The Originals: Elijah's Trek Into Darkness

   Incredibly happy to hear that The Originals is getting a season 5! While we celebrate I wanted to talk about Elijah's violent behavior as of late. It feels out of the blue but it's an understandable reaction. For one thing remember that Elijah once said, "No one hurts my family and lives. No one." Then he proceeded to rip out some hearts to get his point across. And we've known that there's always been a beast beneath the fancy suit and pocket square. Elijah is the martyr of the family who will sacrifice himself whether literally or figuratively. Right now he seems to be sacrificing his nobility. 

The immortal stud with the pocket square

    Elijah shocked everyone when he just went ahead and slit the throats of innocent young witches (I'm starting to feel sympathy for these French Quarter witches and understand why they're crazy murderous). Then he expected Vincent to just perform the ritual without any preparation. It's not just the violence it's the total lack of calculation that surprised me. Elijah usually thinks ahead but lately he's like a blunt instrument just beating people into submission. I understand that he probably feels like he needs to make up for lost time or now that Hope is growing up she's even more vulnerable so he feels he has to be more forceful. But it was Elijah's violent retribution and preemptive strikes that almost led him to destruction in the first place. He ripped Marcel's heart out triggering his new transformation which led to him getting bitten and Klaus being imprisoned. This erratic behavior may end up hurting his family more than helping. And how will this affect his relationship with Hayley?

It took them a long time to get together
Elijah may mess it up though

    Hayley has done some bad stuff and she admits that. However, what makes her good is that she's trying to be a better person. She falls off the wagon but ultimately she tries to do the right thing. It sets a good example for her daughter and even Klaus is trying to keep Hope innocent for as long as possible. Elijah admitted that that's what he loved most about Hayley yet she was justifiably concerned when Elijah was willing to sacrifice a child to stop the Hollow. She may end up being the only light in Elijah's life that can keep him from getting lost. She may be losing her noble honorable Elijah to his own fears for their family's safety which may end up consuming him which will lead him to do something so horrendous that not even Hayley could ever forgive him.

It's not a Mikaelson party until there's blood
on the walls

    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result every time. Elijah even defined this term once to Klaus when he was describing his pathological loyalty to him but right now I think someone needs to remind Elijah of the definition because he may end up like Klaus and push Hayley away. If he keeps using violence as a solution it'll create more enemies than the Mikaelsons can handle.

Hayley is Elijah's lighthouse