#t100s7

i’m fairly content with season seven of the 100. however, before anyone jumps down my throat (i’ve never been active in the 100 fandom for a reason lol) let me clarify: i am the kind of person that can still enjoy something while acknowledging the fact that it’s not good. i believe it’s a product of having a shitty life and not wanting to be burdened by the disappointment of being genuinely angry or upset because of a show or a movie. so, outside of the genuinely fucked up shit (like racism or homophobia or any form of bigotry or any other obviosly not okay shit like that), i tend to acknowledge what wasn’t good but choose to enjoy the media anyway.

i did the same thing with avengers: endgame, and they killed off my favorite character of all time that has been a comfort to me for about 12 years i think. fair to say i’m a pro at this by now.

but, back to the point—i am content with the last season. i see it’s flaws and i can understand why people are so angry about it, but i’m fine.

i have some questions, though.

where does it make sense?

like. they saw these books, right? they made a show based off of these books. then they go on to act as if the books aren’t canon even though the books are quite literally the source material?

bellarke is canon. like. u dont have to like bellarke, that’s totally fine, but it’s canon. in the books, bellamy and clarke get married. jroth acting like bellarke is such a crazy concept that could never happen is actually insane.

that being said, they chose not to have that relationship be more than platonic in the show, which is fine. different forms of canon can have different things happen and that’s not an issue in my eyes at all. my confusion comes in the fact that clarke is the main character, the MAIN character, and they chose to pair her with lexa, which i LOVE—i adore clexa so god damn much, i can’t put it into words—and then killed lexa off, though her death was actually integral to the plot and held meaning and wasn’t just a bury youe gays scenario so, saddening, yes, but i understood why it happened.

that’s my thing. even the bad choices, i can usually still see the reasoning behind it.

but why blatantly ignore the canon from the book that is bellarke in order to establish a super compelling and incredible relationship like clexa, only to then kill lexa off, later kill of bellamy in a super anticlimactic and very sudden way—that, while i can see the reasoning behind clarke wanting to stop bellamy and feeling the need to do whatever it takes, i can NOT see the reasoning in actually killing him off so abruptly and with almost no follow up on it despite him being the second main character since episode one—before bringing lexa back but have it not really be lexa, and then end the show without either ships happening and with clarke, the MAIN CHARACTER, having no one?

don’t get me wrong, i genuinely love the message that family is all you need and that they are family and they do love clarke, but clarke is still going to be lonely. she doesn’t have the love of her life/best friend (lexa and/or bellamy). she doesn’t have her daughter. she doesn’t have her mom. she isn’t alone, but this ending feels... anticlimactic, almost? or like it’s missing something that it should have had.

i guess my main thing is that they chose not to have bellarke, which is canon and in the source material, in order to have clexa, who i love and would be more than happy to have, except clarke ends up having neither in the end?

a person doesn’t need a romantic relationship to be whole. clarke doesn’t need a partner to be considered complete. and if that was the message they wanted to go for by having her so alone on that front, then that’d be fine—if they made the message more clear. but they didn’t. i’m pretty sure the only reason i’m reaching for that message is because i WANT it to be there, i WANT there to be a reason for it, because, really, when it comes to endings, especially for things that are well known and well loved by so many, i feel like everything should have a meaning, even if that meaning is just “there is no meaning at all” and it shouldn’t feel so impossible to dig for that meaning like it is for me right now. without that meaning being so clear, it feels disappointing on all fronts—clexa had a moment of shimmering hope with lexa being brought back for the finale, only for that hope to lead nowhere. bellarke is canon in the books and had six seasons of incredible development and trust building and all of it was torn down so quickly. and there’s no blatantly clear message about not needing a relationship and being your own person or anything like that. it makes everything feel kind of useless. like there was so much love and hype and joy put into both of these ships and they both lost.

so, where does it make sense? where does this choice make sense? is it in the hard to grasp meaning that might not even be there? is it in the focus on the “friends are family” feels that felt slightly forced in the end? where?