Legacies: Lizzie Is Becoming The Show's Caroline (& That's Great)
Caution: Minor spoilers ahead for Legacies season 4.
Although Legacies season 4 previously seemed unsure how to use Lizzie, The Originals spinoff is now turning her into the show’s equivalent of The Vampire Diaries fan-favorite Caroline — which is a great move. Earlier in season 4, fans of the series could have been forgiven for thinking Legacies killed off the wrong Saltzmann sister. After Lizzie’s potential went under-served during Tribrid Hope’s villainous rampage, their much-vaunted showdown ending in Lizzie’s sudden death looked like a deeply disappointing twist at first.
However, Legacies season 4 has since revealed that Lizzie always planned for her demise and used the Tribrid’s powers against her. Lizzie dying allowed her to access her vampire powers and come back as a Heretic, stronger than ever. Not only that, but accessing her vampire powers is arguably exactly what Lizzie needed for her character to develop in Legacies season 4.
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Like The Vampire Diaries’s Caroline, Lizzie is one of few Legacies character who has the potential to become a better person after she was turned into a vampire. Lizzie and Caroline have both always had their flaws, but the heightened emotions of being a vampire made Caroline more aware of others and more empathetic to them, rather than less. Hope’s character growth stagnated in Legacies season 4 because she had to turn off her humanity after becoming a vampire, making her an unstoppable villain. However, as a human, Lizzie was as manipulative and self-centered as Caroline was unstable and somewhat neurotic. Thus, becoming a vampire could let Lizzie level out and level up in much the same way Caroline did, with
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