The 100 Positivity Project Week Six - Anything Positive
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The 100 Positivity Project Week Six - Anything Positive
Showing the love
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The 100 Positivity Network - WEEK ONE
When I Fell In Love With The 100
@the100positivitynetwork I hope it’s not too late to make this post, but I’ve been so busy lately! I really did want to participate, though, so here it is.
I had to think for a while about this, because when I look back, it’s hard for me to place when I fell in love with The 100. I binged the first two seasons in two weeks (right after Season 2 finished airing, I believe) so that time is all kind of a blur for me. Of course, I’ve rewatched every episode, but the first time I watched it, I don’t remember my thought process nearly as well (some moments stand out).
But, after some time, I have decided that the famous Bellarke tree scene in “Day Trip” takes the cake.
Yeah, yeah, I know - lame. Don’t mind me hopping on the Bellarker Bandwagon over here. But the thing is, this is it. I cannot think of another scene that would pinpoint when I fell in love with the show. There are a few scenes from my first time watching The 100 that stand out to me - this was one of them.
For instance, I remember Clarke killing Atom, which was when I decided, “hey, this show is actually entertaining - I’ll keep watching”. I remember when Charlotte killed herself and I decided, “this isn’t the teen drama I thought it was”. Those are stand-out moments to me, and they’re important because they kept me watching, but they aren’t the moments that made me fall in love with the show.
Bellamy became my favourite character in “His Sister’s Keeper”, after I saw the flashbacks. That episode is so, so important to me. I decided then that I liked Bellamy (which would quickly grow into love) but it was too early in the show for me to become obsessed with him, you know?
The thing is, for me to fall in love with a show, I have to get emotionally invested in it. And “Day Trip”? That is what I consider to be the birth of Bellarke. Don’t misunderstand me - I saw Bellarke before that, even shipped it kind of, but it was lowkey. After “Day Trip”, I hopped fully onboard. By the time the amazing “Human Trials” Bellarke hug rolled around, I was complete garbage.
I remember one moment in my Season 1 days very clearly. It was the morning after I watched “Day Trip” and I was talking to one of my friends (we weren’t super close yet) who also watched the show and I remember thinking at the time: “Bellamy and Clarke. I bet no one ships those two. I must be so weird.” (Lol. I’m not even kidding - I actually thought that.) And so I told her, kind of awkwardly, “ummmm . . . I’m kinda shipping Bellamy and Clarke”.
And I was expecting her to be like “WHAT? Clarke and BELLAMY? WHY?!?!!”
But she didn’t. She stared at me for a moment and she was so . . . happy. Like, you know how it is in fandom - she had someone new to fangirl with. Because she shipped them too. And then she told me that the ship has a name - it’s called Bellarke - and there is a huge fanbase for it. Massive.
Little did I know that in a few days I would no longer be able to claim that I only “kinda” ship Bellarke - I would have fallen headfirst into the trash chute, never to return.
That’s what the tree scene did to me. It made me get emotionally invested in Bellarke and, therefore, emotionally invested in the show. But after I fell in love with the show, I started to fall in love with all kinds of elements of it, and characters too. It’s not just Bellarke I’m emotionally invested in - it’s the delinquents, it’s Bellamy Blake, it’s Raven Reyes, Marcus Kane, all my favourite characters. I began to feel their struggles like they were my own, rooted for them, and probably grew more upset than I should have when they went on a downwards spiral (*cough* my initial reaction to Season 3 Bellamy).
Here I am, rambling.
I guess the point is, none of that happened for me until that one Bellarke scene. It’s like “Day Trip” opened a door for me. I never would have guessed how deeply in love I would fall in love with The 100 when I decided to watch it.
But I did. And I guess me participating in a positivity project for it probably illustrates that point.
The 100 Positivity Project || Week 1: when you first fell in love with the show
seeing their beautiful smiling faces for the first time
Week 1: In love: when you first fell in love with the show.
I remember the first time I watched the pilot. Everything was so wonderful and people were actually happy. It seemed too good to be true, which it turned out to be. At the end of the pilot jasper got speared, and I was so intrigued I just couldn’t stop watching. I ended up watching the first season in one day.