19 thoughts on “Let’s Pick Apart an Episode of The Originals

  1. I agree about the porcine animal. Haven’t seen this shlock, but may check it out at library.

    At first thought it was a bad parody of Highlander with *sigh* Adrian Paul.

  2. “If there’s one thing I love/hate more than historical costume butchery, it’s historic culture butchery!” If you had an idea how much I love you for that sentence <3

  3. That sounds almost as ‘entrancing’ as the samurai sword-wielding hussar, Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter.

  4. I watch both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals because it takes me back to being a teenager and writing shitty Anne Rice fanfic, and on that level, I enjoy it. The “historical” flashbacks in both shows run the gamut from “WTF” to “Oh Dear God What is That Thing?!?!” in every respect.

  5. Clearly, this episode is set at Pennsic, because I know I’ve seen those precise outfits there. (I will neither confirm nor deny having worn something vaguely like the woman’s outfit before I learned Things).

    1. You know you’re right! I thought they looked like they were in the Bog by the Lost Boys camp. Which will explain the mud and masks. As for the lady’s hair, well. I just got back from Birka and I was witness to may a young lady similarly coiffed. I believe that I was in the minority because I ALWAYS cover my head even if it’s just a solid colored bandana.

  6. I watch the hell out of this show.

    You should check out the WTF?-ery from the original (The Vampire Diaries) with the Katherine Pierce Civil War flashbacks. Hahahaha.

  7. I started hate-watching the Vampire Diaries a few years ago; it’s one of those ‘train wreck’ shows. SO BAD, and yet… I can’t look away. I need to watch the wreckage burn.
    Also, when they did a flashback to the Civil War and I saw the clothes I laughed so hard I almost fell off the couch.

  8. I’d love to know in which culture in history you’d find two brothers named Klaus and Elijah. And I totally agree about the dirty men juxtaposed with the beautiful women’s makeup. Why do all costumers think that everyone in history was dirty? Are dirty men supposed to by sexy? To me, dirty = smelly = NOPE.

  9. …Is that faux historical episode implying only white people existed in Virginia in the Middle Ages? Was it in this show’s contract to never do a hint of research?

    1. Yep, that is indeed what they are implying. I think they’re trying to go off the premise that the Norse had a settlement in North America in the 9th-ish century. Except, that theorized settlement was nowhere near Virginia and was way the fuck North in Canada.

      Really, it’s just an excuse to mingle a little Native American cultural appropriation with faux-medieval bullshit.

    2. Oh, not just Vikings. There are also a few random Africans as well. This was at the point where the Vampire Diaries was still going for the “witches are all African American” thing , which went away in The Originals. Either because they realized it was kinda icky and racist, or because keeping it would mean that half the cast would be African American. And yes, I realize that given the history of New Orleans it is entirely possible that even the witches who’s appearance suggests they are European American could have a fair amount of African ancestry. But that hasn’t been stated, so.

  10. So a vampire show called The Originals found a David Boreanaz lookalike to star as a character with an origin story that bears a rather striking resemblance to that of Eric Northman in True Blood.

    I think I just injured something trying not to fall out of my chair at work.

  11. I have this little fantasy that it’s the men doing the ladies’ brows. Like, here’s an essential Viking manhood test: can you pluck a woman’s brows into even, matching bows. Do other Norsemen mock him if her brows aren’t perfect? “Ho ho! Elijah, your woman’s eyebrows are too far apart! Why do you want embarrass her that way? She will pick a new man if you can’t groom her properly! Ha ha!”

    No? Only me?

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