#message recieved

They’re back with the awaited smut scene! 

Sorry it took me so long to get this written, I burnt out a little after finishing message recieved. I hope this is worth the wait :D 

It defintely didn’t turn out as smutty as I initally planned.

Summary: A few days of bliss in a little hut on Tattooine. Missing smut scene from 'Message Received'

Rating: E (smut)

At your last post. But also dont want to pressure you

On reflection, I think the thing that gets me most about it is that I’ve never had such a strong sense of contempt from a showrunner before, like he thinks that all the shippers or the fans of one particular character, or the fans who, you know, wanted a bit of consistent characterisation or at least a decent explanation of why they would have had such huge 180 degree changes of attitude - like all those fans are doing it wrong. Like he thinks we’re dumb children, and we have to be force-fed this grimdark crap until we submit and concede and wave a white flag and tell him his storytelling is revolutionary.

And that’s such bullshit, it really is. Fandom can be dumb, sure, on a massive scale, but it can also be amazingly insightful and intelligent and transformative, to a degree that network television rarely (if ever!) is. Sure, killing your characters used to be revolutionary, back when television shows were written to basically reset every week - but honestly, these days, is that really supposed to be gripping storytelling? The 100 has shown us time and again that no one is safe, we got that, it’s fine, we know... so is there a reason we should appreciate this character death, beyond the innate shock value? If there is, I’m not seeing it. It was tragic, boo-hoo, and shocking, but what else is it doing, exactly? It’s fiction; it doesn’t have to follow the arbitrary rules of real life. People die. Thanks for the memo. Give us a show with the balls to tell a story.

Moreover, I’m not convinced any of this was really about being edgy and new. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a show before that has such a spiteful, petty sense that doing anything “predictable” (read: things that had been foreshadowed, things that make sense for the character arc, things that are consistent with what has already been established) would be boring, and the second the fans guess at anything, that’s when the showrunner has to change it up. Or, possibly, to get back at the actors - also something that comes across quite strongly from The 100, and is why I won’t be supporting anything JRoth does in future. I do remember back when the Stargate showrunners were all, “Hey we’ve invented a new show and none of the old fans are invited bc they suck”, and how well that went down - but at least they were creating a new show to do that, and not fucking up the current one.

I wish nothing but the best for the cast, I have genuinely loved some of their performances this season, particularly Murphy and Emori, and Indra, so I may end up watching the last three episodes. Maybe. But unless the next ep starts with a magic reset button, unless Clarke wakes up and Bellamy steps out of the shower to tell her the last three years were just a bad dream, then no, they’ve killed my interest. I don’t trust the show to wrap things up in a way that I care about, or that, frankly, makes any coherent sense, other than “everything is awful! everything is awful! let’s celebrate nihilism and grimdark and teenage angst!” And, look, 2020 hasn’t been a great year for most people, lbr, and I could personally do without a show that just wants to make me more miserable.

I had a pretty shitty start to the year, and I have been doing much better lately, but I will be honest, I went to bed feeling really upset last night. It wasn’t the show exactly, but it was the feeling of losing something forever, at short notice, in a harsh way... it pressed my buttons. I can’t imagine what it did to people who are in a worse place, mental health wise. All I can offer is ~hugs~ and my empathy, I too am pissed off and hurt about this whole flaming bag of poo we’ve been gifted.