Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-26500342-20160108000001/@comment-71.94.221.9-20160301190153

Skyzy wrote: Oh, I don't think we have any problem seeing perspectives (most of us have no problem with Pike). We just reject Bellamy's current "perspective" as ridiculous and OOC because that's what it is. He was given half an episode to go from a two-season redemption arc into a xenophobic, mass murdering warmonger. Finn had a more decent villain arc than they gave Bellamy and we all know how abrupt Finn's conversion to the dark side was. No matter how you try to excuse it, that is crappy writing. I wasn't denying its crappy writing. I think the writers are doing a huge disservice to the narrative with how quickly they are blowing through the story/character development, and how most of the key parts to these developments happened off screen and that is always bad. But in discussing the Clarke and Bellamy scene, that one was actually the clearest picture the writers have made for Bellamy this season, and showed he doesn't hate Clarke at all, he resents her for leaving sure, but he also thinks Lexa is clouding her judgement (much like Titus thinks Clarke is clouding Lexa's judgement) and that keeping her in Arkadia was going to help her. No one is denying its misguided, but his intentions are still to protect. He is just going down the dark path. Where the writers are failing Bellamy is that he would fall so quickly to Pike's emotional manipulations, when over the course of 2 seasons we have seen that that isn't easy, that the protection of his sister was always his driving force, to the point where he put himself in danger in order to help Octavia save Lincoln when he was a reaper and there was little hope. I mean if we throw season 2 out entirely then maybe Bellamy's quick turn is an easier sell to the audience as a direct line from season 1, but Season 2 happened and we can list numerous incidents in which Bellamy behaved in a manor which is the antithesis of where he is now. I think in hindsight the writers will see how badly they screwed that up, but its all been filmed so nothing they can fix midseason. I can understand ans see what the writers intentions are, I just think the application of those intentions was sloppy. That said maybe they will find some way to surprise us, for that I will continue to give them the benefit of doubt. And there are other elements of the story (besides Bellamy's arc) that they are actually weaving quite well.