Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28398720-20160530203022/@comment-28151443-20161209144406

Charinfox wrote: 89.25.53.87 wrote: Bellamy never had any character progresion that was ruined  in S3. He almost got it but that line died when he pulled the level with Clarke in the end of S2... I have to respectfully disagree with you. Don’t worry, you could be respectfully disagree with me as I’m with you. It isn’t problem.

You’re right in S1 and S2 he started care for others and that make him better and I’m afraid that is the only thing we can have agreement. :)

1. Bellamy never meant to be a follower but he always is. It’s his choice, no one forces him to be.

It was Diana’s plan to kill Jaha and Bellamy shot him without questioning that. He didn’t care that Jaha is the only man on the Ark who could save his sister’s life(because Earth was death radioactive planet then). According to information they had, he sentence his own sister to death with his actions but he didn’t care for that. It was easier than to fight for her life on the Ark.

He followed the delinquents when they hanged Murphy. He manipulated them with weeks – used their anger and fear against them and their families on the Ark. He knew that he couldn’t control them but he never stopped push the monster which he created. He wanted to give them what they wanted. It hadn’t matter that wasn’t right that Murphy was innocent.

He followed Clarke when she banished Murphy. Again it hadn’t matter that Murphy reached to their actions against him. They neglected his right to get justice. They were risking his life because it was easier.

He followed Abby’s plan. They didn’t know how big was the threat and they could anger grounders more. It hadn’t matter that they could risk life of everyone else.

He followed Finn’s plan to go in TonDC. He knew that Finn isn’t on yourself but Bellamy let him to go there with Murphy. Would Bellamy let Octavia to go somewhere with Murphy in 2x04? He didn’t care about Finn and Murphy and risk their lives for nothing.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">He followed Clarke when she wanted to use grounder’s army against MM. But he knew that their army is useless and no one used that fact to save Finn’s life.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">He followed Lincoln’s plan. He risk life of his all friends including his and Lincoln’s one. Lincoln was drug addicted, he wasn’t in position to took that kind of decision.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">He followed Clarke’s plan to kill all MM. He did the worst possible thing that he could do. People there were innocent. They didn’t know that they were threaten; that  their children would die, No one gave them a choice to do the right thing.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">He followed Pike. He went to war knowing that they hadn’t enough resources but he didn’t know how many people grounders had.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">  <span style="font-family:"CalibriLight",sans-serif;">And then he started follow Clarke again.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">2. He always knew who he want to be. In his imagination he live with delusional idea that he is something more than everyone else. It started with “They are criminals” in 1x01 and ended in 3x16 while he looked at Octavia as she is the biggest monster in the world because she want justice for her broken dreams. He turned himself into a saint left her alone with her desire, putting a boundary between them. There wasn’t “Don’t worry, O, he will paid for what he did to you.” or “We need him now but when this end he will die. You haven’t lived looking at him, remembering what he did forever.”.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight",sans-serif;">He believes that he is the hero, the savior in their story. In S1 he stayed with the delinquents and started follow Clarke because she said that he was their hero. He followed Kane because he said that Bellamy did the best thing for their people. He followed Pike because he gave him chance to be the hero again. And he fight with all of them when they tried to break that dream - Finn, Clarke, Murphy, Octavia, Lincoln, Niylah, grounders, Kane and even Pike.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">  <span style="font-family:"CalibriLight",sans-serif;">3. Kane, Octavia and Clarke never forced him to be someone else. They always had a dream about their life on the ground. And I think the real problem is hiding behind the fact that Bellamy had never dream about the Earth. He lives in the past with Zeus, Alexander and Cesar, not in the future.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Lincoln is dead because Kane spare Bellamy’s life. Kane let Bellamy to take his own decisions even when they were wrong. He believed in Bellamy with his life but in the same time he respect grounders culture and their right to live on the ground. They are real survivors and he is impressed by that.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Octavia lived 16 years of her life believing that her brother is Heracles. It’s not her fault that he lied her, showing only his best side to her. It’s easy to be the good guy when you are locked in a box. When they landed on the grounds problems began. She just wanted from him to be the brother she knew all her life. It isn’t her fault that he never were that guy.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">Some people say that Clarke is manipulator and use people to get what she wants. I don’t think that is true – she isn’t so smart. She tries to understand grounders and their culture, she respect them. She dream about the Earth. That’s are difference between them. Bellamy never tried to understand who grounders are and how they survive.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"CalibriLight","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">How is that leadership role? What kind of character development is this? But i <span style="font-family:"CalibriLight",sans-serif;">n the next season we will see different Bellamy. From where will come that change in him?