The Vampire Diaries and The Originals

Description:

Family is power. The Original Vampire family swore it to each other a thousand years ago. They pledged to remain together, always and forever. Now, centuries have passed, and the bonds of family are broken. Time, tragedy and hunger for power have torn the Original Family apart.

Review:

The Originals. What can I say about The Originals? More than "I absolutely love it". I have watched the original series The Vampire Diaries, but this series is more grown up. The first year that TVD came out I had the feeling that the series was more a teen drama series. It didn't really catch my attention. A couple years later a friend tells me that the series actually has grown up and that I should definitely give the series a chance. So I get the series and I start watching. Halfway season one I notice that the series indeed starts changing. It's starting to get darker. I like it. And the series keeps on growing. And then The Originals get introduced. I loved the storyline about The Originals and the casting was masterly. You really believed that they were very powerful that you should be really scared of them when you meet them alone in the dark in some random ally. And then there was Silas and bit by bit the teen drama started to sip back into the series. Luckily the makers from TVD got the great idea to make an off-spin and give The Originals their own series. For me this meant that they basically took away my favorite characters and gave them their own series. I still follow TVD, and I'm not saying it's bad now. If you had that feeling, my apologies. I still really like the series. But I prefer the bit more grown up series in this genre.

The Originals moved on to another city, a new setting, but still with the same old back story. Fighting a war! At first they want to make you believe that the war is all about that baby in Hailey's belly but it soon shows it's true purpose. I like the twists in this series. They are not too big or to small, but just perfect, just so you would believe it. There hasn't been much episodes out yet from The Originals at this moment I just watched episode 6 of the first season. But still, so much has happened already. The story moves fast but not too fast. You cannot keep following if you miss an episode. And for me that means that it's a good series.

If you haven't seen The Vampire Diaries until the end of season 4 and you are still planning to do that, don't start watching The Originals yet. Or you WILL get SPOILED.
At the other hand, if you are really curious about The Originals but don't care much about The Vampire Diaries, you can perfectly start following the series. Everything you need to know gets explained.

My boyfriend thinks I should quote my series. Do you think the same? Let me know in the comments below. :)
And to humor him. The Originals definitely deserves a 9/10 so far. And The Vampire Diaries deserves a nice 8 because it has grown throughout the years, but is now a little less again. But the curve can always go up again.

'Till my next blog xXx