Legacies is back
Yay. Let me contain
my joy.
And we begin with
some silly time line nonsense I’m not even going to give credit to because I
hate it. Tell stories in chronological order! Unless you have time travel
there’s no reason to show me what happens tomorrow before you show me what
happened yesterday.
So instead Hope has
received a message on her magical bracelet that Landon is in danger so she
needs to head out to rescue him. This involves trying to leave in the middle of
the night where she is caught by Alaric because apparently she knows no stealth
spells or anything
She also can’t lie.
Nor does she think to put Alaric to sleep or anything. He insists on coming
with her to rescue Landon but she’s rightfully wary because after all, why? Why
bother with Alaric?
Actually he can
drive. Hope cannot. Well done Alaric, you can be a chauffeur. We should get you
a hat. This is the first useful thing that Alaric has done since this series
began. He also quizzes her on the way over to remind us he’s a teacher while
Hope asks if he’s going to quiz his own actual daughters.
Hah, don’t you
not-even-remotely-love how Legacies continually shows how much Alaric
cares for Hope more than his own daughters and how those daughters clearly are
hurt by this?
Now Landon has found
his mother, she runs a coffee shop and he keeps buying coffee until he builds
up enough courage to say “hey you’re my mother.”
This causes him to
have a nice reunion with her, spelling out his who quite sad life and it all
looking touching - until she drugs him, ties him up and threatens to burn him
with an iron. She doesn’t believe he’s her son, she thinks he has nefarious
purposes and when an evil goo monster arrives she’s pretty convinced this is proof
of this (she cuts off the monster’s head with a sword).
Landon breaks and
tells her all the supernatural stuff which... she believes. Now she’s more
convinced that he is actually her son and clearly has experience with the
woo-woo. And that they’re being chased - time to go on the run. And she clearly
has some pretty supreme skills.
They’re also being
chased by an evil organisation -Alaric recognises this because a suspicious man
is suspiciously covering their tracks by pretending to fix a gas leak
I have no idea why
we’re supposed to be suspicious about this but Alaric needs some point, after
all.
They catch up with
Landon and Saleh and Saleh points a gun at them which doesn’t work so well
because Hope is a witch and just uses magic to take the gun off her. Time for
everyone to have a catch up.
First of all Saleh is super super unwilling to talk about Malivore but is slowly coaxed into revealing it. She was a soldier, she left the army and joined a secret (possibly government?) organisation which goes out and captures monsters and throws them into Malivore - a tar filled portal at their facility which does all the bad stuff we know about: causing isolation, darkness and for you to be forgotten. We know this
And I still think
it’s bizarre that any organisation decided to throw monsters in a tar pit yet
for some reason never once felt the need to throw Klaus or any of the Original
family into Malivore
When she went
snooping the organisation she worked for dropped her in as well… so she was
forgotten
Thankfully and
mysteriously Malivore spat her out 2 years later and she was able to avoid the
org that she worked for because they suffered from Malivore indiced amnesia so
she could live a quiet life. Including hiding from her son
Which she talks about
privately with Alaric later while Hope and Landon bond and get it on. Because
she lied about Landon’s father -he wasn’t a random hook up. She went into Malivore
not pregnant and came out pregnant. Landon is a weird Malivore good baby.
I think this means we
need to keep him away from Hope if nothing else because Super Special Triad
Witch/werewolf/vampire who has a child with Malivore Goo man risks producing an
even more Super Special Chosen One. And the Plecverse already has played that
storyline to death
And I have to be
amused that everyone believes everyone else’s weird stories because they’re
just all that messed up
Alaric also walks in
on Landon and Hope about to have sex and for one positive thing I have to say
he manages to be sex positive and non-shamy while at the same time really
really really not wanting to see that
Saleh manages to
leave despite Hope confronting her by drugging Hope with her handy-dandy magic
dart gun (PSA: don’t dart people folks, anaesthetics that are not carefully
measured are super super risky and dangerous especially if they’re super fast
acting. Anaesthesiologists exist for a reason!)
Saleh intends to go
to Malivore and take another dip to… protect Landon? The logic is spotty -but
basically if they don’t remember her they won’t remember everything she has
revealed, she won’t be around to reveal it again so, I guess, they’re protected
from the knowledge of Malivore the portal et al
Not totally unsound reasoning - except they already know about Malivore and cutting off one lead, Landon’s mother, doesn’t mean they’re not going to keep looking
So while Landon is
freaking out that his mother has abandoned him again oh and that he’s the son
of Malivore goo he discovers he’s also stolen his mother’s urn. This looks like
another of the three Malivore keys which he is subconsciously compelled to
collect, though now everyone believes he didn’t mean to. It also means monsters
appear - and they’re attacked by a fish man.
Hope has a plan -
they let the fish man have the urn then follow it back to Malivore. Which is…
not exactly a bad plan even if it’s super risky? But they go with that - except
it turns out the Malivore location is booby trapped and a bomb kills fish man -
and knocks the three unconscious.
I would assume the
sinister guards behind Malivore would have checked out this perimeter breach
but Selah rampages through them, killing or incapacitating a few guards before
becoming injured… but eventually making it to Malivore and jumping in.
When Hope et al wake
up from the bomb, Selah is gone and they no longer remember her… entirely. They
leave but have some underlying changed minds even if they don’t remember why
they changed them: Alaric lets Landon back in the school for one.
At least that’s
Alaric and Landon… Hope remembers everything and tells Alaric… but not Landon?
I’m assuming special triad-ness is why Hope is Malivore proof. I actually hope
it is because it would explain why the Original Vampires were never Malivored.
At the sinister labs,
a sinister boss and sinister tech find someone has jumped in Malivore but
naturally realise it will be impossible to find out who. But they find the baby
picture of Landon and his mother - when sinister boss sees the picture he kicks
the sinister tech in Malivore as well
I presume there’s a motive for this and not just that sinister bad guys need to sacrifice a certain percentage of minions for sinister creds
