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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.  🙂 

Season Verdict: ‘The 100’ [The CW] | TV After Dark

commanderlexaofthegrounders:

It was hard to write a clinical season verdict of ‘The 100’ when frankly it was a hot mess. Season three of ‘The 100’ had a lot of problems: plot-canyons, lack of consistency both in pacing and writing…but they were the tip of an iceberg. The problematic use of the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope, the execution of a minority eerily similar to a WWII concentration camp, xenophobic slaughter, prevalent colonialist themes, and child mass-murder: it attracted a lot of media attention, disgust, and triggered young viewers.

And all for what?

Alas, it was not for great story-telling, any hints of a fathomable plot, or a brilliant set-up for next season. It was basic shock value. Unfortunately, of its sparse deck of that one card, ‘The 100’ ran out of gimmicks. The ‘shocks’ became predictable “yes, we figured this in the hiatus”, and its facade of a promising, gritty show crumbled away. Characters became simple plot devices, and the controversial death of fan-favourite Commander Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) in perhaps the most ostensible bit of TV plagiarism was the last straw for the majority of the fanbase.

Briefly, the gist of season three was this: world-building did not equate to world-building; there was a stupendously unbelievable artificial intelligence ‘plot’ that dragged for the whole season; genocide was a-okay; and lastly, the show’s most groundbreaking shocker was that they ticked off literally every cheap trope in the book of tropes. Yet, objectively, there were positives to season three and that will be discussed later. But for now, let’s delve into the season and think about analysing it.

Excellently analyised.  

Season Verdict: ‘The 100’ [The CW] | TV After Dark