Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7971816-20160304031551/@comment-26500342-20160304164620

FloaterJ wrote: Everyone pitching a fit over "Lexa the Lez" being killed off, you're wrong. The actress has a commitment to another show, and that is the main part of why the character was killed off.

They did NOT "kill the lesbian" as you claim. They killed off a well-liked main character. It happens. In writing, it builds up some tension by showing nobody is immune to mortality just because you like the character. It has much more impact when a character you've had time to get to know, for good or bad, dies. Those random side characters dying just don't call up any real feelings for the viewers.

Is that really how you saw Lexa? She was just "a lesbian", and nothing more? Do you reduce Clarke to being "the blonde chick"? Is Monty nothing more than "the oriental kid" to you? I think that's sad. I view the characters as people, as much as the writers develop them. To me, Lexa was a person, "Heda kom Trikru" with all the priveleges and burdens that come with the title. And yes, a lesbian. But not merely a lesbian, as it seems many of you see the character as. A person is a lot more than the arbitrary labels you insist on forcing upon them. Her romantic choices are a part of her, and should not be the sole thing used to define her.

That said, it was a rather inglorious death for her. But then, only fools seek glory in death. Thank you!

I don't think that Lexa dying was cheap (and I'm sure it's going to pay-off in a good way for the rest of the show); however, I do believe the way they killed her was kind of cheap (although there were already theories after the promo that Titus would accidentally shoot her). I think what is frustrating to many people, aside from their favourite character dying, is that she was accidentally shot. Unlike Finn, where his actions brought his death, Lexa had done nothing but quite literally been in the wrong place at the wrong time. She didn't even go out in battle (I would argue that she still was heroic in her own way in this episode).

But I do think people are reading too much into Lexa's death because she is LGBT. I doubt that was the intention. I'm definitely not JR's biggest fan, but this wasn't a decision I disagree with. Saying that Lexa is somehow superior to other characters and can't die because she is bisexual is the same thing as saying that Raven can't die because she's straight. Both characters are being defined by their sexuality in those cases. Isn't that the exact thing that the LGBT community is sick of?