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That sounds cool! Except it was terribly rushed and had Bellamy, one of the show’s central characters, jumping immediately to an absolutely despicable, horrific act, as he joined in (and helped make possible) the straight up murder of 300 Grounders, who were there to help defend the people of Arkadia, in a way that felt absolutely unearned and bizarre. A strong-willed, charismatic man of the people rising up from the Ark with a much more black and white view of all Grounders as the enemy, who manages to gain support - and how Bellamy, in the wake of tragedy, is swayed to his side, makes ghastly decisions as a result and finds himself now in opposition to his friends, only to eventually realize he’s on the wrong side. On paper, it sounds pretty fascinating and in The 100’s wheelhouse. The other massive issue, and one that went on for several episodes, was how the Pike (Michael Beach) and Bellamy (Bob Morley) storyline was built up. So yes, those five minutes or so of screen time – which happened in the middle of an otherwise terrific episode! – were really notable, because taking Lexa out was too big a deal to get this wrong.
If Batman was killed by a stray bullet meant for someone else, as he wandered into a room, would anyone find that dramatically satisfying? Of course not. Think of any popular, "badass" character – say, Batman, for many.
#The 100 season 6 episode 4 tv#
She had a poignant, emotional death scene with Clarke (Eliza Taylor) after she was shot (Debnam-Carey and Taylor continued to prove to be a wonderful onscreen pairing), but few were satisfied with the lame, horribly timed manner of her death – which both fed into a trope about killing off lesbians on TV but also into a cliché story beat for any fictional pairing, where her and Clarke’s long-awaited sexual consummation was immediately followed by Lexa being killed, in an accidental manner that played as though she stumbled into a room, not noticing the gun shots and mayhem occurring. But wow, the way she was killed sure sucked. It was a frustrating example of real world obstacles and contracts impacting story, and given that, I completely get the decision to kill her. I wrote before about how I don’t think it was an incorrect choice to kill Lexa off, given the circumstances of Alycia Debnam-Carey’s availability being so limited – you had a character who was, essentially, now too awesome and too important to the story to take off the board - yet say she was alive, out there, somewhere - for most of the time without it hindering the show, and yet Debnam-Carey’s Fear the Walking Dead commitments meant the opportunities to actually have her onscreen going forward could be few and far between. Let’s get to where things went wrong, as the key issues are pretty clear.
Personally, in terms of the latter, I do think some lines were crossed (and lessons learned, the hard way, for many TV creators in regards to the tricky realm of modern social media interaction with fans), but I want to stress that this review is of the actual content of The 100 as a TV show alone in its third year.
#The 100 season 6 episode 4 series#
It’s impossible to think about Season 3 without also thinking about the controversy that surrounded the series – and for the first time, negative media attention – in the wake of Lexa’s death, which was about how it was handled story-wise, and whether it fed into a long-standing TV trope, and also whether the show's writers manipulated fans beforehand in terms of expectations. Was it still a great show, despite those issues? Yes, most certainly. So did the show stumble in Season 3? Yes, in some key ways, most certainly.
The 100 came into Season 3 on a high, with a notable increase in acclaim, buzz, and coverage on the heels of its excellent second season - only to then suffer through some very public backlash.
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Warning: Full spoilers for The 100: Season 3 follow.
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