Tag: commander lexa

Now that the 100 trailer has dropped what do you think? Everyone on my dash is saying beII arke is happening. Does that mean clarke isn’t bi anymore? I just feel kinda sick. it doesn’t look like 100.

I thought the trailer looked messy and derivative and thought the choices for some scene spoilers was questionable. They started with the bit about the nuclear power plants melting down. Embarrassing, especially if you know a little of how those things work. So the science doesn’t look like it’s being corrected. Shame if that’s the case. Bellamy not wanting to sacrifice any more lives?  Didn’t he slaughter innocent people?  It sounds odd coming from him. A little…revisionism in his history going on, maybe?  By placing two intimate-looking scenes with Clarke in the trailer, I’d say they’ve embraced that more than half their fandom is gone and they’ll give what remains something of what they want. It does reek of a little spitefulness. Even if there is no romance between Clarke and Bellamy, the trailer is certainly implying something. Who is being baited now?  We’ll see.  I’ve written below why such a pairing would be outright offensive at this point.  

As for Clarke…and I’ll put this in as it answers a couple of similar asks right now (regarding her legitimacy as a bisexual character):

A fictional bisexual character created by a straight male, who is given a brief romance with a lesbian character who is then killed off to make way for the fictional bisexual to have a romance with the male hero is the problem, if it happens, not that she’s bisexual or offers good (or bad) representation on her own.  

It upholds the heteronormative VISUAL that demeans f/f relationships time and again.  Another toxic trope.  “She was just experimenting.”  “It’s just a phase.”  “She really belongs with him.”  Clarke Griffin becomes a prize that Bellamy ‘deserves’ to win.  It’s an appalling stereotype.  Ask why it’s ‘okay’ that she ‘belongs with him,’ but not ‘her.’  

Answering a previous ask about ‘salty Clexas’: Fans who want Clarke to be reunited with Lexa are fighting against the heteronormative they are constantly slammed with.  The constant degradation of their own fantasies and desires to see just a tiny bit of positive representation on-screen.  They are also fighting back against the deliberate queerbaiting they went through at the hands of the showrunner and members of his team throughout 2015 and early 2016.  

Add with the disgusting amount of homophobic taunting that went on with certain members of another end of the fandom (who are now revelling in what they feel is their triumph over the ‘Clexughs’) there is more going on here than just whether or not Clarke’s bisexuality is valid and good representation. A lot more.  

i was reading all these theories people like to post about what is happening on the 1oo now and how some people like Lindsey or Marie are going to be killed off next year which I really don’t want to happen b/c I think it would be the end of the show. Coming from the BTS side of things do you think that’s happening or is everybody just full of it?

Well, everybody IS full of it, regardless of this show’s existence or not, so that’s settled.  😉

I don’t know what to think of ‘theories,’ I’ve only seen the odd bit of gossip, which is what this really amounts to.  If an actor wants to move on, she probably will, but you won’t know about it until you know about it. Until it is confirmed by an official source. A typical contract is for six years – unless the show ends sooner. We’ve had enough hints about the BTS culture of this show to get a picture of something a little unpleasant, but then we don’t really know.  We get lots of selfies and shots of people smiling and maybe it’s all an act.  It’s just gossiping about when we speculate on things like that.  

The only solid thing right now about whether the show could end soon is that the network ordered 13 episodes instead of 16. Suggests they may not want to invest in it much longer. They did an interesting poll this past year asking viewers if they were affected by the demise of Lexa and whether it would affect their viewing of the show.  Why ask about that? They want to get a lock on how big the Lexa debacle really hurt them.  It should go without saying that the bad publicity brought about by Lexa’s death and Jroth and co’s reaction to it will always be brought up in any conversation about the show.  It could affect the network’s decision to keep supporting it.  

Sorry I’m not really helpful here.  There’s just too little factual information to go on and too much gossip filling in the gaps.   

justicarlexa:

Touch-starved Lexa who’ll never admit it but practically lived for the brief moments of comfort/pride/encouragement in which Anya would lay a firm hand on her shoulder and squeeze gently. Who wishes more than anything she could look to her right and see her mentor’s hand there once more.

Touch-starved Lexa who’s completely caught off guard by Costia’s predilection for physical affection. Who only just starts getting used to the warm sensation of arms wrapped around her shoulders when it’s taken from her forever. Who has never felt she needed someone’s embrace to keep her from falling apart more than when she loses the one person always willing to supply such a comfort.

Touch-starved Lexa who very visibly flinches the first time Clarke tries to hug her. Who’s never afraid in the face of danger and steadfast even when people reach for her with the intent to harm, but is completely terrified of becoming reliant on an embrace that may not always be there.

Touch-starved Lexa who doesn’t quite know how to vocalize her gratitude when Clarke doesn’t let that initial hesitation and stiffness discourage her from trying. Who gradually learns how to relax into Clarke’s arms and melt at her fingertips, without fear of that sensation disappearing.

Touch-starved Lexa becoming not-so-touch-starved.

The way fans have interpreted this character – all complex, beautiful, heartbreaking – speaks so much to how we have often felt about ourselves, I think.  The lack of ‘touch,’ of ‘understanding,’ of compassion from others.  The fear of the repercussions should we accept it.  

Lexa is seen as a broken child with so much to offer, ultimately left behind, something we all fear.  Ultimately diminished. Something we all fear.  Beautiful, fragile in places, full of strength no one sees.  

Shame the show never saw her that way.  The disconnect between the show’s narrative and the audience’s version is so very disconcerting.  

jq37:

writing-prompt-s:

Humans start out at birth with milk white blood. The more crimes they commit, the darker their blood becomes. One day, you meet your soulmate. Skip a few years, and things are amazing… Until your soulmate trips, falls, and exposes black blood…

“Dude, I have not paid for music since 2006.”

“Oh yeah, I forgot that was a crime.”

“Me too, tbh.”

-fin-

This would have been a fascinating background narrative for the Commander…pity.

Hi there! I think i read a convo you had or something you wrote about Lexa’s decision to leave Clarke at mt. weather as stupid it was just for shock or something. I really don’t get why she took the deal! can you talk about it? Thanks!

Thanks for the interesting question. I’m not sure when I wrote about it, but yes, I do think it was just a moment to shock the audience because there is nothing about that choice that makes much sense from a military point of view.  To say it weakens Lexa is an understatement.  By walking away, she negates her own reason for being at Mt. Weather: to defeat the enemy of her people.  Taking a deal with them is against everything she has been working toward and Lexa proved herself to be, until that moment, a most logical and practical person.  Taking the deal left her and her people open to future attacks either by the Mt. people or by Skaikru, if they took over Mt. Weather.  I believe the decision was made by the writer to create a moment of shock for the audience and to build the scenario we got in the first half of s3.  

But I’ve thought too, knowing now that Lexa was a cyborg, her mind the host of an AI database that gave her access to the thoughts/memories of her predecessors (though this was dealt with weakly in s3 – “Lexa didn’t know” – Lexa SHOULD have known): what if she was influenced by the thoughts/memories of Becca? A woman whose invention took some 6 billion lives.  What if Lexa was, essentially, ‘programmed’ to save those lives out of Becca’s guilt for killing off most of the human race?  Instead of acting on her military instincts, Lexa/Becca made a choice to save as many lives as she could. It also underlines Lexa’s point that she made the decision with her head, not her heart.   If ‘Lexa’ had not had Becca’s influence, she probably wouldn’t have broken the alliance and stayed with Clarke.  

I’ve no idea if the writers had this in mind, but I think it gives a bit of sense to Lexa’s decision.   Hope my thoughts weren’t too cluttered.  🙂