OMG ME TOO!!!!1 I compare Elijah and Castiel in my head all the time. Though as I haven't seen the last bit of TVD S4 or TO, I can't say how they're handling Elijah now. And I do think that Elijah got a better deal than the other Originals. Most of the time they were squabbling in S3/4, he was offscreen. But no, I compare them in how they're treated as the first representative of their group. When Castiel walked in those barn doors all badass and terrifying, you got this sense that all the angels were these super otherworldly, actually inhuman, never been human, beings. Then you got more angels. You got pretentious dicks like Uriel and smarmy bastards like Zachariah, and well, they're pretty human acting when it comes down to it. I did think Matt Cohen was pretty otherwordly as Michael, and I have no complaints about Lucifer, but the rest of them? No real presence there. So then we have Elijah. He's ancient and different and powerful and just above all this. So Originals are going to be pretty badass, right? Not so much. We get the rest of them, and then they're pretty much just like every other squabbling vampires we've seen. I really like non-human characters that SEEM non-human, you know? Both Castiel and Elijah did, but their performance was singular and what made them so popular wasn't replicated with subsequent characters (not that the other vampires or angel should have been clones, but I think you know what I'm saying).
But yeah, I haven't seen the most recent Elijah, so I can't comment on how much he's changed in treatment or not. And I haven't seen the most recent SPN either (and have no intention to on that). I do think Cas was integrated fairly well in S5, though they could have had less comic relief. But honestly, I would have rather had him be gone or dead than have him become the parody of himself that he's become, IMO. Though I sort think that about the show itself at this point, TBH. And I think it would have made more sense, story wise, for him to maybe guest star two or three times a season. But instead of doing that, they just had to find more things for him to do, and story lines for him to have, and it just gets further and further away from what the character started out as. But yes, the Originals were used too much. Or they were used wrong or something. (Sort of like Cas, I really just wanted them all to leave, because Mystic Falls is not the world, and maybe occasionally show up now and then. But no.) Like, I was SO impressed with Klaus' treatment in the first half of S3, because it actually made sense for this insanely powerful bad guy to be in town not killing our heroes. But then it went wrong. I can tell you exactly when it went wrong. 3.09. That was the last time I enjoyed Klaus. Coincidentally, I read that that was the episode where they changed their minds about killing him at the end of S3, so, yeah. It was a huge huge huge mistake to not kill him, IMO. Actually, right up until the end, I thought they were going to succeed at putting him in the coffin. That would have been nice. He would be out of the way, but still in play to be brought back after a season or two. But no, the writers fell so in love with Klaus that they kept him around to the detriment of the story, then gave him his own show. /rant
no subject
But yeah, I haven't seen the most recent Elijah, so I can't comment on how much he's changed in treatment or not. And I haven't seen the most recent SPN either (and have no intention to on that). I do think Cas was integrated fairly well in S5, though they could have had less comic relief. But honestly, I would have rather had him be gone or dead than have him become the parody of himself that he's become, IMO. Though I sort think that about the show itself at this point, TBH. And I think it would have made more sense, story wise, for him to maybe guest star two or three times a season. But instead of doing that, they just had to find more things for him to do, and story lines for him to have, and it just gets further and further away from what the character started out as. But yes, the Originals were used too much. Or they were used wrong or something. (Sort of like Cas, I really just wanted them all to leave, because Mystic Falls is not the world, and maybe occasionally show up now and then. But no.) Like, I was SO impressed with Klaus' treatment in the first half of S3, because it actually made sense for this insanely powerful bad guy to be in town not killing our heroes. But then it went wrong. I can tell you exactly when it went wrong. 3.09. That was the last time I enjoyed Klaus. Coincidentally, I read that that was the episode where they changed their minds about killing him at the end of S3, so, yeah. It was a huge huge huge mistake to not kill him, IMO. Actually, right up until the end, I thought they were going to succeed at putting him in the coffin. That would have been nice. He would be out of the way, but still in play to be brought back after a season or two. But no, the writers fell so in love with Klaus that they kept him around to the detriment of the story, then gave him his own show. /rant