Spoiler Alert! This article contains spoilers about the first 10 episodes of CW's "The Originals" Season 1.
But too much badasses might just spoil the show. We know that most characters in the supernatural shows have to be evil. Hello, they are all Hybrids, Vampires, Werewolves and Witches! So the Original Vampires must be the biggest jerks of all, otherwise, no one would buy it.
The Original family made their reputation in The Vampire Diaries. They made our beloved Salvatore brothers, the righteous Gilberts, a Bennett witch, and our favorite fugitive, Miss Katerina Petrova tremble with just wind of their names. Oh, those were the days. But then, when the Originals ran out of new ways to torture their descendants, everyone all became one happy family with the occasional internal conflicts, helping each other and backstabbing each other.
We all fell in love with The Michaelsons, the original family and were so glad they got their own show! We waited to see what's left of the family to roam New Orleans and revel in their thousand-year-old vampire glory. But no. What did we get instead? This badass family watching out from new-borns vampires some of whom don't even have daylight rings, and a few witches, most of whom aren't important enough that we never remember their names. The entire plot began with some mediocre witches threatening The Originals. I remember scoffing when the witch, Sophie Deveraux said, "We have a clear plan that we need to follow, and there are rules." Look whom she was saying it to, Niklaus and Elijah, the two fearless ruthless originals! These guys are not supposed to follow witch's orders. (Remember in TVD when two five hundred years old vampires, Rose and Trevor, stood in fear in front of Elijah?) They are the first vampires in "history"!
Oh, and there's the teenage witch, Davina, who got power from her THREE dead witch friends (oh, those friends were stupid enough to take part in a harvest by the way so how much power can it really be anyway?). Supposedly, Davina is more powerful than our Bonnie, who channeled power from A HUNDRED dead witches and used Expression.
Also, it's one thing so see a few decade year old vampires causing havoc in New Orleans but it's completely unacceptable to the point of being humorous when the bartender, Cami acts all tough when she faced vampires. The whole reason we love a Vampire's compulsion is that it gives the vampire the ability to control people. And the reason we love an Original's compulsion even more is that any one of the Michaelsons can compel any creature on earth who does not ingest vervain. And now, all the majesty of Compulsion is gone when Davina is lifting all the effects of the Big Bad Hybrid's compulsion from a newbie vampire and the human Cami, who doesn't even have as much pain threshold as a vampire.
So, how does a human who just recovered from Klaus's compulsion and just discovered everything about the supernatural world dare threaten Klaus? I don't see Cami's role in this show at all. Her uncle, the priest (whatever his name is, no one cares) also gives us super-boredom. Only Klaus seems to give a damn about her twin's death and massacre.
Davina was always full of empty threats saying she'd kill everyone when she doesn't even know how. The writers should do themselves a favor and do a better job at convincing us why Davina deserves to be the supreme witch everyone cares about. All we know about her is that she's strong (because she keeps saying "I'm strong.", unlike Bonnie who grew strong right in front of our eyes.
I was very happy to see that Rebekkah finally has something to do now. 9 episodes of getting upset or helping one of her brothers. She's better off hating everyone and do something about it instead of helping them like she's not even an Original at all. Hoping to see how she and Theirry works together!
And Marcel? For the first several episodes, all he did was "run his town" and throw parties. For a while, we got all excited thinking that we would see Cami spy on him for Klaus. But as it seemed, Cami barely lifted a finger. When nothing happened between the two, the writers tried to throw Rebekkah at him. I mean, someone should start being respectful to Rebekkah already! She's an original and as I recall Klaus saying "The thing is, she's (Rebekkah's) got flawless instincts, borderline supernatural", I would like to see her flawless instincts get some spotlight in TO.
Hayley has nothing to do, so when she's not trying to find her family, she would "help" Rebekkah do something unproductive. I've heard the word "help" way too much on this show. But now, it finally gets interesting since her family is locked in wolf form.
And Marcel? For the first several episodes, all he did was "run his town" and throw parties. For a while, we got all excited thinking that we would see Cami spy on him for Klaus. But as it seemed, Cami barely lifted a finger. When nothing happened between the two, the writers tried to throw Rebekkah at him. I mean, someone should start being respectful to Rebekkah already! She's an original and as I recall Klaus saying "The thing is, she's (Rebekkah's) got flawless instincts, borderline supernatural", I would like to see her flawless instincts get some spotlight in TO.
Hayley has nothing to do, so when she's not trying to find her family, she would "help" Rebekkah do something unproductive. I've heard the word "help" way too much on this show. But now, it finally gets interesting since her family is locked in wolf form.
And finally, the tragic (meh?) death of the violinist, Timothy. Who didn't call it? I'm actually glad about that. Seeing him and Davina together is always super awkward. I mean, let's fact it. Anyone can see the massive age difference no matter how hard his hair and make-up team tries to fix it. Tim and Davina don't even know anything about each other and it's impossible to detect any chemistry between them!
The best thing that happened in "The Casket Girls" is without a doubt, the unforeseen and imminent return of Celeste. Yes, having watched TVD for so long, us fans love cemeteries and grave-digging. Remember when Bonnie and her grams unleashed the tomb vampires who had been starved and emprisoned down there since 1864? Not merely decades like the vampires in Marcel's little "garden".
The best thing that happened in "The Casket Girls" is without a doubt, the unforeseen and imminent return of Celeste. Yes, having watched TVD for so long, us fans love cemeteries and grave-digging. Remember when Bonnie and her grams unleashed the tomb vampires who had been starved and emprisoned down there since 1864? Not merely decades like the vampires in Marcel's little "garden".
TVD's plot was so much stronger and every character was important (except for Matt. Why is he still alive again?) If TO wants to be the new hit superbad show, then the writers need to know that it's kinda pointless to show us how the big bad wolf got hurt by a teenage witch.
Even with all these disappointments, I enjoyed "The Casket Girls" more than any other TO episode. No doubt, TO's writers have a lot to work on. But I wouldn't miss to see my one of the favorite assembly of casts every week.
Even with all these disappointments, I enjoyed "The Casket Girls" more than any other TO episode. No doubt, TO's writers have a lot to work on. But I wouldn't miss to see my one of the favorite assembly of casts every week.
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