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[penguin--person]

not tospoiler things but the ája vs nina round WILL kill you guys. Ok? i prommy

[4cullensandablack]

WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE IT IS A BONUS SCENE ON THE APP. YA'LL HAVE BEEN SHOWING PROMO PHOTOS FOR THIS SCENE ALL SEASON.

[dcvilindisguise]

Hi I’m sammie and I’m at episode 10 from the originals VERY UNSURE WHETHER I WANT TO EVEN FUCKING WATCH THE ENDING OF IT ALL BC EVERYTHING IS BULLSHIT

except for the fact cami is in

this is a very good thing i love cami so i’m happy <3

[wyldlittledog]

[I’m caught up on The Originals and The 100 now. Who wants to cry with me about my lords and saviors Josh Rosza and Jasper Jordan?

[fuckyeahoriginals]

The Hollow wants us dead, and it will tear through anyone to get what it wants. It doesn't matter who. Elijah. Hayley. Hope.

[primomoraleminfiliam]

Josh: I know I'm adorable but I'm really small potatoes.

[azazelsfavoritearchivea-blog]

That Halijah kiss sneaks up on you like....

[bonneibennett]

None of TVD cast moved to TO. If any other cross-overs happen it'll be like when Tyler, Matt & Stefan crossed over. TVD & TO shot at the same time and TO finished filming in December, so even if they wanted Caroline or someone on the show, I don't think Candice would agree to filming two shows at once because it would be twice the workload, which would mean she would be home with her family even less.

Second anon:In the 4x08 press release about Alaric going to TO, it said something about him giving Elijah some dark artifact. So it's possible that Elijah needs something from the Armory and that's part of it.

Ah, thanks for the clarification, guys!

[zizelle]

Figgy poo StopGoing inThe tagYou’re Going toSpoil Youuureself

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me on literally the first page of the ahsoka novel: This demands fanart

[adaptablecharm]

The Originals 4x09 "Queen Death". A surprising alliance and a heartbreaking sacrifice. A plan that threatens to change the Mikaelson family forever.

[goodverbsonly]

The Originals

Hooo boy, I got out my laptop to type up a Book Review, because I’ve read for once or something, and there’s at least AT LEAST two reviews I want to do (including Lost Stars by Claudia Gray, which is EXCELLENT, by the way) but instead, The Originals came to an end last night, and I probably should stop spamming my followers with follow-up posts.

I should also give it a rewatch and a few days before I make this, but here goes nothing:

(obviously spoilers for the finale and every episode that comes before??)

my impression of it is that i don’t really need another rewatch of it. at the end of 5x12 and the first few seconds of 5x13 klaus nearly kills himself. 5x12 has a lot of lead-up to prepare us for his death, and the only thing accomplished in the finale is more of that. my main question the whole time was “how is elijah going to die?” because the only thing i knew for sure going into the finale was that elijah cannot make it out of the story alive. this episode could have been done in 15 minutes, and i just don’t have it in me to feel anything for a story that is unnecessarily dragged out. if in 5x12 klaus hadn’t had already said his goodbyes and he had spent the time looking for a way to cure hope, and the siphoning had been presented as a last ditch effort, i think i could get behind this episode, but instead it felt long and short at the same time. long because the action of the episode didn’t occur until the very end, which made the scenes leading up to the inevitable drag and feel tedious,  and short because nothing happened. to get the gist of the episode, i could watch the very beginning and the very end. (the least they could do, and maybe would have done in 16 or 22 episodes, is drag out how the hollow affected klaus instead of it being just a passing concern.)

so i left the finale of what has probably been my favorite show, and make no mistake - it will continue to be my favorite show, completely underwhelmed and disappointed. with hayley gone and rebekah getting to take the cure (my tvd knowledge is cursory so idk how that actually works since i know that damon takes it. can someone please EXPLAIN it to me) and knowing elijah was never gonna make it out alive and freya and keelin starting their own family, klaus’ death isn’t the Poetic Justice i always thought it would be. i honestly hadn’t given the Finale much thought, but I actually thought the end of last season was an effective season finale. open-ended enough but also very final in a way. can klaus find happiness separated forever from his family, from his daughter? no - absolutely not. but does that sacrifice, taking the dark magic into himself to save hope, at the cost of never seeing her again, at the cost of never seeing elijah or rebekah again, show the kind of growth that the premise of the originals promised? YES. As does the finale of season three. Klaus locks himself away so that one day his family might come together. That isn’t a choice klaus would have made on tvd, or in season 1 or 2 of to, but it’s a choice klaus was able to take, because he has learned, because of hope because he has a daughter, what it means to be selfless.

while obviously taking the dark magic and dying for hope in season 5 was Noble and Brave and a Decision Early Klaus wouldn’t have made, it’s not one that is narrative-ly satisfying to me because there was One Really Obvious Solution and one Really Obvious Problem.

The solution is to have Elijah take the Dark Magic, like he offered. I don’t mean to say that Klaus lets Elijah take the dark magic, because that would be Old Klaus, but that instead, by a trick or a mistake, the dark magic gets siphoned into Elijah instead of Klaus. Ideally, this is Elijah’s Last Act.

Why allow Klaus and Elijah to die when only one of them needed to for the plot? (Because Klaus is no good without Elijah? This is a perception of Klaus’ not a reality. Because what is Elijah’s Purpose without Klaus?) Klaus and Elijah’s stories are so intertwined that it is almost impossible to imagine one without the other. Except that Klaus has a Purpose and a Story beyond Elijah and her name is Hope. Even in tvd Klaus has had motivations that were not all about Elijah, but from the beginning, Elijah has been about Klaus, whether to help him or to hurt him. Elijah had to die, because anyway you write an ending for this show (or at least, anyway a team of writers who have shown again and again that they do know what the show is about -which they have; I haven’t agreed with every single choice they’ve made, but they absolutely have never lost sight of the Objective or Thesis or whatever) means that Elijah has succeeded in his One True Purpose which was to protect Klaus, to Redeem Klaus, to make Klaus into the kind of man a fifteen year old would be proud to have as a father. And this ending starts to become undeniable as early as season  two, when Rebekah asks Elijah what he’s going to do now that klaus has found happiness. If Elijah’s purpose or at least his objective is to die -to sacrifice - for klaus’ redemption or happiness, why leave hope parentless, when they could have just as easily left klaus alive?

The Problem is that hope is parentless. She has family, but they’re all going their separate ways, living their own fulfilled lives, while Hope has to be alone. while she’s got family left, they’re all doing their own thing, having their own lives and their own families. Hope is consequently left by the wayside.

Also, the problem is that the narrative allows klaus to hypothetically find peace. while i am thankful that we didn’t have a fifteen minute montage of each character finding peace because to is not necessarily the same Kind of Show as tvd, and in a different time, i think the ending of klaus and elijah disintegrating into nola would have been unbelievably satisfying (and it is still beautiful right where they first discussed hope. this is actually unbelievably beautiful). it gives klaus a way out of a fate that he finds absolutely worse than death -which is that chance to be a Terrible Father to Hope. he has this one last heroic action that saves hope’s life, but he has been a father to her for a terribly small amount of it, and klaus has still never proven to us that he is capable of sustained...gentleness.Especially since at every separation, klaus is reluctant to reenter hopes life because he believes he will be a terrible father, klaus’s death reads to me like another way for klaus to avoid finding out if he’s like mikael. (and i get that it’s not. but it feels a little hollow - lol - to leave your daughter when your all she has left, especially when your biggest fear is that you will only hurt her.)

klaus doesn’t necessarily deserve a “happy ending” and to didn’t give him one. what he sacrificed was a lifetime or dozens of lifetimes with his daughter. but to me, he gave up the chance, the opportunity, to prove that he was capable of not just not doing harm to the people he loves, but to being a positive choice.

But Anna, you might say, in your Ideal Ending, Klaus does get his happy ending, and you just said he doesn’t deserve it.

Sure, but in my ideal ending, Elijah dies and the people around him filter off, and no life without Elijah is necessarily a Good One for Klaus. Plus, klaus would have to live with the knowledge that elijah has sacrificed everything at every turn for klaus. It’s the Perfect Tragedy, in some ways. To the very end, Klaus has struggled to keep his family together, and to the very end, Elijah has loved him more than that. His struggles have separated them, but this time, he’s not all alone, the way he has always feared. He has Hope. One day, Klaus may die, but it is not until he has learned to be a Man. For more than one heroic action. it also gives elijah a fulfilling story in that his lifes work was not in vain, and we see this because klaus can live with a conscience of his own. he no longer needs elijah by his side, no matter how much he may want him there.

But Anna, isn’t that ending unfair to elijah? well I mean sure, but tvd and the last few episodes have established that Vamps Can Find Peace, and Elijah will find peace with hayley so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

that’s probably about half of my feelings, but the most important ones, i had about the finale, and in conclusion, i would have been happy if the originals only had the one season. god, have you watched season one of the originals lately? it’s so good.

[4cullensandablack]

Seriously did she just ask Vincent for his sperm?

[babyawacs]

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[journeytogoodhealth]

First things first. I hate to spoil the ending but you’re going to make it.

#firstthingsfirst #ihate #tospoil #theending #ending #goingto #makeit #wearedesignedtosurvive #newbeginnings✨ #motivational #inspirational #positive