User blog comment:Thewritersdiary/In Defense of Bellamy Blake/@comment-25176701-20160216035614

"I'll admit that it crossed my mind that Jason just did it so that the Bellarke shippers would start to hate Bellamy and root for Clexa"

1) I don't exactly see why that would work? People loved his character even after he let 320 innocent people die. Maybe he didn't know they would die (but he did know about the lack of oxygen) but that doesn't excuse his actions. He was right in the head when he did that and only did it to save himself. I'm not sure why the same people would hate him for something he did when he was suffering from an actual mental illness (PTSD) and was incapable of making rational, safe choices when they couldn't even bring themselves to hate him for something he did intentionally and for selfish purposes.

2) It kind of bothers me when people look to Clexa to blame for the lack of good writing. The problem isn't with any ships in this case. The problem lies simply with the fact that the writers are trying to cram too many plotlines into one season: Grounder Civil War, Sky People Civil War, CoL, and background information on how the Clans came to be. Not to mention that since they are trying to cram everything into one season, every plotlines is rushed. Prior to S3, a small part of me truly doubted that they would be able to fit everything in this season and still have it make sense. I only pushed that feeling aside because I had tons of faith in the writers (and still do) because of their excellence with S2. This episode just exposed the problem I was hoping S3 could avoid.