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.
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