(Spoilers for Season 2 of The Originals)
Am I the only one who thinks he deserved better? He was daggered in a coffin for centuries and only came out when Klaus got bored but got put right back in after messing with Marcel when though Rebekah, Klaus, and Elijah pride themselves on family and blood, got pushed in a room with a bunch of vampires in a human body by Klaus when he transported Rebekah to a body trapped in a house (that she trapped other people in) even though she deserved it because she got him daggered for years when he trusted her and was only looking for a way to defend himself (again, completely reasonable), and then people in his family mourned him but never avenged him, which is totally out of character for any of them. The writers made AN ORIGINAL die at the hands of a
teenage newbie vampire hunter when he should’ve been able to snap all of their necks and leave easily, and he only wanted to kill them because he was told raising Silas would be the end of the world, he wanted to protect the world and Jeremy and Elena wanted the cure for selfish reasons. He acknowledges that there was no room at the table for him but for Marcellus, who isn’t even family. He only joined forces with Esther because he felt as though no one in his family cared about his death or even bothered to avenge him even though they’ve been together for a thousand years and they’re murderers. And when Rebekah was talking about how Klaus was truly not happy, she brought up Haley’s curse and Elijah leaving, but now how they betrayed their brother and thought they condemned him to death after betraying Davina.
He was often portrayed as psychotic and cruel but everything he’s done so far has a reason, the only reason he became like this is because of how he was treated by his own family.