

Oh, and the gods became involved, but that’s another matter entirely. Landon’s death sparked the new season’s central arc in which Hope turned off her humanity. Hope finally activated her tribrid powers and killed him (and as a result, her love interest, Aria Shahghasemi ’s Landon, died as well). Though it took a backseat during Legacies’ fourth season, the structure made up the bulk of Season 1 through 3, always connecting to the overarching Malivore plot before he bit the dust in the fourth episode of Season 4. With Legacies coming to a close, other shows going forward need to take a page out of its book and keep the weekly monster format alive. Best of all, it brings back the silliness that had beforehand mostly been snuffed out in the TVD universe, bogged down by spending a little too much time on the lore in the end. But the monster-of-the-week format - the main way Legacies set itself apart - does more than provide showy action sequences with never-before-seen creatures: It brings up new struggles for the characters to grapple with emotionally and keeps things fairly easy to comprehend plot-wise. Throughout the seasons, Malivore sends the monsters he’d devoured to attack the Salvatore School, and some of the kids, including Hope and twin Gemini witches Josie ( Kaylee Bryant ) and Lizzie Saltzman ( Jenny Boyd ), create a ‘Super Squad’ to fight them off, with a high success rate. Set a few years after her parents die on The Originals, Hope and her friends face villain after villain, but the multi-season big bad is Malivore, who consumes supernatural creatures and wipes out all traces of their existence. Centered around the children of the characters from the previous two shows, Legacies has an interesting premise: TVD’s Alaric Saltzman ( Matthew Davis ) runs a school for witches, vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings, like tribrid Hope Mikaelson ( Danielle Rose Russell ), who happens to be all three. When it premiered in 2018 soon after The Originals finale, Legacies found ways to distinguish itself from its predecessors. However, during their run, TVD shows became the pinnacle of the supernatural soap genre with steamy romances, intriguing lore, memorable characters - and most importantly, a perfect amount of cheesiness (at least, when it wasn’t trying to be too serious).
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With spinoff series Legacies ‘ fourth season serving as its last, and its June 16 finale already behind us, there’s no telling when another TVD story will come about.

For the first time in nearly 13 years, The CW’s Vampire Diaries universe is off the air.
