User blog comment:KurvaShpee/Is Bellamy redeemable?/@comment-26152791-20160414013458/@comment-26247132-20160414022249

"his story doesn’t make sense anymore. Everything came crashing down so fast. Sure, all the traumas he had to live through might have triggered his decision of switching sides and join Pike to fight off the Grounders. But there is no way it would have been strong enough to erase his personality. Bellamy went from rebel king to submissive follower. It was like JR took all the things that made us all love Bellamy and threw it out. I couldn’t even recognize him and it sadden me so much."

This is why I refuse to give any leniency to Bellamy's current "redemption" arc. He was horribly written into villainy and he's being horribly written into salvation. It's not Bellamy himself who is irredeemable; it's his character the writers ruined so thoroughly that there is no coming back from that. He was once one of the greatest characters of all time but when I think of Bellamy now, I don't think of his incredible redemption arc of S1 and S2; I think of S3's disastrous mess. The bad writing has tainted him so completely and it's such a shame.