#save legacies

"We were friends. We are friends. Even after all of this... I still love you"

"I idolized you. I thought someone like you would never want to be friends with someone like me"

" Our sire bond might be gone, Hope Andrea Mikaelson, but you and I are bonded for life"

Sign the petition! Get Netflix to pick up Legacies!

The show was SUPPOSED to be following hopes life at a supernatural school after losing her family and whatnot and instead it turned into Alaric using his students to deal with supernatural problems. It feels like 90% of the show doesn’t even take place at the school because we never see teachers. We never see them in class. We never see them with actual assignments. They showed us that wannabe quidditch ONCE in the first episode but then NEVER brought it up again???

To me the best episodes were always the ones that were actually focused on school related stuff. The football games, the therapy box day, that day with Emma when wade explains how he thinks he’s a fairy, the talent show, the dances etc

Now after the the 4 years of suffering through malivore we gets some random cheap all powerful god being who’s meant to be the big bad but falls in love with aurora in the 5 seconds he’s been awake and hasn’t killed a single person yet?

I think the problem is that instead of crafting a story and watching their lives flow like actual lives like tvd and to is that they instead used the supernatural and Arrowverse set up where they need to have a new type of villain (monster) show up every episode to defeat and each episode will slowly build into each other what we get for the finale

The PROBLEM with this layout for legacies is that it doesn’t make sense to use it!!! For Arrowverse it makes sense, they’re superheroes of course there’s always gonna be a new threat waiting around the corner for them to deal with, same for supernatural, but with legacies it doesn’t make any sense to do the same

The ONLY WAY that layout works is if they change what their “villain” is to something else. The point of this type of layout is to have SOME KIND of problem each episode that needs to be solved and they fucked up legacies by going with the stereotypical problem that there’s some kind of bad thing that needs to be defeated, if they took their heads out of their asses they could’ve realized that the problem that needs to be solved each week DOESNT NEED TO BE A PHYSICAL ENEMY

They could’ve focused on the problems of a regular teenage life, the problems of school life, bullies, trying to figure out who you are, failing classes, sports, fundraisers, their rivalry with mystic falls high, being homsesick, secret trips into town to try and have fun only to be hassled by either the high school kids or by the sherif (Matt) who knows what they are and hates them for it, falling into the wrongs crowds, etc etc

The whole point of legacies was to be different than tvd and to and the one thing we never got from either was seeing anyone have a normal life. Obviously being supernatural and all wouldn’t allow it to be totally normal but it would’ve been nice to see all of that instead of the typical tvd/to thing where it’s like here’s this random big bad that’s now your problem to deal with (and legacies couldn’t even get that right dragging malivore out for 4 fucking seasons)

I also would’ve committed cold blood murder to watch Lizzie and hope bicker/fight everyday through regular school and then slowly become friends as they realize how imperfect they both are like Hope could walk in on lizzie in the middle of one of her volatile breakdowns and they have an awkward moment of being nice/not fighting for that one moment which makes them awkward/unsure of how to feel and treat each other after that and just to watch the relationship slowly bloom

I also hate how put together lizzie is now, don’t get me wrong I love that she’s got a better handle on her mental health but I think they moved passed the volatile breakdowns way too fast, she was/is bipolar right?? I would’ve loved to see that version of her explored a lot more and how other people would react with it

Example: I would’ve loved to see Lizzie lose it after Josie confirming she made up all those lies/rumors to/about lizzie, like after confirming it I would’ve loved to see lizzie storm out of the room and then in some empty room she would have another one of her volatile breakdowns because 1) how much she suffered from those lies and 2) because she idolized hope and always wanted to be friends with her and those lies cost her that

I also would’ve LOVED to see Josie eventually realize she’s got her own slew of mental problems and to have to start meeting with Emma regularly

Did you all think I would go quietly into this week without writing about the journey to Klaus Mikaelson’s return to the TVDU for the Legacies series finale?

Joseph Morgan will reprise his role as the iconic anti-hero for the first time since The Originals finale in 2018. Can you believe it?!

Jed and Ben learning to live without their 'curses'

Finch becoming the Alpha and having this responsibility and expectations to meet

CAROLINE AS HEADMISTRESS!

Who is Hope without her core mission of 'save Landon'? (I was also picking up some groundwork for a Clarke relationship and that interested the heck outta me).