#Legacies Season 3 Episode 8 Review: Long Time, No See

Poor Hope continued to seek answers about what happened to Landon.

But she faced adversity from every direction on Legacies Season 3 Episode 8, giving us our biggest glimpse at her Mikaelson side since The Originals Season 5 Episode 13.

Hope has been inconsistently written since the start of Legacies, with the writers pushing her aside to give the other characters more screentime.

She’s been relegated to the girlfriend one too many times, and it’s about time she branches out and finds people who don’t expect her to bend over backward to help them.

It’s been frustrating to watch, for sure, but her’s actions during “Long Time, No See” were consistent with how her family would act.

It’s unfortunate double-crossing pretty much everyone to get close enough to the prison world to save the damsel in distress that is Landon felt like a complete 180 from the way Hope’s acted throughout Legacies.

So it’s hard to believe that, despite their differences, Hope cared more about the safety of Landon than the twins. If you watch Legacies online, you know Hope never got on with the twins for several years, but something tells me she would put the twins before Landon.

Yes, it’s a tricky situation, but Hope going rogue and almost killing the twins has probably butchered the positive progression for these characters that began with Legacies Season 1.

Lizzie wanted Josie well away from the world of magic, but Hope attempted to bring Josie back into the magical world with a vengeance.

Lizzie isn’t going to forget about it any time soon, but maybe she should consider if it were M.G. or someone she loved that wasn’t a part of her family.

Icing Josie out of magical discussions will do more harm than good. The best course of action would have been to allow Josie into the consultation. Even if she didn’t have powers, she still could have given everyone her two cents.

She is part of the Super Squad, after all. The writers seem intent on driving a wedge between Josie and the school, but it’s ridiculous the hurdles they make her go through to have some semblance of a relationship.

Finch egging her on to skip school for a date felt out of character, even though we only just met her, but it was used to give Dorian a reason to call Alaric and alert the others that Hope reeled her into her half-baked plan.

A better way to tackle this would have been for something to go wrong at the school and for Josie to run off or something. The very notion that this teenager has to run off every time she’s supposed to be on a date is wearing thin.

The only exciting part of the Mystic Falls High storyline is whether it will bring some more characters from the previous shows back into the fold.

Now that Josie is headed to live with Alaric and Caroline’s friend, it could open that possibility up. We should rule out Damon and Elena. The school made a musical about them on Legacies Season 3 Episode 3, so referring to them as her mom and dad’s friends would be weird.

Then there’s Bonnie, but given that the school has been using her blood every other episode, she’s probably desiccated in the basement or something.

Matt was the sheriff, so Josie would have been on a first-name basis with him. The mystery individual could be Jeremy, but given that Alaric played a part in raising him and Elena, that would also be strange for Josie not to have heard of him.

Can you tell this little nugget was the most important part of the episode for me?

MG’s reason for stealing the ascendant made a lot of sense. He knew there was something off about the prison world, and the school doesn’t exactly have the best track record of dealing with them.

The big surprise was the Lizzie managed to stand up for him, but what was she thinking by knocking him out when she had to help Josie?

Now MG seems to be following in Josie’s footsteps with a similar storyline, which is a bit bizarre when Josie’s exit from the school is still so new.

If this is the only storyline they can come up with for MG, then the actor’s talents would be better on another show that will actually bother to give him material to work with.

Cleo and Kaleb continued to be the bright spots of this meandering season. Their attempt to trap the Charon felt like it was all for naught, but it was pretty cool that their hard work paid off, and they were the reason for saving Landon from the prison world.

They’ve also opened a massive can of worms with another monster at the school after seemingly following him.

“Long Time, No See” should have been the episode that gave the series a jolt in the right direction. Instead, it was littered with sub-par developments.

What are your thoughts on the way Landon returned?

Do you think Hope acted like a Mikaelson or was the heel turn a bit random?

Hit the comments.

Legacies returns April 8.

Paul Dailly is the Associate Editor for TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter.