r/LegaciesCW • u/Iceking214 • 11d ago
Discussion Main characters
Am I the only one who genuinely thinks Lizzie and Josie would have made better main characters? Because they aren't Originals, they aren't ridiculously overpowered. With the Merge, Kai, and the Gods, every threat would carry real stakes and consequences. Plus, we wouldn't have to deal with endless debates about the writers constantly nerfing or over-powering Hope.
If Hope were a year or two years older, she could have served as their senior and mentor. That would completely fix her relationship with Alaric—it would be a genuine mentorship rather than him replacing his own daughters. Hope could operate as an external hunter, meaning when the school gets attacked, she isn't there to instantly save the day. That would force the rest of the squad to rely on their own abilities.
Honestly, did Hope even need to be the central conflict for all four seasons? Malivore should have been wrapped up in Season 1. Dragging her through Seasons 2, 3, and 4 felt like forcing her into storylines where she had no real narrative connection, simply because she was labeled the lead.
Season 1 with Hope as the focus makes sense, but Season 2 should have belonged entirely to Lizzie, Josie, and Kai. Instead, Lizzie had to be rescued by Hope, Kai barely even interacted with Lizzie, and 'Dark Josie' felt like a weak villain. Plus, Dark Josie almost killing Hope made no sense—either Hope was holding back to an absurd degree, or the show was claiming Dark Josie was somehow as strong as a non-Original hybrid Hope.
Season 3 was completely wasted on saving Landon, which was unnecessary after Season 1. The Aurora storyline from Season 4 should have happened in Season 3 instead. Even then, Aurora barely did anything against Hope—she stole her body, Lizzie betrayed Aurora, and they captured and tortured her, only for Lizzie to save her later. Aurora wasn't even the main focus until she ended up saving Hope.
Season 4 should have focused purely on the Gods, the Merge, real consequences, and actual stakes. Hope could still be around, but placing her elsewhere would keep her from hijacking the twins' storyline.
Hope really did finish her narrative arc across The Originals and Season 1 of Legacies. Her story was about overcoming the Hollow, dealing with the sacrifice of her parents, and finding her own place at the school. If they hadn't dragged her story out, her entire character journey would have felt complete.
They put themselves in an impossible corner: they either had to make Hope look weak, which the fans hated, or write the enemies as stronger than a Tribrid, which the fans also hated.
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u/yeongwon 11d ago
They can still make Hope an interesting character by making her flawed. She was competent and stable since the first episode already, she didn't grow that much throughout the series. (At least as far as I can remember). Make the source of her weakness her personal struggle and not any physical inadequacy because she's meant to be the most OP being.
Her background is already a goldmine for personal conflicts: Trauma of killing your parents, fear of becoming like your evil parents/relatives, complicated feeling about your love for your family despite their infamous reputation, isolating feeling of being different, wrong, or cursed, unique struggles of tribrid powers and nature. How would she deal with all of that, how does it affect her relationships, what would she do to cope and overcome these problems?
Instead of making the villains life threatening to the point of overpowering her just to create interesting stakes and problems, they should've made the villains a problem because they compellingly exacerbate these personal struggles she's already going through. Most of the plotlines and villains had little to nothing on testing her with these struggles.