Just taking a moment to tick off the badass female characters who WEREN’T featured on last night’s ep of Jason Rottenburger’s show.
1. LEXA *sobs loudly*
2. Clarke *sobs for her crushed heart*
3. Abby; seriously she has been Kane’s partner in treason, where the fuck in Arkadia was she?!
4. Octavia
5. Indra
6. Monroe, RIP
So the only female characters we could remember being featured in 3x08 were Raven (being her amazing self), Harper (attempting to kicking ass, even though her ideas were shot down by Kane), Alie, and Monty’s terrible homicidal mother. Literally every other character with a speaking part was a dude. So let’s tally them just to see the numbers:
1. Bellamy
2. Pike
3. Kane
4. Miller
5. Lincoln
6. Monty
7. Jasper
8. Miller’s BF
9. Jaha
10. Sinclair
11, 12. Grounders Bellamy fucking shot because he’s a psychopath
Ugh. By my count, the dudes outweigh the women 3:1. And with the exception of Raven employing critical thinking re: Alie 1.0, the quality of the representation of women just wasn’t there.
Against my better judgment, I’m gonna keep watching because I am naive and hopeful that there is a silver lining. But the above numbers combined with THE COMPLETE LACK OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF LEXA’S DEATH AND CLARKE’S PAIN in 3x08 and the announcement of the show’s renewal, most likely a strategic stringing along of the Clexa fandom in order to boost ratings and clinch renewal prior to senselessly killing Lexa, are not helping the case for watching. As my wife, @rockin-r, knows, I’m not afraid to jump ship (ahem, OUAT, PLL I’m looking at you) when a show doesn’t do its queer characters justice or at the very least, RESPECT THEM AND THE PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES THOSE CHARACTERS MOST CLOSELY REPRESENT, so you are skating on thin ice, the 100. Please tell me you all have your shit together for the rest of this season. I’m not going to forget, but I know there’s still potential. Just don’t fuck it up anymore than you already have.
