The 100: Did Lexa Have to Die for the Plot?
A Bias Opinion Based on The CW TV Series: Spoilers Ahead
I recently finished watching the final season of The CW series The 100 and, like many others, was not a huge fan of how things ended. It was so disappointing and.. strange.. that if I were to ever re-watch this series, it would only be to once again experience Clarke and Lexa’s too-short love story.
When Lexa died I — along with many others in the LQBTQ+ community — was devastated. Producer Jason Rothenberg said on TV Insider:
“Lexa’s death triggered real emotional trauma for some people … It tapped into the real world, it tapped into their lives, and as a straight white male, I obviously didn’t anticipate how deeply it would affect certain people. I look at it now and I realize that if somebody had that kind of a reaction and then were to look back at the way I behaved on Twitter leading up to it, which was celebrating this relationship that then crushed them, I can understand why they would find that reprehensible. I hope that people understand that.”
Well obviously, what did he expect from killing off a lesbian/queer character just after her blossoming romance? It’s a trope that’s become all to common, breaking the hearts of many women loving women who just want some damn women loving women content…
