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@bellarcat
Rewatching The 100 and it honestly just makes me sad thinking about the ending.
Through out the entire show, the only goal was the preservation of humanity. Humanity was the point of the entire story & the ending just throws that away. It’s so cheap.
Want some bestiary?
(Yeah, it’s been a long time, I know, I know…)
These have such The Southern Reach trilogy/Annihilation vibes
Casey Gardner and Izzie Taylor
ATYPICAL: season 4
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i would die for this little boy
I felt this in my bones.
I never came back for the loo finale but I read it all and I'm confused. How bad did this show get? It looks like it got seriously convoluted. Aliens?
Convoluted. I love that word.
Well, I don't know where you left off, but as you might have suspected, they couldn’t keep the story straight from year to year or do much in the way of any actual thinking over what they were writing. Each season felt like it was composed under the influence of bad weed and sour pickles.
For example: in one season they decided that a spacecraft exists to carry our crew to the nearest local star, presumably Proxima Centauri, which, by current science and technology, would take about 70,000 years to reach. This spacecraft, built in our time period, and in spite of a busted engine with only Monty, who has no experience as a pilot or engineer, to program the course (which should probably have taken him years), managed to avoid any stellar phenomena, and arrived at their destination in just under 130 years.
But here’s the fun part. When they arrive at their new planet moon, it is not only inhabited by people who arrived only 250 years before (meaning they left Earth before ALIE), it is home to an “anomaly stone” that just happens to be a series of connected wormholes to various planets, one of which is on Earth. Which has its own stone. In the bunker. Where Octavia and Wonkru were hanging out for six years. And no one saw it. Because it was H I D D E N.
If only they'd found it before, that interplanetary trip would have taken like, five seconds.
But I’m willing to bet JR didn’t have the idea for the anomaly stone/wormhole in season 5, just like he didn’t have the idea for the Grounder language to end up just being made-up nonsense by a small child in season 1 (this was revealed in the "backdoor pilot" Anaconda in the last season). Just like he didn’t have the idea for the “Flame” and “night blood” in season 2. Just like he didn’t have extraterrestrial intelligence anywhere on the map in seasons 1 - 6. He was like a kid writing his own comic book without any sense of direction or consistent character development. His final act was to simply throw it all up in the air, with Superior Beings showing up out of nowhere to decide humanity's fate. Raven wound up winning them over so Everyone went Boom! Out! and "transcended" into a Higher Form of Life that looked a lot like Glowy Groot (except for Clarke and about a dozen other people who never liked her much anyway but decided to stay behind to keep her company. For some reason) and The End.
Somehow, they got Alycia Debnam-Carey to appear in Lexa's costume, but playing one of the Superior Judges just so we could know that Lexa was Clarke's One True Love (tm) and then ponder why they couldn't just have her play Lexa, who, having decided not to transcend with the others, stayed behind for Clarke. The only character for whom this act would have made any kind of sense.
Oh, but they shot and destroyed the Flame (again) two episodes before the finale, so Lexa, reduced to a four-season long plot device as a living character inside the chip, was simply brushed out of existence without a peep. Clarke never even asked The Judge if she survived to transcend with the others. Because when someone is the Love of Your Life (tm), you don't bother to consider things like that.
But Emori, who did die, was allowed to live on in Murphy's mind drive (another form of the Flame) and later, got a new body when she decided not to transcend but stay behind on Earth. With Clarke.
So the straight Grounder/Arker couple got to live happily ever after.
I believe Jason Rothenberg has about as much talent as a writer as anyone currently composing fan fiction, whether 14 or 40. I also believe he is an unluckier version of JJ Abrams, who, without the benefit of coherent plans for any of his projects, manages to get lots of money to make them anyway.
Sorry if this didn't clear up any confusion. I might not be the best person to ask an opinion of, re: this damn show.
If we disregard Bellarke for a moment, lets say Jason ONLY wanted to destroy them, then what the hell was up with the rest of the story?
What was the point of Jordan? What did Jordan do? What did he chage? The only thing he did in S7 was know enough Korean to understand the last war was just the last test. That was the point of his ENTIRE place in the show? What was his character devolepment?
What was the point of Niylah? What did she do? How did her part in the story change anything? What was her character development? Jackson, Miller? They didn’t have a storyline at all. They were just there.
Echo had this whole identity storyline that ended up… nowhere. So the very relationship that kept her back, didn’t even have closure. He just died. And so did her storyline. Suddenly she just disappeared. Did Echo end up finding a purpose? Did she choose her own path? What does an identity do, when you are not allowed to actually live? Echo, like the rest of them, will live until she’s old and then die without finding more for herself. How is her being trapped on a beach living life? She’s just doing what she’s always done, following others.
What was the point of Madi? She grew up hiding. All she wanted was to grow up and be happy. Be a kid. Have a life. Yet she had nothing to do the entire season and then just died. There was no hope, no future, no own life??
Hope. What was the point of Hope? To give Octavia someone other than Bellamy to love? Just like they gave Clarke Madi. So that the women in Bellamy’s life would always love someone else more than him. What did Hope do that changed anything? How did Diyoza’s future vision of having a school, a place for kids to play and grow up etc mean nothing? Not even Hope got to grow up and make that a reality? She’ll live some years in the woods and then die, childless, family-less, future-less. There’s no reason to build anything for the future.
What was the actual point of Hope and Jordan? You want them to represent doing better? Well then, shouldn’t the kid of Marper and the kid of terrorists actually make the world better? Have their own kids to build the world? Didn’t Diyoza literally ask her to be better than her? Where did that storyline go?
What was the point of depriving a future and kids for Memori? They both grew and became mature adults doing better for others. You are telling me Emori, someone who was cast out as a baby was never allowed to have her own and break the cycle? Murphy, who started as a selfish, unloved kid never got to grow up to be a dad and follow his own father’s path of loving his kid and making sure they didn’t feel cast out and unloved like Memori had?
Raven. Raven who wanted love. Above all else. She wanted love and to be chosen first. Family is love too. But for Raven, a romantic relationship, HER PERSON was always a big part of what she wanted. She tried to find that yet they all kept dying on her. Now, she’s got a family sure but what about her personal individual desires? And she doesn’t even get a future where she can do what she loves. No tech. No evolving or building the world up. No work accomplishments that will survive 97 years worth of weather?
What was the point of giving Hope to Octavia when she time and time again kept leaving Hope behind? We had an entire episode watching Octavia trying to find ways to get back to Bellamy because Hope and Diyoza weren’t enough for her. We saw how when she was reunited with Hope, she still went back to Sanctum, leaving Hope behind. We then saw Octavia have a rushed love story with a random dude who kept poping up whenever. By the end of the show, all Octavia could talk about was how important Hope was, yet they didn’t even share scenes? In name she was important, just so they could force Octavia to understand Clarke murdering Bellamy but on screen, they barely spent time together? Again she left Hope behind on earth to go back to Bardo to fight a war with Clarke. Was she even around Hope at all in 7x16? The last scene on the beach had Octavia sitting with Levitt as her endgame, meanwhile we still didn’t get to see anything with Hope, because Hope is an adult who stuck with Jordan. But she had to forgive Bellamy’s murderer because “she understands”?
What was the point of Gabriel in season 7? Seriously, what was the point? Other than watching him walk around in white and eating all the time. What did he change? What was his purpose following them to earth? Did he use his 200+ years of knowledge to change anything/understand anything? Why did Gabriel die for Madi? Had Gabriel even met Madi? Other than Hope, Echo and maybe Octavia, the rest of them didn’t even have a relationship with him? Yet Echo wasn’t even there when he died?
Gaia??? Who went missing ¾ of the season. Who had barely a reaction to Madi’s death. Was kept around just in case Clarke needed an endgame on that beach, lol. Because that’s what Gaia was worth, a standby for a white woman.
And let me just get to Bellarke. Fine, they got the ending they got. Did someone bury Bellamy? Where is his body? Did anyone go back for him? When Clarke walked around looking for people in 7x16, did she just step over his cold dead body still on that floor? Did Clarke not care where his resting place was? How did Clarke have a happy ending with spacekru? How could she stand there laughing and smiling with them when she murdered Bellamy, didn’t even regret it at all and then lost her kid too? Is Clarke so ungrateful and so disgusting, that’s what she apparently wanted for her ending?
Seriously, what was the reason? They just dropped character developments. They didn’t finish storylines. They didn’t even finish plot story!
The real question should be: what was the point of season 7 at all?
Yes, yes, yes to all of this.
Pointless story arcs that went nowhere. (Echo, in particular, who killed dozens of people in her obsessive quest to find Bellamy and nearly committed genocide in his memory… but then was just chill when he was murdered by Clarke? Who - big revelation - started out with a different name, but that turned out to be a big so what. All of it, the whole story arc, connected to nothing and no one.)
Such enormous shifts in mood and theme that everything in the prior 6-season narrative was totally reversed.
And the characters! After everything they’d all been through, absolutely none of them were rewarded with a meaningful life. Everything they’d done made no difference at all. Not to themselves, their loved ones, or humanity.
I wasn’t looking for a happy ending, but I was looking for one that had a point beyond… don’t bother because nothing you do will ever matter.
All stories need a point, otherwise why write them at all? I’ve never seen a writer so throughly sabotage his own story.
We know that, for JRoth, season 7 was just about promoting the prequel. CW gave him season 7 but he clearly didn’t care about anything except the prequel. (He could have just ended the show with season 6 and written an actual damn pilot.)
But at some point; it also became about his grudges, ego and spite. And he outplayed himself. When season 7, in its final version after who knows how many rewrites, made sure the whole show became pointless, it made the prequel pointless, too - and good luck finding the audience for it now.
Bellamy Blake Appreciation Week 2020
Day 5 (June 15th) - Underrated Moment : 2X08 Spacewalker
This scene is sooo underrated : in a few moments it becomes clear that Bellamy has already considered the problem of the Arkadians turning on Finn, that he has a plan for them to meet at the Drop-Ship and that he has already seen with Raven to deactivate the fence. He’s willing to defend Finn-one of The 100- without thinking, and he does. Clarke realizes he’s right. And she trusts him without further thought.
“How it had come to this point, he barely knew, even though he had been there every step of the way.”
— Jeff Vandermeer, Authority
Bellarke AU
If other universes exist I hope we’re happy somewhere. That there are universes where history doesn’t pull us apart and we become a tragic story full of sorrow and regret, ones where we don’t become our own undoing that only history would remember us for. I know in this story we could never belong to each other, but if there is another universe, another story, another us I hope we can love each other until our dying day.
— history became cruel to star-crossed lovers, they could never end up happy | our violent ends. //t.c