Oh, The Originals. *Sniff* Why you gotta do us like that?!
During a screening of the heartbreaking hour, executive producer Michael Narducci fielded questions from reporters, both about this week’s biggest twists and about the final three episodes of the season.
Warning: major spoilers below! Do not continue reading until you have watched “When the Levee Breaks!”
Another episode of The Originals Boss Reveals Why They Killed Off the Latest Victim, another death, another night spent crying into our glasses of wine. You’d think we’d be used to this routine by now, but this time, the CW supernatural drama took the life of Aiden (Colin Woodell), aka one-half of the beautifully romantic vampire/werewolf gay relationship that we’ve been loving ever since Josh (Steven Krueger) first got his star-crossed boyfriend. It hurt even worse since during the whole episode, we watched as these two boyfriends professed their love for each other and made plans to run away together. Ouch, our hearts!
And here’s the kicker: Dahlia (Claudia Black) murdered Aiden and framed Klaus (Joseph Morgan) for the kill, knowing it would set Mikealson against Mikaelson, weakening their bond and lessening their threat against her. Klaus went along with the charade to inspire fear in everyone, but it ultimately led to his demise: Davina (Danielle Campbell) gave Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) the dagger she spelled to take down Klaus, and the Original hybrid watched as all his siblings and loved ones literally stabbed him with it, taking him down for the count in the time his family needs his violent ways the most.
So can The Original siblings take down Dahlia without Klaus’ help?
“That is the million dollar question that everyone is struggling with,” executive producer Michael Narducci says. “They’re going to stand up to someone who is the most powerful thing we’ve seen in this universe, and they’re going to have to find a way to deal with her without the most dangerous member of their family.”
Though it hurts a lot right now, Narducci explains that killing off Aiden made the most sense for the story they’re trying to tell.
“We knew off the bat that we wanted to tell a beautiful Romeo and Juliet story between Josh, a vampire, and Aiden, a werewolf,” Narducci says. “Our goal was to create acomplicated, layered person who was put in many dilemmas in regards to his loyalty to his pack, outside sources putting pressures on him, the difficulty of being a werewolf loyal to the crescents and dating a vampire, but also his belief that maybe he should be alpha. Him being an ambitious person and questioning the leadership of his own friend led him to be vulnerable to Klaus and his own Faustian machinations.”
He continues, “Once we had that story in motion, we felt like we really put this guy in a dilemma and simultaneously, that story was going forward and we had another story which was Dahlia comes to town. Her goal should be to divide the Mikealsons and to ruin the vow of ‘always and forever’ so they would be easier to take down. If Dahlia is smart, then she could use someone’s death the way that she says she’s going to use Aiden’s death as the kindling to light a fire that divides the Mikealsons.”
Originals fans, how crushed are you by the death of Aiden? And what do you hope to see in the final three episodes of Season 2? Leave a comment with your thoughts below.
