It’s clear that as “The Vampire Diaries” goes into its fifth season that The CW recognizes that its female-skewing fan base has grown up.They’re graduating from high school, going off to college or starting their careers and thinking of family. Thus, that explains at least some of the timing of its spinoff, “The Originals.”First introduced as a backdoor pilot during “TVD’s” last season, “The Originals” features Klaus (Joseph Morgan), the first vampire/werewolf hybrid, and his family who make up the first bloodsuckers, the, um, “Originals.The Originals Season 1-5 Download.
On the backdoor pilot, Klaus returns to New Orleans, his stomping grounds from a century before, to find that his former protégé Marcelle (Charles Michael Davis) has become master of the town, its menagerie of humans, witches and vampires all under his thumb. He has created a modern fiefdom and, of course, emotionally unavailable and egomaniacal Klaus covets it. Thursday’s premiere episode recasts the events of the backdoor pilot, but from the point of view of his more controlled, more sentimental brother, Elijah (Daniel Gillies), who arrives behind Klaus to clean up after him.
The episode does a moderately good job of balancing the déjà vu we feel about scenes we’ve already seen by introducing Elijah’s behind-the-scenes plotting, but he’s also the show’s tool for introducing the family to viewers who didn’t watch “TVD.” That’s the pilot’s biggest fault.With the pace and style of this episode, “The Originals” feels like a supernatural “Dynasty” or “Dallas,” a primetime soap opera. But, what it lacks is the ability to make someone who wasn’t a “TVD” fan care about its titular dysfunctional family and its power plays. To be clear, the series does a good job of downloading the family’s history. It’s not tough to grasp, but isn’t very entertaining.