Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13022928-20180109024620/@comment-63.142.136.226-20181028185306

I would like to kick in a thought here --- a bit late, I know...but I just started watching The 100 about 6 months ago on Netflix --- I just finished season 5 two days ago. This show is both the greatest show I've ever seen and the worst. I really hate how the writers toy with the characters and the directions they often go. I think it was real apparant to me because I binged watched it and I think that allows you to see the issues better and quicker. I totally get why the LGBT folks hated what was done to Lexa. I'm not sure they had a choice as the actress seemed pretty set on taking the role on Fear the Walking Dead and prob couldn't have pulled off both shows - or maybe didn't want to. How they led up to her death and how they handled it --- they absolutely have sole responsibility for that...and rightfully so. I am a straight woman and I'm not a fan of PDA from straight or gay couples - most the time it seems unnecessary. But with that being said --- the relationship between Lexa and Clarke was probably the best handled and built relationship I have ever seen. When you watch a show - especially if you are straight - you always in your head know you are watching a gay or straight couple --- but for the first time EVER for me - with the Lexa/Clarke relationship - I just saw two people in love coming together. That was freakin' amazing --- I'm pretty liberal and believe strongly in equality...but to lose yourself in a relationship when you're not particular fond of seeing such scenes gay or straight --- I was blown away. I was actually saying to the TV --- "Kiss her already!"....this is a huge credit to the two actresses playing these roles, especially Alycia Debnam-Carey. I was gutted and felt betrayed as a viewer when the Lexa character was killed off so abruptly and so casually without a meaningful death. But these writers seem to have a way of taking characters and paths that do not make sense. I think the Luna character could have been soooooo much more - she had the heart of a peacemaker - she was kindof like the person of peace that Lexa was trying to be. For the main characters to use her like a pin-cushing and then for her character to do such a 180 and want to kill everyone --- that was just too far-fetched. Such a waste of a great and complex character...Luna should have been so much more.

So many of the characters develop in great ways just to have them fall from grace with stupid immoral decisions: examples... (1) Bellamy following Pike and killing the innocent 300 grounders just trying to protect them; (2) Lexa was far too willing to forgive such a horrific thing -- her relationship with Clarke was important --- but so much so she could allow the murder of 300 of her own people to go without justice? I'd say no. (3) Abby going total drug addict;  (4) Kane betraying his people to McCleary; (5) Bellamy and Clarke betraying Octavia; (6) Clarke betraying Bellamy - and pretty much everyone several times over in season 5; (7) Octavia betraying her people by gas-lighting their entire food source; (8) Ultimately - the writers of this show betraying their viewers and the characters they developed. Season 5 should have simply been called - "The Apocalypse of Truth --- The Art of Betrayal" ...the only characters that stayed true to themselves was Madi, Echo, Monty, Harper and Raven. All that two-faced business with Clarke, Bellamy, Kane and Abby --- just made me sick.

These writers need to allow their characters to step towards enlightenment without such huge, unbelievable backslides into darkness...They need to quit wasting incredible characters as well.

Sorry --- went off-topic from the Lexa/Clarke thing -- kindof but my point: this was probably the best LGBT relationship ever developed for a fictional show. I agree it wasn't handled well in the end and I'm more surprised everyone wasn't up in arms -- not just the LGBT community. The writers blew it and everyone knows it -- even them at this point. This makes me want to create my own show and make better decisions.