Same for me, I loved Elijah's intro and when he was used sparingly, but once all of the originals were hanging around they seemed to act more like kids most of the time and it got harder to take them seriously, so the pilot for The Original's just felt a little bit ridiculous and self-important me when they tried
O/T But I felt the same way about Castiel on SPN too after a bit. He was so fascinating to me in the fourth season and could be such an imposing presence, and for me some of that got lost when they started using him more and more for comic relief and such later on because the fans responded so strongly to him and wanted him made a regular. I think TvD made a big mistake not to kill off Klaus as was originally intended for the end of season 3, because he just became more and more watered-down and ridiculous as they tried to think up reasons for him to stick around but not cause too much damage to the other characters
ETA Not to compare them exactly because I do think that SPN did a MUCH better job of integrating Cas into the show as a regular then TvD did with the Orignal's starting to overwhelm the show, but still sometimes I do miss the season 4 Castiel when they go really o/t with naive Cas and making him into a joke
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Date: 2013-10-09 03:31 am (UTC)O/T But I felt the same way about Castiel on SPN too after a bit. He was so fascinating to me in the fourth season and could be such an imposing presence, and for me some of that got lost when they started using him more and more for comic relief and such later on because the fans responded so strongly to him and wanted him made a regular. I think TvD made a big mistake not to kill off Klaus as was originally intended for the end of season 3, because he just became more and more watered-down and ridiculous as they tried to think up reasons for him to stick around but not cause too much damage to the other characters
ETA Not to compare them exactly because I do think that SPN did a MUCH better job of integrating Cas into the show as a regular then TvD did with the Orignal's starting to overwhelm the show, but still sometimes I do miss the season 4 Castiel when they go really o/t with naive Cas and making him into a joke