Legacies is back on The CW and I couldn’t be happier! To briefly recap the finale of season one, Hope dove into the Malivore pit and in doing so, erased herself from the world so now no one remembers her.
The new season picks up during summer vacation as everyone is either going home, or staying at school. Josie is staying at school to look after her dad who has stepped down as the headmaster of the Salvatore School, while Lizzie heads to Europe to be with her mother. Raf is still stuck in his werewolf form with Landon looking after him, and Kaleb brings MG home with him to Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Hope is busy trying to navigate and stay alive inside of the Malivore pit. She is joined by Clarke who is determined to stay alive by sticking with Hope and trying to escape along with her. Also, there’s basically nothing else to do there and Clarke desperately wants back into the real world almost as much as Hope. However, Clarke doesn’t tell her anything and Hope misses many chances to return home.
Since Hope is still able to use magic in Malivore, she uses a truth spell on Clarke in order to get him to tell her everything. However, she makes the bad decision of leaving him alive and by the end of the episode, it is clear that Clarke is soon going to be let free from Malivore, even if Hope didn’t release him. Also, since time works differently in Malivore, Hope returns to the real world to discover that almost three months have passed since she was trapped in there.
With Hope gone and Raf a full-time werewolf, Landon has been alone with his thoughts and not very many people to talk to. Landon is depressed but doesn’t know why and so he keeps ‘killing’ and resurrecting himself (due to him being a Phoenix) in order to try and figure out what he can’t remember.
Josie starts getting worried about him and ends up spending a ton of time with him causing them to bond and grow a real connection with one another. This ends up being good for both of them and Josie tries to convince him that just because he’s a phoenix doesn’t mean he has unlimited lives and she’s right because none of them really know about being a phoenix or what multiple deaths could do to him in the long run. Also, whenever he drowns himself in the lake, he has visions of Hope though he doesn’t remember her.
Josie and Landon also start to develop a romance and a kiss is witnessed by Hope who sheds some tears and you really feel for her.
Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Kaleb and MG are preparing for Kaleb’s family’s fourth of July barbecue and they have a heart-to-heart because MG misses his family even though he knows they suck and hate the fact that he’s a vampire. Also, while MG is there he is helped by Kaleb’s sister, Kim, and Kaleb lets him know that she’s off limits, but I doubt that that’s the last time we’ll see her.
Josie and Lizzie are constantly talking and Lizzie tries to get Josie to figure out what their father is hiding about the merge. Josie finds out all about Kai Parker and how he is trapped and they want to reach out to him, but are told that Kai is crazy and they definitely should not. Lizzie also admits that she has been in a lot of therapy and is trying to get better and we start to feel a slight shift as if Josie might be the rebellious one in this season.
At the end we see Hope return to the Salvatore School and run into Dorian who doesn’t remember her at all. Hope then sits at a bus stop and talks to the Landon in her head who convinces her to stay in town despite no one remembering her.
Final Thoughts:
I thought this was such a good episode! It was very emotional and I am very excited to see what is going to happen this season!
