The Originals
The Originals- The River in Reverse (1×08)
We’ve got two fighting machines in the ring tonight. On one side we have the hybrid, vampire-werewolf Original, Klaus!!! On the other side we have the ringleader of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Marcel!!!! Let the battle begin.
A couple of things become clear in this episode (as if we didn’t know them already). Klaus is strong. Klaus is unbeatable. Klaus is a manipulator. Klaus is lonely. The difference is now Klaus is getting to know them too. With everyone turning against him, a war was brewing in New Orleans between Klaus and his protege Marcel. Marcel armed with Rebekah, who was tired of her brother’s antics and inspired by Tyler’s plan, planned to take down Niklaus with an army full of vampires. Strength in numbers still doesnt beat out the strength of an original vampire-wolf. I’m disappointed that Klaus’s own sister didn’t have more faith in his strength and abilities. And neither did Tyler, who knows exactly what Klaus is capable of but still keeps feeding into the hands of the enemy. He got killed by Rebekah for crying out loud!
Klaus fought the battle with confidence. Even after they chained him and proceeded to beat him in something that looked like the crucifixion of Jesus, Klaus retaliated with his werewolf side, shredding to pieces each vampire in his way, until Marcel picked up the coin and became pretty much his slave. Klaus owned him now. Marcel was his minion. But what’s the point of having the kingdom and being in it alone? After all, when Marcel ruled he had so many vampire minions, but only because they liked him, looked up to him and trusted him. Klaus reigns with fear. He has no true friends. People listen and take his orders because their scared he’s going to kill them.
But lets not underestimate the power of Klaus. He too has a softer, nicer side. Concerned that a huge war was coming to New Orleans, he went to the father and confessed about his compulsion experiments with Cami. He admitted he really did like her and wanted to keep her safe. Either the father tell her to get on out of town, or Klaus would compel her. But just as we aren’t suppose to underestimate Klaus, he shouldn’t underestimate others, or overestimate his powers. Cami is smart. That’s why Klaus likes her. She’s also a brilliant psychologist, who knew she was compelled, left herself a hidden message in a drawing. When she found the drawing after she had left Klaus and her ‘other memory’ kicked in, she couldn’t remember where she had been, what the drawing was, or why she drew it. But she didn’t give up and she finally realized that she had been leaving herself hidden messages. In some weird hangman style game of clue, she spelled out “Klaus Compelled Me” along with 1919. With all this wild freetime on her hands and the power of the internet, she dug up some old pictures and recognized the two men on them. Her good pals Klaus and Marcel!!! How do we explain that one to her?? Another case of the dopplegangers?? Truthfully, if she got this far on figuring it out on her own, she damn well deserves to know the truth.
Elijah and Hayley were getting close as Elijah was nearing his death from the hybrid bite and zoning in and out of hallucinations, that he allowed Hayley to see. We learned a bit about Elijah’s past and about what seemed to be his greatest love, right before she got brutally drowned by Klaus. Despite all the bad things Klaus has done, Elijah still sticks by and hopes one day he’ll be able to fix whats broken. But learning from his mistakes also means he can’t get close to Hayley, for her own safety. Clearly, Klaus has been spiraling out of control because of his fear of being pushed away. It goes back to when he was a young boy mistreated by his father. Now he thinks that Hayley will take his baby and let Elijah be the father.
But Hayley has bigger problems at hand. She’s carrying Klaus’s baby and she’s in love with his brother and he knows. There’s three problems right there. She also wants to find out all about her family and after speaking to one member, she finds out they were hunted and cursed by Marcel. In order to stay safe she has to keep her moons shaped birthmark covered. But now she’s also got some hate towards Marcel and his little witch for harming her family. And we all know, the bon of family is stronger than ever. Even when one turns against their own blood like Rebekah, they soon regret it. Because people come and go, but family stays forever. Whether you like it or not!!!
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Joseph Morgan Reveals If He’d Ever Reprise His Character Klaus Mikealson for ‘Legacies’
If you’ve been waiting for the day where Klaus Mikealson strolls back into Mystic Falls to pay his daughter, Hope Mikealson, and the Salvatore School — which he helped fund — a visit, well, don’t get your hopes up.
The first two seasons of Legacies have given us some grade-A guest stars from The Vampire Diaries and The Originals including Aunt Freya (Riley Voekel), Kai Parker (Chris Wood), and Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig). We even briefly saw Lizzie and Josie Saltzman’s birth mother Josette (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe).
But as for baddie Klaus Mikealson, the man who brought him to life, Joseph Morgan, doesn’t think he’ll ever reprise his role again.
And turns out, he has a really good reason!
TV Guide caught up with the actor to talk about his Peacock show, Brave New World, and when asked about guest starring on The CW teen drama, he bluntly and rapidly shut down the possibility.
“No never, never. You’re never going to see it.” Morgan said. “You can hold your breath as long as you want. You know why? I have The Originals box set on my shelf, and it’s a beautiful thing because it’s five DVD sets that are a complete story from beginning to end of this guy, Klaus Mikaelson — well, starting back in The Vampire Diaries Season 2. So I just feel like to come back as a ghost or a flashback or something, for me, that journey, that story has ended. That’s the complete story, and it just doesn’t feel right to me to do that.”
As much as we’d like to see Klaus in the flesh again, you have to admit that’s a satisfactory answer. It shows that Morgan cares enough about the character not to reprise him without a purpose or taint his legacy.
Klaus Mikealson’s story came to a fitting end in the series finale of The Originals when he redeemed himself for the greater good and sacrificed himself alongside his brother Elijah to save his daughter. Since then, Hope has carried on his legacy; his memory lives on as she mentions him pretty often and channels what he taught her to protect her friends and fight off a plethora of demons and monsters.
Morgan added that he felt like series creator Julie Plec understood where he was coming from.
“I think Julie [Plec] feels the same. It just feels like it would be strange, like a little forced,” Morgan continued. “Like I’m coming back just so we can see something else of him, but when we see it we go, ‘Ugh, that was it?’ And I don’t want his legacy to be, ‘Ugh.’ I don’t know what the scene could be that it would be exciting enough and epic enough after the journey that he’s had.”
Morgan may get a pass, but Candace Accola surely doesn’t. We’d love to see her reprise her role of Caroline Forbes considering she’s raising two daughters with Alaric but has yet to pay them a visit or help out with the school! Don’t let us down, Caroline!
The fact that she is still alive in the supernatural world and has such close ties to Mystic Falls but yet never comes to visit doesn’t paint her in a great light!
Welcome, James Holt Joblon!
Claire Holt and husband Andrew Joblon welcomed their first child together.
The Originals actress shared a picture of her little man on Instagram writing, “Everything they say is true. There is no love like it.”
In the photo, James is wrapped in a hospital blanket and peacefully sleeping in his momma’s arms.
Pregnancy has been a difficult journey for Holt who suffered a miscarriage and underwent a consequent dilation and curettage procedure just seven months before she became pregnant with James.
In October, she announced her pregnancy writing:
“My heart is bursting. I’m so happy to share with you that we are having a baby! It still doesn’t feel real. These past few months have been filled with excitement, anxiety, tears, joy, uncertainty but most of all gratitude,” she wrote alongside the pregnancy announcement.
She also reflected on the miscarriage writing, “You never forget the deep pain of loss. It dims with time but it informs many of your experiences.”
We’re so happy for Claire and Andrew!
Sending congrats and love to the family!
Alaric has faced dragons, gargoyles and dryads, but the most threatening and terrifying monster was his late bride.
No, not because Jo herself was scary but because whatever resurrected her was hoping to use human emotion to pry the knife from Ric.
Of course, Ric is a vampire hunter with years of experience under his belt so, despite the jarring visual of his late fiancee standing in front of him in her still-bloody wedding dress, he didn’t fall for it immediately.
I’m proud to say he initially pointed a crossbow at “that thing” before slowly warming up to the idea that maybe it was really Jo.
However, at no point did Ric let his guard down because he knew that eventually, the true monster would come to light.
And boy, the zombie did.
The zombie knew that there was no way it could fool Ric so it latched onto Josie, the twin most interested in connecting with her birth mother on her 16th birthday.
Josie, who is named after Jo, was drawn to her birth mother because as she mentioned, she’s never found much of herself in Caroline.
That isn’t to say that she doesn’t love her mom, but Lizzie has always been more like Caroline, which us OG TVD fans can attest to.
Thankfully, we also know that Caroline grew out of the insecure, mean-girl shenanigans so there’s hope for Lizzie. More on that later.
Sadly, Jo’s bonding time with her mother ended with her getting buried alive. Not ideal by any means, but at least her friends Penelope, Hope and M.J all came to the rescue.
They fought through what looked like an episode of The Walking Dead before M.J could hear Josie’s screams and dig her up.
Thankfully, she was wearing Hope’s necklace, one that makes quiet things loud.
It’s poetic actually to see how many people want to help Josie free herself from Lizzie’s shadow.
Despite Penelope’s toxic attitude, she really does have Josie’s best interests at heart and seeing how she almost lost her, the two reconnected romantically.
What does that mean for Rafael?
As for Lizzie, she needs a major attitude adjustment.
Yes, seeing your birth mother in the flesh may come as a surprise but her hostility was not necessary.
Admittedly, she was being protective in order not to get hurt, but there’s nothing to blame or hate your “bio mom” for. It’s not like she wanted to die and never be a part of your life!
Secondly, everyone is right — she’s a terrible sister.
Lizzie takes Josie for granted which was more noticeable on this episode than ever before.
Her only priority is herself; she wanted to get the guy, she wanted to be happy, and Josie was only deserving of the “consolation prize.”
She didn’t even notice Josie was missing from the party until Rafael hurt her by telling her that he wasn’t interested in a relationship with her despite their hook-up from the previous night.
And only after she felt hurt did she even notice her sister never showed up to the party!
With the Gemini Curse creeping up on them on their 22 birthday, these two really have to find some common ground otherwise Josie doesn’t stand a chance next to the dominant twin.
I know Penelope wanted to prove to MJ that Lizzie was a terrible person but until Rafael showed up, it seems like she was really going to give MJ a chance.
Unfortunately, it’s because of girls like her that the good guys never win. MJ was so smitten with her, he knew everything about her down to her favorite song yet she still chose the “good looks” over the guy who went above and beyond to treat her like a princess.
Now that Rafael was honest with her, she’ll likely pursue MJ, but I sincerely hope he treats her the same way she’s been treating him.
Thank u, next!
I’m glad Rafael had a heart-to-heart with Hope and admitted that he wasn’t completely over his girlfriend’s death.
It was a bit concerning that he just fell for Josie instead of mourning his girlfriend. However, his hook-up with Lizzie and his desire to “be there” for her now makes more sense.
He’s trying to ease his guilt.
Their friendship is surprising but when Landon’s personal life comes into play, specifically his connection to the knife, Rafael will be a good contact for Hope.
You could probably tell from my reviews that I haven’t really been too keen on Legacies. I just couldn’t get into it because it was lacking the magic that both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals had.
They say it usually takes about four full episodes to really fall in love with a show. Mombie Dearest was the one that changed things for me.
It’s the most fun I’ve had watching an episode which I think mainly stems from the fact that it evoked so many of the emotions I’ve felt while watching the Vampire Diaries.
I was crying the same way I used to back in season one.
It could be because there were so many references to the sister shows — Jo, Caroline, the curse, Stefan Salvatore, the debutant ball, Hope’s aunt — but this episode just had the Mystic Falls vibe. The friendships are falling into place, the characters are being fleshed out and the main story-arc is promising.
I knew it was impossible for Jo to stay especially because she’s a witch who believes in the natural order of things, but I so hoped they’d find a way to keep her around.
It would have added so much to the show.
It was also hard to say goodbye to her again. I can’t imagine having to do that shortly after meeting your biological mom, but at least Josie and Lizzie got the opportunity.
As for Ric, it was definitely heartbreaking to see him lose Jo again, but the moment provided the closure he never had. After sixteen years, he was able to let her go knowing she was in a better place.
And I’m obviously still holding out for Caroline’s return. She’s bound to make a few visits considering, as we predicted, she’s traveling the world in hopes of finding the cure to break the Gemini Curse.
I wonder when they’ll tell the twins about that.
And if the knife possibly has something to do with it!
What are your thought on “Mombie Dearest?” Are you Team Josie or Team Lizzie?
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