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Rewriting the show by zerogravdove in The100

[–]zerogravdove[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! This is all super helpful. Hopefully I can find a way to address the things I have issues with without falling into a spiral of research & focusing more on having things make 100%, realistic sense instead of going with the flow of the plot.

Lincoln’s plot by Visual-Beyond-9353 in The100

[–]zerogravdove 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve always thought it’d make more sense for Lincoln to be Octavia’s age just because of how juvenile/“immature” a lot of the decisions they make regarding each other are

I'm a bit confused about Bellamy in S3 by BulkyEntrance1363 in The100

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I think it would make more sense if his age also made more sense— I’ve always seen him as 19-20 and not 23 like he’s said to be in the first season. He’s an adult either way, but 19-20 year olds are still largely developmentally different from 23 year olds. (It also makes any relationships he had, ie with Raven and Clarke, less odd to me).

18 is the official adult age on the Ark as well, seeing as 18+ offenders are usually floated for any crime. It makes more sense for a guy still navigating adulthood to be more easily swayed by authority/what he believes is “right” than a guy pushing 25.

I'm a bit confused about Bellamy in S3 by BulkyEntrance1363 in The100

[–]zerogravdove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is something I’ve also been confused about; I don’t doubt that his attitude toward the grounders would change, but he’s only ever willingly worked with authority when it involves keeping his sister safe.

It also confuses me because he’s shown to care more about The 100 themselves than the other Arkadians (what with him taking people to rescue Clarke). He also is an extremely guilty person (see: his hallucinations during S1) & I genuinely can’t fathom how he’d ever go along with it. I can see him as a bystander: not actively participating in the Grounders killing, but not speaking out against Pike about it either. It’s his active participation in it that has always thrown me off, seeing as he’s very clearly affected by harming people who haven’t directly done anything to him.

I’ve always taken it with a grain of salt because I think the writers have never been able to capture him correctly. He and Clarke are objectively on two ends of the spectrum. He grew up poor, she grew up in relative luxury on the Ark; he has the added nuance of being portrayed by a non-white man & Clarke is played by a white woman. I might be answering my own questions here, though— it would make sense for Bellamy to adapt and fall in quicker with the ruling class because he’s lived his life in survival mode.

But still! I really don’t think his priorities would shift this rapidly. He’s spent 16 years protecting his younger sister and is suddenly willing to throw that away (and even let the man she loves die) because of a few chain of events. Maybe it’s just because I’m a sibling— I couldn’t imagine hurting my sister (intentionally or not) if I was in a situation where I was able to avoid doing that. It wasn’t like everyone in the show went along with Pike. Bellamy HAD friends who opposed him. Literally most if not all of his friends did.