A Positive Resolution to The 100
This is an open letter to everyone involved in the creation of the final season of @cwthe100, as well as anyone with past and present ties to the series willing to help us overcome the imbalance of power.
Whoever worded the above tweet must be aware of the continued negativity surrounding your show; a show that was tipped to become a genre cult hit by the same publication roughly four years ago.
Let’s start at the beginning. We are a Lexa and Clexa fan collective, perhaps controversially and most definitely unofficially speaking on behalf of the greater Clexa fandom. Call this a proposal, an appeal, or a petition. As you’re in the process of wrapping up your story, we ask you to rise above ego and privilege to acknowledge your responsibility as creators by granting Lexa, Clexa, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Eliza Taylor, their fans, the rest of your cast and crew, the LGBTQ+ community, and ultimately yourselves a positive resolution to the Lexa mess.
If you don’t know about the Bury Your Gays trope, please educate yourselves, google it. Much was written about it, the majority of it in 2016, probably using Lexa’s image. Lexa’s death perpetuated this inherently homophobic trope, and you have the rare opportunity to make amends and stand against its future use. You have spent the last season talking about virtual existences and facing your demons. Use your technology and/or the anomaly and unbury your lesbian fan-favorite — reverse the trope and allow this singular character to live through the end of your series.
Remember when Clarke wasn’t ready yet, @kimshum? Your script continues: “A hint of a smile from Lexa, the sense that maybe, someday…” And when Clarke was ready, she told Lexa that “maybe someday, you and I will owe nothing more to our people.” We’re waiting for our someday…
Will you take the show full circle and offer your viewers a positive resolution in the form of a second chance?
Will you allow Clarke to reach her goal, established in the pilot, to see her people build a new life on Earth?
Will love continue to be weakness and used against Clarke and Lexa; or will you prove that it’s the ultimate strength?
Will you let love win by reuniting Clarke with the love of her life, her romantic soulmate, Lexa kom Trikru?
Will you show the world that two women in love deserve to find happiness in each other, without punishment?
Will you honor Alycia’s incredible work for you by turning the negativity surrounding Lexa’s unworthy end into something positive?
We’re not asking to dictate your plot. We’re not asking for fanservice by making a ship happen. We’re asking you to acknowledge your responsibility, to deliver on the promises you made, to right a wrong, to take a stand for responsible, authentic, and better storytelling, to honor the work of your cast and crew by offsetting the negativity with a resolution to benefit everyone:
What will it be? Will you be remembered to have turned on your LGBT+ viewers and to have upheld your lesbophobic message until the end? Or will you be remembered to have learned a valuable lesson and to have passed it on to your viewers?
Lexa deserves better. She deserved better than the to be turned into a plot device after being elevated to a main character in all but in name as you sought to capitalize on her popularity. She deserved better than to be turned into the face of the Bury Your Gays trope. She deserved better than the fate she was given after a life of sacrifice and to die because love is weakness.
And Lexa still deserves better. She deserves better than to be disrespect, invalidated, and vilified, directly or indirectly, by your narrative, by your behavior when facing fans, and therefore by a large portion of your remaining fanbase. She deserves better than to be held hostage as a constant reminder of her death to be used against Clarke and her still-grieving fans. She deserves better than to be kept dead while you introduce motif after motif that could be used to return her to us, to Clarke, and to life itself.
It’s almost too easy. Don’t you want to go out with a bang? Prove the haters wrong. Let love win. Show us the future we deserve. This is your opportunity to do something great!
This is article has originally been posted to Medium and has since been expanded into a website going into more detail and resources for fans to help to spread the word. Please support Lexa Deserves Better: lexadeservesbetter.com
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