How Legacies pulled off that Vampire Diaries-inspired musical episode Samantha Highfill Warning: This episode contains spoilers about Thursday's episode of Legacies. It's been more than a decade since Elena Gilbert first met a guy, they talked, and it was epic, but the universe that meeting launched still lives on. After The Vampire Diaries delivered eight seasons of epic romance, epic twists, and epic deaths, The Originalscontinued to advance the world of the series with five family drama-filled seasons of its own. Now, week after week, Legacies brings viewers into that same universe, only this time through the lens of the Salvatore School, a.k.a. Caroline and Ric's creation in the