The Forever Damned Cami O’Connell
I am so sick of people who watch The Originals and have the audacity to say that Cami had no storyline and was useless.
Cami had many storylines at her disposal. It was the oversight of the forever riding Klaus Mikaelsons’ dick writers for not executing them.
And besides this, Cami was heard and shown going to class, studying for her maters in psychology, she was shown having a stable job as a bartender and a social life. (But then people claim she was only ever at Klaus’ foot? Because on most of their interactions it was KLAUS that initiated it? But stay with your deluded thinking.)
Ultimately, it was the failure of the scatter-brained writers for not creating a world where developing well rounded, fleshed out characters was a priority. It wasn’t just Cami O’Connell that suffered this injustice, but multiple others too. Cami just happens to be the one subjected to the most criticism, from viewers and shippers in the fandom.
Cami’s Storylines (S1-S3):
-The O’Connell Legacy & The Dark Objects
-Being a Psychologist (& eventually opening up her own practice and her sessions with Klaus)
-Detective Kinney and The O’Connells: Kinney had made many cryptic remarks regarding her family, her history,etc. and had shown a tenacity that proved he wouldn’t give up until he found out. This had the makings for a very interesting storyline but was abruptly forgotten somewhere in 3x5+
-Cami Acting as a Profiler for The NOLAPD
-Vampire Cami / Vampire Vigilante: Cami’s entire reason for turning into a vampire at the end of 3x10.
-Cami Getting Revenge on Aurora
-Cami & The Mikaelsons: Simply being in their orbit and being friends/romantic towards the 1000 year old hybrid - making their if not all, a majority of their storylines, hers.
Cami & Relationships: Though this might not be necessarily (at the moment) be a storyline per say, it does take up screen time, an amount of time for development and a cause for it. The makings of a storyline. Cami was a well liked person in NOLA with the family, friends, etc. Her building relationships was crucial and yet it was underused. Her relationships with; Marcel, Rebekah, Elijah, Klaus, Davina, Vincent, Hayley, Freya, Hope, Kieran, Kinney, etc.
Cami & Klaus: They were the main ship in The Originals, and one with a natural and well developed growth for over 3 to 4 years now.
Tell me Cami O’Connell didn’t have a storyline.
It was the incompetence, laziness and probably the lack of interest in fleshing out characters other than Klaus that caused the semi there, on and off storyline for Cami. But in no way can you say Cami didn’t have it. That some of these weren’t used.
The storyline she did have was passed out to the other characters when Cami was reading/speaking her will. What the writers couldn’t quickly wrap up in 45 minutes was handed out to characters with less storyline than herself so they can have the interest of this undiscovered story / possible usefulness in the future. If Cami had that much left to tell, then her story wasn’t over, not by a long shot, regardless of the “she ran her coarse” statement.
But you know what? In the end not even those various storylines would have appeased the strict concept that many viewers seem to share: It’s all about the Mikaelsons. Or hell, even the writers, “its all about Klaus Mikaelson”.
Cami O’Connell was damned before she appeared in the backdoor pilot episode in 4x20 of TVD and from there she was damned if she did, and damned if she didn’t.
Since The Originals revolves around the family, or more aptly, Klaus Mikaelson, Cami having any storyline that pertained to her solely with only few interactions with the Original family would then become as so many pressed, closed minded viewers claim as “The Cami Diaries” or “The Cami Show”. But with things as they were, with Cami acting as Klaus’ therapist, friend and romantic interest, she is only the prop used for Klaus’ development. She has no purpose other than that because she doesn’t have a storyline outside Klaus (that the viewers see).
There was no way Cami can exist in this fandom without a majority shooting her down at every single turn.
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