The Originals 3x21♡Uncut Reaction &Review ♡

Yeah Elijah cares for marcel he just doesn’t show it, we saw this when he was a kid he treated him like a parent protecting his innocence before klaus got jealous. Elijah distanced himself from marcel to preserve some sort of klaus’s humanity which worked as some of the most peaceful times lived was when they ran early New Orleans with marcel. Overtime I think it just became second nature to keep marcel distant. Klaus told marcel each grieved him when they thought he died in their own way, that would include Elijah. Think when Elijah found out what marcel did with Rebekah he lost a lot of respect he once had for him because it tore Rebekah and klaus apart, doesn’t change the years he spent with his family though. But yes I agree Elijah is an interesting character and personally love that they kept his instinct to protect his family at all cost true to him even during these crazy times. Think that’s what makes Elijah as scary as he is, klaus is dangerous cause he’s the strongest but Elijah is relentless and unpredictable because depending on how much you hurt his family, he’ll reciprocate back. Also personally find it easy to relate to him, as anyone very close to their own family I can assume would do anything for their own as well

It wasn’t an extreme stretch, Elijah has truly loved a handful of people in his entire 1000 years of existence. He’s not like klaus or Kol that will sleep with endless woman and not think twice about them. If Elijah fell for someone and seeked it out it was true love to him. Making it quite strong in my opinion, to the extent of marcel? Maybe not exactly as they are different kinds of love but the extent klaus woulda gone for marcel I’m sure Elijah would’ve with Celeste and the only people Elijah cares for more than Celeste at that time is his family, which is why he blamed himself even though it was klaus’s fault. Same reason why klaus is hesitant but trying to understand Elijah cause it’s his brother. and the reason BOTH klaus and elijah care for the serum is because there being someone stronger than them and a threat of a weapon powerful enough of killing them. It is the same instinct they’ve followed for 1000 years and that’s that it endangers their family. Not so long ago in season 1 marcel wanted a way to kill the originals, and the time from then till now on the series timeline is only a few years. As much as marcel helps the mikaelson he’s been against them just as much, maybe not cause he wanted to and to the fault of the originals but I’m sure that klaus and Elijah both see they will disagree with marcel at times and him being the stronger of the three now can brute strength through any dispute. I believe Elijah’s concern was purely for his family’s saftey and klaus was for that and to know marcel would now be his better. I don’t agree with how Elijah handled the situation but his concern will always be his family and as someone who saw the visions of the end of his family as he’s always the one they focused on when a piece of the prophecy was fulfilled, he always showed tremendous concern so although I don’t agree with his solution I can admire the lengths he will go to, ensure his families survival as that’s who he is and that same instinct has saved everyone in his family multiple times including the heart breaking scene with davina and freya