The Originals 1x16 Reaction
Added 2023-08-01 08:43:28 +0000 UTCHere is the full uncut reaction to the The Originals season 1, episode 16, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Could you imagine a TV series when a Women escapes a serial abuser. Then she makes her brother mad.... So he calls the abuser and gives him her location.... This is what Rebekah just did..... Because she loves her brothers adopted son. All of this was to be with her adopted nephew..... There is no excuse for it.
Josh Man
2023-12-15 10:21:41 +0000 UTCDamn you laptop!
Mega Reacts
2023-08-06 05:42:37 +0000 UTCOh btw, is it just me (because I've never seen or heard anyone mentioning it before which is so weird to me) or do the Mikaelsons have like no personal boundaries whatsoever. Like Elijah just casually strolling in to the room (despite him having vampire hearing, so he definitely knew what was going on) while Klaus and werewolf lady were getting it on. And then he just proceeds to pour himself a glass of scotch or whatever that was. Totally casual, no biggie. Just another Saturday night for us. If that was me and my sister just walked in I would have ripped out the bedpost (I'm obviously a vampire in that scenerio 🤣) and thrown it at her head. 😭
MsDanibanani90
2023-08-05 19:32:44 +0000 UTCSo here is finally my comment. It's not as long as I wanted it to be, lol. I actually took notes while re-watching your reaction (it's like I was back in school doing an assignment). 3 PAGES OF NOTES! But then my laptop decided to peace out and all my notes were gone. Yesterday I spent all day fuming about the loss of my notes. And today I decided to write a new comment. But I wasn't as motivated as I was before, so it's only one third of what I had originally written. Oh well :D As you said in the intro "I have been with these characters since The Vampire Diaries, I have such a long history with these characters. And right when I think that I know everything I need to know, we get backstory upon backstory upon backstory and a lot of things suddenly make so much sense now. I'm on Klaus's side, I'm on Rebekah's side, I'm on Elijahs side. I'm on everybody's side. I get where everyone is coming for and I don't know who to root for." Yes, TO is really good with that. Most of the characters and their actions and motivations are not black and white but they come in all shades of grey, so that there is never someone who is 100% right or wrong. So you kind of end up being on everyone's side. Like, I get where Klaus is coming from. His sister betrayed him in the worst way possible, by summoning the one man who has been hunting them, and especially Klaus, for centuries now. But I also understand why Rebekah did it. This was the only way to escape her brother, who can be cruel in the extreme, manipulative and controlling (especially when it comes to her). Who has been treating her more like a posession than a person. And then there is Elijah, kind of stuck in the middle- not wanting for Rebekah to get hurt but also unable or rather unwilling to antagonize his brother even more. He so desperately wants his family to get along, poor guy. I loved the flashbacks in this episode. When young Klaus tells Rebekah that he'll keep her save from the storm. giving her the brave night he carved for Mikael. This simple scene is so important to understand Klaus as a character. First, the obvious: His love for his sister. His wish to keep her save and protected. And second, even despite everything Mikael's put him through (we saw how cruel he treated young Nik) he still carved this wooden figure for him. Just like Mikael in the present said "desperate for a daddy.". Klaus craved the approval of his father, which of course he never got. To younf Niklaus It must have been so unbelievably confusing and hurtful, why Mikael had singled him out and hated him so much for noo apparent reason. That no matter what he did, it was never enough. "You were never the recipient of his cruelty. None of you were. Not Kol, not Finn. None of you!" Because apparently it was only ever really Niklaus who was on the receiving end of Mikael's ire. I am sure that Mikael was strict with all of his children and that his children feared him (it was evident in the flashbacks) but he saved his cruelty for Nik alone. „You say you despise Rebekah for her betrayal, and yet no one has stood by your side for so long, not even I myself.“ What a moment, when Rebekah took up a sword against her own father to protect Nik. You could see the terror in her eyes but still she stood her ground. And later that night when she was prepared to kill Mikael. I have mad respect for Rebekah. I think Elijah's greatest shame, and probably a big reason why he lets so much of Klaus' bs slide, is that he never intervened but just let it happen when his brother was mistreated by Mikael. We already saw one flashback back on the Vampire Diaries, when Mikael was tying Niklaus down, so that Esther could bind Klaus werewolf side. Klaus was pleading, begging his brother to please help him, but Elijah didn't help him. Instead he followed his father's command to help him restrain Niklaus. We saw pretty much the same thing happen twice more. Once when he and young Niklaus were hunting. Mikael first slapped his brother and then continued to kick him. Elijah was too afraid to do anything about it. And then later, when Mikael had caught Niklaus whittling little chess pieces with his hunting knife. „He beat you so mercilessly and for so long, I actually feared for your life. „ Even though he feared for his brother's life he didn't really intervene, he was too scared of his father. (All the more props to Rebekah!) Those flashbacks gave us so much needed backstory to explain why the characters are who they are. This next scene is one of my favorite scenes/quotes from the whole show: KLAUS: I love my family-- You, Elijah. I loved all of you. I know I can be difficult, but I did not make myself this way. It was Mikael who ruined me. REBEKAH: He ruined me, too. That's what you forget. Centuries later, each of us is broken. You with your anger and paranoia, me with my fear of abandonment. And poor Elijah-He dedicates himself to everyone but himself. We are the strongest creatures in the world, and yet, we are damaged beyond repair. We live without hope, but we will never die. We are the definition of "cursed." Always and forever.
MsDanibanani90
2023-08-05 19:21:58 +0000 UTC
