#anticlarke

But.

Is anyone ever going to acknowledge that Clarke (and Bellamy, and Monty by association) actually did something bad to make “saving Clarke” a necessity?

Clarke wasn’t some innocent, packed off to prison and awaiting execution because Blodreina was bored.

Clarke (and Bellamy, and Monty by association) murdered Cooper in cold blood. They actively chose to end her life as a move in their game against Octavia. They didn’t have to do it. They could have chosen other ways- such as the “hey, how about we TALK to Octavia and see why she’s like this” move that I’ve always espoused but no one did, or “actually Madi’s only 12 and I’d really rather not she fight in this war” or even “hey we’ll take the worms in if we can get our people out at the same time” and then shedding them somewhere along the way if they didn’t want to go through with it. Whatever. There were options. Lots of them.

oh baby..........................

That’s not your Raven.

Last season she was a barbie doll with a string that spoke tech or high horse that-doesn’t-link-up-with-canon-character when you pulled it. This season it sings direct or indirect praises for Clarke. She may look like her old self, but don’t be mislead- that’s a Clarke prop in a signature red jacket.

“Welcome to the world of grey” as if she didn’t torture Lincoln within the first few episodes of S1 and express no remorse, as if she hasn’t been aiding or at the very least supporting/not stopping the grey of other characters this whole time, as if all of this never ever happened. “I was so afraid” as if she didn’t take herself to earth in her own rebuilt escape pod within the first few episodes of S1 or have spine surgery awake, as if all of this never even happened, as if she hasn’t looked death in the face for literally the entire show. “How do you do it?” as if she didn’t withhold medicine from a little girl in S4, as if she didn’t watch her only family die with a knife she provided Clarke with. "How do you stay so damn strong" as if she didn't literally have lines that went "I don't choose pain, I choose life" and fight an AI in her own head because it took Finn away, an AI that LITERALLY said "she's so much stronger than the rest of you."

That was very generous of Octavia and Echo. I would like to believe that this was intentional and a choice to reflect all the years they spent on Penance/sky ring, working on selfknowledge and reflecting on their lives.

I’m pretty sure their wisdom and graciousness is a an unintentional reflectionof protagonist plot armor. I’ll take it either way.

Cadogen and his little finger stole is such a ridiculous figure. Also his beard makes me think of Kane, which by powers of transference clearly means that Bill is also a giant douche who is wrong about everything even though he sincerely believes he’s the smartest man in the room.

I haven’t watched much of this season (waiting until it’s all streaming) but the few episodes I have watched and I’m so tired of Russell sheidheda. I have no trouble understanding how twenty soldiers and a bunch of old people and children in MW dined on his people for decades. He’s utterly useless.

And Bill v Russelheda - a cage match over who has the biggest ego. And an outcome I don’t care about at alll.

This was a weirdly paced episode?

I have no idea why Miller gets all these soft bois who care about him. He’s such a stiff jerk.

Hope is a nice girl. Props to those who raised her.

I can’t believe Gabriel got such a great death!

The best thing about this episode is how utterly useless and wrong Clarke is about everything - and how quickly she had to eat shit over her stupid impulsive choices.

Even when confronted by Nylah before she leaves Bellamy to die, Clarke doesn’t give two shits; instead, she just reveals to her that Bellamy poisoned Octavia, betraying him immediately.

But, in 6x08, when Bellamy tells Josephine when she’s holding Murphy at knifepoint “You think we care about that traitor?”, you just KNOW INSTANTLY that Bellamy is lying through his teeth. Because based on canon, this is what he said in the SAME EPISODE:

And his immediate reaction when Josephine grabs Murphy - look at Bellamy’s face, his emotionless facade completely disappears as he jumps forward:

And it’s not just that, Bellamy has shown and proven just how much Murphy means to him in both seasons 5 and 6:

So yeah, my point is that Clarke’s version of “caring” is complete bullshit because she takes every opportunity she can to abandon and leave her supposed “friends” to die because she “had to”.

That’s The 100 fandom for you. The double standards run rampant. 😒 I’m really tired of it, too. It starts to feel like we’re not all even watching the same show. I just don’t see what they see, whether it comes to some epic romance between B & C, or thinking that harsh words deserve a redemption arc, or a dozen other unfathomable viewpoints besides.