So that was a great 5 seasons of the 100
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So that was a great 5 seasons of the 100
"His head is in the wrong, but I don't think his heart is." So he has to listen to his heart, which will be what leads him back. I love that
just saying.
⨠Normalize ending a show where the natural narrative ends and not dragging it out until the characters are unrecognizable and your theme collapses on itself â¨
s1-4 clarke had such a loving adoration for bellamy. once she was aware that all his selfish actions committed thus far on the ground were entirely driven by the love and worry he had for his sister, she gave him the benefit of the doubt every single time anyone would blame him for something, every single time heâd blame himself. she gave praise where it was due two weeks after knowing him, something the closest people heâd known his entire life had never thought to once do.
she never lost faith in him and she was right. she held trained officials to a standard she believed only he met. she was grateful for the brief moment where he offered to share the burden of genocide with her, an action that gave her strength for years to come whenever it came to making hard decisions.
he took part in the mass murder of the grounder army and every single character, whether they were affected by it or not, held that against him. except clarke. someone who might have understandably been upset after getting to personally know these people and their beliefs. but she still took the time to check in with him after he was confronted with the deed, even though they were fighting. she never allowed him to blame himself for lincoln and instead moved the focus to him eventually needing to forgive himself, because it was the healthy thing to do, and unfair for him to bear.Â
she never gave up on him, even when he gave up on himself, even when she gave up on herself. she didnât know if she was a good person, but she had the utmost belief that he was. she didnât think she deserved to live, but she knew in her bones that bellamy had to. she wasnât sure of anything at one point in her life, but whatever the case was, she was sure of bellamy. the only times she ever put his life in danger was when it was for the greater good but even then, even then, she still chose him.
the way clarke loved bellamy was special. it was loud and fierce, yet subtle and soft at the same time. maybe she never fully gave in to what they couldâve had because of fear, or the feeling of it being unearned, but god would she fight every single person who said he wasnât worthy of love and life.
she constantly made mistakes in her loving him, but she did everything she could to make up for it. she knew their relationship was forged from forgiveness, and she desperately wanted that from him, but she never believed she deserved it. he gave it to her anyway.
the love she had for him was powerful. it moved her to become a better person. it sustained her during her years of isolation and kept her sane.
she loved him so gently. so cautiously. so deliberately. so for that love to culminate in a fatal gunshot directed by her, after everything she had proved herself to be for him? itâs unthinkable. itâs empty. and itâs something the clarke we once knew would rather die than ever think of doing.
This is so beautifully said.Â
I need to add something about seasons 5 and 6 Clarke, too:
Season 5 Clarke did have Madi as someone else she loved fiercely as a parent can love a child, but she also loved Bellamy, with the same adoration (we even saw their reunion from her POV as a dreamlike scene where he came to save her, emerging out of the darkness, bathed in light), now made even more explicitly romantic (including shots of her looking heartbroken when seeing him kiss his girlfriend). She thought she couldnât have him that way, so she sucked it up and tried not to reveal her feelings - such as the fact she called him every day for 6 years without answer and talked to him, to keep herself sane. She was so vulnerable and would run away whenever the topic came up even close to being discussed. (Later in 6x01 we saw her vulnerable and embarrassed again when he told her he knew about the radio calls.)Â
Now, season 5 Clarke is controversial, because she did lose her trust and faith in Bellamy at one point, culminating in the slap and leaving him in Polis at the mercy of his sister, which was clearly driven not just by her love for Madi, but in large by hurt and a sense of betrayal (though she also, objectively, didnât really have a way to save him at that moment, without doing anything that would further endanger her daughter). I see this being brought up by some to justify the 7x13 turn as âwell, there was a precedentâ.
Which doesnât make sense, for multiple reasons:
The season 5 Clarke had just come off from 6 years of isolation where she only shared her life with Madi, she clearly had a hard time fully reconnecting to the others from her life and. when faced with the (mistaken) idea that Bellamy did not care that much about her anymore and would put her daughter in danger for his new priorities - she wasnât able to think about this straight and fully process it; and when she left Bellamy in Polis, it was a part of what was portrayed as her lowest moment. She went numb, considered herself ânot a heroâ, and was ready to betray all her other friends, believing she had already caused Bellamyâs death by her actions to save Madi. But everything changed when she learned he was alive, and it was her love for him that helped get her back to herself. She realized she couldnât and shouldnât make the mistake of betraying someone she loves and leaving them to die. She realized love was not a weakness, remembered that âLife should be more than just survivalâ, came back to herself, and did her best to save Bellamy and all her friends and everyone she could. In the season 5 finale, Clarke was once again ready to risk everything to not let Bellamy die - contrary to the season 1 finale, where she left Finn and Bellamy outside the dropship because she had to, this time she was standing outside the dropship door and waiting to the last second, as the missiles are about to hit the Earth, for Bellamy to come inside, while he was waiting for Murphy, Emori and Monty - and it ended with everyone being saved, and the beautiful and hopeful last scene of season 5, with Clarke and Bellamy in an embrace, looking into the future, after hearing Montyâs message to âdo betterâ. âbe good guysâ and âI hope your lives there are as happy as mine has beenâ. (Which could have served as the series finale, as there was a possibility of the show getting cancelled.)
And then, Clarkeâs whole season 6 arc was driven by her guilt and regret of betraying her friends - but most of all, of betraying Bellamy. She wrote that leaving him in Polis was her biggest regret. In the amazing episode in her mindspace, which saw Clarke go through her biggest regrets, we saw her confront herself through a hallucination of Octavia, blaming herself for leaving him - even though Bellamy was still alive and doing well, that moment of betrayal was, for her, as big or a bigger regret than all the killings sheâs had to do. Before that, she told him âYouâre my family too. I lost sight of thatâ and promised it would never happen again. She gave up on herself momentarily when she thought he had given up on her, and it was his voice that literally brought her back from the dead, giving her the strength to fight. He was the one in his arms she sought comfort from after the death of her mother (later we saw in 7x01 that she couldnât look for comfort from anyone else) and the one she looked to to tell her that they did do better and that it was all worth it.
And in season 7, they had Clarke say âIâm not losing anyone elseâ and hop without a second thought into the Anomaly to look for her friends - specifically, Bellamy, Octavia and Echo. (Who was supposed to love so much? Echo? Octavia is important to her, but are we think they were more important than Bellamy?)
Only to follow it with - this? Bellamy has only been back with them for 2 days. They know he spent a few months in all sorts of hardships on Etherea, saw visions, was indoctrinated, certainly had some sort of a life-changing experience. Even Raven, who tends to be quick to judge, has realized that something happened to him. And she didnât really do anything that terrible, except tell a secret that would have eventually come out anyway (and Clarke would have died to save the others if it hadnât). Yes, he let her be put in MCap and kept talking about his loyalty to Cadogan, but he was clearly torn. The Clarke we knew would have tried to get through to him. She wouldnât just give up on him so easily. She always knew how to get to him with her words. And if she had to, sheâd shoot the others in the room and maybe shoot the notebook or his hand.Â
This was not in-character writing, this didnât make any sense. It was not the Clarke we know. This was a âlast minute adjustmentâ driven by a showrunnerâs spite and ego. Both characters were ruined and disrespected, the central relationship of the show, most of the showâs run, and its themes, flushed down the toilet. And for what?
Donât accept this. Donât start hating Clarke Griffin or negating and doubting everything we had seen on the show, her love for Bellamy, her compassion, their unique connection. It is still there, on screen, in all the episodes and seasons of the show, in spite of this ridiculous, senseless OOC . 10 second scene that was added at the last minute because a showrunnerâs pettiness is bigger than his desire to tell a coherent story and be faithful to his own work and not irreparably damage the showâs legacy.
#she really said âhoney what the FUCK are you wearingâ
HIS SHRUG!
theyâre so married idc idc
old enough to remember when smut was called âlemonsâ but young enough that i had absolutely no business knowing that smut was called âlemonsâ at the timeÂ
im trying to visualize how weâll get bellamy reverse-brainwashed, break up b*cho, and get bellarke together in 5 episodes
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The 100 7.10Â âA Little Sacrificeâ + Hugs
#the two most important ladies in Bellamyâs life grieving him together
in case it wasnât clear, they want us to keep up
*this* is the Captain America we need to be hearing from right now, not âfascism made edgy for plot-twistsâ
THE REAL STEVE ROGERS
People keep confusing nationalism for patriotism and Captain America is not having it.
Making speeches on the ground with guns pointed at him