UPDATE: So, I know like, a month ago I said I would be finishing up the episodes and then, like, I totally didn’t. Good times. And now I get to treat you all like my second grade teacher/confessor with excuses, but the truth is that I thought that I was getting the DVD, but then I ran into money issues, but then I thought Netflix streaming would have it, but then they didn’t get it until midnight today because of who knows why, and I just didn’t want to pirate it. So marathon, yay. Because I’m doing it all today or dying trying. But I just didn’t want to write this whole explanation in an update #2 (subtitle: I’m a moron) because I was embarrassed and putting it off meant it would be my future self’s problem (I’m always pawning my problems off on her). So, anyway, that’s what happened. So this recap should be fun, since I started it three months ago and ended it around one a.m today. I’m sure it will be really even handed and coherent. But damn it, I’m going to start Season Five with the rest of the world because I’m a fan and I ruined Season Four past all grievance. Okay, update/whining over. I apologize again to the ones of you who are still my followers. But I will do better. You just wait and see. Oh, you will see.
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Episode 4×20, “The Originals.” The backdoor pilot. And for once, I feel 100% certain I know what the title means without having even seen a preview. So I suppose I’ll use this space to point out the irony of a spinoff show having the word “original” in the title. Anyway, we’ll get to see Klaus in the big city. We’ll (presumably) find out what that thing on Haley’s back is. And we’ll get to see Elijah. And my biggest hope of all, hopefully we won’t see any should-be-too-cool-for-this character taunt Damon about his star-crossed love for Elena, possibly because every single person has already that conversation twice.
Also, New Orleans, yay! Say hi to Queen Sophie-Anne and my other dead friend, Lestat.
These images were all gathered during a random google image search by the episode title. These were all of the images of Klaus. I swear to God, Joseph Morgan, you had better start making a different facial expression or I will make a flip book out of you and distribute it to acting coaches.
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Cold Open
- “She’s the calmest desiccating vampire I’ve ever seen.” perfect. Damon was a right old drama queen, if I remember correctly, when he was desiccating back in Season One.
- If Klaus had just worked with Silas a few episodes back, they could have
slaughtered sacrificed this coven of witches instead of Bonnie’s mom’s friends and this wouldn’t be a problem.
- Anyway, I know this isn’t a real episode, but a backdoor pilot, so should I just point out the things that are different from the mothership show? Like all the tense, four-second visual and musical frames back and forth between the players like this is a bomb squad procedural instead of a paranormal fantasy about werewolves getting drunk? That was weird.
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Everything up until the first commercial break.
- Marcel is hot and can sing really well. Also, I’m unreasonably annoyed that his name is stupid and that Klaus can’t pronounce the letter “r” when it’s in the middle of a word. Also, they would never loudly have this conversation in the middle of a crowded room. Also, not the best written conversation. Also, I just realized where I recognized the actor from, and he was the guy who dated that intern on Grey’s Anatomy who everyone thought was really hot but then he beat her up a little so then the 100-pound girl beat him within an inch of his life. That’s going to be hard to get out of my head. I’m having a lot of thoughts right now.
- Okay, at least all these humans listening in are witches (I think? vamps?). That does make this 20x more plausible.
- Shoot, I was Team Jane Anne (for no real reason beyond why not, and because unlike Klaus, Marcel et. al. she didn’t make goofy monologues.) Goodbye Jane Anne. Sister Sophie…Who might as well be you, because let’s face it, you two are the exact same person, is my new favorite character. In the meanwhile, why are vampires so cavalier about killing witches in the Vampire Diaries universe? They all need them sometimes, you can only make new ones by the lengthy process of childbirth and then waiting until puberty…et cetera. anyway.
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