maywemeetagaincommandr:

thedoctor-smith:

commanderoswald:

Apparently Clarke’s gun has all the names of people she’s lost and Lexa’s name is the biggest………this is fine

This is kind of grotesque, I think – The Commander of Death carries a rifle now with the names of people whose death she had a hand in – or, at least, blames herself for.   She still carries this burden.  

Honestly it is rather strange having the names of those shes lost and misses, written on a gun, a tool thats only purpose is to take away life.

Agreed – wouldn’t it have been more fitting if she’d made some kind of memorial?  Some place she might visit?  Writing their names on her gun only reinforces the Wanheda problem, even the colonialist overtones that she is part of an invading force that took the lives of the locals.  Is it her way of punishing herself, reminding herself she is a killer? Is the gun a representation of her past and her conscience?

What does she shoot with this rifle, anyway?  Why keep it?  What animals survived praimfaya?  Is she expecting the Grounders to return and be a threat? She and the girl are alone, have been for six years, but Clarke still carries a gun. What does that say?  That weapon keeps Clarke rooted in her past.

gun-bitch:

micdotcom:

Watch: Powerful supercut shows why LGBTQ fans deserve better.

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Television and film continue to do harm to minority audiences, by giving them only token representation – in so doing, help perpetuate harmful stereotypes within our day-to-day lives. When only the straight, white and predominantly male audience is catered to, you reinforce the social superiority of the straight white male and wind up with toxic leadership, toxic communities and toxic families.  There’s a line that leads through all of it and the television and film communities have played their part. Not to their credit.   

commanderoswald:

Apparently Clarke’s gun has all the names of people she’s lost and Lexa’s name is the biggest………this is fine

This is kind of grotesque, I think – The Commander of Death carries a rifle now with the names of people whose death she had a hand in – or, at least, blames herself for.   She still carries this burden.  

That is the saddest about Lexa alone abandoned on the chip and they probs wont remember it next year either but they still find ways to bait now we got a baby Lexa clone! like that is ALL that was good about this finale.

That was an interesting and highly unlikely turn of events, wasn’t it – what are the odds that Clarke would find (where?) a small child who just happens to be a Nightblood (with brown hair and green eyes no less)?  And they now just happen to live in the one remaining bit of forest left on the planet – after the entire planet erupted in fire? Something survived.  A forest.  The rover.  A kid.  Clarke’s eyeliner.   

If a Nightblood can survive being burned alive by radiation that would melt anyone else in seconds – shame it couldn’t heal a body hit in a non-vital area by a bullet, eh?  

Mum Clarke and her Lexa clone kid – no, they weren’t baiting anyone with that. They weren’t reading all that Clexa family fan fiction. Nope.  No way. 

If the Flame makes an appearance next year, any bet it will go to the Lexa clone (any other bet we find out she’s Lexa’s niece or something)?  No, that’s just too much.  

‘The time of the Commanders and the Flame is over.’  

Now put on the Commander’s kit and don’t forget to speak Trig.

Here’s your season 5 spoilers for the tloo:

  • Commander Octavia introduces a new generation of skygrounders: technically adept and literate – except they only had some Archie comics, so prepare for the Riverdale crossover!
  • Abby emerges with a fauxhawk and a facial tattoo.  She no longer speaks English.
  • Niylah is mute because she just can’t, anymore.
  • Clarke, aka Lexa, teaches Madi, aka Aden, about compassion, strength and wisdom and how to live off of magical plants and not be genocidal for five minutes.  Good times.  And then everybody shows up again.  ‘Mum, they’re noisy!’ 
  • Raven and Co haven’t changed a bit.  They did figure out how to make Echo – I mean soylent green – last five years, though.  
  • Lexa, the last True Commander, long dead, long forgotten, forever alone on her little chip, still stuck in that little tin, abandoned on a dusty corner somewhere in the nether regions of the bunker:

Pop Quiz: You’ve just died and you now know there is a heaven and hell and its just like the books tell us with angels and wings and fiery demons. Before you get to find out where you’ll end up though, the doctors manage to bring you back to life. Do you tell everyone what you know, knowing they might not believe you or do you keep it to yourself, giving benefit to the doubt that you might have been hallucinating?

There would be no doubt in my mind that this ‘afterlife’ is a complete fabrication of my dying brain and not worth mentioning to anyone. 

Any predictions for tonight’s episode? I hate to say I’m hoping Clarke dies but I can’t see her on this show anymore. I DO NOT want to see Octavia as the Commander. You were right about her hero arch but its so so wrong.

No predictions.  Whatever happens will likely further reinforce the white saviour/superior colonialist end of the narrative, rushed along instead of completely thought out and considered for what it is, with more of the Sky people surviving than expected while the ‘grounders’ continue to sink into the background of their own lives, their own history and future usurped. Whatever they were, subsumed into a collective that favours the needs/wants/techno superiority of Jaha’s people, versus their own.    

I guess that is a prediction: the grounders are no more.