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LEGACIES, S04E01 You Have to Pick One This Time

You underestimate me, tribrid.

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I find it dumb how, with the fake Landon stuff in season 3, the writers were giving us these reasons why golem Landon and Malilandon couldn’t be the real Landon because of certain things they did, but then they had the real Landon later doing some of the same things, essentially.

Like they made such a big deal over golem Landon stabbing Hope because Landon would never hurt Hope. Which, first of all, their reasoning with that whole thing and using that to claim it wasn’t Landon was also dumb because the context of the situation was completely ignored. Yes, of course Landon would never hurt Hope, but her life was at risk. Golem Landon literally had to stab her to save her. Yeah there was a small possibility that it wouldn’t work and she’d die and become the tribrid, but the other alternative was that she’d turn into some other creature forever. So there really wasn’t a choice but to stab her when it was the only way to save her, and I do think the real Landon would’ve done the same thing, he’d be hurting Hope more if he didn’t. Landon would never hurt Hope, unless it was absolutely necessary to save her life. But then they did actually have the real Landon hurting Hope later unnecessarily when he stabbed her in limbo. The writers tried to make it seem like it was necessary in order to send Hope back to the real world, but it really wasn’t. Because we saw Hope leave limbo back in 4x04 after she’d died and was transitioning, and all she had to do to go back to the real world was jump in the lake. So Landon literally didn’t have to stab her in 4x17, but according to the writers and their logic with golem Landon back in 3x11, it shouldn’t even matter whether it was necessary or not anyway. Because according to them, Landon would never hurt Hope, period. Even if it was to save her life, I guess. So they wrote him out of character according to their own logic too.

Then there was the whole thing with Malivore pretending to be Landon, and giving up on being with Hope and saying they were doomed. And the writers saying the real Landon would never do that, which I totally agree with of course. But then they did have Landon basically doing that at the end of the show, with him giving up on having a future with Hope by giving up on escaping limbo and instead choosing to stay there forever by becoming the ferryman. They had him not only give up on being able to be with Hope in the real world, but also even in peace, after whenever Hope dies. Which is far worse than what we believed he was doing when it was Malilandon imo. And how was all the crap they had Landon saying about his and Hope’s fates (in 4x17) different from Malilandon saying they were doomed? The way Malilandon did it was obviously very harsh, but they both still amount to the same thing. Landon was still essentially saying that he and Hope were doomed and couldn’t be together and that they should just accept it. Like between that whole thing with Malilandon and how Landon was written at the end of season 4, if I had to choose which was less ooc for Landon, I’d honestly choose the writing for Malilandon. NOT including him breaking up with Hope and how he treated her in that scene. But apart from that, the idea of Landon being angry (especially after what he’d gone through in the prison world and being traumatized) and feeling like he and Hope were doomed because of Malivore and him setting aside their relationship while he goes to try to defeat Malivore so Hope wouldn’t have to become the tribrid and they could be together (which is what we were led to believe before we knew it was Malivore) is closer to something Landon would do than what he did at the end of season 4. Landon would take action to try to be with Hope again, but at the end of season 4, they just had him submitting to everything that they were up against. There’s no way the real Landon would have ever made the choices he made in limbo at the end. And the writers themselves made that clear with their previous writing and then went on to contradict themselves, practically confirming that they were writing Landon ooc. Which isn’t anything new since they contradicted themselves all throughout the show, but still.

It’s just crazy how much they didn’t really understand Landon’s character, or they just didn’t care in the end. As long as it supported their bizarre narrative, they had Landon acting however they felt like, regardless of whether he was in character or not. And it’s also just annoying how, with golem Landon and Malilandon, the writing gave the sense of “Hope should’ve known it wasn’t Landon, the audience should’ve known, because of these reasons, because the real Landon would never do those things,” then they have the real Landon doing some of those things later but it’s fine? So in season 3 we should’ve known Landon’s character better, Hope should’ve known, and whether or not he was in character mattered then. But then in season 4 it didn’t matter, we were just expected to go along with how ooc Landon was and not question any of it? And they had Hope just going along with it too and accepting all of it and Landon’s supposed feelings as truth, even when he was acting more strange than the fake Landons? And after she was criticized for not knowing Landon better in season 3? If she and the fans were supposed to suspect things weren’t right in season 3, shouldn’t we have definitely suspected things weren’t right in season 4 with how they wrote Landon? Hope would’ve known that Landon never would’ve wanted to stay trapped in limbo, she never would’ve believed that he was okay with it. And honestly, if we hadn’t known for sure that it was the real Landon in limbo, I would’ve been theorizing that it wasn’t really him again. But we were just supposed to accept the ooc writing that time. It was such a joke, it was all just about whatever narrative the writers wanted, not the characters or consistency or logic.