The Originals – A Streetcar Named Desire
Written By: Julie Plec & Diane Ademu-John
Directed By: Matthew Hastings
I know I’m starting to repeat myself here but…
If you’re not already watching this show, why not? There’s no answer that good enough. Seriously.
I was wondering how they were going to continue on with their story line while also managing to wrap of Stefan’s (Special Guest Star Paul Wesley) visit to New Orleans, but they did it quite nicely.
This season has been all about Klaus’ and Elijah’s sire lines trying to de-sire themselves so that they can take out the vampires that made them. Leading the charge are The Stricts (from Elijah’s line) and Klaus’ old flame (who really puts the CRAZY in Crazy Ex Girlfriend) Aurora (from Klaus’ line). The prophecy said that the three remaining Originals would all fall… one by family, one by friend and one by foe. Several episodes back, Rebekah handled the “family” part of the prophecy by demanding Elijah “dagger her” and put her in a box, safely hidden from their enemies, telling her brother that with that part of the prophecy out of the way he could quit worrying about Klaus putting a dagger in his heart. Thus leaving Elijah and Klaus to worry about their foes…and their friends.
In this episode, Davina has gotten all the pieces together for the spell that would de-sire her friends from Klaus…and, oh yeah, Elijah’s sire line as well, since Aya is demanding that before she’ll make The Strict’s Coven help Davina bring back her boyfriend, Kol from the dead.
Thanks to Camille taking what was left of the white oak that had been carved into a little statue of a knight on horseback as a gift from Klaus to Rebekah, Aurora got her hands on enough of the white oak (the only thing that can kill an Original) to make bullets with which to take out Elijah. Aurora agrees to work with Aya and finish this game. Aya has one of her witches send Aurora’s mind to the magical place where her brother Tristan’s mind is residing instead of his body which is locked in a shipping container and resting at the bottom of an ocean somewhere so that he drowns over and over again (yeah, that’s what happens when you piss off the Mikaelsons). This same witch manages to use “representational magic” to put Elijah and Klaus there too. They have to figure out what is in that room that represents them and destroy it to escape, all while dealing with jagged barbs being thrown their way from the other siblings inhabiting the room with them. It’s in that room that the best line of the show is uttered. Usually, the greatest lines come from Klaus, but this time it’s Elijah who gets the juiciest tidbit. Tristan is berating him for not paying more attention to the vampires he has sired, to which Elijah sighs wearily and asks, “Would you mind terribly, if you spared me the dead beat dad lecture?”
While Elijah and Klaus are in magical time out, Marcel, Hayley and Freya are racing to try and save them…along with help from Stefan Salvatore. Stefan figures that he sort of owes Klaus this one. Besides, Stefan is in Klaus’ sire line, so if they do manage to take out Klaus before the de-sire-ing can occur, then Stefan will die as well. I just loved the scene with real life couple Paul Wesley and Phoebe Tonkin (Hayley) in the trunk of Marcel’s car as he drives them right up to the front steps of The Stricts lair.
I did see what happened next coming before they ever made it to the front steps of the lair. Stefan removed the magical bandage that Freya applied to his wound to keep Rayna from being able to track him and basically sicced The Huntress on all the enemy vamps causing the much needed distraction so that they could rescue the Mikaelson brothers.
Davina begged Marcel to trust that she could remove the sire bond and save him, but he couldn’t put his fate in the hands of a teenage witch with substitute spell ingredients. He helped Stefan and Hayley save the Mikaelsons instead.
But, he didn’t stop Davina from getting the ingredients she needed to achieve her long sought after goal.
There’s another new episode next week. And, I just have to ask if after reading this review if you caught the pun that is the title… because I only caught it while I was writing it.
klaus and caroline ❤
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