Anyone that has yet to watch last
night’s episode of The Originals,
entitled ‘Bloodletting’, now would be a good time to go and do that. For this
is not a spoiler free blog. THIS REVIEW
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! You’ve been warned.
Well, this week’s episode wasn’t a
bad episode; I just don’t think it was anywhere near as good as the last two. First
of all, they crossed Tyler over to this series, which, while it did illuminate
the fact that the blood of Hayley and Klaus’s baby can create more hybrids, was
a big mistake in my opinion. I lost interest in him over on The Originals a good season ago, why
would they think crossing him over to this series would benefit it in any way?
The people want Caroline on this series, not Tyler.
Another thing that bugged was more
of the same with Klaus and his insecurities about nobody loving and wanting him
around, so he basically has to go around threatening and seeking out vengeance.
He wants people to fear him, and yet that tends to end in revolts. I was happy
to have him and Elijah being on good terms, and for Rebekah and him to be on,
more or less, decent terms as she left. Then they went and screwed that around
this week by having Elijah lose faith in his brother’s actions so Klaus bit
him, and to have Rebekah and Marcel start to work against Klaus. They’re
screwing around with this story too much, when it was working with the Original
family of vampires actually working together, with some slight jealousy on
Klaus’s part seeing Elijah fawning over Hayley. So basically, this episode
worked for about half of it, until they found Hayley, and Marcel and Rebekah
got to talking in the garden.
One thing I did enjoy about this
episode was Hayley’s willingness to fight. She did her best and actually
managed to escape, right before Elijah and Klaus came in to save her. The fact
that this girl wants to fight is something I can really find myself rooting
for, definitely more so than I was on The
Vampire Diaries. And also, I really enjoyed the scenes between Davina and
the newbie vamp. They actually seemed like they could be friends. Although I
was confused about the guy saying he liked boys. Wasn’t he the vampire that was
changed when his girlfriend betrayed him? I’m a wee bit confused about that.
Mind you, I prefer his friendship with Davina more being that he’s gay, because
that means they’re definitely not going to push a romantic relationship between
the two of them. For once a guy and girl can be actual friends without it
leading to more.
There were a couple other things I
was confused by in this episode. Did anyone else feel like Tyler’s character
was completely different on this series than on the mothership? I just couldn’t
understand a guy that had been somewhat happy with Caroline for a moment in
last week’s TVD episode, could make a complete one-eighty into this character.
Am I alone on this? Also, what was that whole business where Klaus bit Elijah
and said he would soon have hallucinations? Will he still have hallucinations
because of the bite and just not die? Because he said it wouldn’t kill him, and
I didn’t think it could because he’s an Original, but then what was the point
of Klaus biting him then?
Anyways, like I said, not as
strong as the last couple of episodes this season, but it still had its
moments. This series is still definitely a guilty pleasure in that I like it so
much, much more than I expected to last season on TVD when this concept was
introduced. I used to think the Originals needed to stay on The Vampire Diaries, particularly as
such a gung ho Klaroline shipper, but they mostly seemed to be more actualized
and ripe with story opportunities on their own series, and not distracted by
the Delena/Stelena love triangle.
My rating: 6.5 out of 10.
Best Lines:
“If I’m moving too fast for you Nicklaus, you’re welcome to
wait in the car. Do be certain to leave the windows down.” – Elijah explains to
Klaus.
“I’m a witch, I’m not Amish.” – Davina says.
“So did I, the last time I was in Cabo.” – Hayley tells
Elijah, regarding the fact that everyone does unspeakable things.
Okay, I’m off to review Supernatural
now. Stick around for more.
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