We’re counting down
to the last 2 episodes of Originals ever - but just when you thought
Plec had finished, Legacies has been announced and is, sadly, a thing.
This means we’re now all treated to a BACK DOOR PILOT
Yay.
So everyone is sad
because Hope is dying. And, technically, I think it’s really well done. The
acting is really good (and, while I have many many many many many
oh-my-gods-so-many issues with The Originals the quality of the acting
has never been one of them. Just about the whole cast is absolutely masters of
their craft and, let’s face it, to sell this nonsense they have to be). And
there’s some really moving scenes including Hope and Elijah spending all day
together having fun, poking bullies, driving a Bentley and generally been
really well connected. They seem to have got over the whole killing Hayley
thing - and when Hope has a near death experience she has a nice moment with
her mother’s ghost who carries a message to Elijah to help comfort his angst as
well. Hope knows she’s dying and wonders if she should die because she, a three
way Hybrid with extra Original zing, was never actually supposed to exist in
the first place. It’s very real and full of genuine emotion including moments
with Elijah reminding Hope what a terrible childhood they had and lots of
understanding and connections
It’s sweet… but since
we know that Hope is going to be the protagonist of the new spin off series so
we know she’s not going to die which means no matter how hard they sell it, it
kind of falls flat
This is also the
chance to introduce other characters who are clearly going to be in the new
series - Landon, a normal human waiter who is going to be (one of) Hope’s love
interests (and I say one of because there is no way this new show isn’t going
to have a million love triangles), Josie and Lizzie, Alaric and Caroline’s
Gemini coven daughters and, of course, a return of Caroline and Alaric.
While Hope and Elijah
are having an emotional time, Klaus refuses to accept his daughter is going to
die and hatches a plan to save her - using Josie and Lizzie’s syphoner powers
to drain the darkness out of Hope and put it into him. Caroline agrees because,
as we see repeatedly, she and Klaus have always had a weird connection which
completely ignores how he threatened and abused her so constantly. Alaric is
not a fan and stakes Klaus because, as the books in the Library are clear,
Klaus is still like the Worst person Ever. Though why they have Stefan’s
journal I do not know - is the diary of a major serial killer really something
you need in a school library?
Alaric comes round
because Caroline convinces him (and makes a deal with her daughters for lessening
the uniform rules for their help because they’re definitely not push overs) but
mainly because Klaus says he’s not going to just jump in the ocean with all the
darkness inside him - but he’s going to stake himself. With the White Oak
stake. Yes, he’s kept one - all this time there’s actually been one lying
around. Remember when they were freaking out over a child’s toy Klaus carved
from the white oak? Well Klaus has always had this
Holy retconning!
Elijah hears of this
and, of course, loses his ever loving mind and demands to be the one to be
staked because he’s Elijah and he has THE BIGGEST martyr complex ever. Thery
fight and Klaus wins because he’s the super hybrid guy. So on the night of
Hope’s first change, the witches cast the spell and Klaus is the one to absorb
all the dark magic. Elijah arrives too late
All he can do is
watch as Klaus points the stake at his own chest
My prediction: Klaus
+ dark magic = too powerful to be staked. Though it is the end of Originals so
maybe, maybe he will actually die for more angst now he’s not a main character
Elijah and Hope
together makes me slightly sad that we had to have a whole season of Nazi
vampires when we really could have had a quieter but, I think, more fulfilling
season of The Originals having the whole family come together
quietly work through their issues and generally be a family. We didn’t need the
nazis. Elijah even makes a point this episode that they all said Hope would
save the family. Well this is the last season, make it so. Make her the
catalyst to bring the family together. Have them reconcile, have them be less
dramatic for five minutes. That could have been a season. I wish it had been -
imagine a season of Originals which didn’t rely on angst and melodrama but
actually tried to address 4 seasons of Originals conflict with actual family
unity.
I’m still waiting for
them to actually justify why werewolves and vampires need a magic school or
how, as we’re reminded by the whole Gemini witches thing, different branches of
witches are going to be taught at the same school
