earnestly , some media studies grad scholar somewhere has to be compose a thesis about race , gender and political relation in vampire culture medium — and she or he must be just drooling over The Originals right now . Just watch this clip , in which Marcel turns a unintegrated World War I unit into vampires , and see for yourself .
Spoilers forward …
At this level , The Originals sort of feels like two unlike shows , but they accommodate together astonishingly well . The first show is the kinsperson saga of the 1,000 - year - previous Originals , who get to have the show named after them . And every week , Klaus , Elijah and the ease declaim at each other in codfish - Shakespearian speeches , and fence the significance of centuries - older grudges and ideologic pettifoggery . Because Joseph Morgan , in particular , screw to masticate and spit out grandiloquent dialogue , it ’s usually extremely entertaining , and yet also completely staccato from any sense of reality after a while . Last night ’s episode revolved around Klaus , Elijah and their brothers Finn and Kol being stuck in a magical kingdom where they spend an hour debating whether the animate being heads on the walls represented each of them accurately . I ’m not even make that up .
( This hypothetical grad educatee is stick to be fascinated by the fact that one-half of Klaus ’s category extremity have now been transplanted into African - American bodies — his mom , his brother Finn , and his sister Rebekah . It adds a whole other subtext to a pot of these harebrained scene of posturing and nail - spitting . )
But the other show is kind of an acute political mish - mash , in which thing like the legacy of slaveholding and the ways that marginalized people get push out of city get brought up in kind of a sly mode . And Marcel , the ex - slave who was raised by Klaus as a son , is often the focal stage for these storylines .
In last night ’s installment , Marcel and his vampires are trapped inside Chez Klaus by a charming roadblock spell , while another spell massively increases their hunger . Marcel has to keep his peeps from tear Kol ( Klaus ’ blood brother ) aside , but also from set on guiltless citizenry once the roadblock spell is let down — and Marcel is also have a wolfman bite , which could be lethal unless he get under one’s skin Klaus ’ origin .
But meanwhile , Marcel has delusion / flashbacks to when he was in World War I — which turns out to be his first ever lesson in leadership and in dealing with site where you ’ve been pushed to the allowance . In 1916 , Marcel draft and goes to the Front , where he ’s put in an all - African American regiment that ’s essentially cannon - fodder . Except that Marcel convinces them they do n’t have to be carom - cannon fodder — their name , the Army of the Damned , can mean that they ’ll be damned before they rent the Germans track their lineage . Marcel soon starts to think of his comrade in arm as family , and turns Klaus ’ part wisdom ( about family being the people whom you fight for , and who are unforced to fight for you ) into a variety of motto for their unit of measurement .
And in the end , Marcel turn all of his fellow shameful soldier into lamia , make a fighting power of proudly monstrous , unstoppable killers , who are specify by their bond certificate with each other and their resoluteness to keep drinking German blood like schnapps . This is juxtaposed with the present day , where Marcel is doing the opposite — rally his multitude to obviate imbibe people ’s blood , so as not to shatter the peace in New Orleans .
( And then Marcel and his crowd get catch by Finn , who suspect that Klaus is hide something . )
Also in this episode : Haley and Hawley from Sleepy Hollow are getting hook up with , and it turns out they have to share all their secrets via some mystical herbaceous plant thingy . This perturbs Klaus , because how did Hawley get all the way over from Sleepy Hollow in clock time to marry Haley ?
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