2.18 Night Has A Thousand Eyes He’s got protecting himself down to a fine art, his paranoia ensuring that anything that could be a threat now or in the future is eliminated as quickly as possible, but protecting someone else – especially someone as seemingly helpless as a baby – is entirely different. We’ve seen all year that he’s struggled with sharing that responsibility with Hayley and Jackson, pushing back against any strategies they may have and sometimes only putting up with Hayley out of necessity, but now the biggest threat yet to Hope’s safety has landed in New Orleans, and all bets are off. Whiny Klaus always irritates, and at this point anything those two have to say to each other has been said a million different ways across two separate shows. Freya’s lingering love for her father at least added some weight to the situation, because lord knows Elijah and Rebekah are as over the situation as I am. So Mikael is gone, and Klaus was unable to get any sort of closure on his traumatic childhood. In the end, there were no answers or reasons as to why he was so hated and, after centuries for those questions to linger in the back of his mind, that’s the real tragedy. But Hope ties her to Klaus and the rest of the vampires, which also ties them both to Dahlia – the very threat they’re trying their best to avoid. Running away probably would have made things worse in the end, but you can’t blame them for trying. The storyline was really Aiden’s, though, with him trying to survive despite being stuck in the middle of two secretly warring leaders. Klaus’ observation that Josh and Aiden’s love for each other made them easy to manipulate was telling not just about them, but also about him, Mikael and Davina. Everyone on this show cares about something, but Aiden and Josh’s relationship has always felt like a little utopia separated from the Shakespearean tragedy going on elsewhere. When the rest of the show invades that paradise is when they’re in trouble, and I grow increasingly doubtful they’ll both come out of the season alive. Josh’s assertion that he’d die for Aiden has to be taken as more than just a sweet token of comfort when the stakes are this high. On the surface, we’re back where we were last year with the multiple factions of New Orleans readying themselves for war, but things are so much more complicated now. Dahlia murdering Josephine will probably keep the witches from defying her again, but the first battle for the vampires and werewolves is the rivalry between Klaus and Jackson. The problem? They both love the same thing – Hope – and that love will, quite ironically, be what most likely loses them the war against Dahlia. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
