100% Clexas are pretending to ship Becho. Even though they hate Bellamy's & think he's an awful person. Even though they've "stopped" watching. We know why they're doing it. It's funny because they laugh at the thought of Bellarke happening & say we're delusional yet they're clearly threatened by it. It doesn't matter about polls & all that. The writers were going to make Becho happen anyway, it has nothing to do with CLs. It doesn't bother me since Bellamy thinks Clarke is dead.
Yeah agree I with you Anon, normally I’d be upset but because of the context that Becho is happening (Bellamy thinking Clarke is dead, they are stuck in Space, Echo is an outsider, Bellamy has a big heart), I can see him trying to make Echo feel wanted in the group and Echo changes to a point that they start dating, but clearly it’s going to be an obstacle between Bellarke, JR has spent all this time since S1 developing a good, compelling partnership between the leads. There has been times when he’s closer to Clarke over his sister but I do feel bad for the fans of Echo and the true Becho fans because while I’m not a huge fan of Echo, I do think that she is an interesting character and I think Echo and the actress both deserve better than being stuck in a love triangle or a love interest. My fear is that all Echo will do in S5 is be Bellamy’s girlfriend and show jealousy at Clarke and Bellarke. It will be interesting to see how Echo changes from her time in space, but I think it will be even more interesting to see her struggle with being back on the ground. Is she still a grounder? Will there be a battle between the old Echo and the new?
I just think it’s sad that some are fake shipping it because they are insecure of another ship happening. I hate Steroline in TVD, doesn’t mean that I start fake shipping Calaric just because a ship I hate was happening (For the record Calaric is also gross). A lots CLs don’t even tweet about Becho where there are probably some actual genuine Becho fans and I think they don’t deserve the fake shippers, especially since some of those fake shippers have tweeted negative things, abusive things and even racist things about Bellamy and Bob.
I think it’s obvious for the purpose of drama, Bellamy will likely be coming back in a relationship with someone and it makes the most sense for it to be Echo,
But I think since everyone is expecting Bellamy to be in a relationship - because that is kind how TV Drama and the CW work, I’d be more shocked if Bellamy stayed single.
Anyway, I’ve gone off the point. I do hate this wave of fake shipping where people feel so threatened that they ship a different that avoids their rival ship from happening and the worse thing is how they promote it because it comes off as disingenuous and inaccurate of a show’s fanbase. Honestly with CLs it does feel even worse because many of them are only really Lexa stans (I’ve seen polls with Clarke vs Lexa and Lexa wins) and even though Clarke is Bi, they hate on pretty much every ship that involves a man, because to them Bi means woman or no sex. They insist that Clarke can only be with a woman.
It’s like Olicity stans with Dinah, many fake stan her so the writers will hear them and not the fans of Laurel but if Dinah starting showing a romantic interest in Oliver, they would turn on Dinah in a heartbeat. Also it’s hard to see them as real stans when their photos are Olicitiy/Felicity and have Olicity or Smoak in their name.
I think the huge problem with the fake shipping situation in The 100′s fandom is that CLs are very loud and some are very obnoxious (I’ve received death threats from them in the past on twitter) and therefore they can make the writers think Becho are very popular with the viewers when it might not be. But I do think that JR has a vision and tries to stick with it as much as possible unless certain things bomb or things become popular (like Finn, I’m 70% sure he was killed off because not many people liked him, he was the least popular male cast member (maybe second, before Jaha) and he was kind of the male lead in the first half of S1).
But JR has stressed how important Bellarke is whether romantic or platonic, so they aren’t going anywhere and that’s why CLs and antis are suddenly pressed especially since their attempt to get the show cancelled in S4 failed and the longer it goes the more chance of Bellarke. But Bellarkers have got to remember that there build up will be great, 4x13 was a treat for us. I imagine it will be the same but with background angst because what we have to remember is that JR will not put the love triangle at the forefront, especially as Clarke’s priority is Madi and no one liked the Clarke/Finn/Raven triangle.
Sorry, that this post was long, I get deadass passionate about TV shows and fandoms.
