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rheasilvia ([personal profile] rheasilvia) wrote2014-01-21 03:11 am

The Originals

Started watching The Originals on a whim - and am glad I did! I haven't seen the latest ep yet, but I like it so far.

I binged on The Vampire Diaries a while ago, compelled more by amused disbelief and morbid curiosity than anything else. Unsurprisingly, I quickly stopped watching again. However, despite the over-the-top soapiness, the evidently unintentional yet unbelievably intense campness and... shall we say erratic storytelling and occasionally puzzling U-turns in characterization, I grew quite fond of several characters. As it happens, Klaus was not one of these characters.



Imagine my surprise that The Originals works far better for me than TVD - and that Klaus, in this new series, also works far better for me. So far, this is clearly Klaus' show, even though several other characters are beginning to step up. I'm very okay with Klaus being the central fixed point around which everything else revolves, though. His psychotic hyper-woobiness and murderous self esteem issues are actually beginning to work for me here - plus, I'm a sucker for tortured anti-heroes struggling towards redemption. This entire series seems set up to be just that. At least, I very much hope so. If Klaus refuses to budge at all on the character development front, The Originals will probably soon lose its shine for me.

I also like Marcel, Rebekah and Camille, although the half dozen near-identical dark-haired women are a little ridiculous. Someone in the casting department needs to branch out a little.

Some aspects of the show make me a bit wary. For one thing, I remain on the fence about the pregnancy thing. Generally speaking, magical miracle babies are a horrendously bad thing for any series. (Seriously. Has anyone in the history of fiction ever done a magical miracle baby well? Maybe it's time everyone just stopped trying, huh?)

Also, the witch storyline is beginning to skirt dangerously close to some of the more exasperating TVD plotlines... I'd be sorry to see this show going down the Vampire Diary road



Time will tell. Knock on wood!

Are any of you watching The Originals? What do you think?
extempore: (bleh)

[personal profile] extempore 2014-01-21 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
Ich hab mir die ersten paar Folgen angesehen, inzwischen lese ich aber nur mehr gelegentlich die Inhaltsbeschreibungen. Irgendwie ist die Sache uninteressant geworden, was für mich in erster Linie an Klaus liegt. Kitschdrama und over-the-top Bösewichtigkeit hatte ich mir in etwa erwartet, aber er ist mir denn doch zu unstet und OMGDRAMAQUEEN!!, um mich zu fesseln. Eine Demon Wolf Katastrophe pro Jahr reicht mir. *g*
Edited 2014-01-21 08:49 (UTC)
extempore: (oh poopie!)

[personal profile] extempore 2014-01-21 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Without further ado, I present to you: The Demon Wolf!



(Die Serie war zu dem Zeitpunkt schon jenseits von jedweder Intelligenz, aber bei der Szene habe ich mich fast angepinkelt vor Lachen.)

(Erkennst du seine Stimme?)
Edited 2014-01-21 12:54 (UTC)
extempore: (nosebleed)

[personal profile] extempore 2014-01-21 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Er ist als Synchronsprecher in Games eigentlich sehr erfolgreich und ich bin mir daher nicht sicher, ob es wirklich rein eine Frage des Geldes war. Vielleicht wollte er einfach mal wieder vor der Kamera stehen und hat zu spät gerallt, in was er da hineingeschlittert ist... Ist zumindest meine hoffnungsvolle Interpretation der Sache. >_>

Inzwischen ist er mir schon in vier Games untergekommen, und jedes Mal bin ich voll auf die Stimme abgefahren, ohne zu wissen, wer da spricht, und habe mich ein bisserl in den jeweiligen Charakter verguckt. Sein Timbre dürfte irgendwie genau meinen Unterleib treffen. *hüstel*