Let’s break this confrontation down to show how everything Clarke said to John Murphy in this clip was her gaslighting him.
“What the hell do you want from me, Murphy?! I’m sorry, okay? For all of it…”
Right off the bat she thinks she owes him nothing. She starts her so called “apology” by thinking she doesn’t have to give one. She’s so fucking defensive here, because she knows he’s right and she’s got no leg to stand on in this fight.
“I never meant for you to get hurt…”
Clarke didn’t have to publicly come after John and accuse him of murdering Wells in front of an angry mob who then proceeded to hang him…but she did.
Clarke didn’t have to banish John at the end of the same episode, leaving him at the mercy of grounders who tortured him until he snapped, and who then went on to treat him like a living biological weapon and inject him with a virus…but she did.
Clarke didn’t have to blame him for Finn’s insane massacre of the grounder village…but she did.
Clarke didn’t have to abandon John in Polis, causing him to wind up in the clutches of Ontari who then proceeded to treat him as less than human…but she did.
Clarke didn’t have to tie both him and Emori up to the Rocket…but she did.
Clarke didn’t have to side with Macreary, starting up the war again that resulted in the torture of people he cared about and nearly claimed his life…but she did.
In every single one of those instances, Clarke had a choice between sparing him from pain and causing a physical, emotional, or mental wound, and every single time, she chose to inflict harm.
“but no matter what I do, someone always does…”
There she goes again…adding the word, ‘but’, after saying she’s sorry, so guess what? Everything she says now invalidates what she said before!
“is that you want to hear? That I’m the bad guy? Fine…I’ll be the bad guy…”
News flash, Clarke…YOU ALREADY ARE! You think you’re everyone’s savior and the solution to every problem, but check your dictionary again, because I think you got the words philanthropy and tyranny confused.
“when I’m in charge, people die…isn’t that you said?”
That’s because you’re inefficient, incompetent, and incapable of handling a position of leadership, Clarke…but you can’t give it up, can you? You can’t stomach the idea of deferring to someone else because once you got a taste of power, you wanted more, didn’t you? The best thing for you to do would be to let somebody else handle things so you can do some serious soul searching. Stand down, Clarke. Humanity has suffered enough thanks to the abysmal choices you’ve made for it.
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