Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.161.128.14-20170519174115/@comment-13022928-20171231011931

Thewritersdiary wrote: JCB95 wrote:

Thewritersdiary wrote: Sometimes I come back on to look at the wiki just to see whats going on since i left it almost two years ago and it never fails to give me a good kick when I see how completely incompetent y'all still are when it comes to the EXTREMELY simple concept "ship and let ship". You'd think on a community of ten (fifteen tops) self-proclaimed "drama-free" fans you'd be able to reel in some of the judgement and ridicule directed towards fans simply for their preferences but instead this community has become even more poisonous and unbearable to spend time in than Tumblr. There's a reason it's basically dead and so many of the old members of the wikia have left (including some I still talk to on other platforms).

It's a TV show. Some people ship. Some people don't. Everyone watches for their own enjoyment.

Clexa. Bellarke. Braven. Something else. Nothing.

Honestly, who even cares?

It's not that deep, my friends. I agree the amount of shipping the fan base dose is ridiculous. Even shipping characters that shouldn't be together. It's like they see 2 characters have a heart to heart to learn something and it's like they just had a moment so they have to get together. The ship for Raven and Luna is a great example of this or the ship for Bellamy and Echo. Or the fact that fans think Miller and Jackson should get together just because Jason said the look they shared was more than just a a look. I appreciate the sentiment but this wasn't really what I was getting at. I was more saying that people should just let people ship what they want to ship without feeling the need to make them feel bad about it. Like I don't personally ship Becho but I don't care if someone else does, and I don't feel the need to put them down for it either. I mean, it's not like someone shipping two characters actually hurts anyone else. I just don't know why people always feel the need to make a comment to put down other shippers for no other reason than to feed their own superiority complex. I wish that the fandom could finally figure out that people watch The 100 (and other shows) for their own reasons and their own enjoyment and it shouldn't really make a difference to other fans. Spread positivity, not hate. My only problem with fans shipping characters is that this shows creators in particular seem to listen to fans too much. It's ok for creators to listen to fans, but at times it seems that they have a really harder grip on the show than the creators do. Like the ridiculous blowback the show got after Alexa's death. Now it feels like the creators are too scared to kill off LGBT characters like Bryan and Niylah who should be dead in my opinion. I also blame fans for way a lot of the main cast is still alive now going into season 5. For example Raven. I also say fans make minor characters like Jackson bigger than they should be.