The problem wasn’t that she died, it was how she died. She was a lesbian character who achieved happiness and then was killed in the next scene.

re: 1&3, I disagree that they had to do those things. I don’t think it improves the show to continually kill Clarke’s lovers, and I don’t think it was impossible for Clarke to leave the tower safely- the bullet could just as easily have killed Murphy or a nameless guard, getting Titus caught with a gun and introducing…

That is part of the problem with this series - the show gained a strong following by making the women centre stage - Clarke, Lexa, Raven, Abby and Octavia in particular.

Something should be done about it. It’s just a shame that the one show that did it well (in its own context), where it made sense to do it, has to suffer for the rest. Would this show be a problem if it were the only example?

As a person of color as well, this whole thing is kind of interesting to see, because black people are almost morbidly used to seeing themselves killed in film and TV (and real life oops) for moronic reasons.

The issue with the fans of the character and the relationship is regarding the Dead Lesbian Trope (Google it) that was used to have Lexa exit the show. The writers had only to use a modicum of creativity to have another reason for the character’s absence - especially since the actress proclaimed that she would’ve…

A reason to write her out, yes, but some shows write out characters without killing them.

Or there could be a lot of sincere annoyance at another queer character on TV getting murdered because writers are too fucking lazy to come up with another way to write them out.

Not only renewed, but the second season order was upped from six to fifteen episodes. I haven’t seen anyone negging on Alycia Debnam-Carey for that, and anyone who does is a giant bag of dicks and arseholes.

Agreed, but I think AMC can give her a heftier paycheck. To be fair, she has only ever been billed as a special guest star on the 100. But that death was the worse. She should have died in freaking battle and gone out on her own terms. I don’t necessarily agree with her being an example of “bury your gays”but she sure…

You’re missing the point.

I’m trying to think of a better way they could have killed her off. A blaze of glory wouldn’t have been right, I think. Because not only did she take a steadily more pacifist stance throughout the season, and not only was her death by the hands of one of her own people foreshadowed for weeks, but... well, her dying in…

Although I don’t feel as strongly as OP about this issue, I do think they have some merit. The 100 gained a lot of new followers from the LGBT community because of the Clexa storyline, and now that they’ve killed off Lexa in a particularly tropey way, people are upset. Apparently Jason Rothenberg has been losing…

I think the 100 is overall very progressive but just because you have “Awesome Warrior-Queen Girlfriends” doesn’t mean you’re progressive. In fact, just because you meet a whole bunch of “checks” on the checklist of trope subversion doesn’t mean that you’re immune to being non-progressive.

It’s even more obvious if you play PoI against The 100, too. I recall reading someone involved in the show’s production say that “WELL THE ACTRESS FOR LEXA IS INVOLVED IN ANOTHER SHOW SO WHAT WERE WE SUPPOSED TO DO” and it’s like, what the fuck, that’s not justification. There’s no reason she had to die and stay dead.
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It’s not that we’re saying people are picking out queer ladies and saying “make sure that one dies.”

But “fridging” women is a thing. And “bury your gays” is a thing. And the fact that these things happen REPEATEDLY, to the point where queer women EXPECT IT (We were scared to death in season 2 when Lexa told Clarke…

God bless Person of Interest, who was tasked with taking their “kind-of-maybe-subtext-gay” lady out of the show for either a handful of episodes if not permanently. They not only took the opportunity to establish that the subtext was real, they went out of their way post-shootout (and maybe post-Sarah Shahi telling…

I partially agree with this because it’s a much broader issue than just Joss Whedon, but partially disagree because it was so obviously ripped off that specific case of Dead Lesbian Syndrome.

FINALLY a reviewer who doesn’t just skirt around this like “welp it happened too bad so sad it was inevitable.” This show blatantly manipulated its publicity and audience into believing it was progressive and ground-breaking and then fell back on the most cheap and regressive trope possible.

As soon as it started looking like Lexa and Clarke will reconcile I knew this was where it was heading (also because Alycia was on another show). You should never be a love interest on this show - Maya, Bellamy’s girlfriend (who was there just to die - we hardly knew her name), Raven’s engineer guy. I’m afraid Lincoln…