Hope has plenty of powers in Legacies thanks to her status as a Tribrid, but the show seemed to forget she could heal people until the season 3 finale brought back this impressive ability with panache. Debuting in 2018, Legacies is a spinoff of The Originals, a CW series that is itself a spinoff from the popular ‘00s supernatural soap The Vampire Diaries. The show revolves around the inhabitants of the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, paranormally powered students learning to use their abilities and getting into all manner of misadventures.
Although Legacies added an element of campy humor to The Originals/The Vampire Diaries’ shared formula, the series has not proven as popular as its predecessors among fans of both. This may be down to the frequently-aired fan concern that Legacies is more interested in focusing on heroine Hope and love interest Landon’s romantic plot than the stories of the show’s interesting, under-used supporting cast. However, season 3 has seen the series improve on this problem, fleshing out Landon’s non-Hope character arc and giving the rest of the show’s ensemble more screen time to shine.
Better yet, the season 3 finale of Legacies recently brought back the best power of the show's heroine Hope Mikaelson, whose ability to heal people has been ignored by the series for far too long. Due to her having vampire blood (but not vampire powers, yet), Hope can heal people. That incredibly powerful gift has been all but forgotten since season 1, though, and the series never gave a compelling reason for why the show stopped utilizing this impressive ability. The Legacies season 3 finale, though, brought it back in style when Clarke's throat was slit. Hope went to cut herself to offer him her blood only for Clarke to turn it down, as her blood is very likely toxic to him (since he is the son of villainous golem Malivore). Reminding viewers that Hope can literally heal people, even of grievous injuries, only to then subvert this by having the ability be unusable in this instance, was a clever balance between offering a season 1 call-back and ensuring Hope’s powers weren’t too strong (thus deflating the episode’s tension).
With this ability reintroduced, Legacies can bring back one of Hope’s most impressive Tribrid powers without needing to kill her off beforehand. There are numerous moments throughout the last two seasons where Hope could have intervened to save the lives of other characters if the series had remembered her miraculous ability, and re-establishing the power without immediately using it to get out of a death scene let the show remind viewers of her strength without relying on it as a deus ex machina. When Hope’s power was first mentioned, the call-back seemed to be an easy way to revive Clarke, but the choice to instead remind viewers of the power and not use it proved an effective way to set up its potential use in Legacies season 4.
Of course, the twist was not without its issues in terms of internal logic. Since Hope’s on-again-off-again love interest Landon is part Malivore too, her inability to offer a blood transfusion without killing Clarke could bode badly for the pair’s intimate endeavors. They have kissed without causing injury before, so there is no guarantee that the incompatibility will prove a problem for the duo, but it still stands to reason that if Hope can’t save Clarke with her blood, she likely can’t be too close with Landon either. Regardless of where Legacies takes this plot, though, the season 3 finale’s subversive move re-established Hope’s most impressive power with verve.
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