THE ORIGINALS at Comic-Con: Live-Blog

Klaus managed to defeat his Aunt Dahlia and saved his daughter’s life in last season’s finale of THE ORIGINALS, but he also took revenge against Hayley and her fellow pack members for trying to take Hope from them. What’s to come in season 3? Stars Joseph Morgan (Klaus Mikaelson), Daniel Gillies (Elijah Mikaelson), Phoebe Tonkin (Hayley), Charles Michael Davis (Marcel), Leah Pipes (Cami), Yusuf Gatewood (Vincent Griffith) and Danielle Campbell (Davina), along with executive producers Julie Plec and Michael Narducci, were on hand to discuss.

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4:41 PM: There are some new villains coming to the show next season, as fans saw in a teaser. Along the way the Mikaelsons turned many people into the vampires and these vampires know that if they kill an Original their entire sire line will be killed. So what can they do? That’s the seed for season 3. The Mikaelsons vanquished their own evil parents and now they’re able to learn what it is like to be in the “parental” role themselves because their “vampire children” are coming to town. The scene shown to fans was actually filmed for the season 2 finale as a little cliffhanger, but they edited it out and then decided to bring it to Comic-Con as a teaser for what’s to come.

4:44 PM: How will Klaus be as a parent without Hayley around? Morgan says before he alienated his entire family, he survived under the umbrella of “Elijah’s protection and forgiveness”. So he’s going “to do badly” as a single parent, although he is trying. Gillies said that Freya will be doing a lot to help Klaus with the baby as well.

4:45 PM: Narducci says that Klaus made a calculated decision when Dahlia told him that she was needed to raise Hope. But Klaus wouldn’t allow his baby to the taken by the witch and then made peace with Freya and brought her into the family. Now Freya will play an important part in Hope’s life, even if the brothers are estranged because of what Klaus did in season 2.

4:48 PM: Tonkin says that Hayley has grown up without a family, so no matter how horrible Klaus is she will want to give Hope a mother and a father. Plec says “there’s a custody fight very early on in the season” and it’s very violent, but that there will be a decision on who should raise the baby.

4:52 PM: Elijah will be leading the charge to cure Hayley. Gillies says that Elijah has “monumental patience” and he thinks that his character will wait for Jackson to die so that he can be with Hayley eventually.

4:55 PM: Pipes says that Cami saw her brother go into such darkness and she has darkness in herself as well. Klaus sees the darkness in Cami and there “is an untapped darkness in Cami that we will see some of”.

4:58 PM: Plec says that we will see more of Kol (played by Nathaniel Buzolic) early in season 3 in flashbacks. We’re going to see the Original family “about ten years after they were turned” so that we can view how they’re adjusting to their new lives. We may see a “little glimpse of Finn as well”.

5:00 PM: This coming season we’ll see Vincent try to be a mentor for Davina, but whether Davina is accepting of his advice is yet to be seen.

5:06 PM: Narducci joked that moving to 9:00 p.m. could mean that the show gets “a bit more adult”.

 

THE ORIGINALS will return for its new season on Thursday, October 8 on The CW.