Talk:Lexa/@comment-26247132-20160306231142/@comment-16845200-20160310204200

"it was for the plot!!1!!1" - this is the rhetoric i am CONSTANTLY hearing nowadays, to jroth himself.

y'all. 8) in a thirty minute car ride, i've idly thought of at least 7 different ways where the ~plot~ they wanted furthered by lexa's death could have been furthered without killing her. i've thought of more where they could've simply written lexa off without killing her and still had her come back for the finale. i can't promise that they'd be amazing, but i can promise that they'd definitely be better than what actually happened, though that's not saying much because that's not really a high bar to jump across. which is basically my point. 9_9

characters are who make a story. without good characters, there wouldn't be a good story to tell in the first place. in my opinion - and there are those who disagree with me - lexa added quite a bit to the 100's story. and also, haven't you noticed that this reasoning is almost ALWAYS the justification for showrunners/writers/whomever is behind a death killing off beloved/influential characters and they have to respond to the fans' backlash? it ALWAYS has something to do with "i wanted the plot furthered!"

which brings me to my point: killing off a character for the SOLE purpose of ~furthering the plot~ is about the laziest thing you can do.

it was just so, so lazy. and not to mention, destructive. on both an economic and personal level. i've talked too much about the personal impact (i'm sure i've ranted about it in a comment on this page somewhere) but from a purely economic, ratings-based standpoint: they killed a decent-sized portion of their fanbase along with lexa. and they've alienated some of them irrevocably as well: i'm STILL seeing people trying to pursuade others to trend #CWCancelThe100 or something of the like on twitter. i'm hoping it doesn't happen, because that is just next-level pettiness, but still: r.i.p.

good luck dealing with the backlash for the rest of the season, jroth. 9_9