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Legacies Season 2 Episode 3 “You Remind Me Of Someone I Used To Know” Promotional Pictures. Stallions vs Timberwolves round 2, Is Hope gonna play this time? Josie is taking over QB this time? No sign of Ethan or Maya? Are the Salvatore Stallions finally winning? More Sebastian scenes...

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Legacies Recap: Hope and Landon's Reunion Only Leads to More Heartbreak

Hope Mikaelson (whoever that is) found herself in familiar territory on Thursday’s Legacies, in which she hunted a troll — or what she thought was a troll — through the hallowed halls of Mystic Falls High School.

She was joined by the new bearded principal, who wasn’t about to let a defenseless young girl face a big scary monster all by her lonesome. I just about died when he said, “If you are a vampire hunter, then I’m sure you’ve heard of Alaric Saltzman?” The ego!

Once Alaric saw Hope in action, however, he realized he completely misjudged her — just as they both misjudged the “troll,” which actually turned out to be a cyclops. Maybe if there had been a barber trapped in Malivore, the cyclops could have trimmed the hair covering its eye, and this whole misunderstanding would have been avoided. Just something to think about.

The battle concluded in the town square, mere yards away from Landon, who had the volume on his headphones turned up too high to notice the giant monster exploding behind him. (It’s a good thing that boy is set on auto-revive, because he does not have a good sense of his surroundings.)

Hope and Landon eventually came face to face, but it wasn’t exactly the romantic reunion fans have been hoping for. Instead, the two commiserated about their respective relationship woes; she even used his own advice (“Sometimes you have to be brave enough to be imperfect with people, even if it’s scary”) to help him fix his situation with Josie. And when he told her, “You’re going to have to take your own advice and tell that boy of yours that you exist,” I felt that.

The conversation also had a rough effect on Hope, who later broke down in front of Alaric and told him exactly who she really is.

Elsewhere this week…

‘THE FUTURE IS SUPERNATURAL’ | This week’s episode introduced us to Headmaster Vardemus (Angel‘s Alexis Denisof), who emboldened the students of the Salvatore School to embrace the Spider-Man way of life: “To whom much is given, much is required.” (OK, he words it a little fancier than Spider-Man, but you get the point.) In his opening remarks, he asked — nay, required — the students to be “better than humans ever could, because the day is coming when we will step out of the shadows.” Jolly accent and phenomenal wardrobe aside, the guy came off like a real hard-ass. So when he caught Josie inflicting a magical bloody nose upon one of Landon’s (many) flirty admirers, I was sure he’d punish her accordingly. But in a stunning display of multidimensionality, he taught her how to do the same spell without getting caught, then invited her to take part in a special offensive magic curriculum for “advanced students.” (Side note: Do we trust this guy? Between his supes-vs-humans speech and his shady mentoring, I feel like there’s trouble brewing.)

‘YOU’RE DRAWN TO ME, I’M DRAWN TO YOU’ | Thursday’s episode also gave us our first taste of Descendants‘ Thomas Doherty as a smoldering new vampire named Sebastian, who met Lizzie in the Old Mill while she was waiting for MG to join her for a study date. (Part of Lizzie’s “year of yes” meant agreeing to appease MG’s advances.) She was immediately into him, though he warned her not to get too close, because his life is “complicated.” (Oh, really, guy? I’ve got two words for you: Gemini. Coven.) But it was clear from their second meeting, complete with candles and dreamy music, that this is the beginning of something special. (When he called her “Elizabeth,” I pretty much melted.) Unfortunately, Lizzie falling head-over-heels for Sebastian meant that MG was due for some major heartbreak. When he realized that he unwittingly helped Lizzie locate Sebastian after their first meeting, he was clearly devastated. But because he’s just too damn nice for his own good, he simply replied, “It was really nice to see you happy today.”

‘WHO’S STALKING WHO HERE?’ | During Hope’s investigation into the troll cyclops, she met Maya (The Fosters‘ Bianca Santos) and Ethan (Why Women Kill‘s Leo Hard), the children of Mystic Falls’ new town sheriff. Maya lent a sympathetic ear when she found Hope crying in the bathroom, while Ethan naturally assumed Hope was into him because she happened to cross his path twice in one day. Either way, something tells me these two are going to make Hope’s more interesting — which is saying a lot for someone who slaughters supernatural baddies on the daily.

Your thoughts on this week’s Legacies? Are you already ‘shipping Lizzie and Sebastian? Do you trust the new headmaster? And who’s the mysterious robed figure who carved that spooky symbol on their latest victim?

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Legacies Recap: Friday Night Frights (Plus, What's Up With Sebastian?)

A friendly face returned to the fold on Thursday’s Legacies, while another face was twisted into something quite unrecognizable.

Let’s start with that long-awaited return: This week’s episode pit Hope against a shunka, “a carnivorous creature that feasts only on werewolves.” Fearing that Rafael might end up at the top of its menu, Hope — along with Landon, who caught her in the act of using a locator spell to track down the wayward wolf — ventured into the woods to slay the beast and save the day.

Unfortunately, we all know that these little hunting adventures never go quite as planned. Hope transformed in an attempt to draw the shunka away from Landon (“You’re a were-witch? Holy smokes!”), but the truck-sized beast showed little interest in her, choosing instead to chase after the tasty phoenix.

That’s when it finally happened: Hope came across a very familiar-looking werewolf, and although Rafael was hesitant to trust her, the thought of Landon being in trouble was enough to convince him. After returning to human form, Raf teamed up with Hope to put an arrow through the shunka and give a long-overdue hug to his brother from another mother… and from another evil hell-dimension of a father.

Also worth discussing…

* Josie got her first real taste of darkness this week… and she kind of loved it. While the rest of her teammates agreed not to use their powers in the annual football game against the Mystic Falls Stallions, Josie chose to follow Headmaster Vardemus’ suggestion that she embrace her full potential, regardless of what people like Alaric and Kaleb told her to do. But all it took was one little spell gone awry to send poor Ethan (aka “teenage Tom Brady”) to the hospital, effectively squashing his hopes for a football scholarship. “I hurt someone,” Josie told Landon at the end of the hour, “and I think I wanted to.” She promised to try and keep her darkness in check moving forward, but considering she also vowed to defend Landon against any future Malivore monsters, I’m thinking she may struggle to keep that first promise.

* Lizzie finally got some answers about Sebastian this week, but to be quite honest, their brief encounter actually left me with more questions than ever. I wasn’t surprised to learn that he’s a vampire, nor was I surprised that he and Lizzie engaged in a steamy lip lock. But when MG arrived on the scene, and it appeared as though Lizzie was making out with The Invisible Man… well, consider me surprised.

* And speaking of people not being what they appear, can we talk about Vardemus for a second? Like, a very long second? As if it wasn’t bad enough that he engaged in fisticuffs with our sweet bearded Alaric, the Salvatore School’s new headmaster ended the hour by tracking down the shunka’s carcass in the woods… and eating it! (He has terrible table manners, by the way, but that’s neither here nor there.)

OK, let’s talk about this week’s Legacies: Are you relieved to have Rafael back, even if he’s clearly struggling to adjust? Are you excited for Josie’s inevitable journey to the dark side? And what do you make of Sebastian and Vardemus’ supernatural secrets?

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The Salvatore School will get a flirtatious new student. Deadline reports that Bianca Santos will recur in Season 2 as Maya Santos, "a sharp-tongued and flirtatious new student at Mystic Falls High." She will be the daughter of Sheriff Mac, and she'll have a brother named Ethan, but other than that, we've got very little info on her.

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