Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7971816-20170209030558/@comment-26415383-20170211131250

TotallyTinkerbell wrote: All of the characters on the show have a darker side, though. The fandom likes to point to Bellamy and shout "genocide" but people ignore how the other characters are just at much at fault. Lexa let a bomb drop on her people. Clarke and Monty have equal share in the mount weather massacre. All three of the adults have shares in the Culling. Jaha threw a kid into a seamonster, Kane shocklashed someone in front of everyone, Murphy killed two guys in S1. Finn killed an entire grounder village, Jasper started a confict with Trikru by shooting at the grounders in the trees during Clarke and Anya's peacetalks. Octavia has killed numerous people and Echo had Mount Weather blown up. So if Bellamy needs therapy, then everyone does. This is the point I feel is the most important here. I know a lot of the fandom of the show tends to villainize characters they dislike because they made bad decisions and did horrible things. But the truth is this, the entire moral of The 100 is "Maybe there are no good guys" (or "None of us is innocent.") Everyone of the characters on the show has messed up, big time, and it's just not fair to hate one but elevate another.

I understand that a lot of people dislike Bellamy and I respect their opinions completely. But, honestly, he's no worse than anyone else on this show. He thought he was doing what was right for his people even if that was something completely uncalled for and awful. (Although, I reaallly don't blame him for not trusting the grounders, the Sky People had never had a good experience with them but that's a whole separate point I won't get into.)