Fans of Vampire Diaries here comes the latest offering to satisfy your palate. This show is a spin off based on three characters playing the original vampires in the television series, The Vampire Diaries; Niklaus, Elijah and Rebekah Mikaelson. These are the original vampires who cannot be killed. The plot is set against the backdrop of New Orleans where there is a war brewing between the witches and the vampires. A war which currently the vampires seem to be winning with the help of a secret weapon and under the leadership of Marcel. Marcel is Klaus’s protege who was brought up since he was a child by Klaus. After the three Mikaelson siblings had to abandon New Orleans because of their father Marcel decided to stick around and create his own empire.
After a chance encounter of one of the witches with a werewolf woman carrying Klaus’s hybrid (Part vampire-part werewolf) child the witches seek the involvement of the originals. They try and attract Klaus into town and behind him comes his brother Elijah. Elijah wants the child to be saved at all costs and helps Klaus come around to his way of thinking. This entails an alliance with the witches who are using Hayley, the mother of Klaus’s child as a bargaining chip. On his return Klaus finds Marcel insolent and ungrateful and decides to take back the empire that he has created. Before he can put his plan in action Klaus, notorious for incapacitating his siblings for decades at end puts Elijah to sleep to limit his interference. Suspecting Klaus’s hand in Elijah’s disappearance Rebekah also joins the family for an uneasy re-union. This is how the power struggle begins between the various supernatural forces.
As far as full disclosure goes I am not an avid fan of the Vampire Diaries. Predictably this show doesn’t work for me as well. I read somewhere that this show attempts to move from a teenage centric Vampire Diaries to a more adult centric show. I found it to be superfluous in it’s adult avatar and am not even sure whether this can be called adult. I rather take my dose of vampires, witches and werewolves from True Blood. The canvas that HBO manages to bring across is phenomenal. For the multitude of viewers whose imagination was captured by the Vampire Diaries this show will definitely be worth consumption.
So far as the cast goes Niklaus Mikaelson is played by Joseph Morgan, Elijah Mikaelson by Daniel Gillies and Rebekah Mikaelson is played by Claire Holt. Klaus’s protege Marcel is played by Charles Michael Davis while the mother of his hybrid child Hayley is played by Phoebe Tonkin. The witch Davina is played by Danielle Campbell. I wasn’t blown over by the acting but there was a scene each by Joseph Morgan and Charles Michael Davis in the first episode which I found to be unconvincing. Maybe it’s just a matter of settling into their respective characters.
Verdict: Doesn’t blow me over but then I never had any expectations to that effect. Consumption worthy for hardcore fans of the Vampire Diaries but stand alone I shall give this one a pass.
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2632424/?ref_=nv_sr_1
IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 from 4,492 users as on 15/10/2013.
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTKj52BUEeU
Official Site: http://theoriginalscw.tv/
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