Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28398720-20160530203022/@comment-11565898-20161123183252

89.25.53.87 wrote: Bellamy never had any character progresion that was ruined  in S3. He almost got it but that line died when he pulled the level with Clarke in the end of S2... I have to respectfully disagree with you.

Early season one Bellamy only cared for himself and Octavia. Then he began allowing himself to care for others and sought to make his leadership role mean something.

In Season 2, he was on his own for a bit and showed off his marvelous leadership qualities. Then Clarke came back and he stopped arguing with her, allowing her to make all the decisions for him and without him. That's why it hurt him so much when she left because now he was forced to deal with the repercussions of what she had decided on his own.

In Season 3, I feel like he made some progress in deciding what kind of person he actually wanted to be. He was right when he said that Clarke, Octavia, and Kane had turned him into someone he didn't want to be because they did. They made all his decisons for him(sometimes not on purpose) and told him it was the right thing without his input. So instead of learning from his mistakes on The Ark and his first days on the Ground, he just did as he was told. Bellamy was never meant to be a follower like he was in Season 2. Bellamy was supposed to be a rebel king in the sense that he fought for those that were not represented, but because he was always following orders, he stopped fighting. In that truly awful storyline, Bellamy realized who HE wanted to be instead of who THEY wanted him to be.

If that isn't character progression, I don't know what is.