Legacies Needs To Move Beyond Hope & Landon To Evolve

Legacies Needs To Move Beyond Hope & Landon To Evolve

As The Originals’ spin-off series reaches its third season, Legacies needs to broaden its horizons and focus on more than just Hope and Landon

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Legacies Needs To Move Beyond Hope & Landon To Evolve

The Originals spin-off series Legacies benefitted from its consistent focus on Hope and Landon’s love story in its first two seasons, but the series needs to move on from the pair to evolve into a more interesting narrative. Beginning in early 2018, Legacies is a spin-off series preceded by The Originals (which was itself a spin-off from the popular CW series The Vampire Diaries).

Starring Danielle Rose Russell and Aria Shahghasemi as Hope Mikaelson and Landon Kirby, Legacies charted the pair’s time together in the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted throughout its first two seasons. Thus far, the show has wrung plenty of engaging paranormal melodrama out of the on-again, off-again relationship between the secret Phoenix Landon and the orphaned daughter of Klaus and Hayley.

However, as Legacies reaches its third season, it is becoming increasingly clear that the series needs to broaden its scope beyond the central duo for the show to stay engaging and involving. For the first two seasons of Legacies, the gradually growing relationship between Hope and Landon provided the story engine that drove the show. Many fans flocked to the show in the hopes that the soapy supernatural drama could provide the same thrills that made The Vampire Diaries and The Originals hits, and Hope and Landon’s plot provided a thorough line for the show outside of the “monster of the week” format that saw them face off against everything from zombies to Krampus. However, with Legacies now almost halfway through season 3, the pair’s relationship has become the central issue that holds back the potential evolution of the show.

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Hope and Landon’s dynamic was initially an unusual inversion of typical television romance conventions, with Landon being the passive one of the pair and Hope being the proactive protagonist. However, three seasons into Legacies, this originally interesting set up is now as tired as any more conventional love story, as each adventure typically always plays out the same way. Now that the central pair are separated, though, with Hope in the real world and Landon in the prison world, Legacies has the perfect opportunity to change Hope and Landon’s dynamic and focus on its supporting cast of characters, thus allowing the series itself to grow as a show.

In the most recent episodes of Legacies alone, Lizzie’s more light-hearted (thwarted) match-making for Josie and the recent revelations about Cleo’s status as a muse both prove that Legacies has engaging characters who deserve some of the show’s focus. Hope and Landon’s story could also take a backseat so the series could spend more screen time with the likes of Finch and Alaric, both of whom have started to seem increasingly important figures since season 3 began. Finch’s transformations and Alaric conflict with his students provide opportunities for non-Hope and Landon-centric stories that the series could center while their reunion is stalled. By shifting the focus to supporting characters and changing the now-familiar dynamic between Hope and Landon, Legacies can follow in the footsteps of both its predecessors The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, and move the series past the central romantic saga, broadening its focus to a larger cast.

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