m really enjoying the evolution of the side characters in this series. Take Cami for instance, she’s grown into something that I don’t think anyone could have predicted on paper. We got to see her hang out with Marcel again tonight, which we hadn’t seen in a while, and she not only fights for his life but saves him by letting him drink her blood in the end. Which let’s be honest was partially to show Klaus he really can’t tell her what to do anymore, but beyond Cami you really have to give it up to the show for not killing off every other side characters. If half of these characters were on The Vampire Diaries they would have been dead within a few episodes. Thierry, Diego, Josh and Father Kieran all looked to be characters that would be unceremoniously dispatched, and yet are still around on all sides of the various kerfuffles making the show all that much better for it.
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Now while I’m patting backs I do have to pause to question what they have in mind for Rebekah exactly. It seems like everyone is obsessed with making her the eternal punching bag both on The Vampire Diaries and here. At what point is she going to get even the slightest glimmer of a win, something that both her brothers have been enjoying to various degrees? Sometimes it feels like she solely exists to give Klaus and Elijah someone to talk down to and be used to send them into action...even if it is against her own plan. If you’re going to have Rebekah talk big about wanting to bring Klaus down a peg then we’d better see that in action because all talk and no game isn’t very fun to watch for long.
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Especially because we now know the big secret that Rebekah and Marcel are keeping, they were ultimately behind why Klaus and company had to flee New Orleans. While we don’t know yet how that all went down we witnessed Marcel’s first attempt. Fresh off of serving his country in World War I--which if someone writes a fanfic about Marcel’s adventures as a vampire war hero please pass that along thanks--he pointed Papa Tunde in the direction of New Orleans in the hopes he’d drive Klaus away. Why? All to show Rebekah that he’d do anything to have a chance to be in her good graces again. I loved how she seemed very flattered by the gesture when he came clean. So much so that she planted the seed of having their father Mikael be the one who would really get Klaus running.
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Not that Papa Tunde didn’t give it a good go back then. First of all, it’s nice to see a male witch around let alone a very powerful one. Also, inspite of his body count from practicing sacrificial magic, you can’t look at him as the absolute worst. We live in a world where the big bad is the hero so Tunde is just another shade of grey on the scales of morality for this show’s world. He’s so committed to whatever war Celeste is looking to wage that he sacrifices the entire garden of vampires (so that’s why they let Thierry out at the beginning of the episode...) and ultimately himself to a blade that has some kind of power that’s worse than death. That reveal where they showed that the Garden had been plucked clean had me slow clapping it up, I have to admit. Well played witches, well played.
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Those dead vampires aren’t the only thing on Klaus’s plate at the moment. He’s not getting any respect from Marcel’s crew and ultimately a good chunk leave. Like Marcel, I was shocked at how many ended up staying, because Klaus doesn’t have a good track record for people being loyal to him. I only wished a handful would have stepped forward with him earlier in the episode when he asked for it, but I guess you can’t have it all. Well in New Orleans anyway… if like me you’ve not been keeping up with The Vampire Diaries and wondered why Marcel referenced Klaus’s mood after he made a trip up there, Klaus and Caroline fucked.In the woods. On the condition he wouldn’t come back again. So, congrats on the sex Niklaus, let’s hope Caroline doesn’t end up magically pregnant too!
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