Legacies 1x12 "There's a Mummy on Main Street" Episode Review
Major Spoilers are included in this episode review. Please read with caution.
This episode mainly focused on love triangles and the antagonistic relationship between Lizzie and Hope. Kaleb was included to “get real” with Alaric about how he’s running the school and how he’s desperately in love with his boy’s girl. Josie was there to mediate between Hope and Lizzie, only for a twist that made my heart race / break. Josie is the reason Lizzie and Hope never got along!
Lizzie hates Hope Mikaelson because she ruined their family breaks and made up rumors about her being “witch bipolar”. Ouch! That doesn’t sound like Hope… because she didn’t do any of that. Lizzie believed Hope burned down her dorm room (years ago) on purpose to get Alaric’s fatherly attention, but Hope reveals she would never do that being the daughter of a Mikaelson. She also lost the only drawing she made with Klaus in that fire and was devastated over the loss.
Yep… it was a predictable twist based on Josie’s behavior, and how the show finally reached a point where we needed her to have a character “flaw”. Something to make us question how perfect she really is, but at the same time, Josie had a secret crush on Hope and accidentally burned the dorm room in an attempt to destroy her love note. I enjoyed it for how soon they addressed the animosity between the three girls, and now moving forward, they all may become friends…
BUT! Josie and Lizzie as sisters is definitely fractured. Josie spread rumors about her sister and redirected the hate to Hope… Oh please don’t let Lizzie snap over this. Remember, The Merge and Lizzie’s “fate” to kill Josie is in effect here. Having this knowledge is just us waiting for that shoe to eventually drop on them.
Emma was our “screamer”, and boy did I love how a powerful witch school counselor has a fear of “creepy crawlies”. She and Dorian are cute together and opening the episode with them established how “in like” they are with each other. It’s a great way to introduce tension and stakes into the love triangle… it resolved faster than I anticipated. By episode’s end, Emma confessed how she kissed Alaric while having the slug inside her, but Alaric didn’t have one. So, Dorian punched Alaric in the face and quit. That sounds about right.
Kaleb is growing on me. The writers know what they’re doing “sort of” with the characters, and having him included in the group without MG helped the audience understand his frustrations with "animal blood” and the effect it has on his vampire powers. The TVDU haven’t really dived into this concept since like season 1 / 2 of The Vampire Diaries with Stefan.
Overall, I love the road trip sequence, the inclusion of Triad and creepy guy whose name I have forgotten, and he’s also opening Malivore for some nefarious plot with the supernaturals trapped inside. Next week will focus more on the boys it seems: Rafael, Landon, and MG. That sounds pretty fun, and the love triangle drama will most likely be addressed too.