Legacies Just Repeated Klaus’ Most Touching Scene In The Originals

Warning: SPOILERS for Legacies season 4, episode 3, “We All Knew This Day Was Coming.”

With Hope making the choice to die and become the tribrid, Legacies season 4 recreated the most touching scene in The Originals‘ finale. Legacies is indeed all about the legacies the students of the Salvatore School have to carry whether they like it or not. Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) struggles with the weight of his father being Malivore. Josie (Kaylee Bryant) and Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) have the potential Merge hanging over their heads. And more than three seasons now, the overarching question in Hope’s (Danielle Rose Russell) narrative has been whether or not she’ll die in order to activate her vampire side and become the world’s first tribrid in order to defeat Malivore.

Knowing she’s her father’s daughter, however, is second to Hope’s burden of knowing she one day has to die. A good portion of Hope Mikaelson’s journey in Legacies and The Originals has been her learning to make peace with the man her father, Klaus Mikaelson (Joseph Morgan), was. Klaus has at turns been an intensely evil villain, an antihero, and a loyal defender of those he loves, perhaps the most complicated character in the Vampire Diaries universe. Hope didn’t always have a great relationship with her father, even being estranged for a few years. But she’s since accepted who he is, and, in recent years, has even begun to take pride in the traits she got from him.

Legacies season 4, episode 3, “We All Knew This Day Was Coming,” cemented their shared qualities even more. By recreating the Mikaelson family dinner scene from The Originals series finale, Legacies underscored the parallels between Hope and her father, Klaus. In the Originals finale, Klaus makes the decision to die in order to protect those he loved after siphoning dark magic that would have made him too dangerous to live. To honor him and say their goodbyes, the Mikaelson family had one last dinner together, a celebration rather than a time for mourning. Legacies did the same with Hope, with Alaric (Matthew Davis) and her friends and found family at the Salvatore School throwing a celebratory dinner so that her last human memories would be knowing how much she was loved and that she wasn’t alone. Like Klaus in the Originals series finale, Hope is shown she’s deeply loved by those who know what she’s sacrificing to keep them safe.

Hope carries her mother, Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin), with her, but, despite her fighting it for so long, she is also her father. Like him, she will forever defend those she loves, even if it means sacrificing herself. As she gets older, her similarities to her father are all the more clear–and for the first time, Hope is learning that’s maybe not a bad thing. As her Aunt Freya (Riley Voelkel) said to her in the episode, “He was complicated and flawed and loyal. And he would have let the world burn just to save the people he loved.” She may as well have been talking about Hope.

Yet, Freya also showed Hope how she’s taken the qualities she inherited from Klaus and made them better: “But you, you’re willing to let go of someone you love to save innocent people that you’ll never even meet,” she continued. “So I think that you’re already better than all of us and that your father and mother would say the same.” As Legacies‘ future tribrid, Hope isn’t always an easy protagonist to root for. She can be prickly and incredibly selfish, manipulative and obstinate – all qualities Klaus had. But she also loves completely and protects fiercely, and is loved in return, as was Klaus. Hope is her father’s daughter and for the first time, she’s truly owning it. Legacies hasn’t made Klaus a main focus of the show, but the recreation of the Mikaelson family dinner scene from The Originals shows that his influence is never gone, even if he is.

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