#cons: we don't get a romance subplot from them because that already happened; also the only person who could've married them is west

[thevagabondexpress]

wait, should gadiel and leena be married? because they're giving me married energy all of a sudden.

[sometimesrosy]

so if madi is telling the story like fairy tales and legends or myths,than bellarke love story is gonna be also a legend/love story like in myths and tales,adam/eve,romeo/juliet,tristan/isolde,greek myths,fairy tales you know years or centuries later they are gonna be still remembered the king and the queen(princess) of the new world,really Jason wants to create his own myth legend love story in a postapoc show,i don't know if you follow me.he loves trag love stories he is making BC one of them.

Although we know next-to-nothing about the S5 overall plot, I’m coming to you with this question from a storytelling perspective. Because you’ve read & studied so much literature & film. When is it realistic for Bellamy & Clarke to get real with each other in the course of S5 from an entire series pacing viewpoint? Imo so many obstacles were thrown at them in s4 to purposefully avoid it & drag it out. But is that likely to occur again in S5? Are the writers really going for true end-of-series—

-endgame to get them to finally confess and be together? Like end of S5 or S6 if it goes another season? I want the battle couple you do, Rosy. I’m just not sure if the show wants it. The show has them as a battle platonic couple, they’re already most of the way there. Now it’s telling their love story’s development or re-development after 6 years. So, does that up the odds for it being drawn out. Because I’ll just sit here dyyyyying. Thanks, Rosy! xoxo

Yeah. I know, right? It’s crazy and hard to deal with. So here’s what I’m figuring out about this show and these writers. They are using a lot very traditional story telling techniques. They’re pulling on archetypes and mythology and tried and true tropes and conventions, but they mix them all up so you never know what is going to come up on top.

And it turns out that while I have a pretty decent background in traditional story telling techniques and modern fiction and post modern concept and mythology and psychology and all that good stuff, what I’m NOT an expert in is tv. Hollywood is not my thing and perhaps I think it’s not as *literary* or something. I’ll examine that as my bias. But it’s clear, I’ve stated, that I don’t like soap operas. And the thing is, soap operas sell. And a lot of the pacing they’re doing with the show is based on the soap opera thing and the rules of hollywood and tv and sweeps week and what works for this medium which is not my medium…. so I’m not so sure I can speak to you about the pacing of tv stories.

In my world, you put a chekhov gun at the beginning of the story, you use it by the end, so the romance story put into play should have been clear at the end of the season. Except a season in tv is not a novel. Not quite. A season needs a cliffhanger. At least the way they do this show. So they didn’t shoot the gun of the Bellarke romance, they just cocked it and pointed it, and… didn’t pull the trigger. They showed it to us, but no bang.

We have to wait for next season. Now according to that, they have to give it to us next season. But tv has different rules. And a lot of people have been saying all along that they would wait until the end of the show to make it canon, so I can’t say for sure. I don’t like it. I don’t like the time jump. I don’t like holding off on the romance. Stupid Hollywood. 

But what I can tell you is HOTDAMN I was right about the creation myth. I’ve been saying Bellarke was a mythic love story and origin story about the beginning of the world since 2.05. 

This pacing is a lot slower than we usually see in tv and that can be really frustrating. I’m not even just talking about Bellarke, but also character development. They let their stories sit and grow. They let them backslide. They start a story and then pick it up again later, they drag a redemption out three seasons. Healing takes time. People don’t get over trauma. They hold grudges for seasons. 

It’s very much more realistic. 

They give us the tropes, and then hold out on the payoff. 

I do think it is realistic that they might give us romantic Bellarke. It could happen. I don’t know if it’s guaranteed. Because what if they’re waiting. I think they should read their audience better than they did season 3, because people are getting frustrated. They’re going to need to give us something and not just SELL Bellarke in marketing but start giving us a little in canon, besides the subplot and cinematography and non explicit narrative development.

The clues I’m seeing that they MIGHT be ready for canon romantic bellarke, full on relationship and kissing and everything is 

They hired that romantic scene director. Not a random guy, but they guy that wrote the best primetime love scene I’ve ever seen. Like I can’t believe that made it to PG it was so hot. Olicity. SUPER HOT. 

They ended last season with the near confessions, head and heart, hug, together, then separation going immediately into Clarke being, basically in love and committed to Bellamy, although he’s been gone 6 years. You just can’t have her in love like that, PINING like that, and not do anything with it for the season.

The sizzle reel was a bellarke fan video and only spoke Bellamy’s name (also true for the 6 year later finale scene) It was refocusing the story on a fairy tale that feature Clarke and Bellamy as the heroes. 

The way they are talking about Clarke and Bellamy in marketing and cons is as Clarke and Bellamy being the story. JR once said Clarke and Bellamy weren’t the story they were telling right now. They didn’t. They told other romantic stories. Now they are saying it’s Clarke and Bellamy’s story. No ambiguity.

Does Clarke love Bellamy? YES CLARKE DOES. Again. No ambiguity. Oh y’all didn’t understand the hug and head and heart and gun scene? Didn’t understand the talking to him for 6 years although he wasn’t there? HERE HAVE A SCRIPT TO SCREEN where Clarke talks about Bellamy WHO SHE LOVES. 

I feel like the marketing and social media conversation is getting people ready for Bellarke, both fans and antis. Please note. All these reasons, except #2 which is about narrative, are all about hollywood and the business and the marketing. Because going by just the narrative, I can tell you what story they’re telling, but I can’t tell you WHEN they’ll do it. 

Does this help? The story is definitely Bellarke. The pacing? Mix a soap opera with an action flick and a mythic fairy tale. I can’t tell which pacing they’re using. Action wants it quick and dirty. Soap opera draws it out. Fairy tale makes it inevitable. Hollywood is a mess. What’s wrong with a nice novel, huh?