Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-35085252-20180503205232/@comment-29289194-20180507213812

77.154.204.64 wrote: Kates39 wrote: GarnMcGaughn wrote: Never said bad blood but as stated above I personally see them more as best friends rather than anything more. But this season anything could happen, especially with Maddi’s influence on Clarke. One thing I love about this show is nothing is certain, in a way like GoT for the most part most are expendable. We would probably have riots for sure but it’s also part of the draw of the show.

Bad blood means ill-feeling / animosity. And yeah, it's okay if you think they should only friends, but there's nothing holding them back in terms of any previous events. Bellamy forgave Echo and she's done things even worse than Clarke. There's nothing for Bellamy and Clarke to forgive. They are fine.

But the show's heading one obvious way, and it's Bellarke. I have watched a lot of TV and worked in TV, and I can tell what writers are thinking from a mile off! Seriously, whatever I think will happen on any TV show, happens. And that includes couples who people have thought to be impossible / only friends.

And many writers (the smart ones who know how to write, including Jason of The 100. Best showrunner I know in TV right now) know the value of keeping the original / core characters alive. There's kind of a rule in TV that they have to know their limit if they want to keep people invested. You need to have characters who are off-limits. Think about it, and you will recognise it's there in every show.

For me, it's obvious that they're endgame. Too many signs, too many ambiguous moments (Day Trip, We will rise, Human Trials, Praimfaya ...) and Jason's using well-known tropes (the guy being confused when he's teaching the girl how to use a gun, the whole soulmates thing, head and heart ...). Or JRoth loves baiting the viewers.

The past seasons, JRoth showed that he was a great showrunner but the Becho scene, all Bellarke feels aside, was so OOC for Bellamy. Him taking 3 years to forgive Echo and loving her is totally in-character, Echo feels too insecure about their relationship so I guess it's kinda new, but he would never joke about the time where Echo almost killed his sister twice like he did there. The more I see this scene, the more I think it's poor-writing. It's really annoying because the premiere was flawless but this scene felt so awkward and it was a insult to the amazing character and overprotective brother that is Bellamy Blake.

And thank you, you just gave me more hope for Bellarke.

No problem! And I agree the joke about Octavia was a bit OOC, but then again it's six years since it happened. In that time, he's been trapped on a spaceship with only five other people and has created a bond (unfortunately!) with Echo. And he cares for her well-being and wants her to feel okay with finding Octavia and telling her they are together now. He's had time to deal with that anger of what happened, forgive and people tend to make jokes about those events that happened a long time ago. It no longer affects them in the same way, and it's even better when they know things (Echo) have changed.

I remember being very shocked by the leap of time they took. I thought I would be three years tops. But I don't think the joke was completely OOC. It's kind of what people do. He's not actually laughing about what Echo did. He's kind of laughing it off because it was a long time ago, and they have learned to let it go.