Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7971816-20160304031551/@comment-51.174.32.107-20160306200122

Sparkstoaflame wrote: "I'm sorry, are you saying people went to the hospital because of this episode?"

Unfortunately, yes.

"I simply didn't understand why anyoe would be more sad about losing a lesbian rather than losing a influential character."

in NO WAY am i saying that lexa was NOT an influential character. let me explain:

you've got people like raven, who (and i'm boiling it down a lot here) embodies tenacity. you've got people like lincoln, who embodies courage. you've got people like clarke, you've got people like octavia, you've got people like bellamy...

and you've got people like lexa.

to me, lexa was so important. not just as a gay character, but because she was lexa. idgaf what the show will do with the next heda. why? because they ain't lexa. lexa was special. lexa was strong, compassionate, powerful, intelligent, beautiful, commanding, and strategic. lexa had this gravitas about her that immediately attracted her to her character the moment she appeared on screen. even before she was revealed as lgbt, i really, really liked her.

but lexa was also important to me because she was a gay character.

she was representation. she was a strong, compassionate, powerful, intelligent, beautiful, commanding, and strategic gay woman who did not sacrifice ANY of those aforementioned traits to the wind. there are plenty of strong characters like that, but there are so, so few characters who happen to possess those traits and also happen to be positive representation for the lgbt community. she was more than a plot device.

the reason i don't bring UP the fact that lexa was everything other than gay is because everyone knows this. no one QUESTIONS this. no one COMPLAINS about her being strong or whatever. but people are complaining that fans are getting too worked up over lexa's death because she's gay, and THAT is why i am so vehement on the subject. that is why i talk about how this aspect of her character in particular is so affecting.

is lexa more than her sexuality? certainly.

but lexa's sexuality is also a part of who she is. and people shouldn't be diminishing the impact of that. I agree with the fact that her sexuality was who she was, but in this fictional world, the sexuality did not at all matter. It was just there but not brought on focus because in this fictional world, society had evolved to the point where having a certain sexuality was as important as your nose: it didnt matter what it looked like it was just a part of you and not a big deal. Therefore I think its wrong to brign her sexuailty out on such a big level because the whole strength in this was that it really genuinly didnt matter so that you were not in any way defined by your sexuality, which is why it was never mentioned. This isnt to say that lexa isnt important as a LGBT representation but the point is that people have been putting too much focus on that, as if it was the defining point of her story. It really wasnt she was the grounder commander and she fell in love with someone. that is what is important, not her sexuality. that was just a natural part of her, and not at all a main point in the story.