The annoying thing about Hayley/Elijah is that is that I don't hate it. If I hated it I'd just do my best to ignore it like I do most ships on TVD. Sure I'd hate it but it wouldn't...bother me quite the way it does right now. I don't like it the way it's written but I kind of think I could have if it had been handled differently. And a lot of that has to do with how bland Hayley herself is. It's like shipping Elijah/lamppost, sure he's awesome enough to probably have chemistry with it, but it's a lamppost (arguably the same could be said of s4 E/E I suppose, but it's a little different)

And I didn't mind Hayley when she started out on TVD, I liked Tyler having a werewolf friend well enough,and while I thought Klaus probably should have killed her early on since that was true of everyone by that point it didn't nag at me. But she wasn't exactly a deep character there either, that's to be sure. She's better on TO, but she's still pretty bland.

I liked a lot of Marcel this episode, I just couldn't get a great read on him a lot of the time. Some of that's probably my fault since I do pay a lot more attention to especially the Originals, and to a lesser extent some of the other characters than I do him.

If was a perfectly fine episode, I don't have much to complain about overall, just nothing that really grabbed me.