Tag: lexa

hedalexatrikru:

“I swear fealty to you, Clarke kom Skaikru.”

I know this scene is so well-loved, but it’s such a dangerous moment for Lexa (and Clarke, as well).  It is the moment where she accepts and concedes Clarke as a better leader than she is, putting the fate of their people in Clarke’s hands (harken back to Lexa’s ‘advice’ to Clarke in s2: to be a leader her people can put their hopes and dreams into. For Lexa, Clarke is exactly that kind of leader.). From here on, Lexa will look to Clarke for advice or direction. 

We always think in terms of her ‘betrayal’ of Clarke (at Mt. Weather), but that’s not how Lexa is a Betrayer.  Her betrayal is of her people (to colonialist invaders in s2 – something Gustus warned her about) and here, after having been ‘tricked’ back into putting her people first (at Mt. Weather), she completes her betrayal of her people by putting Clarke first, swearing loyalty, on her knees, no less.  

Lexa, of course, does this out of love and devotion, out of fear of Clarke’s endless hatred for her, in hope that Clarke will understand why Lexa had to protect her people first, an act just as devastating to her as it was to Clarke. As Clarke and Lexa, they are just troubled, lovestruck young women who would probably, happily, wish the world (and all their responsibilities in it) away.  As Heda and Wanheda, Lexa wants them to rule together – something completely offensive to the likes of Titus (and others) who only see Skaikru as those who will (eventually) destroy their way of life.  

The massacre of Lexa’s army might be the catalyst for Lexa’s death, but it is in a way as Titus told Clarke: I may have pulled the trigger, but you killed her.  

It’s cruel: how do you blame someone for falling in love? For the likes of Titus, love, the ultimate weakness, is the ultimate betrayal.  

Will Titus (and Gustus’) premonitions about the end of their people haunt Clarke in series 4? She suffers from enough needless guilt. Lexa sought to lift it from her shoulders. Will that haunt her as well?   

suchaneutralgood:

Nia was brought in to kill Lexa. Titus as flamekeeper was created to kill Lexa. Luna was made the last nightblood to kill Lexa. Pike was created to kill Lexa. The nightbloods were created to kill Lexa. The conclave was created to kill Lexa. Gina was created to kill Lexa. Roan was created to kill Lexa. The A.I. plot was created to kill Lexa. Ontari was created to kill Lexa.

Nia is dead

Luna refused the Flame

Titus is dead

Pike is dead

All the nightbloods are dead

The conclave never happened

Gina is dead

ALIE is gone

Roan escaped by the skin of his teeth

The Flame has no host

Ontari is dead

The retcon of season 3 happened with the express purpose of killing Lexa. And I will never get over how they destroyed this show.

It’s fascinating, too because while filming series 2 they would have had no idea how important Lexa would become to a certain audience.  I firmly believe Lexa was never intended to be that important of a character (to the narrative; just more grief for Clarke to deal with) – but then ‘Clexa’ took off, became a thing and took the show with it.  They wrote series 3 with the, as you say, express purpose of killing Lexa.  They knew Lexa had become a hero/icon to the queer audience. They wrote her to be tragic.  They wrote her to be dead.  

Still think the writing team ‘loved’ Lexa or saw her as an obstacle to their ‘bigger plot?’ If they loved her, it was only for the quality of pain her death would bring.  

Kind of bit them in the arse, dinnit?  

I really like your Lexa insights but I think the whole conversation about her is kind of over the top from some people like looking too deep for shit that isn’t there. I think that’s just SOP for fans right?

Here’s the thing: Lexa, as a character, only featured in a dozen or so episodes, was mostly underwritten and killed off too quickly and written out in a cliched manner that was a terrible shock to an audience that had been systematically led to believe the opposite would happen.  For months prior to this, fans had been carefully building their own universe around her, Clarke and t1oo, enriching that world, those characters and themselves with serious character and world-building, exploring the inner lives and outer turmoil, the potential alternatives – they saw more in her/them than the show’s entire writing team did and they have done it so  well, that their work eclipses anything the show could ever offer.  

When fans conversate about Lexa and all related matters, they are not ‘over the top’ or ‘looking too deep for shit that isn’t there,’ they are re-imagining a whole world and giving it more life than its creators did.  It’s important to them because she is/was a beacon of incredibly rare representation that was badly misused and the fans have reclaimed her.  That is something to be joyous about, really, not cynical.  What the show tore down and took away, the fans have loving rebuilt and kept alive.