Warning: Spoilers for Legacies season 4, episode 14, "The Only Way Out Is Through."
The story of Landon languishing in Limbo on Legacies season 4 is going nowhere, and the series needs to make it matter fast. Although Hope’s Tribrid turn required her to kill Landon, his time in Limbo has lasted absurdly long and added almost nothing to Legacies season 4. The show needs to fix this issue before Legacies wastes Landon for another entire season.
It is important that Landon is currently in Limbo on Legacies season 4. Hope killing him was the conduit that turned her into the humanity-less Tribrid, and the question of whether or not Legacies season 4 will revive Landon is pivotal to the plot, since Hope’s humanity could hang in the balance. However, Landon’s time in Limbo has not developed the character, has done nothing to dispel the “dude in distress” role he has become accustomed to on Legacies, and has essentially repeated his season 3 Prison World plot.
The “Landon is Limbo” subplot appears to be going nowhere, and the storyline is doing so incredibly slowly. While Lizzie pairing up with Aurora has fleshed out her character and Hope’s humanity gradually coming back is resulting in her villainous turn finally coming to an end, Landon is still in Limbo, still hanging out with the Necromancer, and still not in a position to change this. Legacies season 4 let down its supporting stars in numerous ways, but this is almost exactly the same issue that Landon endured in season 3, when his character spent the bulk of the outing’s action trapped in the Prison World. This in mind, having season 4 completely rehash this arc once again would be a massive waste.
The only major difference is that Landon has been in Limbo for eleven straight episodes of Legacies season 4 and, while he has encountered a genie, a Sphinx, and a set of bandits in that time as well briefly escaping, none of these incidents have resulted in any meaningful character development or plot progression for the show’s resident lead weight. Hope and Landon could have been reunited and become the power couple of Legacies in this time, or the series could have completely blindsided viewers by killing Landon off for good.
However, committing to neither of these tactics makes it increasingly obvious that, with each never-ending conversation with the Necromancer, Legacies season 4 is just running out the clock with Landon’s storyline. The character will likely return to life around the series finale once Hope regains her humanity, but by then, the entire season will have wasted him. For the duo to ever be a compelling pairing, Hope and Landon need to share some screen time and establish some chemistry; something they can’t do when he is perennially trapped in one dimension or another. Thus, Legacies season 4 must stop fumbling the plot line and finally free Landon from Limbo, if only so the Legacies supposed deuteragonist can have a storyline that doesn’t consist of him waiting to be saved.
Legacies releases new episodes Thursdays on the CW.