🙋🏻♀️ I stand with you
We should’ve had a show based on life on earth with the grounders. We deserved that.
Also Anya deserved to live and should have had more influence with the entire plot.
It would have been 2638394773 million times better had it focused on the ground and not space portals and bullshit.
Yes! Like jfc you had a goldmine to work with. Somw of the most compelling characters that felt not only original, but organic. Anya, Lexa, Gustus, Indra (before the wrote her OOC to become the Skaikru cheerleader 😒). Exploring all of the politics and the history minus the thrown together space bullshit they came up with later. Exploring the grounders ideas of reincarnation instead of the stupid ass flame that didn't exist in s2. Finding out about Lexa's past and relationships with Anya and Gustus. Her parents! Maybe siblings!
Exploring Clarke and Lexa's relationship and the difficulties of being in love in their leadership positions (exploring their love in all positions 😏). Tackling topics of colonization vs accepting new people into your lands. Holding onto culture and tradition vs opening yourself up to new ways and thoughts and ideas.
Seeing the grounders experience new tech while the skai people learned how to live and thrive on earth, not just in textbook rhetoric but in the realities of a radiation crippled land.
Exploring Lexa's reign and possible fall from power. Seeing the dynamics of war and hierarchy and struggles for the throne. Seeing Clarke over and over again having ro walk the line between her embracing of the grounder life and her love of Lexa, along with her undying loyalty to her clan.
These were all fantastic storylines and things barely even scratched at.
And yet, they threw it all away. All of it.
For fucking space garbage.
