What team are you on?

Team Mikaelson all the way, for the reasons you say. And because Marcel is a power-hungry, hypocritical windbag.

Team Mikaelson, mostly same reasons as you, but a couple more:

-Marcel is acting like he's not responsible for his own choices, which is really annoying
-Marcel's revenge scheme doesn't even make much sense (targeting Davina) and, if he succeeds, there'd be a bodycount of tens of thousands

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Team Mikaelson Always and Forever, til Forever ends.......no matter how Marcel wants to tarnish their family motto

Team Mickelson...for the same reasons you gave.

Marcel

I am on the story side. I think the writers have done pretty good job over and all by creating a situation/ scenario where you can side/ root with one team and be happy about that decision.

I understand this show is about Mikaelsons but I dont think that the writers intention is for Mikaelsons to gain sympathy in every situations and they have done a pretty good job in achieving that purpose, at least that is the case with me.

At the moment there is no team with united front. I think everyone has a valid point and their reactions are appropriate.

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Mikaelsons!!!!

I'm Team Marcel and Team Klaus (and by extension Hope). That may seem contradictory but I'm not really here for people to 'win' and be happy or whatever. I'm really just here for characters that are actually proving to be interesting and dynamic, whose interactions will yield a lot of dramatic mileage and these two are that for me.

I'm also Team Freya because I like powerful witches and I'm intrigued by her character arc right now, which is definitely skewing towards deeper and deeper darkness. Before, she was a character who had done 'bad' things but mostly she'd been a victim of her aunt and a prisoner, and all she wanted was to reunite her family. Now she's getting darker and going to more dangerous lengths to do so, and it makes her interesting to watch.

Elijah should experience some form of contrition and at least face what he truly is: a monster. I wouldn't mind if he died for a few episodes either as that might jump start the character given how static and dull he's become. Hayley needs to grow back a spine, she's boring around Elijah so I'm not team her at the moment.

The show needs to shake things up as it moves into its next era, and I'm hoping the writers manage to do that (they've already started by killing off two semi-central characters, and now turning over the power dynamics again should make things interesting). So really, I'm team telling a good, melodramtic, operatic family story and taking some risks and so far they're delivering pretty well.