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KeepOnKeepingOn wrote:

I mean... I dunno what else to say. I liked it, to each their own. But I respectfully disagree, and say that this season is not CWing the show. Is it flawed? Of course, nothing's perfect. Do all the love interests make no sense? Yeah, they don't. It's clear they're solely for plot progression though. Clarke briefly getting with Cillian was so she could become vulnerable to be Josephine'd. Jordan and Delilah was basically our introduction to Naming Days and putting Jordan on some semblance of an arc of... actually I don't know his arc, cause he's been absent for a while now. I agree with most of your post.

Except Cillian was never a "love interest". Bellamy is Clarke's love interest. Cillian was a one-night stand because she wanted to move on and have some fun (seriously, she hadn't gotten any for over 6 years). The 100 is pretty clear when characters just have sex without any romantic interest (e.g. Clarke with Niylah and Cillian, Raven and Bellamy in S1, Bellamy with Roma, Bree and some anonymous girl), for fun or comfort or as a rebound or some other reason. There's nothing strange or unconvincing about a one-night-stand coming out of the blue, since that's what one-night stands usually are like.

Delilah was Jordan's first love. He's an adult, but he's grown up without any contact with anyone other than his parents, so he's emotionally similar to a young teenager. It is really not surprising that he fell in love with the first girl he met who showed some interest in him and wasn't his family or 'family'. And Delilah knew that her life as she knew it was never going to be the same, even if she didn't know for sure she was going to die, so she had that relationship as her swan song, more or less.