Arriving in New Orleans in 1722, Original vampire siblings Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson believe they've escaped their dangerous past. But the city is lawless, a haven for witches and werewolves unwilling to share territory. The siblings are at their mercy…especially after Klaus meets the beautiful and mysterious Vivianne. Her impending marriage is key to ending the war between the supernatural factions—and Klaus's attraction to her could destroy the uneasy alliance. As Elijah works toward securing a piece of the city for his family, and Rebekah fights her unexpected feelings for a French captain, will Klaus's volatile desires bring their world crashing down—and tear them apart for good?
Ahhh Julie,
you’ve done it again. Take pre-established and well-liked characters and
destroy them for your fanfiction, and people say you can’t make money off of
that.
The
Originals: The Rise is the first book in a trilogy based on the TV show “The
Originals” which is, at the same time, a Spin-off of The Vampire Diaries. I
know, but wear with me. It’s basically about the original Family, the first
vampires ever created (yes, yes I know it was reckoned and it changed to Silas
and what’s her face) and who are the creators of every vampire in existence in
the TV show.
Now, I
started up late with show I think when it was in its third or fourth season,
and I did because some of my Tumblr friends watched it so I wanted to see how
it was like. Overall, the story of the doomed love triangle between a teenager,
Elena and two vampire brothers, Stefan and Damon was entertaining but nothing
amazing. Maybe the vampire fever was over for me but whatever the reason, I
missed the show’s spark. I still loved some stuff, like Caroline Forbes my
sweet precious baby (who was butchered by the lady in the wrecking ball) Bonnie
the witch, who hasn’t had a plot whatsoever in this show for about four
mothereffing seasons.
And, of
course, the Original Family.
Look at
them all dashing and awesome… until Julie Plec came along.
DAMN IT!
WHY??
Look, for
me the Mikaelson family was a welcomed relief from all the overpowering
romantic drama. They were what I picture when I think of vampires; twisted,
unapologetic, sassy, sexy, cunning and all kinds of awesome.
Their family
dinamics were great, imagine spending a thousand years with your siblings. Their
relationships were possessive, hateful, resentful but overall, they love each
other more than anything in the world, despite what they have done to each
other.
We had
Klaus, the first and only werewolf-vampire hybrid, a product of his mother’s
infidelity. A sweet and caring child despite his “father’s” abuse. After he
discovers what he is and how his mother cursed his werewolf side to be hidden,
making him weaker he becomes paranoid, always questioning his siblings loyalty
and his place in their family. The things he went through to keep them all
together, he went from caring to possessive, hateful and abusive, much like the
father figure he grew to hate. His obsession with breaking the curse on him and
creating more hybrids was what drove him for a thousand years. It was fascinating
to see him destroying himself and his family in his quest for power and immortality.
There was
Elijah, the more level-headed brother who always tried to keep them together.
He was the bridge between Klaus and the rest, the one who tried to solve the
conflicts that always came up. He was also awesome and fancy.
There is
Rebekah, turned when she was only sixteen she is, in many ways, a spoiled girl…
with the habit of killing and torturing when things don’t go her way but yes, a
girl nonetheless. She is Klaus’ favourite sibling who always tried to
compensate for what their mother had done to him, becoming herself a mother to
him in a way, and the two have a very… well pretty weird relationship that
stays that way because this is a kid’s show.
Kol, HE WAS
A SARCASTIC PIECE OF SHIT, AND WE LOVED HIM. But he was taken away from us…
BECAUSE OF REASONS.
Finn, he’s
the oldest and kind of a momma’s boy. Never liked being a vampire so his
siblings just staked him and left him in a coffin so he wouldn’t bother the
rest and couldn’t try to kill them/himself. But he was still cool.
When it was
announced that they would get their own show, you can imagine my excitement! I
loved this family, and we only got a few glimpses of them in TVD but they made
a bad episode worth the watch just to see them, imagine forty-five minutes
filled with them! Oh man, it could have been awesome. It was supposed to be
darker than TVD, more like Game of Thrones they said.
And then,
the day comes when it airs and:
Way to go
guys! Nothing makes people think “mature” and “dark” like special snowflake
teenager pregnant with magical vampire baby.
But still I
kept watching, we would still get the Original family and their story, right?!
All we got
was OCC versions of Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah, and some weird ass plot about
taking over New Orleans and being Royalty… because that makes sense. To be
honest, the episodes were boring, I never cared about the plot (protect the
baby we knew was never going to be killed and take over a city nobody gave two
craps about), I disliked how women and POC were killed left and right (let’s
not forget the incident when they requested women with large breast to play
murder victims), and I never cared about Hayley, the poor pregnant werewolf.
In TVD she
was the typical asshole who thought she was better than other girls because she
wasn’t into “girly” stuff. She was dumb, backstabbing and selfish, but on the
show she was re-written to be the perfect poor orphan whose parents never loved
her. And…
She turns
out to be a lost werewolf princess!!!!!
Even though
Werewolves organize themselves over alphas and betas, and the strongest rule, somehow,
they suddenly obey royalty who are not particularly smart, strong or superior
in any way (Just check out Hayley for God’s sake).
Yeah,
right. I was hoping that, mayyyybe her new plot of becoming Queen will make her
a better character, but the misogynistic narrative was still there. Hayley is
the second most powerful being in the world (because of MAGIC) and yet she
always needs rescuing. In order to become Queen and have power the narrative
always involves a guy (being pregnant by Klaus, having Elijah help her with his
connections, having to marry and sleep with a guy for a ritual. Literally everything
was written leading off to that direction; instead of making her take matters
into her own hands she always needs a guy to guide her.). And honestly, Phoebe's acting skill didn't help.
So the show
ended up being a disappointment, obviously but when the book series was
announced I thought there was another chance to make everything better! We
would finally get the story we wanted about this powerful family through
history.
But it
turned out to be Klaus wanting to be King of New Orleans and falling into
insta-love with a witch/werewolf princess-ish. While Elijah just… goes around
looking for a home to buy and Rebekah is OCC and sadly, dumb.
To be fair,
it’s just like one of the show’s episode, I was just hoping for something
different.
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