Landon gaining the powers of the Ferryman has finally given purpose to his never-ending Limbo stint in Legacies season 4, but that doesn’t mean it is impossible for him and Hope to reunite in the series finale. Legacies season 4 is finally bringing the Vampire Diaries universe to a close, and the second spinoff from the ’00s CW hit has not been shy about killing off its supporting cast in the process. Despite Hope having the powers of the Tribrid at her disposal, her face-off against Ken still managed to claim the lives of Kaleb, Jed, MG, and Aurora.
Of course, this being Legacies, the show has found a way to revive many of the Super Squad’s fallen soldiers. Landon’s seemingly endless season 4 sojourn to Limbo finally paid off when the subplot granted him the powers of the Ferryman, thus allowing him to revive many of these dead characters. The only question left is whether or not the Legacies season 4 finale will resurrect Landon himself and reunite him with the show’s long-suffering heroine Hope.
Hope and Landon’s on-again, off-again love story dominated the plots of Legacies seasons 2 and 3, with the overpowered heroine frequently saving Landon from death or reviving him when he did die (numerous times). As such, if the show’s central duo don’t reconcile in the season 4 finale, it will mean that all four seasons of Legacies wasted their story on a central “will they, won’t they” romance that ended up all being for nothing. That said, if Landon and Hope do get back together, it will effectively undo the tragedy of their separation, which initially came about because the pairing was (supposedly) unable to ever be together thanks to their incompatible Tribrid/Malivore DNA combination. In this way, the couple should ultimately get back together, but with the addendum that Legacies should never have dragged out their eventual reconciliation for this long.
As a result, the scene is likely to fall flat when it finally happens. Legacies season 4’s lengthy Hope Tribrid storyline turned the show’s heroine into a monstrous villain for a considerable portion of the season and stranded Landon in Limbo in the meantime. As a result, while long-time fans might be happy to see the duo reunited, anyone who has been following Legacies season 4 week-by-week has not seen Hope and Landon happy together for a long time.
Landon has now spent more time stuck in Limbo than the character ever spent happily in love with Hope, meaning the impact of their reunion could well be a case of too little, too late. This isn’t helped by the fact that, after being a human, a Phoenix, and a part-Malivore, Landon finally seems to have found a mythological function as the Ferryman. For Landon and Hope’s love story to end happily, he would likely need to abandon this post, making his hard-won character development pointless. This might mean that Landon and Hope won’t reunite in the Legacies season 4 finale, but with this episode also being the series finale thanks to the show’s recent cancellation, that choice also runs the risk of annoying dedicated viewers who were hoping for a happy ending for the pair after all their emotional investment.
