Talk:Clarke and Bellamy/@comment-137.164.229.164-20160114175629/@comment-26247132-20160114184944

I'd rather Bellarke remain indefinitely platonic because I am not interested in half the show being consumed by a relationship plot between the two leads. Besides, it's always so stereotypical for the male/female leads to end up together and I prefer there to be less disney-fied endings in the TV shows I watch. That being said, it won't really bother me too badly if they do end up together in the end. At least it makes sense from a non-romantic, functional, arranged-marriage perspective. Give the Bellarke shippers their dessert.

With fanservice, there's a fine line between catering to fans and losing sight of your original vision or ignoring/berating your fans because you hubristically think you know better. It reminds me of the HIMYM series finale. The writers stubbornly stuck to their original ending even though the story had changed. It would have done them some good to listen to the fans who, by that point, obviously knew the show and the characters better than the writers did. Not saying that The 100 writers are doing either of those. I actually think they've done a fantastic job so far of walking that fine line and it's one of the BIGGEST reasons why I love this show so much.