I was really hoping that this show would get better. In all honesty I'm only watching it now in the hopes that I can get a glimpse of the beauty that was seen in TVD and TO.
All its done it slowly destroy TVD/TO universe. Hope has family...Sooo where have they been while she has needed them all this time??? Random cameos really don't count. Not to mention most of the stories are badly ripped off from other source material. Examples: Buffy, Teen Wolf, Harry Potter, Charmed, Supernatural, Etc.
Before The Vampire Diaries Julie Plec once tried to sell the story/idea of a magical school that has to deal with supernatural creatures daily... The story was basically a bad mash up of Hogwarts(HP)/Magic school (Charmed)
She was almost immediately turned down. She later came back with The Vampire Diaries after getting the help of Kevin Williamson.
Years later....Well I guess she got her Magical School...just with a lot more copy pasta