User blog:Skyzy/What Would It Take?

Continuation from the Season 3 Spoiler Overload post:

''Just a curious question, at what point did the show lose you? and what could they do to keep your viewership? I speculate you are a Lincoln fan so there may be nothing they can do for you at that point since it seems more than likely they kill his character off soon, but if they could keep you around what would it take? If anything I think Ocatavia is really killing it this season. I'm just curious as to what drew fans in and what are the points of no return for them.''

I came for the sci-fi, post-apocalyptic dystopia (my favorite genre) and stayed for the amazing character development (now gone in favor of cliched tropes, recycled plots, and fan-baiting), the thought-provoking plot (ruined under meaningless conflict), the moral ambiguity (which is now clearly defined by the POC villains and saintly white women), and the philosophical debate (also gone because without the foundation of logic and reasoning which this season is severely lacking, you can't philosophize about anyone's motivations).

Lincoln isn't even dead yet and this show would have already lost me as a viewer if it wasn't for this wikia. Them killing off Lincoln is just one more massive misstep in a season of wrong turns and unbelievable conceits that yank the viewer out of the story and reminds us once again that we're watching a show on the CW (which this show stayed away from that stigma the second half of Season One and all of Season Two). Watch the Thrones was the biggest disaster so far this season. Hakeldama was only a teeny bit better. Bitter Harvest was still better but just not good enough to make up for all the existing problems (and it also introduced even more plot holes and rushed story/character development).

As I said above, short of scrapping the current season entirely and starting over, I'm not sure it's recoverable. I enjoy good storytelling and this season is not even remotely close to it. I still can't fathom what might have possibly happened but there was such a massive plummet in the quality of the plot since 3x04 that I'm still reeling from it.
 * Number one problem: darkness induced audience apathy. I don't care about pretty much any of the characters anymore because they're either unrecognizable, dead, about to die, or despicable and deserve to die. The plot is filled with illogical choices and meaningless conflict. No one is doing anything they would normally do and everything else feels forced and contrived.
 * The lack of respect given to Bellamy's two-season-long character development (truthfully, pretty much everyone's character development but his was the worst).
 * The complete waste of Lincoln's character (and the Linctavia SP-Grounder bridge storyline), especially when there are so many other character deaths that would make much more sense from a literary perspective than his.
 * He's currently the ONLY Grounder in the Main cast so why did they need to get rid of him? If anything, they should be adding more Grounders to the Main cast and getting rid of Sky People instead.
 * And since Lincoln is dying this season, WTF??? Can't we at least see him in every episode the first half since he's not going to be around in the second half? Can't we at least get a flashback episode with him like we got with Wells and Finn? Can't we at least get more Linctavia this season rather than a boring "fight," an interrupted make-out session, and them explicitly stating their character traits over and over again (she doesn't fit in and all he wants is peace; we get it!)? Can't we at least learn more about Lincoln's backstory and delve a bit more into his relationships with everyone else (like Anya and Lexa and Indra)? There is so much potential plot and history that is being lost for absolutely no reason besides "shock value" (and to get rid of yet another POC).
 * The inherent literary symbolism of Linctavia representing the unified hope for future peace. They are the bridge between the Sky People and the Grounders because they're they every-man, not Clexa (two leaders) or Memori (two murderous outlaws). Kill Lincoln and the entire moral of this story is that there is no hope for peace and the entire world is a nihilistic mess not worth saving. Who would want to watch that depressing crap?
 * Also, this plot is almost a duplicate of GoT's Drogo and Daenerys and her asshole brother (just waiting on confirmation that Octavia is pregnant with a Nightblood, but from a story perspective, I do hope she's at least pregnant).
 * The covert racism this season is SO BAD that it's like they must have fired their POC staff...or killed them off. To start with, the inherent racism in having three POCs be the evil perpetrators who are committing atrocities that were once done to their ancestors and then having the white women be the voices of "reason" and then also representing the offending #alllivesmatter message with Otan's death.
 * The Clexa "blood must NOT have blood" is cheesy, ridiculous, and over-the-top obnoxiousness.
 * I used to like both Clarke and Lexa and now they're just preachy and self-righteous and it's painful for me to watch because they don't seem to have any plan or way of convincing everyone else to come on-board aside from being dictators and demanding everyone obey them. All it has done is given them a superiority vibe that they're somehow better than everyone else.
 * Really, I feel like I'm watching a couple of elitists bitching and moaning about their hard lives and how all they want is peace and for everyone to just get along. It's Kumbaya BS and unbecoming of either of them.
 * Speaking of which, Clexa fan-service overkill. I don't ship either Bellarke or Clexa and have never been into romantic subplots (except Linctavia snuck up on me) so all this pacifist Clexa crap is killing me! They're both too weak now to lead either of their people and I hope Titus, Octavia, and Indra get together and remove them both from power before the Sky People can kill off any more Grounders.
 * I'm not an "Ambassador" or a Commander; I'm a commoner. I want to see the stories of the commoners (i.e. Lincoln, Raven, Monty, Murphy, Jasper, and everyone else who they haven't even bothered showing weekly onscreen)
 * Clarke's worthlessness. This is one of the biggest problems. The lead character in the show has done nothing worthwhile this entire season and the plot reflects exactly that. There is no direction!
 * The plot is broken into so many pieces, it'll be impossible to piece together again. There is no structure, no coherency, no flow, no clearly defined theme. It's like they threw a bowl of spaghetti at the wall just to see what might stick and the plot is the gigantic pile of wet noodles that fell to the floor in a heap.