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The Originals Season 1 (2 Viewers)

Adam Lenhardt

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The pilot was essentially a retelling of the "Vampire Diaries" episode from last season, with a bit more new information and a crapload of hamfisted exposition crammed in. Having seen the show first heavily tilted toward Klaus and now heavily tilted toward Elijah, I still have no idea what an average episode will feel like when the characters are presumably more equally balanced in screen time.The intercutting between the new footage shot in North Carolina for the pilot and the footage from the "Vampire Diaries" episode actually shot in New Orleans only highlighted how limiting the decision not to film in Louisiana will be.Faking a fictional town one state to the north is a pretty simple task. But nowhere else on earth feels like New Orleans. The planted pilot captured that feeling, but the new footage for the actual pilot did not. Much like "Smallville's" Metropolis, I fear that all we'll see of "The Originals's" New Orleans is the same one block and couple of side streets they built in North Carolina.
 

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The CW has a lot of pretty but painfully lightweight actress on its shows, but on no show does that stand out more than this one. Mainly because Claire Holt is so phenomenal as Rebekah Mikaelson, they really pale in the comparison.It's so refreshing to get to see this universe without the endless love triangles. The setup of Marcel as Klaus's ward was very purposeful, because that's essentially the role he's putting Hayley into. I wouldn't have bought throwing those characters together romantically, so it's nice to see that their relationship is not about that. The unborn child, this world's sort of nuclear football, is instead a bond of family. Their one night stand might have been a dalliance, but the product of that one-night stand makes them family.I really liked Marcel's back story, both because of the unsentimental portrayal of antebellum Louisiana and because of the way Klaus's backstory is translated into a real world equivalent. There were a lot of bastard children of prominent slaveholding politicians and public figures prior to the civil war. Marcel's father gives him a legitimate claim to New Orleans, while his slave mother parallels Klaus's werewolf father.I also liked that they addressed head-on the question: If this baby has put Hayley in such danger, why doesn't she just take care of it. The idea of wolfsbane as an abortion method for werewolves is one of those ideas that makes a perfect sort of unseemly sense.As for Marcel's plan to kill an Original: he obviously doesn't know the title of the show he's in. There are a lot of Elijah devotees that might walk away from the show if Elijah were actually killed off.
 

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After a season that really tried my patience at times -- especially once Rebekah was written off the show -- this was a pitch perfect finale that finally lived up to the show's title.
 

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