'Legacies': How Will Hope's Season 1 Fate Affect Season 2?

[Spoiler Alert: If you haven't watched the season one finale of Legacies, continue reading at your own risk!]

After Hope’s (Danielle Rose Russell) season one finale twist in Legacies, what can we expect going forward in season two?

Director and writer Julie Plec recently spilled all to TV Guide:

On whether or not all traces of Hope are really gone: “There is hope, and there is an actual pitch for that, so your brain is in the right place, creatively.”

On whether Malivore is dead now or she just prevented him from rising: “That is the question, I think, that we’re left with at the end of the season, which is — technically if she had destroyed him, would she be destroyed in the process? Maybe not. So the fact that no one remembers her might mean that there’s still a blackness out there that is keeping her captive. And since we’ve already seen a glimpse of how s–ty that is, I hope that’s not the case.”

On Hope’s affect on the lives of everyone else: “That’s exactly what we can expect to see. What’s fun about it, and sad about it, is we’ll be able to realize just how much impact Hope had in these people’s lives without them even realizing what they’re missing. And just understanding that they all feel individually like there’s something that doesn’t feel right and that they’re struggling with this feeling of not being complete somehow. It just feels like such a universal experience, especially for teenagers. I’m looking forward to having each of those characters act out on that feeling.”

For more from Julie, head to TVGuide.com.

Season one of Legacies will be streaming on Netflix starting April 5.