The Original The Eerie Warmth Of New Orleans To The Small Screen

The CW is The Originals, and The Vampire Diaries spin-off, debut last night. From what this reviewer saw, the first episode,  #101- Always and Forever, was a rehash  of what aired  as The Vampire Diaries ‘ Special last fall. There were a few fresh scenes, which made the episode interesting and the viewers now know that Marcel, played by Charles Michael Davis, relationship with his young psychic, Davina, played by Danielle Campbell, is friendlier than first thought of during the closing of the special. Viewers also know that Davina is also a witch whom power is bugging without Marcel knowledge. Will she betray his to Klaus? 

Here are some thoughts I had while looking the episode. First, the located of the Originals first American home is New Orleans. This knowledge made me think of Louis from Anne Rice’s An Interview with A vampire. Second, there is Klaus, played by Joseph Morgan, and Elijah, played by Daniel Gillies, need for ‘family’. With Hayley, Phoebe Tonkin, baring Klaus child (a boy as we learn in this episode), she is danger not only from the witches but also with Klaus, as he rather have Hayley and the unborn child dead. Nevertheless, it is not hard to imagine Elijah as the over indulging uncle and Klaus as the selfish standoffish father to a young highbred child, a child who because of his mother is more wolf than vampire.

Again, my mind runs to Louis, Lestat and of course the accursed child vampire, Claudia from Anne Rice’s Vampire’s Chronicles. But hey, there were other vampires and monsters around Letat’s small group of fiends that they never associated with in New Orleans. 

This being the case, I can forever, the similarities that I see in The Originals and enjoy it on its on merit of creativity to which I believe will be very entertaining. 

The Originals will air on Tuesday nights at 8 pm followed by The Vampires, which airs on Thursday nights 8 pm.

Speaking of The Vampire Diaries, it returned this week with a very exciting opening episode (#501- I Know What You Did Last Summer). With a title like that I know, you know where what film it originated. Still, in the episode we found the vampire girls Elena and Caroline, played by Nina Dobrev  and Candice Accola, starting their first year of college. Stefan, played by Paul Wesley,  tied up and locked down in a box at the bottom of Mystic Falls river, and Katherine  is a miserable human,  and Bonnie, played by Kat Graham, still a ghost, and by the end of the episode Elena’s brother, Jeremy, played by  Steven R. McQueen, dead again and revived by Damon again.

Question: how often can Jeremy die before he is beyond returning?

Question: what vampire killed Elena and Caroline’s unwanted roommate? Is it really another vampire or a hunter posing as a vampire? 

Nevertheless, this fifth season of The Vampire is promising and with all CW’s series, I hope it will do well in the rating. 

With all the new horror and science fictions series debuting this fall competition will be tight. We have already lost Nikita, which will probably air it is final six episodes during the mid-season break.