#narrative tool

SPOILERS 'Stayed Gone' musical Leitmotiv between Vox and Alastor - Hazbin Hotel S2E4

Love how you can hear the moment he thinks of using Vox for his plan

That relationship. 

Was. 

A romantic obstacle.

They gave us a love triangle to delay romantic bellarke. So there would be something emotional to confront. So that they could DEVELOP and EXPLORE their feelings for each other without consummating them.

The thing about telling stories, is that not everything in the story is meant to be the endgame.

Some things are meant for character development. 

Some things are meant symbolically.

Some things are meant as OBSTACLES.

I think fandom gets frustrated when storylines don’t end up being the Big Bad, or the End Game Ship, or the Main Goal, and the forget or never knew that there are supposed to be, like, side adventures to build up the strength of the characters, and there are supposed to be failures that test our characters and there are supposed to be relatonships hat served a purpose. 

B/E served a purpose. It was to illustrate the separation between Bellamy and Octavia and Bellamy and Clarke. 

The purpose of b/e was NEVER to be endgame, to be a lasting relationship, to be a fulflling and rich love story. THAT WAS NOT THE STORY. It was a side story, a supporting narrative in Bellamy’s reunion with the two most important people in his life.

The reason why I wasn’t answering all those b/e questions is because they were all trying to make b/e into a main story, when there was no story there. 

I totally agree.

Thank you for looking at a scene that a lot of people are taking exception to and seeing how it fits in the narrative and character arcs that are happening.

I’m sorry we lost Shaw, but it looks like he got a better opportunity for his career, so they used his death to serve the story in the best way they could which was as a prod to Clarke, specifically, to be the good guy not only in word but in deed, since he not only echoed Monty’s charge, but explained HOW she had to do it. Which she already started… so we have action in 6.01 before we even really know the story.

Well, she got rid of them. She tossed them back into the wastes where they come from. 

So I expect that they continued on, being eggs until the hatched to be the happy predators they are.

They’ll need something to eat though. Maybe they don’t hatch until some animal comes through. I don’t know. 

A lot of people seem to be upset that the worm situation didn’t, uhm. Keep going? 

But, they went through the wastes, got attacked by the worms. Which was confirmation of the dangerous environment that Clarke warned them about and they ignored. Then Clarke saved Octavia, they got caught in the sandstorm and had to retreat back to Polis. Octavia decided to keep them for biological warfare, putting at risk the only living land on earth because her concept of saving her people is risking total destruction for the possibility of total domination, then her awful lieutenant Kara Cooper went behind her back to experiment on their own people, because those who will sacrifice anything for success will actually end up sacrificing things they said they’d protect so that they can succeed. Bellamy and Clarke used Cooper’s treachery against her to destroy the risk. That plan failed (because escalation) and now Clarke’s life is in danger and Bellamy had to choose to sacrifice Clarke OR Octavia, the two loves of his life, in order find a way out.

One might say that the purpose of the worms was to force Bellamy to come to the horrible moment of having to choose between Clarke’s Life and Octavia’s love. They were the narrative tool that instigated much plot, but MOSTLY Bellamy’s character arc of needing to let go of his past love for Octavia, come to a reckoning about who she had become and the harm she was causing, facing his love and need for Clarke, and becoming the hero he needs to be.

The worms begin the conflict that forces Bellamy Blake to step into his role as hero, who takes charge (he was deferring to everyone until then, Raven, Echo, Octavia, Madi, Clarke,) does the right thing and saves everyone. 

After he steps up, he loses Octavia. He loses Clarke. But he becomes The Hero of the story and saves spacekru, wonkru, and eligius. He saves humanity, and he salvages the last bit of humanity’s soul in the process, breaks the cycle, and sets the new cycle on a better path. 

So what happens to the worms? Their part in the story is done, they are no longer a risk to Eden (McCreary was but that’s a new problem,) and they are returned to where they came from.

They are done. Still kicking, I’m sure, but done in the story.

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HOWEVER. As this is a science fiction story, and science fiction stories have this thing called SAND WORMS, which are not scary little carnivorous buggers that will eat you from the inside out, but GIANT, MONSTROUS BEASTS THAT RISE FROM BELOW TO SWALLOW PEOPLE WHOLE!!!!! (see in particular Dune, by Frank Herbert, a sci fi classic.)

Which is a scifi trope that I am down for. And knowing that is out there, and that JR loves that kind of classic scifi/movie allusion, gives me a little bit more possibility that my theory of Clarke and Bellamy and our friends will eventually turn back around in that eligius ship and come back to Earth 200 years after they left, which is both how long it would take them to return to earth and how long the pilot told us it would take the earth to recover from the ORIGINAL apocalypse.  So like. I kind of think that at the end of s6 (or s7) we’ll have a return to earth where Earth will be habitable, but a strange new planet, now inhabited by strange post-radiation creatures like giant sandworms, and they will have to figure out how to start over on this new/old world that they created. 

I am so down for it. But as of now, our little baby sandworm eggs are nothing but a concluded storyline. With a side order of possible foreshadowing for some exciting classic scifi monsters of the future. 

I don’t hate echo. I am interested in her story line that’s NOT about romance, and when we’re down with b/cho I’m sure she’ll get there. 

I consider b/cho to be a plot device, and as such, I kind of like the issues it drags into the story. It doesn’t worry me as a threat to Bellarke, and I’ve been writing B/cho into fics since before season 3, because she is a perfect set up for feelings and jealousy and divided loyalties and all that. Plus she’s hot.