Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-187.147.63.39-20160304171849/@comment-81.133.30.90-20160308185607

I was not personally a fan or Clexa/Lexa but I thought that Lexa’s death was tragic and very well done to the point that even I shed a tear. But Lexa - like so many other TV characters - was expendable and I find it disappointing to see some many people write her death off as avoidable or as a gay trope death et cetera and I do not appreciate the implication that she should have been kept alive purely because she was a gay character. As a gay woman who has been a fan of the 100 since the beginning I am not insulted by Lexa’s death on the basis that she was a gay character, I do not feel that the death of a character who happens to be gay is somehow an affront to my sexuality and find it extremely annoying when I am accused of not being a “good gay” for believing otherwise. I also disagree that Lexa should have gone out all guns blazing. The manner of her death was utterly tragic in its simplicity - the fact is that death, in a lot of cases, hits us like a bolt out of the blue which is why the emotional impact is all the more devastating. I am also appalled by the level of abuse directed at non-Clexa fans, the show’s writers and the showrunner on many of the social media platforms - though it might serve as a valuable lesson against show-boating for the fans. I appreciate many people are upset by Lexa’s death but Lexa was not the b-all and end-all of the show. There are lots of other - for me more interesting - characters who have been relegated to the side-lines because of the Clexa storyline and I for one cannot wait to get back seeing their stories unfold!!