The Originals: Possible Predictions

        There have been a few pictures released over the last few months about the new season of The Originals. From those I can possibly gather what may happen in season 4.

Back to dungeons and whips.
Are we sure it's not a set of an S&M porn?

      Last season finale Marcel placed Klaus in the cemetery and bricked him up after he sunk that magical painful dagger into him putting him in an agonizing catatonic state. In this new photo Klaus is conscious and in chains facing Marcel in some crypt. Something must have happened to make Marcel want to "free" his father-figure. Possibly a new big bad or Hayley coming back to cause trouble and Marcel figures out that he was deceived and is trying to figure out Hayley's game. But I feel this is one step towards their reconciliation because like it or not Marcel is family; maybe not by blood but Klaus raised Marcel as his own son. There's a connection between them and like I said, there's probably a new big bad that they'll need to ally against.

I can already feel the Daddy-Daughter
chemistry between them!

       It's been 7 years I'm guessing since Hayley has been to New Orleans, driving around in that moving truck with the bodies of Kol, Elijah, Rebekah, and Freya in it. In a trailer shown at Comic-con little Hope asks, "Are we going to get my dad?" Hayley responds, "Yeah, sweetie." And then a photo was released showing Hope meeting her father for the first time since she was a baby. I for one am excited to see how Hope's powers have progressed over the years and that she has developed a personality that could interact with her family. These people are essentially strangers to her so she won't understand why they do some of things they do like murder indiscriminately. Klaus wants to be a good father though he's still controlling so I feel Hope and Klaus will argue sometimes but he will truly change as a person while trying to catch up on all the years he's missed out on seeing his daughter grow up. Hope is a hybrid of vampire, werewolf, and witch and as she gets older she becomes more dangerous and more important to those three races who will either fear or revere her. A pack of werewolves believe she's the "chosen" one or something so Hope may play an essential role and her family will rally around her.

Look at Joseph holding Hope's hand! So cute!

      Now in the trailer we see that the Mikaelson compound has been abandoned being over taken by nature as if a century had gone by. I'm guessing that Marcel didn't want anything to do with the place after sentencing his father-figure, friend, and role model to eternal suffering. He doesn't want to be a Mikaelson anymore or associate with them in any way like before where he wanted to emulate Klaus (taking the compound right down to the "M"). Last we left Marcel, Vincent was scolding him for leaving his vampire kills in plain sight for any one to find (one almost killed Kinney who I guess is the new human of the cast of crazy characters). Vincent took back St. Anne's church making it a sanctuary for anyone running from Marcel. So you can bet Vincent and Marcel will be at odds in the start of the new season. Will this contention last? Alliances are always shifting on this show which is what makes the TVD/TO universe so interesting. Two people would be enemies one day, then allies, then enemies again, then friends and perhaps maybe lovers. I'm feeling good for this season.