Aria Shahghasemi joins The Originals season 5 as Landon, possible Hope love interest
According to a report from TVLine, Aria Shahghasemi is going to be joining the show close to the end of the final season in a role that will actually be a little more human than some of the other people you are going to meet. To be specific, he is playing Landon, a “thoughtful, compassionate and self-aware kid from the wrong side of the tracks who catches Hope’s attention when she witnesses him being bullied by his affluent classmates.” Is this a possible love connection? You cannot rule that sort of thing out — especially near the end of the season.
One of the reasons why this would be an interesting time to bring the character onto the show is because of the rumors out there about there being a Hope-centric spin-off show in development that brings the show almost full-circle. On the surface, it sounds like a complete flip of The Vampire Diaries with Aria Shahghasemi’s character being more of the Elena while Hope is more the Damon/Stefan. It is far too early to tell if this is something that is going to come to fruition. As a matter of fact, The CW could easily decide that they want to go in a completely different direction entirely and just end the world of vampires (at least the ones from Julie Plec) once and for all.
We would be interested in the idea of a spin-off, but this is one of those things that is really hard to define without actually seeing the characters in action. We don’t know if they are worthy of the screen time or not just yet.
What do you think about Aria Shahghasemi joining The Originals season 5, and are you optimistic at the moment that the backdoor pilot is going to happen? Be sure to share in the attached comments!
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Saaria
November 18, 2017 @ 1:51 am
Julie Plec needs to go away and take all her abusive, male characters with her. She likes to tweet negative stuff about the men in Hollywood and her characters are carbon copies, times ten of what she writes. When she finally does a love story the right way, that character dies.Of course it’s the woman character, not the male.
As a woman I will not support another one of her shows. I don’t want my daughters thinking her type of male is anyone they should be involved with. Sadly many kids do not have parents that monitor their children’s television as evident by the fans of Caroline and Klaus.
Shame on you, Mrs Plec. Shame on you.