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So I have couple of things to say about this mess.

1) Jason is a dick and I sure hope he’ll never do another show again. (Like we knew this but it still deserves to be said)

2) S7 is not canon because what was done to characters was purely out of spite. It actually gives me peace. I’ve absolutely HATED almost all the characters and storylines this season. I was not enjoying myself because I did not recognize my favorite characters and it was hurting me a LOT. But now that I know that everything this season was done out of spite and that there was no heart in it for making Clarke and Bellamy this season. I know this is not canon. I’m free.

3) I love Bellamy, I love Clarke, I love Bellarke and their story ended when it stopped making sense. I’ll continue to love the characters and the world and I’m really excited to see every single story/edit/gif/art this fandom makes after. They are ours now and they’ll always be.

4) Fuck Jroth and these caricatures of my favorite characters in s7 do not exist.

5) I love you all and I’ll be back making art when I get back from the north in a month or so.

-An

#the 100 #seconded

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I hope Jroth never has a show again. He needs to find a new career that doesn't involve people

#the 100 #anti JRoth #'good luck' with that prequel you were gunning for

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So either the ending is totally unsatisfying, which at this point let’s face it, any ending will be unsatisfying because this whole season has been one big unsatisfying pile of shit (with some tiny exceptions) or they’ll ~~transcend~~ and live happily ever after and Bellamy won’t even get a happily ever after when he deserved one so fucking much.

Either way, good riddance. I don’t regret watching The 100, and I still love so much of it, but I will be SO FUCKING GLAD to be done with it. When I do re-watch it (bc I still plan on doing so) I’ll just pretend S7 never existed. They all live happily ever after on Sanctum. The end.

#the 100 #season 7 is shit #season 7 didn't canonically happened it was a anomaly induced nightmare #Canon ended at the season 6 finale as far as I'm concerned #I mean what the hell were they thinking?! #genuinely how did they think they could set their entire show on fire and come out unburned? #Especially since he's trying to get his prequel picked up #set in the same universe as the show he just set on fire #Is he just a moron or a psycho who has no real sense of how badly this is going to affect his career #I mean who would ever trust him as a showrunner again? #He murdered his MOC lead using his female lead as the weapon for no real reason and was so ooc in reasoning #and then he had his female lead who had a miscarriage IRL only months earlier go screaming looking for her 'baby' #all because the male lead needed some time off for mental health and doc wanted him to reduce his hours so he was brutally written off #and his female lead/wife gets terrible ooc writing and despicable scenes to act #all supposedly because she saw how her hubby was being treated and wasn't having it #And for that JRoth obliterated both their characters and his show..? #This show deserved better than this racist ass-hat of a showrunner who gets off destroying his own show out of pure spite

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I was never so up in arms over Kim Schumway. I didn't always enjoy her writing but that was okay, I can't like everything and everyone. But this whole season and especially this new episode feels cruel in a way we haven't seen before. Having Clarke consider killing Madi, giving Eliza a scene to shoot where she calls out to her baby, after she suffered a miscarriage what, months earlier? That's atrocious.

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What I want to know now is what went down between Jason and Eliza. Clarke, our hero, had been completely sidelined this season. She's got no agency, no influence on the situation and she'd been devolving since the moment she attacked Russell in Sanctum.

And to add insult to injury, Eliza had been given some horrible, cruel or plainly badly written scenes to act. What had transpired that they started treating her like this?

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The important ss from the exposejason Twitter bc I got a couple messages after my last post. Just REMEMBER that this is all might be bs, but that they did also predict B’s death/BM only being in 3 eps months ago

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Repost if after The 100 you will never watch another show, movie, or project connected to Jason Rothenberg.

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So JRoth spent the last 6ish years on this show, just to pretty much set it on fire in the final season? I mean I get where they were going with Bellamy, because it's pretty much Pike all over again but from a different angle. But to have Clarke motherf'in Griffin take the shot? The shot she couldn't take in the bunker when it was Bellamy or the rest of her people? The Pitt was different, Madi was between 2 sets of enemies. This makes no bloody sense and if he's not trolling, I'll be so pissed!!

He’s a petty, pathetic sentient graham cracker. 

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I’m honestly debating whether or not I even want to watch the last 3 episodes. Not because I’m a Bellarke shipper and having Clarke be so OOC that she’d gun down Bellamy for virtually nothing while he’s pretty much hated and shunned by everyone he lives and it is literally breaking my heart, but because I just don’t know how they could salvage the story at this point. JRoth has single-handedly ruined a story/relationship/characters 7 YEAR in the making and for what? Ego? Pride? Shock value?

And I know some people are on their soap boxes about ‘the showrunners aren’t writing this for the fans, it’s their creation and you don’t have the right to bitch because you don’t like how it turned out.’ I personally am not a fan of showrunners giving into the pressure put on them by fans to tell the story they want instead of the story they’re already telling...but this is not one of those situations. This right here, is the opposite of that; this is a showrunner completely undermining the story they’ve been building and the characters they’ve been developing since season 1 and their relationship which he himself is ‘the heart of the show’ and...just ripping it to shred for shock value. Not because it makes any sense within the narrative or because it’s a natural progression for the characters and their relationship. In fact it’s the damn opposite. 7 years of building their friendship, their co-leadership, their family, their love (whether you believe is romantic or platonic it’s love and its there) all undone in a matter of 2 episodes. For no narrative purpose other than shock value.

So yeah, unless I see something that gives me some measure of hope that they’ll somehow manage to pull off a miracle and salvage it, what’s the point? The characters are why I stick around for the story in most cases, so nerfing my two favourite characters by having one go completely against what she believes and stands for to murder the other, the man she loves, for a book that was so significant and important she didn’t even take it? Yeah, no.

Either JRoth is trolling and has been all season(or since season 1 which honestly wouldn’t surprise me) or he is a complete moron who completely spat in the face of the audience that are the only reason the show made it past season 1, let alone 7 seasons and I don’t trust him to close out this series with any level of respect for the world and character he brought to our screens, let alone finish it in an anyway satisfying way. And the fact he’s actually directing the last episode...*sigh*. I’d LOVE to be pleasantly surprised, but I honestly don’t think he deserves that kind of trust anymore, not after this season but especially after that last scene.

It better have been a ploy cooked up between Clarke and Bellamy while she was off finding the anti-toxin, because nothing short of that kind of miracle, or Bellamy making it and them being stranded together on Skyring for a couple of years before rejoining the others is going to do it. Damn, see me clowning still. I just love the characters too much to feel ok with how they’ve been so thoroughly trashed.

#the 100 #the 100 spoilers #the 100 speculation #Bellamy Blake deserved better #Clarke deserved better than this character assassination #Killing a character for shock value is pathetic writing #anti Jroth

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Just...why?!

Ok, did that really just happen? Did JRoth just completely annihilate 7 years of relationship and character development in 2 episodes? I mean can he really be that epically stupid?! This isn’t even from a Bellarker point of view, but someone who generally enjoys the show; what is the point of the last 6 seasons if you’re completely going to demolish the character of the two leads in a single scene? I mean it makes no sense narratively, and even less sense when you remember that JRoth is hoping that the final season will bring in enough interest to launch the prequel. What fans would want to follow one of his stories again after he’s shown such continual disregard for both the fans and the story he’s supposedly telling? And in such a brutal fashion no less; having one of the leads gun down the other over a book she then leaves behind. A crack shot who once shot Lincoln through the shoulder to kill the man with a knife to his throat went straight for the kill shot for the man she loves because...? And yes, Clarke loves Bellamy, whether you believe it’s platonic or romantically it’s nowhere near up for debate. I mean she’s been compartmentalised because her almost dying, her daughter almost dying and her mother being murdered and then having to float her mothers body-snatcher herself, but NO WAY IN HELL WOULD CLARK ‘I CHOOSE BELLAMY BLAKE OVER THE REST OF HUMANITY’ GRIFFIN WOULD EVER SHOOT DOWN BELLAMY ‘I’LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING CLARKE GRIFFIN BACK’ BLAKE IN COLD BLOOD!!

So either JRoth is just that malignant a ‘creator’ that he’d either intentionally or unintentionally (if he really didn’t think through the impact it would have on the fanbase/story even after the end of GoT) detonated the story and main characters and their relationship which he’s always said are the heart of the show which would massively risk the future project that was favourably received episodes ago...or he’s a massive asshole who doesn’t know the difference between 'trolling’ his audience with fake deaths to get a reaction and setting fire to any believability that even if Bellamy isn’t dead (and it would a real moronic move if he was) that he’d be able to forgive Clarke for shooting him and everyone turning on him (now he kinda knows how Clarke feels, just saying) or that it’s something Clarke could ever forgive herself for. In the 3 remaining episodes....?! I mean it was already going to be hard enough getting everything else more or less wrapped up in the time left, but this?!

So yeah, I think JRoth is ‘trolling’ his entire fandom and hoping that their disbelief in Bellamy being dead or completely gone forever to bring in better numbers for the last few episodes (which makes...sense?) with no real regard to continuity of character or how OOC he had to make his mains, though I see either blanket forgiveness (which I genuinely HATE in this show and I know it’s tied to Clarke’s compassionate side but it sucks she has to forgive everyone who treats her like crap like it’s nothing (looking at you Raven and Echo) because it’s never really applied to Bellarke; they forgive each other because they can see how much the impossible decisions weigh on each other. It’s always been forgiveness based on compassion and understanding IMO) or it being a plan the pair cooked up since arriving back on Sanctum somehow...maybe Clarke convincing Bellamy that she could never agree to someone like Cadogan making life and death decisions for the human race, but maybe acknowledging that transcendence could be real but setting up the opportunity to show Bellamy who Cadogan really is by leaving behind the journal (?) because she knows it’s a test not a war. That is genuinely one of the only ways I can see them even slightly salvaging the decimation the writer of this episode and JRoth did to my two favourite characters and one of my OTP’s.

When will showrunners learn that a satisfying ending to a story they created on screen for us isn’t a ‘cliché’ and is so much more important than being ‘edgy’ for the sake of it and demolishing the narrative and characters they’ve constructed over how many YEARS in the process?!

I shudder to think what Kass Morgan thinks about the damage the asshole has wrought.

So in conclusion; JRoth is a malignant troll who has waaay overused the ‘psych this beloved character isn’t really dead’ trope too often and it’s just sad. Bellamy isn’t really dead because that’s just moronic storytelling and pretty much spitting in the fandoms face for shock value (remember the part where JRoth is a malignant troll?) and even if they do manage to bring back Bellamy, get him and Clarke in the same place and somehow bridge to massive gap that started in season 5, was starting to be repaired in season 6 just for it to be blown into a Grand Canyon size gorge in 2 whole episodes...how will they manage to conclude the story with Bellamy and Clarke ‘together’? It’s been sprinkled in hint form since season 1 (from my point of view since that’s the only point of view I can speak for. You disagree? Good for you, I don’t care.) and more and more heavily every season since until we got last season, and yet they just set the entire relationship on fire and obliterate it just like that? Does JRoth even give the slightest of damns about this show anymore or has it just gotten to the point where he just wants to see how much of it he can destroy before he moves on to the prequel? Honestly, even if he somehow manages to salvage this before the last episode (which he’s directing...yeah *sob*) I honestly don’t think I’d ever watch something he’s a part of again, for no other reason than he just seems to get sick enjoyment out of traumatising his fanbase (if you’re not traumatised after that final scene...what the hell is wrong with you?!) and just pretty much treating their love/enjoyment of the story as if it’s nothing for the...lols? No matter how good the prequel episode was, it’s not enough to make me put up with JRoths bullshit ever again.

#the 100 #the 100 spoilers #what the actual fuck has JRoth done now!! #This is why we can't have badass characters in a wonderful slowburn mutually pining and loving relationship! #Bellamy Blake #Clarke Griffin #Bellamy Blake deserves better than this shit #Clarke Griffin deserves better than this shit #It's 'Jake' Skywalker all over again #When will these idiots LEARN!!! #STOP RUINING MY FAVOURITE FRANCHISES WITH YOUR STUPID 'EDGY' CRAP YOU ASSHOLES!!! #JRoth is an asshole #anti JRoth #'Edgy' isn't synonymous with being better and isn't inherently good or satisfying especially when you have to trash characters to get there

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as an australian, knowing that bob morley grew up in a period of anti-asian racism and the height of pauline hanson’s career (who started her parliamentary service by saying “we are in danger of being swamped by asians”), seeing all the white wlw on this website call him just another basic male lead and celebrating bellamy’s character assasination and shock killing is super fucking gross

#the 100 #oi oi oi #What the hell is wrong with people? #I guess they're the kinds of people JRoth is doing the show for now I guess #Which makes it so much worse

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Amazing article by Jillian Pugliese that sums up perfectly how a lot of us are feeling. Please read!

#the 100 spoilers

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It is our duty as feminists to protect and respect women in Hijabs

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I wanna be that CEO that pays their employees 70K a year like that white guy I be seeing all over the Internet. I can’t remember his name.

I’m not gonna be like Jeff Bezos but I do wanna be a multimillionaire 😂😂😂

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Ooooh, what if Cadogan sent the others to Etherea in a bid to try and convert them thinking he’d just sent all the warriors, not realising that Jordan is as smart as Monty and maybe he figures out the trick to the beings of light that converted Bellamy so they can unmask Cadogan for the fraud he is.

And since they all have the helmets that can bring up the codes to use the Anomaly stone (that Cadogan thinks they’re too stupid to figure out how to use) to get to Sanctum and input the key to the test for humanity.

And after they pass the test, what if Bellamy and Clarke are dumped out on Sky Ring for a couple of years before Gabriel or one of the others put in the code that opens the Anomaly only for Bellamy, Clarke and a their toddler come through.

#the 100 #season 7 speculation #a girl can dream

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It just be my take on it, but I think they had Clarke repeat 'Best Friend' not because it's a friend-zone thing (a horrible concept in general, but also not applicable in Bellarke's case) but because she probably doesn't know a word that encompasses all he is to her. Especially since things like 'soul-mate' and 'my person' or 'the love of my life' aren't hers to use in her mind because he's in a relationship with E. So she used a term they'd understand, even if it undersold what he is to her.

Ding ding. It’s her way of saying, out loud, that this is my person. She’s NEVER had to define Bellamy before. Everyone has just known their connection because they see it. 

And “soulmate” has never been uttered in this show before so something like “my platonic soulmate” would just be bizarre. 

But it’s been “I need the guy who...” (wouldn’t let me pull the lever alone, wouldn’t let me do x, y, z alone) but now it’s “I need the man who literally resurrected me because he wouldn’t let me down” and that’s just a can of worms she won’t open yet.

#the 100 #Bellarke #Bellamy Blake #Clarke Griffin #Best Friend doesn't mean there's not love there #She just can't admit it to anyone else especially since she hasn't said it to him yet #because she thinks it's one sided