What did you think about Clarke letting the bomb drop on TONDC without warning anyone? Do you think she should have or did she make the right move?
I don’t think she made that choice. I think Lxa coerced her into that choice, which was the wrong choice, and then made her feel guilty over it and blamed her for it, and said she did it for selfish reasons, and so, coerced her into siding with whatever lxa did next, because she’d already done the horribly immoral thing of sacrificing innocents for selfish reasons.
Now, you could say that she didn’t FORCE her to let it happen, but she kind of did. Clarke had good ways out of the situation. “Start a fire and evacuate!” which would have served the purpose of making the bomb useless without giving away their spy on the inside.”
But when Clarke had a solution, Lxa said “we have no time to debate,” and then debated with her about how her plan was the only plan, despite having an alternate plan that she’d just ignored and discarded.
The move was Lxa’s, and Lxa catastrophized it (wasn’t hard, it was a catastrophe) in order to rush her into what Lxa wanted her to do.
My ex used to do this to me all the time. I mean he’d make up a catastrophe, but it was always “THIS HAS TO BE DONE NOW AND MY PLAN IS THE ONLY WAY,” so that I was forced to make a decision in that moment without reasoning it out, while he discarded all my solutions, and pressuring me to do what he wanted.
Lxa got HER way. And then made Clarke a collaborator in what she thought was wrong. Which meant that she had a vested interest in continuing with Lxa’s plans, because it had to work out, or she did it for nothing? Right?
Bit of gaslighting, bit of catastrophizing, bit of grooming, bit of ultimatum. Bit of blame.
ugly bit of work. and you know, your very ask completely takes Lxa out of it, as if it wasn’t her idea and she didn’t nag Clarke into doing it or tell her Bellamy would die if she didn’t.
This is part of the way that scene worked. It was Lxa’s decision, but she put all the responsibility of it onto Clarke. And so did you.













