Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160223183610/@comment-27929993-20160403231219

TheDragonair wrote:

I am a grey person. I try to excuse the writers for this miserable attempt to send of Lincoln, Lexa and their Bellamy development, but there is a point where the other side, the side of the people who expected more of the show and ended up being offended by it, has a right to be pissed of.

So again, I agree with you, but people have a right to be upset about mishandling the show. The extend to Lexa's death and lesbian troupe took too extreme messures in my opinion, but I am not judging them. They felt betrayed. I understand and pretty much agree with what you said there, apart from that part about they failing us miserably at building a seaosn 3 worth waiting for. I actually think they created a lot of interesting cool stuff and storylines that i liked to see and i am now curious to see how everything will play out in the upcoming episodes and in season 4.

Apart from what i just said, of course people have the right to feel offended, betrayed or however they're feeling, i'm not judging at all.

I totally can see where they're coming from, the thing is, i can also see where JR and the writers are coming from too. They may have made this bad, unthoughtful decisions, but i don't think they ever intended for things to go this south and completely off the rails. I mean it's obvious that no one wants more the show to be the most successful possible and loved by the fans, and to create a very positive impact, than it's creator, writers, cast and entire crew do.

Believe me, i hated so much JR and the writers for killing Lexa, specially like that, when they had about a million other possible choices, but i couldn't help feeling kind of bad for him and actually the entire cast when they entered to initiate The 100 panel at WonderCon. There absolutely was an heavy atmosphere, 'cause they knew how angry and disappointed the majority of the fans where and it showed, they weren't as confortable as they usually are, specially JR... it wasn't a pleasent thing, at least for me, to see.

As bad and unthoughtful they're creative decisons were, i really believe that's all they were, creative. I don't believe at all that when they killed Lexa they were like "so now we're gonna kill this lesbian character right after she had sex with her soul mate, in the most diminishing way possible, 'cause you know, now they're happy together we have to kill one of them has to go.", i think they saw it like "Alycia has to leave the show now, so we're gonna kill this great character in the most unexpected way, when everything felt good, for the drama effect. And as she is this major character, we'll go bigger and make her death this game-changing event that will move forward the entire show's story, by connecting everything."

And as for Lincoln's death i don't also think they we're like "okay so we're gonna make the black guy that no one like kill the other black guy (and i don't even entirely see Ricky as a black guy), execution style, just because they're black."; i think they saw it like "we're gonna make this hated character to kill this other very much liked character, who is a great honorable warrior that never would have let anyone die for him, and that's why he stayed behind, willing to die for his beliefs. He will be executed like that, again for the drama effect (like all the shows do) by this Asshole Pike's character to make everyone hate him even more and for the other characters affected by his death to take action and seek revenge."

I think that when they are making this creative decisions, which can turn out to be the best or the worst, they don't see the character sexuality, race, etc., they simply see the character and decide what will happen to take the storyline where they want to take. They see all the characters as equals, and they don't think twice about what to do with the character because she's gay or he's black, or whichever differences they may have. From my point of view this is the right thing to do, to treat a character differently because of her/his sexuality, gender, race or whichever, that would be the wrong thing to do.

Suddenly everything that happened / happens with the plot line just became and brought up all this huge sensitive issues, and i just truly hope that all this won't make the show's creators, writters and producers, to be less willing to inclued diversified characters (like gays, black people, etc.), on their future shows, 'cause they know they won't have the creative freedom to put that characters through what they want / need to take the storyline where they want to take it.

Everything has been pushed way to the extreme IMO and like you said, so now there all this very sensitive complicated issues mixed up that i won't even go into anymore.

I don't even know at this point if i succeeded at explaining myself and my thoughts, i just hope i'm not misunderstood and people don't take what i said in the wrong way. I'm not judging, it was never my intention, it's just my honest opinion and the way i see things.