“When I read The Vampire Diaries and I thought, ‘Well, God, that’s weird.
On the other hand, showrunner Julie Plec has promised that this new series plans to avoid the problematic nature of some of the relationships established on The Vampire Diaries and The Originals.
Much like The Vampire Diaries, Legacies, will take place in a high school full of supernatural beings, and given that it’s on The CW, we can probably expect it to be filled with some seriously sexy hookups.
“There is something deeply romantic in that gothic and harlequin romance kind of way, and deeply inappropriate if you look at it through another lens,” Plec said of The Vampire Diaries’ romances.