Hey, this question honestly isn't supposed to be as inflammatory as it sounds but I've always wondered in terms of Lexa how do you think the show could have handled the situation? Because Alycia was leaving the show and as she was Clarkes soulmate in the eye's of the runners how could they have realistically explained her absences/leaving? Again this isn't supposed to be combative I just could never see a way around it personally and wondered what you thought
lexaâs death was homophobic for multiple reasons: the queerbaiting, the fact that her storyline was an analogy for internalized homophobia, the fact that she was killed because she loved clarke, and the fact that her body was turned into a plot device. jrot blamed alycia and ft/wd but i donât believe it, because he said that lexaâs death was necessary to advance the plot, and he didnât regret killing her. he never cared about lexa, his first mistake was not making alycia a series regular in s2
if they truly wanted lexa alive, they already had an explanation for her absence after 3x07: clarke was going back to her people. after that, alycia could stay as a guest star, appearing in 7-9 episodes per season, like s2 and s3. it worked perfectly
if lexa absolutely HAD to die, the first thing is that they shouldnât have used us for ratings and lied to us, they made us feel safe and took it away. and she shouldâve died heroically, fighting for something she loves and believes in (peace, her home, the nightbloodsâŠ), not hit by a stray bullet meant for her girlfriend. lexaâs most important development was overcoming her internalized homophobia and letting herself love and be loved⊠her death shouldnât have been connected to clarke. her neck being cut open and the chip taken out made the situation worse, because lexa had just died, and we were confused and traumatized, but the writers wanted us to be excited about the plot. it was disrespectful, they saw lexa not as a human, but as a vessel for the commanderâs spirit. they killed her, used her dead body for ratings, and discarded her
as eliza said, 3x07 shouldâve been like 3 episodes, because too much happened and going suddenly from happiness at watching our ship happen, to shock at watching lexa die, was extremely distressing. also, her legacy should live on. one of the most upsetting results of lexaâs death was that everything she worked hard to accomplish was destroyed⊠the kids she raised to be good and compassionate were killed, evil murderers sat at her throne, thousands of people died in a pointless war, her home was burned to the ground. ultimately, nothing that lexa did and sacrificed so much for, her own humanity included, mattered. if lexa died, but her impact remained, and the world was a better place because of her influence⊠if the nightbloods survived (like, what was the point of introducing them and hinting at aden becoming the next commander?), and polis thrived⊠she wouldnât have died in vain
theyâre writers, being creative is their JOB. not killing lexa would be easy, killing her and dealing with it appropriately would be easy, they just didnât care. lexaâs death and the queerbaiting surrounding it were cruel, inconsiderate and bad writing, driven by shock value
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