#kjroth

there’s no point in hating jason, or kim, or anyone. what do you get out of that? bad energy and negativity, killing the enjoyment of the show, and the last time EVER we’ll be able to get new content. this, more so than any other, is not a time for negativity. 

be open-minded. be positive. be hopeful. i’m not saying be delusional, but there’s no point in outright throwing hate at cast and crew because you don’t like the way the promotion is being handled, or the way the storyline is being handled, or whatever. all of this is done that particular way for a reason and you may not understand or agree, but hating on people who have made this possible is absolutely disgusting and ungrateful, and should not even be a thing. 

be upset, fair enough. bob is not in promo? jason might be baiting bellarke? if that’s how you feel, be upset. but don’t call jason an asshole. don’t say he’s an awful writer. 

it is what it is. if you don’t like, don’t engage. posting negativity will only make you and everyone else feel worse. 

it’s almost a parallel to bellamy in 2x05 telling her “you did what you had to do” about closing the dropship door, and clarke telling bellamy the same thing. 

it might be just me, but it’s a very neat way of showing how finn, who kind of helped clarke with some of the decisions about leading back in s1, no longer thinks the same way as clarke. they disagree on some of the fundamental things - what were things that needed to be done, and what was unnecessary violence and a war crime. 

it’s seems like an average-length scene for the 100, but it accomplishes so much. you get to see jasper falling apart and how maya’s death influenced him and his relationship with his friends, both from his part (pinning monty against the rover, playfully slapping bellamy’s face after saluting him, being snarky towards monty) and theirs (bellamy and monty dragging him off the floor, monty splashing him with a bucket of water). i remember when i watched this for the first time, months after having seen the previous season, i thought it was a drastic change and it felt too much. now, it feels like they’ve been setting jasper up for this the whole of season 2, and it feels perfectly natural.

then you’ve got miller and monty and raven, who are all shown to be working and functioning well, and they all seem to be closer than before. they listen to bellamy but there’s a bit of a change to their dynamic, as if they’re more of partners with a leader as opposed to being just followers. they feel like friends. it’s apparent how they’re dealing with what happened - just living their lives as normal as they can, going back to work, not lingering onto the past, unlike jasper. 

then there’s octavia, who shows up on the horse, after miller says she’s gonna find them. this doesn’t establish direct conflict, but it’s a clear follow-up from octavia saying she “doesn’t have a home” in the season 2 finale. she isn’t one of them, but she is with them. it feels natural.

and when it comes to bellamy, we get to see him with gina. it’s established immediately that they care about each other, are carefree, loving towards one another. bellamy seems more relaxed that he has since probably unity day, if not earlier in season one. in the previous scenes it’s established that he still has a sort of leadership role to the delinquents, but in this scene it’s more of a familiar, paternal role. yes, he’s the leader, but like i said, they’re not just followers. 

so in that scene, before we even left arkadia, you get to see where each of these characters are in terms of personal narrative, three months after the attack on mt weather. you get to see the changed dynamic within the group, all very seamless and far from forced.

i forgot to mention the way the scene itself was written - introducing character by character, without messing up the flow of the scene, and giving each of them enough time to sort of present themselves, if you will. 

so this whole time, i was wondering why he hadn’t ended up with raven. it would make so much sense - they had the foundation. they knew each other for a while, they’ve been through some major life points together, they have already been together sexually meaning that they likely are sexually attracted to each other and are shown to be friends throughout the first four seasons. they obviously care a lot about each other. 

there’s also the point of both of them having lost someone they loved, recently. you could argue that bellamy’s loss of clarke wasn’t romantic, and okay, but you can’t deny that shattered him. a lot like finn’s death shattered raven. this is something only monty can share with them, as far as i remember, as he lost jasper, whom he loved, too. therefore, it would make sense for bellamy and raven to bond over their grief, and it would only make sense for that to lead something more on the ring. 

but here’s the problem. this is a very good foundation for a good, healthy, loving relationship. they’d have six years of growth, and by the time they’d be back on the ground, chances are they would function a lot better than b.echo. they would understand each other better, because they’d been with each other even before space, as friends. 

this is a relationship that makes sense. it would be endgame, because it would work. 

however, you don’t want to make an endgame relationship if you have another endgame relationship in mind for one of these two characters. this way, braven would stand in place of bellarke, clear as day. with braven happening on the ring, bellarke would not stand a chance on the ground or anywhere else. 

so you give bellamy another relationship, one that isn’t that strong, one that hasn’t been truly tested before, one that has come to life within very controlled, timid conditions. something that can break easily, or at least naturally. something that will not overshadow bellamy’s love for clarke, even years later. 

realistically, something would’ve happened on the ring. people get lonely and horny and when you’re with only six other people for six years, something is bound to happen. there was a choice between raven and e.cho, and there had to be a narrative where something stands in place of bellarke so the angst and pining can keep going for a little longer. 

his eyes water immediately as he learns that lincoln’s dead. he looks panicked, scared, because he’s failed. he was supposed to get them all out, they had a plan, but the plan didn’t work because his sister didn’t trust him, and now lincoln is dead. 

there’s blame. and we know bellamy - we know he likes to blame himself for things he isn’t necessarily responsible for. he likes to punish himself. he believes he deserves punishment when he does anything wrong. 

what octavia gives him is the punishment he’s seeking. he probably thinks he deserves it, because he got lincoln killed, right? it had to be his fault. and he deserves that beating. he deserves to suffer because what he did wasn’t enough, because he messed up his relationship with his sister to the point where he couldn’t even save his friend. 

and he loves octavia. he loves her, he’ll do whatever it takes for her, he said that hours before. she’s grieving, she doesn’t know how to deal with her emotions because she never got to truly experience them, and he probably thinks he’s helping her by letting her do it. 

he thinks it’s helping both of them. 

and he sees her fall apart and he falls apart, too, because he doesn’t know what’s going to happen next. he knows lincoln has been helping octavia adapt to the world with people much more consistently than bellamy could. lincoln was the one helping them with the grounders and without him, they had less of a chance. there was indra, but indra was war-oriented, unlike kane, unlike lexa, unlike bellamy and clarke. they needed someone like lincoln

but now he was dead. one of bellamy’s few friends, few people he trusted, he was dead. 

and then octavia stops, and what does she say? “you’re dead to me.” he thought he was helping, he thought he understood her, but now he realises that he’s fucked up to the point where he lost his sister, too, the one he did everything for. 

obviously, the most prominent example are bellamy and clarke, but there’s another one i found interesting: lexa. in 2x15, after striking the deal with mt weather, she tells clarke she made the choice “with [her] head, not [her] heart”. while lexa is an efficient leader (she gets her people, she does what she came here for, whether that is good or bad is up for debate), she is praised by octavia for being ruthless. her character, at least in season two, is marked by her choice to not involve feelings in her decisions. 

lexa is all head, in season two. she cares, but she doesn’t let it influence what she does. when she is with clarke in season 3, she softens and becomes less ruthless, more accepting. when it comes to their leadership, lexa is the head while clarke is the heart. 

anyway, going back to my main point: decisions that are altruistically good for the human race are not made when only the head or only the heart is in charge, no matter the leadership pairing. when lexa is not working with clarke, it’s not good. whenever clarke and bellamy are separated and only one of them is in charge, it’s not good. (examples: clarke’s handling of the tondc bomb in season 2, bellamy’s alliance with pike in season 3).

all of this makes me think that one of the main messages the show is trying to portray is that for decisions that actually benefit, you cannot think with just your heart or just your head - you have to use both. i know this one has been kind of obvious, but it goes far beyond bellarke, and i think the head/heart could apply to every pairing (romantic, leadership, platonic, all of them) on the show. 

whatever happens in season 7, it will require clarke and bellamy to be together for the final part. they’re the most prominent case of this, and they will save the world by working together. this might be wishful thinking, but based on all of these things, it’s making me believe we are going to get an ending where both of them survive, and live.