The Originals 5x09 "We Have Not Long To Love" DT

Good grief. I never really paid that much attention before, but now that it's been brought to my attention - they love killing off females, don't they?

I don't think Freya or Keelin are going to die, only because there was a spoiler about something happening with them.

Women die on this show, it's just the norm. We lost all of our female leads, so losing a few more is alright...not. Should we expect anything different? I think Josh's introduction really told us everything about the show. His female friend dies and he stays alive, even when he was meant to die early on. I don't even hate Josh as a character, but the writers saved him due to their love of the character but they continue bringing in interesting females only to kill them.

That being said, I do kind of understand it. The Originals has a female skewed audience and women like watching bad boy characters more than women. Every single female on the show has had major backlash towards them. Phoebe even had death threats, which is probably why we hardly had any screen time between her and Klaus in the earlier seasons. Aside from Rebekah, who can't be involved with our two leads, the others had fans hoping they'd die soon.

I feel like the nazi vampire mess could be easily solved, but for whatever reason they are refusing to do so. Klaus, Hope and all of the witches, normal vampires and werewolves in the city should band together to get rid of them. Hayley was a crescent and clearly did a good job keeping her people in check and maintaining peace. Everyone should be angry about it and killing everyone involved. (Save our leads) Since they're not doing that, I hope Declan finds out the truth and uses the dark items that Cami had to wipe them out. I don't know if that will be possible, but I do hope it is. I liked them together and I like Antoinette and Elijah together, so anything to establish the bond between Hayley and Declan would be great.

I don't think Declan's story is over (unfortunately). I mean, why introduce him at all, much less as Cami's cousin, if this is how it ends for him? Nah, I have no doubt that somehow, he'll discover the truth. Someone will "kindly" tell him or he'll accidentally stumble onto Cami's secret closet and put 2 + 2 together. Then he'll discover the truth about Hayley and be pissed about that, so we have to go through his man-pain angst (bad enough when it's characters we know and love, but now we gotta deal with it from nobodies?). Then he'll blame Klaus/Elijah and in the name of "protecting" Hope, he'll join the Nazi Vampires. He'll probably survive - he is a man, after all, on a CW show - and see the error of his ways. He either stays in NOLA as the leader of the Human Faction or heads to MF to give Hope some sort of parental influence in her life. 

Man pain is just angst- done right, it's decent for a story, done wrong, there are female characters who go through the same- Echo/Caroline from Dollhouse for example, her love interest was brain damaged and ultimately killed off simply for the angst factor than any significant story purpose. I think my crowing dislike for man pain goes to Xander of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, whose relationship with Anya was horrific by the end and she died simply to kill off a main cast member in the final episode. Xander's pain was always more valid and Anya's death was a note on his loss, we didn't see any of the other main characters facing the fact they had lost their friend- it was Xander lost the ex fiancee he dumped at the altar... there are far worse ways characters can go when it comes to angst. Elijah's going to have to fight for his niece not being consumed which has (regardless of cost cutting cast members) them use the character death constructively than purely for the angst factor. 

I think my perspective is based on how I felt about the last season of Charmed. I enjoyed it and there was a finality there that ending on the previous season would have deprived the series of, and enjoying threads enough as a whole but the cost cutting was severe and saving for the final episodes doesn't undo that there are elements they put in to pad the series, unlike Charmed- this season needed to be shorter than a thirteen episode count- probably seven when we're all said and done will have worked better for the show. But it's never been 'what's good for The Originals', the fact the CW panicked and had to bring it to a Wednesday timeslot or had to renew the show to start with since Season Two- it is what it is.

Lucifer's cancellation and then save by Netflix has erased much need for me to watch network television and Legacies will have to knock it out of the bloody park at this point. I am sick of networks screwing shows up for their own purposes and canning anything unique. A YouTube channel summed it up the other day 'what is The Originals doing on the CW'- unique shows are often cancelled, dragged through the dirt or if they're very lucky, dragged out until they are half dead and then renewed every season, regardless. Supernatural has it bad- NCIS used to be a different, interesting crime procedural that has been destroyed from what it was at its core in the early seasons with basically a label these days to be 'different' and generic enough you can watch any episode brand new...I'm sick of being able to tell when things behind the scenes are causing issues with a show and having to be analytical, Declan's character as a whole on Legacies would be 'someone connected to the universe where we don't have to pay much to the actor'... I'll enjoy the end of the series but don't get me wrong, it's the lack of rose coloured glasses getting me there.