5.03 - 'Ne Me Quitte Pas' (The Originals)

[arabian]

I actually had all my notes done Wednesday evening, but didn't get around to writing this up until tonight. I guess that's the upside to the only person who responds not being able to watch the show until the weekend, LOL!

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Re: 5.03 - 'Ne Me Quitte Pas'

[arabian]

I just couldn’t get over that feeling that there was something *off* about Elijah. Now that I think about it, perhaps he wasn’t as off as it seemed to me while I was watching but still, it just didn’t feel like him 100%. And it wasn’t because of the memory loss. The entire vibe was just missing something… Then again, as I was typing the previous sentence I was thinking about Elena and her self-requested amnesia and she also seemed a little off, so maybe yeah, it’s the memory loss that changes people a little and it does make sense of course ^^

Oh, it was totally the memory loss. There were definitely shades of the Elijah we've seen at different points when he's angry or indifferent with people. And, of course, he'd be more lighthearted and such without literally a thousand years of angst. Without being his brother's keeper it makes sense that there would be a different aura to him as well.

I kinda wish they'd had loads of it because it would have been awesome to have this great, glorious love story for Elijah to close out this final season.” - I feel the same way. I really wanted to ship them, and I found myself feeling sad on behalf of Helijah (is that the correct name? I’ve never shipped them so I never paid attention to it lol) instead.

I don't do portmanteaus unless they work personally. (It's why I don't do Delena, it sounds stupid.) And I didn't feel sad for Haley/Elijah because I still don't like them. With more episodes passing, I'm even more bummed w/the lack of chemistry, and especially with her awesome backstory and the entwined history there. God, they did a HORRIBLE job casting in retrospect. So close, to creating this awesome, awesome character/love story, so, so close.

“It beautifully showed that even an Elijah without the memories of his feelings for the Mikaelsons knows Klaus and his love and dependence for Elijah so well.” - I have to say I was a little disappointed by how it all played out. Elijah’s attitude just seemed uncharacteristically cold.

Nah, Elijah is definitely cold. He's pulled shit like before when it suits him, when he doesn't care. He's done it on TVD and TO. It's DEFINITELY in character.

And paradoxically, the fact that he didn’t have his memories made it even less understandable.

Made it even more understandable. Elijah Mikaelson will do ANYTHING for family. Antoinette is his family now. Klaus is not. Period.

“The writing-something something about Antoinette and her family and wanting to be a "real" vampire or feeding off of fear or something something-just didn't grab me.” - What made me feel skeptical here was the fact that for some reason it didn’t occur to her at any point that feeding and then compelling and letting the person go would be WAY nicer than feeding and, um, gently and kindly killing them afterwards, eh?

Even worse... in retrospect, given her backstory, that was REALLY important! But so boring, that I barely remembered it.

“This episode dragged like WHOAH!” - It did! But maybe it was also the fault of pretty much clinging to one storyline only? This doesn’t happen too often and it’s usually a risky endeavor.

Nope, the one storyline was fabulous. It was the direction, period. It was baaaaaaaaaaaaad. Most movies are "one storyline."

“And it's not like this episode was bad, it was pretty good, just not great.” - Hopefully the next one will be better! :)

They have been. The last one was fantastic. Even if the last scene was really sad; it was super powerful. Alas, you may have noticed (I'm sure you have), no write-ups. While I do like our back and forths, two things are going on right now and having only one person respond... well, yeah. I'm ridiculously, head-over-heels into Adam Driver (of Star Wars fame) right now, and I ship his character in those films with someone. And my hockey team finally made it into the Stanley Cup playoffs (first time in 20 years--and they just won their first SC game in franchise history), so that's where my focus is. Plus, if I'm going to be writing anything TVD-related, it's, well, my TVD posts... which I DO want to finish. So, yeah, I'm not going to continue to do these although I am enjoying this final season a lot.