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This story is almost done!!!
*cough* liking fics is nice but reblogging is really nice too and helps spread the word around about a fic or an author trying to break into the fandom and let’s other people besides said author’s followers see the fic, too! *cough*
If you look at it in that political landscape, it’s hardly fair.
Disappointment.
I am sad about what Mrs. Clinton said. An apology, including a lackluster one on twutter, is not enough for me.
I am frustrated with fans who are willing to trend to “Cancel The 100″ on Twitter. Do you know how many people will lose their job just because lexa died? That’s not right.
I used to like the100theories
because there were great posts that analysed the show and took a careful look into character growth and history and landscape. They did fantastic job. I greatly enjoyed it. Now they only post that they want the show canceled. I think they should change their name or let others run the blog. It is no longer about the theories of the 100 they they are abuse their power this way. I did not watch the show to also fight online. If the show in canceled think of all the people who will lose their jobs. It is selfish to ask such thing.
This episode was awesome
I hope we get five more seasons!
In July 1972, musician Johnny Cash sat opposite President Richard Nixon in the White House’s Blue Room. As a horde of media huddled a few feet away, the country music superstar had come to discuss prison reform with the self-anointed leader of America’s “silent majority.” “Johnny, would you be willing to play a few songs for us,” Nixon asked Cash. “I like Merle Haggard’s ‘Okie From Muskogee’ and Guy Drake’s ‘Welfare Cadillac.’” The architect of the GOP’s Southern strategy was asking for two famous expressions of white working-class resentment. “I don’t know those songs,” replied Cash, “but I got a few of my own I can play for you.” Dressed in his trademark black suit, his jet-black hair a little longer than usual, Cash draped the strap of his Martin guitar over his right shoulder and played three songs, all of them decidedly to the left of “Okie From Muskogee.” With the nation still mired in Vietnam, Cash had far more than prison reform on his mind. Nixon listened with a frozen smile to the singer’s rendition of the explicitly antiwar “What Is Truth?” and “Man in Black” (“Each week we lose a hundred fine young men”) and to a folk protest song about the plight of Native Americans called “The Ballad of Ira Hayes.” It was a daring confrontation with a president who was popular with Cash’s fans and about to sweep to a crushing reelection victory, but a glimpse of how Cash saw himself — a foe of hypocrisy, an ally of the downtrodden. An American protest singer, in short, as much as a country music legend.
Antonino D'Ambrosio: The bitter tears of Johnny Cash
Happy birthday Johnny Cash, born February 26th, 1932
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Luna (female) :)
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Unpopular opinion: every part of the L death scene was good EXCEPT her literally walking into the bullet. That was lazy asf. But they acted it beautifully. Both adc and eliza played the vulnerability well, I kind of felt like L was a different character this ep... like she yoyo'd so much?? Idk if that's just me... The sex scene wasn't TOO gratuitous I guess... and the chip crawling out of her neck was epic. I loved that bit so much! Becca was actually my highlight tbh.
I actually do not have a problem with that.
The way I look at it, it was kind of Shakespearean, where the flaws of the characters dictate the tragic end of their choices.
This was Lexa, refusing to consider Titus’ serious advice about saving her life and her leadership. This was Titus taking matters into his own hand to ensure that his Heda stayed in power, despite her obsession for and love of Clarke, which to him, was destroying everything.
He plotted to separate Lexa from Clarke’s influence in the only way he had left to him, using his secret weapon, John Murphy, to kill Clarke and also the Arkadian. (Nice parallel there, because it’s not the first time John Murphy was tortured by grounders and then used as a weapon against his own people, is it?)
Titus’ hubris in thinking he got to control the outcome of the situation, because he knew better and he was the fleimkepa, actually resulted in the exact opposite effect. Where Clarke was, of course, harder to kill than expected, and Lexa’s connection to Clarke didn’t let her just ride off into the sunset and she walked into the bullet.
For all we know, Lexa was coming to beg Clarke to stay or force her to stay. Probably something to do with not leaving, because she had a history of not letting Clarke leave. Which would AGAIN, be another parallel and another character fault and bad choice that led to her own destruction.
Listen. I know that every one is reeling from the loss of a major character, one with a lot of emotional and political weight behind her, but if we step outside of our immediate reactions, this whole story line and how it went down is all right there.
It’s not a shocking death. People ignored the foreshadowing and facts. She wasn’t killed for shock value. She was killed because the plot lead up to it. The way it happened wasn’t cheap writing, it wasn’t accidental, it was a result of the choices that the characters made.
We are FAR too quick to slap a label on to things we don’t like, insult it, call it bad writing or homophobia or shock value or act like it was something done to us. What happens there is that we are only paying attention to our emotional reaction to the story, and not to what the story actually MEANS.
That kind of behavior is what led to half the fandom feeling like JR was leading them on. He wasn’t leading anyone on. He was supporting the ship and the love and the fandom. But people didn’t pay attention to what was happening in the story, because the story TOLD us that Lexa was going to die.
Instead, the people who pointed it out were attacked and called homophobes. If people want to avoid looking at the evidence and facts and meaning that is all laid out in front of them, then it’s on them that they think it’s shocking and unfair.
Everyone of course has a right to feel sad about the death of a favorite character. Calling people names, though, because they didn’t get what they want is exceedingly immature.
You make a great point about people slapping labels onto things they don’t like. It’s endemic on tumblr and its very tiresome.
Writers tell stories and they explore the human condition. They are not obliged to make social or political statements through their stories, and most writers choose not to do so. Contrary to the beliefs of many fans, popular characters are not owed certain types of treatment. A writer’s main aim is to tell a great story (based on their concept of great), which usually focuses on human behavior under certain conditions. The characters (their lives, loves, struggles, and deaths) are simply the tools they use to accomplish this aim.
As for the “shock factor”, I feel like Lexa’s death was excessively foreshadowed to the point where it was practically a plot point before it even happened. Almost every event that happened in Polis pointed to Lexa’s eventual death. The natblida were shown prominently and consistently. The manner in which the commander was chosen was explained multiple times, always in greater detail and always focusing on the transition from one commander to the next. The other Grounders were growing increasingly frustrated at Lexa’s decisions. Lexa herself was fixated on her own death. Ontari was featured very prominently and her natblida status was emphasized; that alone was enough to indicate that the Commander position would soon become a point of contention. There are examples of foreshadowing in every single episode.
From the beginning of season 3, the story was gearing up to move on without Lexa. Every time she prevented the Grounders from declaring war on Arkadia, she effectively halted the plot development (because stories are dependent on conflict). In particular, she never developed a long-term strategic plan to remedy the increasingly problematic situation in Arkadia or to bridge the growing divide between her perspective and the attitudes of the other members of her court. For example, why didn’t she go to Arkadia and demand to speak to Pike? He is the official leader of the Thirteenth Clan. After the killing of her 300 soldiers, Lexa should have spoken with him directly. There is really no explanation for this other than the fact that it simply didn’t matter, because Lexa was very obviously going to die.
To me, it seems that Lexa was only kept alive long enough for Clarke to “realistically” get over her anger and consummate their relationship. Perhaps the writers wanted to give some sort of closure to that part of Clarke’s life? Mostly, I suspect that fan service played a part, with the writers wanting to give the Clexa shippers something to reward their investment in the show. I had a sense of the story “treading water” for much of the Polis arc, and particularly in the last episode, all because Clarke couldn’t realistically jump into bed with Lexa straight away. The need to make Clarke’s decision to sleep with Lexa believable is also why the drawing scene was kept in the last episode, whereas Monroe and Monty’s conversation about following Pike was cut.
In my opinion, an excessive amount of screen time was invested in making Clarke’s feelings for Lexa seem natural and realistic, at the expense of the Arkadia storyline and characters. Fan service that drags on for five episodes of a 16 episode series is a mistake. In this case, it is responsible for most of the criticisms of Season 3: no election scenes, Bellamy choosing to join Pike within the space of a five-minute conversation, no explanation of Monroe and Monty’s motivations, etc.
This has basically turned into a rant. Getting back to the original point, Lexa’s imminent death was so obvious that I was literally waiting for the sex scene because I knew it was the last thing that needed to happen before Lexa could be killed off. I didn’t expect her to die literally right afterwards, but I did expect the sex scene to be the final page in Lexa and Clarke’s arc. There was nothing shocking about it, but it took way too long to happen. Was all the screen time devoted to the development of Lexa and Clarke’s relationship (mostly to justify the sex scene) well spent? I suppose that depends on what this means for Clarke’s development going forward.
(Sorry to hijack your answer and rant. You just post excellent metas that make me want to add my two cents. I hope you don’t mind!)
there’s bad movies that you just turn off ten minutes in but then there’s bad movies that are an adventure
Ghostbusters
The trailer was awful and the jokes were so, so unfunny :( I was super excited for this and the tone doesn't match the other films at all. I like this fan trailer much better: https://youtu.be/8IDXpOX0Cp0
This episode of the 100
I am surprised by the reaction to the episode tonight. I do not write about TV or movies deeply. I write stories. I will try and explain how I feel now. I feel that the viewers who are in pain right now are experiencing a few things: shock, surprise, hurt, disappointment. I am also feelings these things, because I realized that may people who watch this show are young. They have never seen war. And they may not have seen people die. Life is full of challenges. I believe that life, at its heart is good. I have only told a few people, but I grew up in dangerous places. Places where walking to the store could end in death or crippling. I was not surprised there was a death tonight. And I expected Lexa to die - for what would upset a peace accord than an assassination? That is why she was killed. Not who she slept with, or her gender, or her age. Those did not matter when she led. What mattered was her station. She was not just the leader but the figurehead of peace. Death, the show has showed, is random and instant. Fox died from marrow extraction but Harper didn't. The for in season one could have killed Bellamy and Clarke - and the story would have gone on as life goes on. When Jaha exited the ship and crashed to earth he could have died. And look at who has died. Was every death frothing with forshadow and meaning? No. Lexa's death is sad and sudden but so it is in real life. Look at the way you feel now, and imagine how you would feel if you were told your friend is never coming back from war. I have felt that. It is always sudden. Does it not hurt? Then remember it is a tv show. If you don't like the story, you may always turn it off. So do not hurt abuse at the writers or actors because you are upset. I apologize if my English is bad. תודה שקראת. שיהיה לך לילה טוב. לון סימונס