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by PhoenixHope » March 13th, 2014, 4:34 pm
I don't know, after getting my knee-jerk reaction out of the way I remembered something. Holt was the last of The Originals cast to sign on, so now I'm wondering if maybe she only signed on to help launch the series and therefore was always only planning on being in a few episodes.
On the other hand, it's really weird that the actress as well as the people behind the show are maintaining radio silence on this (and is what keeps me thinking there might be more to this than the above). When something like this happened recently on Person of Interest (and no I don't watch the show, but the wanking was kinda epic and therefore hard to miss) the actress as well as the people behind the show quickly put the info out there that her characters storyline was always meant to go that way.
Basically, I don't know, but am kinda leaning toward something maybe having went pear shaped behind the scenes, because right now the show just doesn't have a female character that can go toe to toe with Klaus. Hayley has been there and tried that and the best she can do is sneak around. There's Cami, but Klaus tore through her mind like it was nothing. And okay there's the witches, but I've been bored with The Originals witch storyline since pretty much the start.
(But, yes, Devina hyped up witchness could stalemate Klaus, but that doesn't work now since Devina is f'ed up emotionally and presumably back to normal power-level wise now. Plus it just doesn't work because there isn't the connection there that was between Klaus and Rebakah.)
And even on the male side there's no male character presently that could stand toe to toe against Klaus. Sure they've set Marcel up to try, but like with Cami Klaus has already kicked Marcel's ass six ways from Sunday so if he can suddenly do more than sneak around Klaus that's not gonna feel organic to the story. And yes I know Elijah is still there, but Elijah is pretty much on Klaus's side, so not exactly gonna be a character that challenges him.
Basically, I think this show needs Rebekah or at the very least one more original, and not just because the show is called The Originals except now we're down to only two - and while the rest of the original vampires are dudes I think with the loss of Bekka they need to at least bring one of the others back - I'd say Kol (because the other I can name (Finn) was boring and uninteresting), but I'm almost sure I saw that his actor had signed on for the Supernatural spin-off, so basically The Originals are stuck with merely two original vampires now.
Now some have speculated they could bring back the originals mother, but for those that have watched The Vampire Diaries that would weird since her last mission was to kill her creations even more so than their father who I think just wanted to kill Klaus. And so it would be weird for her to come back yet again and not yet again take up that mission.
Ergo I think the show is going to miss Rebekah even more then maybe they realize.
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