After Thursday’s Legacies, Warner Bros. and The CW want to place out an official tabletop RPG set within the Vampire Diaries universe. Critically, Pedowitz, bump it straight to the highest of your to-do record, even earlier than releasing licensed Beebo plushes.
Due to a nifty invention courtesy of Professor Vardemus, this week’s episode performed out like an angsty recreation of Dungeons & Dragons, because the Tremendous Squad examined varied methods and calculated their probability of success in a showdown in opposition to the unlikely staff of Jen, Aurora, Lizzie and an omnipotent god named Ken. (Hello, Luke Mitchell!) Unsurprisingly the phrase “zero %” was used a number of occasions.
One of many squad’s extra eyebrow-raising discoveries was that Lizzie — now a full-fledged heretic, in a position to syphon a god’s energy — is seemingly “invaluable” to their success. If she dies, they’ll all die. And die they did. Many, many occasions. In reality, it wasn’t till Vardemus recalculated the squad’s success with Hope’s humanity turned again on that they lastly succeeded.
However Hope, nonetheless haunted by the imaginative and prescient of her higher self, didn’t respect her imaginary doppelganger’s told-you-so angle, leading to a full-on tribrid meltdown wherein she threatened to kill each final Tremendous Squad member. So Alaric snapped her neck, then put her down for a protracted nap within the dungeon. Throughout a telephone name with (I wish to say) Josie, Alaric stated, “I feel you and MG had been proper about Hope. She’s shut. So no matter you’re planning, I feel now’s the opening you’ve been ready for.” (Contemplating subsequent week is the large Mikaelson household reunion, does that imply that Josie is working with Hope’s household? It wouldn’t be her first go to to New Orleans, in any case.)
Whereas we watch for solutions, let’s take pleasure in a primary have a look at subsequent Thursday’s blessed occasion:
Elsewhere, Lizzie and Aurora had been making some eyebrow-raising discoveries of their very own throughout literal Communion with Jen. And all it took was an providing of shrimp tacos and weed brownies! (My kinda god, let me inform you.) For starters, Jen and Ben are siblings. Did we all know that? Regardless, we do now. And we most likely ought to have guessed they had been associated, given their rhyming names and all. Ben, Jen and daddy Ken? This might be far more lovable if all of our favourite characters’ lives weren’t presently on the road.
The gods, because it seems, are very very similar to the Mikaelsons — violent, judgmental and oozing with wrath. However the gods are solely as {powerful} as individuals’s perception in them, so when a creature (of course Malivore!) emerged with the power to erase the gods from existence, Ken mainly crammed his heavenly diaper. In concern, he requested Jen to construct sarcophagi wherein to cover the gods till Malivore had been defeated.
However Jen, the little stinker, lied about there being a spell to wake them up. And simply to place a hat on a hat, she additionally hid the important thing required to open the sarcophagi. “My household had been the true monsters, and I didn’t wish to be like them,” she advised Lizzie and Aurora. Critically, are we completely positive that Jen isn’t a Mikaelson? She even let Malivore soak up Ben in an effort to “save” him, and few issues are extra Mikaelson than a noble double-cross.
Talking of double-crossing, Lizzie and Aurora returned to the Salvatore College to kidnap Ben, however their plan hit a snag when Lizzie noticed Alaric exterior. If he’s alive, there’s no motive for her to staff up with Aurora and get up Chronos. And Aurora, bless her not-beating-but-still-growing coronary heart, was truly keen to let Lizzie go. The issue is, Lizzie was sure to inform Alaric, which might pit the Tremendous Squad in opposition to Aurora, thus triggering their blood pact and immediately killing Lizzie.
Not not like Avril Lavigne, I’m beginning to surprise when issues acquired so sophisticated round right here.
Now for the episode’s ultimate bummer: We had been handled to a different Ben-Jed second (beers and campfires are their love language), solely to have the promise of extra kissing cruelly ripped away by Lizzie and Aurora, who kidnapped Ben whereas Jed was inside checking on Finch. Mark my phrases, they are going to pay for this injustice!
Additionally value discussing…
* Is anybody else getting extraordinarily interested in what’s occurring with Cleo? At first, I simply assumed it was a type of “your energy isn’t what makes you sturdy” tales, however after Vardemus reminding her that “ache is merely a sign that one thing is altering,” I can’t assist however surprise if there isn’t one thing massive on the horizon for her.
* I don’t have any actual proof to again this up, however I’m calling it now: Ethan will die through the battle in opposition to Ken. Between MG telling him that “there’s no model of us successful with out shedding somebody,” then asking him to vow that it gained’t be Lizzie, I really feel just like the writing is on the wall. I don’t dislike him, however Legacies was already a crowded present earlier than he got here alongside, and he nonetheless hasn’t actually discovered his place.
* Landon and the Necromancer acquired kidnapped in Limbo whereas making an attempt to catch a coin thief. Elvis was there. Truthfully, I don’t have loads to say about this storyline proper now. I feel it’s finest if all of us simply maintain quiet and watch for it to go.
Your ideas on Thursday’s Legacies? Which Authentic are you most excited to see subsequent week? And which character(s) do you believe you studied gained’t survive the upcoming conflict? Vote for that final one in our ballot under, then drop a remark with extra of your predictions.
