Again, I love the "enemies-to-lovers" trope. And the scenario where one person kills someone the other loves is a classic. But one of the reasons "Becho" doesn't work on that front is that Echo tried to kill Octavia twiceāand Octavia isn't just a family member or someone Bellamy loves; she is his whole life. She defines who he is. Without Octavia, Bellamy is nothing. She is the most important relationship of his life. Thatās why Bellamy ending up with Echo after all that makes no sense to me. Not to mention the lack of development between them:
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Sure, being friends might be plausible, but a couple? A stable, lasting relationship? It just doesn't make senseāunless the relationship was essentially a bandage born of circumstance. Let's be honest: Becho only existed because they were the only single people in space and were under the psychological pressure of being up there without knowing what was happening on Earth. The relationship should have imploded once they returned to the ground. Their promise that nothing would change upon their returnāin any other story, that would have been foreshadowing for the exact opposite. Obviously, Bellamy reuniting with Octavia and Clarke should have eventually caused his relationship with Echo to fall apart; anything else makes no sense. The fact that the final season squandered all the logical development of "Bellarke" will always shock me.
Thatās also one of the reasonsāalong with the lack of developmentāwhy I couldnāt have loved Becho, even without Bellarke. I might have liked it a littleāwhy not? Probably because of how their dynamic startedābut not with everything else involved.
