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Mysteries of Life wrote: just catching up on this thread...a couple of things:

Just because Season 4 has been greenlighted, doesn't mean it will happen. It just means the CW made a financial commitment so that S4 can start production. I'm sure there are opt out clauses and other things that would allow CW to minimize their losses if the ratings took a deep dive. In other words they may start filiming the episodes but may never air them.

Bellarke happens in the books so the writers ALWAYS have that card they can pull out unless they actually kill either of them off.

IF Jason Rothenberg is suck a prick to work with, i'd bet many of the actors are talking to their agents to find them other gigs and get off the show.

As I wrote on another thread this season itself has been a major disappointment on many fronts. Everyone's actions have been beyond willful suspension of disbelief, beyond what real people who reasonable do in the same situations, beyond common senese. Yeah.... No. That's not how tv works. If this was a first season show, sure. But is a veteran show on its third season now going into its 4th. No network would do what your suggesting.