The Mikaelson brothers need each other to fight Dahlia in The Originals, but heading into the Season 2 finale, their bonds are on shaky ground.
Klaus has done many horrible things in the name of protecting Hope, but in last week’s penultimate Season 2 episode, as he pretended to be on Dahlia’s side, he compelled Elijah’s girlfriend Gia to take off her daylight ring. As Klaus held his brother down, Gia died a fiery death in front of Elijah’s eyes. It was a brutal act that begs the question — can Elijah ever forgive Klaus?
“The answer is with great difficulty, I think,” Daniel Gillies, who plays Elijah, told Access Hollywood. “This is a terrible thing. This is a terrible injustice.”
Daniel describes what Klaus did as, “sort of losing the battle to win the war from Klaus’ perspective.”
“He’s ultimately just sort of playing chess with everybody, including his most beloved,” Daniel added.
Klaus may be able to justify Gia’s death (presumaby it was part of his plan to win Dahlia’s trust), but to everyone else, it was an inexplicable act.
“It’s like, ‘Really?… You really had to? … Of all of the things you had to do, this was your master plan? … You couldn’t have not sacrificed her?’ One could argue, ‘Well, it had to look authentic, so it had to look like real betrayal and I’m like, ‘OK, but there just must have been any number of ways to destroy Dahlia that weren’t that,'” Daniel said.
Gia’s death will have major consequences on the bonds between the immortals.
“When I saw that, I was like, ‘Well, that’s it, man. They’ve just sort of severed one of the last remaining ties between the brothers,'” Daniel said.
I agree with Daniel. Klaus might of done it to win Dahlia’s trust but he probably lost everyone else’s.
