#Lgcs S4 is well liked because it solely focuses on Hope and her struggling to cope with her losses and transformation.

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I definitely think Legacies “Monster of The Week” format was one of the many reasons it ultimately tanked. There wasn’t an actual real threat throughout any of the seasons that truly challenged any of the protagonists. Malivore wasn’t a present antagonist, his design is horrible and goofy, and having him as an antagonist for three seasons straight resulted in the plot becoming boring and repetitive. None of the villains are rememberable either.

Julie & Co tried to copy the Buffy format, but flopped because her world building and storylines were god awful and lacked substance as per usual. Malivore and The Hollow are in the same category imo, both are antagonists introduced to expand the lore of the tvdu, but only created more confusion and completely destroyed the already established and somewhat decent lore. People love to talk about Cade when referring to the worst villains of the tvdu, but at least he was charismatic and gave us an interesting storyline.

Malivore just felt like a plot device used to show how amazing Hope is bc her unique and special tribrid blood is his only weakness. Inadu should have been expanded on further and been a major antagonist for Hope to defeat instead of them just killing her off in TO. A powerful 1000+ year old entity is just able to be defeated because someone killed themselves?? Continuing The Hollow storyline in Legacies would have made people receive the show better and actually connect it to TO bc the show feels disconnected from the other ones until S4.