heyy, love your fics. i'm currently in the process of reading the echo pregnancy fic right now and i adore it so much.
also i know its been a year but im still baffled by the fact that murphy and raven embraced clarke?? instead of having a moment where they spit in her face and start yelling "you bitch" (that callback would have been rlly funny). also i dont understand why earthkru just.. accepted her into their little group. like she causes more problems than solves them? everyone they know including half of spacekru is dead bc of her?? girl's just.. terrible?
omgggg I'm so sorry I meant to reply to this and completely forgot to (story of my life)
Thank you so much!!!! I really enjoyed writing that one!
I mean same lol. It makes absolutely no sense in character. It makes no sense after everything that has happened between Spacekru (/Earthkru) and Clarke - ESPECIALLY without actually spending any time resolving those issues. I mean I doubt there was any resolution that could make me buy that friendship in the end after everything, but an attempt to at least have the characters work through their past hurts and work towards forgiving each other (cough cough forgiving Clarke) would have been appreciated.
The thing with the 100 that you have to accept - and the single factor that I think hurts it the most - is that ultimately the show can not let go of the idea of Clarke as the classic YA hero. Even in a show that insists it's about complicated issues and morals and morally grey characters and a dog-eat-dog world of no heroes, just people making selfish choices to survive, ultimately it still characterizes Clarke as a YA hero is has friends, is loved by everyone, and is always the Hero who did the Right and Necessary thing at the end of the day, EVEN when her actions and the way they affect other characters tell us differently.
The way that Clarke is handled and the very messages and attempted themes of the show are in direct odds with each other.
Like the show can't fathom having a happy ending that doesn't involve Clarke being loved and accepted by the rest of the characters we love. And so we end with them being Buddy Buddy friends, without the baggage we know they have, to achieve that Happy Ending.
But it rings false because it's at odds with literally everything that has happened in the show.
Clarke is not best friends with the other characters at the end of the show. They've hardly been a united group, let alone a friend group/found family, since s2. And that's not even getting into the ways she's directly hurt them, they've all been focused on different priorities, and the fact that they have legitimate grievances with each other.
But. You can't acknowledge all that baggage and messiness if what you're going for in the end is Clarke the hero made it through and is happy with all her friends. So they give us that without even ATTEMPTING to do the legwork to make that believable. And so, unless you buy into the idea that Clarke IS the Hero (which I personally don't), that ending rings INCREDIBLY hollow and fake.
Like. I can't honestly see either Raven or Murphy ever being buddy buddy with her again - and they frankly very rarely were through the whole series, but that's a whole other topic.
