Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-184.147.8.162-20160313232622/@comment-16845200-20160317011102

i think most everything you said is spot-on; he used the clexa/lexa fans - largely comprised of lgbt* viewers - for ratings and tossed them aside like a wet rag doll after he was finished. because, you know. commercialism or ssomething like that...

"He only decided to do the reincarnation line AFTER he decided to kill her."

...though this is literally the 1 thing in the universe you can't drag him for (but then again, i could be wrong): because the reincarnation thing was mentioned in 2x10 (clarke and lexa hiding from the pauna i think?) he wanted to build off on that...not in a totally spiritual "my soul will pass onto yours" kind of way but a more sci-fi-y way, which is ALIE 2.0. but to do that, apparently, lexa had to die for ~technological reincarnation~.

and THAT is the ridiculous part. let me offer an alternate scenario: you want drama, you had to shoot lexa.

okay, you freaking shoot lexa.

here's a concept: you shoot her and you don't kill her. where the heck did all of clarke's medical knowledge go flying off to during those moments? don't tell me she was stressed; she has stayed on her toes in plenty of other ridiculously stressful situations. don't tell me she didn't have supplies: it's polis. there's got to be healers around there somewhere. and was lexa the only person who heard gunshots and came running into the room? WTF??!?!?!?! where are the guards at???? they clearly get paid too much to do their jobs. AND THEN, you want to violate lexa's already prone body by cutting her open and extracting an ai from her? titus already believed she was dead. have him remove the ai from lexa preemptively and go do his thing. he obviously had no faith in her survival left anyway. then go and let clarke do her thing: heal. that offers not only a character moment for clarke (paralleling all the death and destruction that's been wreaked by her hands...when is the last time we've seen clarke heal, the profession she would've followed in the ark? that's just so, so ironically sad) but also a chance at a really interesting plotline (or at least what i think is interesting, lmao): what happens when a commander just...loses the thing that technically "made" them commander but still lives, and alie 2.0 gets transferred to another nightblood? that way you keep lexa alive and offscreen elsewhere to recuperate, and hey. more drama. more ratings. because isn't that what you're going for? =_= everyone will be wondering what the heck was her final fate.

here's another concept: you gotta kill her, kill her in a non-tropeish manner. killing lexa with a stray bullet is like having wells die at the hands of a white supremacist lynching group or charlotte dying when some shady-ass man drives up in a car, offers her ice cream, and then kidnap her before driving away. in short: disgusting, disrespectful, and so horribly cliche. there are SO MANY ways lexa could've been written off without being accidentally shot. not only did this death rob her of any say she had in her death (which is just ridiculously sad) but it just...doesn't feel true to her. what i heard the reason that they were trying to go for in shooting her was that she ~died for clarke~ (and even this is like??? okay, she walked in because she heard gunshots, but she?? didn't?? die for?? clarke?? why are you even arguing this??) whereas in every other instance she did everything for her people. dramatic irony, right? but that kind of failed horribly. lexa died for NOTHING. say what you want about her "blood must not have blood" ideology in the last couple of days but if she had to die...why not have her die actively defending that? give the lady some autonomy and consistency, for chrissake! lexa deserved to go out with a different kind of bang. heck, finn got a better death than lexa and he was a guy who thoughtlessly mowed down a bunch of grounders in a fit a rage. personally, i find this just...no. no. no. NO.

here's a concept: you gotta kill her in a tropeish and very, very toxic way, shoot her somewhere that's not in her freaking chest cavity so it's at least scientifically accurate when she dies in 2 minutes flat!!!! it takes at least an hour to bleed out from where lexa was shot. and the show has never been scientifically accurate (like seriously...did the ark just not follow newton's laws of physics...also the entire mount weather blood-bone-marrow debacle...), so maybe i can't fault them for this, but it still rankles at me.

....this was supposed to literally be a 2-line reply but clearly i got carried away fml 9_9 in short, her death scene was RIDDLED with scientific, character, and plot holes and it was LAZY WRITING. oh god, i can't say that enough.