thehollowprince:

It’s no secret that I dislike the Mikaelsons – hell, at this point, I actively hate them – but this last episode has me livid in so many ways I’m not entirely sure where to begin with this rant.

For starters, there’s Freya.  

I never really liked or warmed up to this character, who seemed to just be introduced to make up for the fact that Rebekah wasn’t a main anymore and they needed another pair of ovaries to balance out all the testosterone.   Since then, she’s just been there, and I’ve neither liked or disliked her, up until she condemned Davina’s soul to that torment to save her family from a threat that they created in the first place.  Since then, my hatred for her has only grown, starting with this building “romance” with Keelin, which is really just Stockholm syndrome, and then to her building that stupid dagger to kill Marcel, because he’s too powerful for her and her family’s comfort.  Does this bitch seriously not get that her paranoia over him being too powerful and unkillable is the exact same reason we have the Beast in the first place.

Having an ouroboros being the recurring theme/symbol this season is fitting, given how the Mikaelsons just continue to repeat the same mistakes they’ve made over the last thousand years.

And now let’s move on to the bigger issue I had this episode.

One Elijah Mikaelson…. my hatred for him burns with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.  Watching him and Hayley is one of the hardest parts of every episode.  It has all the intensity and fascination of watching paint dry.  I much preferred both of them with Gia and Jackson, both of whom were killed off for not other reason than to set up Halijah, which is just bad writing.  Like, if you can’t get these two characters together without killing off others, than you have a problem with your own writing.

But what he said to Marcel, his monologue at the end – good gods, do these MIkaelsons like to monologue!

Elijah: But you and I, we both know he’s always regarded you as something of a son. So did I once upon a time. In fact, I used to believe that you were the key to my brother’s redemption.

Marcel: Redemption? He’s never gonna change, not even for his own daughter.

Elijah: Oh, but he already has. She (Hope) has changed him. You Marcellus, you are not needed, welcomed, or wanted. You have only been spared purely because you are my brother’s greatest weakness. And I cannot show mercy towards anyone who would demonstrate threat towards this family. And if indeed you should prevent the redemption, of the cruel, the wicked, the vindictive Niklaus Mikaelson, I promise you, I will deliver another kind of nightmare.

This was not only just insulting, but evil in ways that I don’t have words for.  As someone who is adopted – and that’s what Marcel was, even if not officially – this was beyond insulting.  This is akin to having my family come to me now that I’m all grown up and saying that I was never really a part of the family, just a pet project to amuse themselves with until they eventually had their “real” kids because they forgot to use protection.

Elijah has his head so far up Klaus’ ass that he must be under the impression that it’s a hat of some kind.  And Elijah’s obsession with his brother aside, the fact that they decided to keep Marcel locked up in a sewer is not only insulting, it’s racist – I mean, you take one of two strong black characters left on this show and make them subject to the elitist white asshole with delusions of their own grandeur.

It’s sad to think that after all these years with this universe, that I think I’ve finally decided to just stop watching.  But… I mean… I’ve reached the point where all I want to do is complain about the show anymore, because not a lot is anything I like.  The only reason I tuned back in this season was to see more of Josh and to see Marcel be the powerful one for a change, but here we are, five episodes in and they immediately came up with a way to kill him.