True North.

no, i’m talking about how:

they once again used raven as their narrative punching bag, using her either for some more added trauma or to set up the narrative direction, both of which hinder her character’s story (adding to the fact that they did this very same thing to her last season, actively in fight mode almost constantly, especially with clarke, which they clearly only did so you’d feel sorry for clarke just in time for her ‘death’/bodysnatching storyline, which raven’s character ultimately suffered for thanks to that narrative decision)

echo being the unhinged girlfriend for half the season, god the moment they decided to put her with bellamy i pleaded ‘please don’t boil down a complex female character into the girlfriend role for conflict and drama’ and yet here we were, all i wanted was for them to steer away from the obvious relationship drama and age old love triangles but in trying not to tell a ‘cliche’ story they used the most cliche tropes in the book? as if introducing gina only for the purpose of murdering her and furthering bellamy’s trauma wasn’t bad enough, they had to demote 7a echo to the vengeful lover trope whose only thought or purpose was her not-dead boyfriend (which they then immediately scrapped?)

(sidenote, if they were so intent on platonic bellarke why were the romantic relationships they canonically wrote for bellamy so poorly thought out in comparison? why did they never spend the time on those relationships? why did we never see the development, which is what draws an audience to relationships, for either of them? why did the girls have to suffer shitty, overdone, arguably misogynistic tropes?)

murphy, god this one upsets me so much, this was undoubtedly murphy and emori’s season, and along with indra they were the only ones who made the sanctum storyline even slightly bearable, but so much of his storyline was reminiscent of bellamy’s early seasons storylines that it didn’t feel as organic as it should have, so many moments gave off the ‘well if we can’t give this stuff to bellamy, we’ll just hand it off to murphy’ vibe, because the two main male characters are just interchangeable now i guess?

madi, you know i once had a friend irl tell me that they weren’t excited about madi because every time shows randomly introduce a young character like that it often interrupts the story in negative ways, which at the time i didn’t really get, but looking back now, looking at how she was often just a device to activate murder mama mode for clarke or to be the useless plot carrier for sheidheda, i think i can understand where they were coming from, madi spent so little screen time with her own storyline, they just used her for conflict about 80% of the time (also almost had them kill her? wtf was that? and then that whole storyline ended without madi anyway so??? what was the point?)

and don’t get me started on how they finally, finally, started working on the blakes relationship last season just to destroy it one last time, even going as far as removing the line in which octavia gives her brother his deserved goodbye from script to screen

Bellarke AU

If other universes exist I hope we’re happy somewhere. That there are universes where history doesn’t pull us apart and we become a tragic story full of sorrow and regret, ones where we don’t become our own undoing that only history would remember us for. I know in this story we could never belong to each other, but if there is another universe, another story, another us I hope we can love each other until our dying day.