BELLARKE EXPLANATION FOR 509 (worth the read I promise :))
So I would just like to make my own intellectually stimulating rant about my interpretation/understanding of bellarke in 509 because everyone is flipping their shit when I really don’t think they need to… (though I do feel your pain and frustration)
Ok so for starters everyone is saying the bellarke is now “toxic” or “ruined” and “they can’t bounce back from this”… First of all, just because Clarke slapped Bellamy, doesn’t make their entire 7 years of friendship toxic. Every relationship, whether romantic or platonic or family-related or whatever has their ups and downs and their bumps in the road. No relationship of any kind is perfect. And Bellamy DESERVED the slap for what he did to her, and the fact that Clarke is so close to him and put so much trust in him to be let down just shows how much it hurt her to have to do something like that, but also shows WHY she would do something like that. It’s not very different from Clarke pulling the gun on Bellamy in 4x11, or Bellamy chaining Clarke to the chair in 3x05 simply to be shocked by her later in that same episode. They’ve both done things to each other in order to help others out.
Let me explain more; in 4x11, Clarke initially has Bellamy chained up in the bunker in order to save their people (same as Bellamy does in 5x09), Clarke eventually pulls the gun on him when he betrays her in order to save his sister. Ultimately, the two discuss the difficulty of each of their choices and how these choices ended up putting Clarke and Bellamy against each other. However, they were able to realize that they each had their own reasons.
5x09 is very similar, but first I have to say that, E V E R Y T H I N G B E L L A M Y D O E S I S T O S A V E C L A R K E. <——that needed to be emphasized. Bellamy betrayed Clarke and helped Madi with the flame because he wanted to save Clarke. Had he not done so, he could not ensure that Clarke would not be executed when Octavia awoke, and Bellamy would rather have Clarke be so unbelievably mad at him and hurt by his choices than have her dead. He’d rather live in a world where she hates him than live in a world without her at all.
Ok but seriously, everything Bellamy does is actually to save ALL his people. By using Madi, Bellamy saves his sister from being killed AND from leading the army to the valley, saves all of spacekru from being killed if the valley was invaded, AND saves Clarke from being executed by Octavia. He’s using his HEAD.
Now let me talk more about the “head and the heart”
Like I said, Bellamy is actually using his head (whether it seems like it or not at first), but he’s making the smart move that will benefit the majority of people. This is the kind of choice Clarke would have made (and did make) in seasons 1-4. Clarke now is using her heart, putting trust in Bellamy to save Madi, and ultimately being let down by the both of them. She’s not thinking about the consequences of anything, she is just following her heart to save Madi. AKA exactly the types of choices that Bellamy would’ve made (and did make) in seasons 1-4.
So now think about it this way; these two have SWITCHED mindsets and are now making choices that the other would have made before the time jump. That means Bellamy is now UNDERSTANDING how Clarke must have felt all those times she tried to lead with her head and save the majority of the people, without letting emotion guide her. Whereas Clarke is now UNDERSTANDING how and why Bellamy did some of the things he did in previous seasons when he let his heart get in the way. As much as it hurts and seems like the two of them are completely different characters, they aren’t, they are reflections of each others past selves.
Therefore I don’t believe any of the choices or actions made in this episode were out of character for either of them. In fact, it may have been a stepping stone to each of them balancing out using their head and their heart because both of them have used one more than the other in different situations. At this point, they now understand where the other was coming from and whether or not they were using their head or their heart. This connection is going to push Bellamy and Clarke back together because now each of them realizes reasons behind certain choices and the difficulties that come with using only your head or your heart.
Other random things I want to address:
I don’t think Bellamy calling Spacekru his family was about leaving Clarke out, I think he was stating that he knows Madi is family to Clarke and thats why she wants to protect her, and therefore he wants her to know that spacekru is his family and he wants to protect them just as badly. He’s not saying that Clarke isn’t his family, the two of them aren’t the ones in current danger, they’re the ones who are making the choices to save the others. He’s simply pointing out the people not currently present that are important to each of them that they BOTH want to save.
Which again is why Bellamy went against what Clarke wanted, because he wanted to save spacekru, as well as Clarke, as well as Octavia.
Finally, if you look at 5x09 as a whole, every single character is pitted against their closest allies. Think about it: spacekru has difficulty getting along with Echo vs Raven about Shaw, Mccreary and Diyoza are put up against each other, resulting in a bloodbath between the same group of people, Indra is against Octavia, Wonkru almost broke out into a huge fight, and Octavia, Clarke, and Bellamy keep switching between partners and enemies. So as much as we focus on Bellarke, the entire episode was about loved ones making difficult choices against one another, which honestly made it an enjoyable episode to watch.
And that doesn’t mean that any of these relationships are ruined!! (Especially Bellarke!!), it just means that sometimes not everyone is on the same page, and sometimes people have to take matters into their own hands for their own reasons, and all of these relationships are simply going to have more depth and more layers added to them because of it.
Ok thanks if you read all this I hope it made sense and I hope that it gives you more hope for the rest of season 5 and the rest of Bellarkes journey because I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
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