I feel like this episode had great build-up and then fizzled out. I was on-board through killings one and two. Beautiful shots, creepy set-up. I loved Will walking down the road in his sleep and waking up on his roof. I loved the situation between Jack and his wife, particularly the dinner scene.

I was really bothered by this and I wish I could let it go. There needed to at least be a throw away line questioning how he got up there and if he had some help.

He hasn't been all that supervillain-y in a while now, though. Not for most of season 4. I didn't find it all that odd that he's grown a bit as a character by the time we get here.

Interesting choices with the witches too.

This was my big problem with the episode. The Salvatores basically visited an entirely different city. If the place is crawling with vampires and in particular has a vampire king running the show, why was there not even the littlest mention of that?

I noticed the music changes too, but I figured they were trying to differentiate this episode from the rest of the season, make it stand out more as it's own thing.

This was the one point of the pregnancy thing that was really icky to me. Once Elijah knows about the baby he is all over that shit, basically picking out nursery decor. He convinces Rebekah and Klaus that this is their chance to be a real family together.

I dislike baby plot lines in general, supernatural or not. Kids are not my favorite things in the first place and watching shows go all gooey over them make me crazy.

Hissssss!

Thank you! I knew that name sounded familiar and it has been bugging the fuck out of me since the beginning of the show that I couldn't remember where it was from.

I will be happy if Originals gets picked up. I like the characters but they're just too overpowered. Can't kill them, can't force them to do anything, so they just hang around without a ton to do. Send them off to a bigger city so they can cause some real havoc for a while.

I had a similar reaction to those lines. I bet that I'd be more accepting of them if they were built into a full episode. Watching an episode from end to end is much more engrossing. The clips start and stop a bit jarringly, which makes the dreamy, writerly dialogue stand out even more starkly.

I agree that Slings & Arrows is a better show overall, but I also have to say that Scott Thompson is killing it on this show, even with only a tiny part.

Right, which I would totally assume under normal circumstances if an episode gets dropped or shown out of order — I'm just wondering if the fact that there are these webclips available right now from episode 4 makes any difference. Probably not, but I was interested to hear if there was any thoughts on this from the…

Rats. Oh well.

I can't tell from anything I've read whether or not this'll be legally available as a full episode online. To me it sounds like he says (in his introduction to the clip) that the full episode will be available "online and in international markets" — but other people I've talked to heard him say "online in…

Did anyone else notice that during Fuller's introduction of the clips he pronounces the title "Ceuf" with a C rather than "Oeuf" like we were expecting.

Any thoughts on how AV Club might handle a review of this episode? Are we going to skip right to episode 5 (the one shown in America tonight) or will there be some effort to review the full/incomplete episode 4?

I spent that whole scene trying to figure out if it was him and trying to figure out what the point of him appearing from nowhere was all of the sudden. Kinda took away from the actual death and mayhem for me. I like that actor but it's weird that he's suddenly there and talking.

@avclub-3f2263ada00cf404ac8d4b205f830508:disqus I didn't think Q was the first witch, just a really powerful one. I mean Silas was a witch before he turned himself immortal/vampire/whatever. I don't know that they mentioned this before.