#The Originals Season 5

[helpimstuckinafandom]

Klaus is miserable and decided to be a deadbeat dad

Rebekah and Marcel are breaking up for the millionth time despite being together seven years now

Elijah's happy but also doesn't have his memories

Meanwhile Kol is out here chatting with his niece on video and gushing about his wife of seven years, completely living his best life

[unreal-unearthing]

Really love the ‘fuck this, I’m going home to my wife’ energy Kol brings to the last season of the Originals.

[andreal831]

In your opinion, would Elijah still have decided to die by his brother’s side if Hayley was still alive?

*Spoilers for Season 5 of The Originals*

In my opinion, the entire decision for Klaus and Elijah to die together was out of character.

Neither Elijah nor Klaus would die and leave Hope alone. I know she had her other family, but Klaus and Elijah always viewed themselves as family before the others. They would have wanted one of them to stay behind for her. Klaus dying for Hope really made no sense. He would have rather someone else die than leave his daughter an orphan.

To me, Elijah has always been a little suicidal so him dying was not a surprise to me. Him allowing Klaus to die, made no sense. That being said, if Hayley was alive, yes I think it may change some things. But even with Hayley alive, if it was a choice between him and his brother, he would still have been the one to sacrifice himself. He tried to do it in season 4 to save Klaus with Hayley standing right there.

Elijah is one who was always ready to sacrifice himself to protect his family. If it was ever even remotely a chance his death could save them, he jumped on it. I think it's partly because he didn't feel he deserved to live and experience any happiness, but also because he loved his siblings much more than he loved himself.

I've always viewed him erasing his memories as a way to kill himself. He erased himself rather than be separated from his family and Hayley. If he could sacrifice his life and it would allow his family to be whole once again and allow Hayley to have the support of his family, he would sacrifice himself.

So if everything else had happened the exact same way in Season 5, except for Hayley's death, I think he may have tried harder to find another way. But, if they were unable to, yes I think he still would have sacrificed himself.

Now, if there was zero way to save Klaus, I think he would have stayed for Hayley and Hope. They wouldn't have both died leaving everyone behind. But again, I don't understand how Elijah didn't make Freya give him the entire Hollow and cut Klaus out of the decision-making, splitting it made no sense for Elijah's character.

I also think it would be good character development for him to not die with Klaus. Showing that he was breaking away from his toxic codependency on Klaus, but it would be based on no real development because, if anything, they just became more dependent on each other as the show went on.

Thanks for the ask!

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[haylijahtilldeath]

I’m gonna assume that you found season 4 and 5 extremely rushed considering almost everyone that’s watched this show would agree with that. So, if you do, what are the main changes you would make to the storyline?

Season 4 wasn't so bad. The only problem I have is about some characters acting out of character, but I could understand. They were afraid for Hope. The only problem I have is Haylijah breaking up after everything they went through, just because Julie Plec wanted to raise awareness about domestic abuse victimes. The only Elijah there is behind that red door is the worst part of himself, which he spent a thousand years trying to control and tame, and he made Hayley afraid, but she knew he would have never done it if he had control over himself. She forgave him, and I don't think she ever expected to find him gone when she came back from Mystic Falls.

Let's be honest, Elijah had already spent decades away from his siblings, even when Mikael was actively chasing them, and he was fine. Elijah wouldn't run back to Klaus at the first sign of danger, and he would do it even less if it meant keeping Hope safe. Elijah erasing his memories was the worst thing they could do. Letting an original, without his memories, on the loose? Come on, Marcel, Elijah, and Vincent are smart enough to know how that would end.

They could have at least compelled him to never harm any of them if he came across them or if he learned about them.

But no, they had to make Elijah a villain by killing Hayley so Klaus could have his redemption and they could die side by side, like Julie Plec wanted vampire diaries to end.

Don't even get me talking about S5. It wasn't only rushed, but it was bad. They just wanted it to end how it ended so that legacies could start with an orphaned girl, like TVD did and TO. And what a mess they made of Legacies!

I wouldn't change much to S4, only that Elijah wouldn't be compelled. Maybe a few years later, when everything had calmed down and Hope is old enough to go to college or have a freedom of her own, Hayley could go to visit Elijah and they could start on a better note.

I am imagining Hayley would call Klaus about Hope, but he wouldn't answer. She would call Rebekah, who would call Elijah, who would reason with Klaus, who would call Hope.

Even if S5 wasn't absolutely the worst, Hayley shouldn't have died. She could have lived, and Klaus would have had to sacrifice himself ultimately and he would have his redemption and be in peace with Camille knowing that Hope had her mother and Elijah and the rest of them.

That's how I am imagining it.

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[myatlantispoets]

I just finished the Originals and now I'm suffering from intense emotional damage

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Finally finished my Season 2 Silco Fan Poster, just in time for Arctober prompt #5 "Legacy"

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I almost gave up on this one 😪 but I like how it turned out ✨

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[renthony]

The term “filler episode” is blatantly misused in fandom spaces and it's really goddamn annoying.

In the book "Manga and Anime Go to Hollywood: The Amazing Rapidly Evolving Relationship Between Hollywood and Japanese Animation, Manga, Television, and Film," by Northrop Davis, Davis explains the that concept of a “filler episode” in animation comes to us from anime adaptations of manga. Anime is frequently produced at a faster rate than manga, which means that anime adaptations of manga often have to come up with their own “filler” stories to slow down the pacing of the main narrative, because the manga isn’t finished yet.

"Filler" does not mean "low-stakes episode that doesn't progress the main plot." Filler does not mean "character moments that you did not like." "Filler" does not mean "anything that isn't breakneck-paced main plot."

It's a specific term and you are misusing it.

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