The Originals: Michael Narducci Previews What’s Coming

A new episode of The Originals airs tonight (February 5) on The CW. Last week, we spoke with Executive Producer Michael Narducci about the tragedies that happened in last week’s show as we go into tonight’s installment and beyond.

“I think thematically, Season 3 is about how people who come into the orbit of this family are just as cursed as the family,” Narducci said. “We see that manifested in Lucien, Tristan, and Aurora and how messed up they are, because of their interaction with the family. We see that in how Hayley’s getting messed up by being close to this family. Cami is getting messed up being close to this family. What’s in store for Marcel, for Davina, for Baby Hope, as part of the family… nobody’s safe, and everybody went into the episode thinking ‘gosh, I hope Cami’s not dead’ and not expecting that they had to worry about one of their other favorite characters not making it through the episode. So even in the midst of life, we are in the midst of death. God giveth and God taketh away. Those are all the kinds of emotional responses we wanted to get out of this. Yes, Cami managed to find a way to survive, but we lost somebody else, and it’s gonna get worse before it gets better. That’s kind of what we’re struggling to deal with, with the return of these ancient sired vampires,” he teased.

Beginning tonight, we will see more of what happens with Cami’s transition into becoming a vampire. “We’ve explored transitions on Vampire Diaries, and we’ve seen on our show, [when] Josh was made into a vampire, he reacted in a certain way… Hayley was made into a vampire, and she reacted in a certain way… kind of started to get closer to her wolf side, and dealt with becoming a vampire by turning into a wolf and running through the woods, and killing witches, and kind of embracing that savage side of herself… and Cami is someone who has some dark impulses, and we’ve talked about how maybe that’s what led her to be fascinated by psychology, and to be fascinated by Klaus, and maybe those are some of the reasons why she’s stayed in New Orleans to begin with, and now that that side of her is heightened by being a vampire, I think that’s something she’s going to want to explore… and I think in every instance of somebody on any show becoming a vampire, you see that transition… they swing wildly one direction, and then they swing wildly back, and then slowly there is an equilibrium that is found. So, I don’t think that Cami’s final resting character place is going to appear right away. I think she’s in for a long transition into discovering who she is going to be as a vampire,” Narducci said.

The Originals “Wild At Heart” airs tonight (February 5) at 9PM on The CW.