I have zero influence in the fandom but WHATEVER!

To those of you who are trying to get the show cancelled I have a few words… Some people love the show for the story, douche move for ruining that for those people. And also, I’m sure Eliza, Bob, Lindsay and every other cast member would be totally stoked to lose their jobs and never again play these characters they’ve been immersed in for years. No but yeah, try to cancel the show for the greater good of it all.

I get why everyone’s mad, truly, the fact that lgbtq representation always seems to end in tragedy totally sucks. But the fact that we got this kind of slow burn realistically timed relationship out of one television show and enough to be so passionate about is a huge step. If Clarke was a guy, Titus would have done the same exact thing. The fact that Clarke was effecting Lexa’s decisions was why the gun came around. She didn’t die because she was queer. The scene was necessary regarding the forward movement of the story, which ultimately is the job of a television show. Yea, it could have been written another way, but regarding outside influences, (ftwd) it was the most acceptable way that Alicia’s departure could have worked.

Realistically. And from everything we’ve seen in this show so far, things don’t end well. Ever. So even if the shooting DIDN’T happen, Pyke was a major character, (for a shit ton of Bellamy character development) and he would still try to attack the grounders, and Clarke would still defend them, and Lexa would still try to compromise for her, and Titus would STILL be butthurt about it, do you see where I’m going with this? It could have ended with betrayal, or someone dying from their own side, or a vast number of other negative things, but instead we get to know that their love is eternal. Ya can’t really say they weren’t in love at this point.

Regardless, Lexa and Clarke were going to be split up. Ideal scenario, Pyke dies without doing anything, the rest of Arkadia is totally fine with the grounders ALL OF A SUDDEN, and the grounders are fine with skaikru ALL OF A SUDDEN, Clarke goes back to Lexa, we never deal with the AI concept again and the season ends happily ever after. Which, first off, would upset another fandom, second, be a pretty boring story ending (the complete opposite of what writers and producers and actors and anyone working with tv wants), third, is entirely unrealistic given the pace and bloodshed of the show so far. And Clarke’s not done growing and learning yet.

Yea. It would have been nice to see love prevail. It would have been so nice to see more of the two of them happy together. A majority of my favorite scenes were of the two of them, Eliza and Alicia had such chemistry. But you know what, they weren’t the entire show. To the people who want to see Raven conquer herself, see Jasper’s acceptance, to see what it is that ALIE 2.0 is going to lead to, to see Bellamy stop being such a fartknocker, and to those shippers, granted it would be a bit of a slap in the face to Clexa shippers if Bellarke is endgame, those shippers should have the opportunity to experience their fandoms ups and downs. This fandom more than others should know that. Television is about emotion, feeling something, learning something. Trying to remove it because of one characters death is narrow and selfish.

What the Clexa fandom has done is incredible regarding the Trevor project. Which you know, doesn’t have to be for nothing. It’s an important cause and if being mad at a writer is what brought a shit ton of people together to donate money, so be it. That’s fantastic. But you don’t have to take jobs away from actors, take the experience away from viewers who like the show for more than just a pairing, and send death threats to the dude that gave birth to your Heda. He had no reason to not want Alicia to come back, aside from her obligation to her other role. And even still, if she was able to come back, IF that could have been the case, ultimately the better story is the one that gets picked to be made.

So. I don’t know what all of ya’ll are going to do, but I’m going to watch this tv show, not let the death of my favorite character ruin the story for me, and see how the impact of her death effects the rest of it.

But yeah, I’m sure the cast doesn’t want to work on this anymore. I’m sure they would appreciate getting fired.

Sincerely,

a Lesbian Clexa shipper