#dropship days

[alannacouture]

Our dropship survivors & the actors who played them to perfection 💖

[okmcintyre]

For now, we make the rules.

[skaifaya-heda]

The 100 books vs show, which is better?

As a Bellarke fan myself, there are some things that happened in the books that some of us wish had happened in the show, with Bellarke being only one of them. I think this happens a lot, where we get mad because something that happened in the books didn’t happen in the show. But, do we really have a right to get mad at that? 

Here’s my proposal, the book and the show are two entirely different pieces of work, only meeting in fanfic and on platforms like Tumblr. Yeah there may be the same premise of both and they may have similar characters (to an extent) but the directions they took are VERY different. Why is this? Well, the book and the show started production at around the same time. All the show had to go off of was the basic idea and maybe some of the first book (doubt it). This creates a really interesting dynamic between fans of the two. I know that I personally found the books first and then wound up binging the show immediately after. Needless to say I was confused as to whether they were even in the same universe after a while. 

Let’s look at some of the things we wouldn’t have if either the book or show never existed. In the book Clarke and Wells were originally a couple and Bellarke got married. Two completely different people were Clarke’s parents in the book and they had been experimenting on children. Jaha was Bellamy’s father in the books and he didn’t shoot Jaha to get onto the dropship. Octavia was discovered on the Ark at 5 years olf instead of around 15 and was instead arrested for stealing drugs. (So many other things are different too but I can’t go through all of them). In the show Clexa was a thing, and so many characters that we know and love exist (Raven, Jasper, Monty, Miller, and Harper were added). Everything that we know about the grounders from the TV show only exists on screen, completely different in the book. 

I think we just need to ask ourselves if we would rather have things from the book and if we would be willing to accept everything from the book, getting rid of things we love in the TV show. I get that even in the show there are some things that are hinted at but never happen (see Bellarke as Exhibit A) but a lot of the time people will go “the book was better than the movie/show” and I’m just not sure that’s true here.

[thelittlefanpire]

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