OK, needed someone who might add their thoughts on that because it's driving me nuts. HOW THE HECK COME that Klaus suddenly emphasised and saw himself in Marcel, when with everyone else -people whom he treated like his father treated him, and people who were treated like that- that never happened? How the heck do the writers even justify this shit? And for me this isn't even about Marcel or Klaus as characters, but just about the shitty writing. H ELP ME UNDERSTAND THE THING THIS IS PAINFUL PLS
1) They are writing the show based on fanon (lol at Originals using the name Mikaelson with every freaking person) and it’s a BIG point in fanon that poor little Klausy-kins was abused by Mikael because he was a bastard. When what the show has shown us is Mikael being tough on them because he wanted them to survive/be more powerful than the werewolves, and they only found out that Klaus was a bastard after he was turned and killed someone, activating the werewolf gene.
2) They are desperately trying to make the viewers root for Klaus and feel sorry for him. When his own family keeps on saying that he’s a terrible person and we keep on being shown that he’s a terrible person, the way to get the audiences on Klaus’ side is to give him a sob story that will miraculously justify every terrible deed he’s been performing. So ignore a thousand years of killing, don’t mention the fact that Mikael chased him cause he killed Esther, and keep on pushing that he’s the way he is cause he was abused and his siblings didn’t do anything. (what happened maybe cause they were kids and also afraid of Mikael)
They’re just messing up everyone’s characterization for the sake of making them into main characters that the audience is meant to root for… Klaus is being written as a poor baby. Elijah is being written as the noble, good brother. Rebekah… I still can’t grasp how they’re trying to move her. Hayley got a whole personality makeover. And even Marcel is being painted in a far more ‘wicked’ light than he was in the pilot, while Sophie gets pushed to the background no matter that this was supposed to be a witch revolution….
The writing is just currently an absolute mess and all over the place and not at all coherent with what we were shown on TVD. And I’m sad because everyone’s complaining about the baby and/or all over the moon because they are apparently liking it… And I’m on my disappointed little corner because while the characters are acting IC, they don’t match up with what we’ve had so far and the dynamics aren’t focusing on what’s interesting to see for them and I’m pretty much getting the opposite of what I wanted and it’s a shame because well played out power games make my life.