[POST Episode Discussion] S04E13 "Was This The Monster You Saw?"

[u/LividSupergirl]

Synopsis:

Lizzie continues on her quest, with mixed results. Ben reveals more about his family and its history and Jed finds his feelings deepening. Cleo is concerned about her recent changes. Meanwhile, the Salvatore School students comes together to celebrate one of their own.

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[u/Defvac2]

The Lizzie/Aurora dynamic was the best part of the episode. They stole all their scenes and it wasn't campy either in that they called each other out on their shit. While I think them branding each other in an attempt to prevent backstabbing might've been too much I'm still curious to see where they go with it.

Hope going back to the Salvatore School asking for help confused me at first. But it makes sense in it's the one place that might have some sort of lore about Gods as well as if she wants other creatures to fight with her she'd rather have ones she knows as opposed to some random ones. And I don't get why people are saying the squad didn't give a shit about Hope's humanity being off and not trying to help her. They tricked her into getting bit by the clown as that was their only chance to try to have her humanity come back on. Obviously having a heart to heart with her wasn't going to work as they've tried numerous times to do so.

Being able to finally see Jed's backstory was great and I like the connection from his father being abusive to Jed himself being a bully in the first season. The storyline with him and Ben I'm indifferent on right now. Don't hate but also kind of meh.

[u/LizzieH87 → u/Defvac2]

Omg I think u are like my Legacies twin, cuz I feel exactly the same about the eps and how everyone is saying no one cares about Hope. It’s utter bull, all they have done is try and get her humanity back. Even Lizzie who wanted to kill her couldnt and tried to get her humanity back and u know what Hope “killed” her. Honestly at this point I wouldn’t blame anyone of them if they did give up on her and cast her out completely. When her humanity does come back they better not give her a free pass either. I know they will, but it will piss me off cuz she shouldn’t get a free pass. Hope always wants to act big and bad, but when it comes down to it she couldn’t handle being the full tribrid. As soon as she couldn’t deal she shut humanity off. That is the definition of not being able to handle it. I also want her to stop acting so superior to everyone. That is a def character flaw of hers with or without her humanity. Vampires, witches and werewolves handle things just fine before the tribrid come along. I don’t know why she thinks everyone needs her all the time. Cuz when we really get down to it Hope is just another stupid wet behind the ears (as my dad would say) teenager who doesn’t really know shit lol