Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-114.179.177.252-20160515004708/@comment-16845200-20160518003153

...to be fair, i honestly never got the impression from anyone on the show - including jroth - that bellarke was meant to be endgame, and i don't think lexa's death had anything directly to do with furthering a romantic bellarke storyline. and i believe this for many different reasons, least of all because clarke has now literally seen two of her lovers dying in her arms now and has ended up with their blood on her hands as a result. something that i don't think a lot of people take into consideration is the compression of the actual timeline in the show itself. it is all very well to wait a week for new episodes and wait a year for new seasons, but these characters do not have the luxury of time in the show. for instance, i'm fairly sure lexa has been dead for around a week from 307 - 316. a week. not 9 weeks like viewers of the show have experienced. and we obviously don't know how much time will have passed between s3 and s4, but i'm willing to bet it won't be another 3 months. honestly, clarke has had NO time to properly grieve over lexa yet as it is. i'm not blaming anyone for that, persay, given that they are on a tight schedule, but i really think it's something that they need to show on air...not that it's going to happen, because JR is an actual ass and i will bet anyone two oxygen cookies that clarke's going to end up forgetting lexa in some capacity in thursday's finale. bc it's going to be "revolutionary and shocking." don't you fcking know it.

that being said, lexa's death certainly indirectly opened up a door to romantic bellarke. "is that a door that JR should go through?" is the question now. and i have to vehemently say "no" to that, and i'm sure many other people do as well.