#and luna's characterization has greatly improved from that disastrous s3 episode. i like that they paired her up with raven for example

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you know what really frustrates me lately re: the 100 is the whole “lets replace the characters we killed off for shock value with brand new characters who will fulfill the same function in the narrative and pretend like nothing happened”

and by that i mean : anya => echo, lincoln => luna, lexa => roan

a gifted warrior/second-in-command who’s ruthless and not afraid of violence and extremely loyal to her people and her leader. This character forms an uneasy bond with an enemy (a sky person) which ends up somewhat shaking up their sense of loyalty, while allowing the sky person some perspective on grounders lives. they save each other’s lives and respect each other’s skills, but there’s also betrayal and resentment and a lot of complicated history.

=> they killed anya, and gave us echo instead. seriously, look at the parallels between anya x clarke VS echo x bellamy. and i’m not unhappy about echo, i think she’s a cool character and her relationship with bellamy makes for good content but. hello anya 2.0, the “antagonist who becomes a complicated ally’’ and offers a lot of tension and story potential when paired up with our protagonist.

a pacifist who wants nothing to do with war but who will fight if cornered. Someone who’s ready to go up against tradition, even if it means being shunned from their own people and becoming an outcast. the character who’s gonna make our protagonists feel guilty about all the terrible things they’ve done, while also providing forgiveness and maybe another, better way of life.

=> they killed lincoln, and gave us luna instead. this one is particularly infuriating because the narrative had linked luna and lincoln plotwise before his death and so her appearance feels even more like a shoddy replacement for what they lost when they killed him off. which imo doesn’t make luna very likeable. And i know people complain that they made out luna to be the straight  new and improved version of lexa, and it def makes sense on some level, but i mostly disagree. luna is meant to replace lincoln as the ~voice of peace, the non-violent fighter, not lexa, who never had that role. 

a grounder leader, with more experience than clarke, to act as her main counterpart among grounders. sometimes an ally and sometimes an opponent, as clarke and them try to balance loyalty to their respective people and fighting for the greater good (peace and the survival of the entire human race). Ruthless and practical, yet ultimately wants peace for everybody. Acts as a mentor for clarke, recognizes her as a leader and an equal, supports her leadership decisions and calls her out when she favors her own people above anyone else. 

=> they killed lexa and gave us roan instead. If you take out the “romance/personal connection with clarke” part of lexa’s role in the show, that’s exactly what they’re doing with roan now. which is especially clear since i think he’s the ONLY character who has mentioned lexa twice to clarke now, in two different conversations about clarke’s leadership. Plus that entire scene where she gives him the chip. 

anyway all that to say that i am ANNOYED. you cant just replace characters that you’ve spent some time establishing in your story, and expect the audience to care as much for the new versions of them?? And also like... if you KNEW those characters were important - so important in fact that you need to have them replaced when they exit the story - THEN MAYBE DONT FUCKING KILL THEM OFF YOU IDIOTS. That’s what you get when ~a shocking death is privileged over anything else.

#forever bitter #and then there's illian and niylah which is. another thing entirely #anyway this isn't me hating on the new characters - i dont mind new characters at all. in fact i think echo and roan are compelling #and luna's characterization has greatly improved from that disastrous s3 episode. i like that they paired her up with raven for example #but i would love them so much more if it wasnt tainted by the bitterness of it all #the 100 #t100 s4 #sometimes i meta i guess #anyway. rant over.