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^The CW really dropped the ball this year with the way they are renewing shows. I believe they filmed this season of The Originals MONTHS AGO, so they had no way of knowing whether they would be picked up for next year, when they filmed the finale this year. Unfortunately, they decided to show TO very late this year (originally it was going to air in October, wasn't it, and it was pushed back to premiere in MARCH.) So this ep works well as a series finale, if it had to, while leaving it somewhat open if it were allowed to continue--and I'm glad it will.
For indeed, like some of you, I have mixed feelings about it. It was really good for the characters. It wasn't as exciting as far as the plot or action goes--I've seem more exciting season finales. It partially is a sad ending to the show, although I wouldn't expect this show necessarily to have a happy ending.
It is as near a happy one as this show might have, though, for while it is definitely tragic for Klaus most of all that he is once again alone without his family, it was a good ending for his character in that it shows how much he has been redeemed. The redemption of Klaus' character is what I hope most for this show to accomplish, and it did. Klaus gave up EVERYTHING because he loves his daughter, and didn't do ANYTHING for his own happiness. I'm sad that he is alone, but I'm not as worried as the rest of them that he will become a monster again. Yes, he could..at least for a time...but something will always bring him back if he has come this far.
It doesn't make sense in a way, that Klaus should have a happy ending, because he really doesn't deserve one if you think about it, and yet in a way he IS happy, because he has finally become the man he has always wanted to be and is no longer like his father or worthless as his father saw him. He made amends to Marcel. He made amends to Rebekah in that speech with Marcel, by admitting that he was too insecure to let them be together, afraid that there would be no love left for him. I am sad that he no longer has any love in his life--I wish he would at least see Cami again. I am glad they showed him visiting her grave again. If the show had to end this way, I would be sad and a little disappointed, but I would still have hope that Freya would find a way in the future, even if we don't see that story being told. Fortunately, with the show being picked up, we will.
Elijah also seems to have a sad ending, not being able to be with Hope or Hayley, or his brother. However, in a way this is a good ending for him as well. For Elijah, it is the opposite situation of Klaus. Elijah has been TOO UNSELFISH all his life, always giving up his own needs for his family, particularly for his brother, who is the supernatural version of an addict. This season, Elijah was even willing to do the evil Klaus would usually do, which Elijah would not readily approve of, just so that Klaus wouldn't have to do it! Talk about codependent! He gave up Hayley before, wasn't able to be there for her emotionally, so that he could babysit Klaus and safeguard Klaus' kid--who Klaus didn't even want!
On one hand, I would be glad if the family could stay all together and be one big happy family. On the other hand, they are too dysfunctional to be allowed to stay together, because they are also too powerful, so they are too dangerous to be together (and now they are LITERALLY too powerful and dangerous to be together, with the Hollow in them.) It's a really interesting dynamic which I really like about the show. Is family power? Is it a good power if it puts itself above individual family needs and the needs of others, who also have families and deserve to live just as much? There are no easy answers but if I had to give one, I would say that LOVE is power. Sometimes that means family first, sometimes it means letting family members go their own ways out of love.
Lady Katherine, I thought Marcel saw Davina go, and so he knew about her, but they did drop the ball on this a little, seeing how important Davina supposedly is to Marcel. A little more time on this would have been good.
Yes I think Klaus knew that Elijah was compelled--he acted as such, but like he hoped somehow that Elijah would somehow still recognize him. I think E kind of did. (I love the reference to "The hundred dollar guy" here!)
I think Vincent chose the Mikaelsons to house the Hollow because it was easiest and quickest and the surest route to success, if they agreed. They had to act fast to get the Hollow out of Hope.
I too am glad that Freya didn't have to become a vampire. She like Elijah is always too willing to give up everything for the family; I'm glad she didn't push Keelin away in doing it, and that she didn't have to give up her magic after all. I do believe she, and maybe Hope--which is exciting---will find a way to defeat the Hollow once and for all and get it out of the family.
I would not be surprised if the show finally ends with all the vampire Mikaelsons dead though. That would be a happy ending actually, because they were created to be vampires against their wills and against nature, and like on TVD, need to be at peace. (Despite obvious vampire perks, in many ways it's not a happy life!)
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