#sooo i hope they'll surprise me? IN POSITIVE WAY PLEASE??

[bubaboos]

it's gonna bite him in the ass isn't it...

[xoloveleonie-ss]

That post about Echo is so on point!!! Many people don't understand the show or some of the characters, Echo included. I don't think they'll change their minds or learn to see the show the way it is actually written, but it's always nice to see there are more people who understand the writing and more importantly, understand Echo.

Thank you so much for this message Anon

I mean i get people not liking Echo since she is a pretty underdeveloped character compared to others, especially when it comes to her backstory before we first meet her. We literally know almost nothing about her life beforehand and most of what we know about her is only from season 4 where she was the “villain” and not a main character with a lot of intricate storytelling where we get to look inside them and see where they are coming from. With Echo you had to put all the puzzle pieces together yourself  and connect the dots and if you’re not willing to do that then it was easy to hate her and that carries over to season 5. With Echo you have to put in work and be openminded to completely understand her. You have to be able to take a step back and separate yourself from your love for the mains to be able to see her fully and GET her. With her you don’t get everything handed to you on a silver platter which is why it’s so easy to misunderstand her intentions or hate her. If you’re not willing to put in the work you won’t understand. And that’s not particularily a bad thing, some people just like watching the episodes and be done with it, but in doing so you will inevitably miss important character moments that are maybe to subtle to recognize at first watch.

I feel like the problem with this show and fandom is that this show demands a different type of audience that it actually has in big parts. This show invites you to psychoanalyse the shit out of these characters, to question their morals and in turn your own, to ask yourself what you would have done in a situation. All the characters make morally questionable choices sometimes and (at least for me) there is no single character that has never done something wrong. A big part of this fandom gets this and appreciates it but another big part of the fandom are also shippers who probably honestly care more about their faves getting together (im not talking about a specific ship here, they all have fans like this) than the actual plot. I mean this show is also rooted in family and friendship and relationships but you have to find a balance between the 2 to really appreciate the show for what it is. It shows you the ugly reality and not a fairytale and if you accept that fact the show starts to become so much more fun. It’s a show to analyse, not just simply watch while playing on your phone.

People often justify their hate for Echo by saying “well we didn’t see her develope into this new person, the writers need to show not tell” BUT at this point in time if the writers would show us then the same people will complain about them shoving Echo down their throates and her eating up screen time that could be spend on precious Bellamy or Clarke. People honestly need to make up ther minds. I just recently saw this with a reactor i won’t name that was mad at the Becho scene like “shoving them down our thoates” but in the comment someone said something about Becho being canon and to deal with it and the reactor replied saying Becho just had like 3 scenes and it just doesn’t do it for them. ???????????? i honestly laughed a little because they contradicted themself so much and it just shows that they just WANT to find reasons to keep hating Echo and Becho. And it doesn’t help their case that that person was a Bellamy/CLarke shipper either sooo. I mean most of the reactors are but like..you need to make up your minds peeps or this just won’t work.

I happen to always have been a person who loved the bad characters turning good trope in tv shows. The first show i was obsessed with was probably the vampire diaries and i loved, like LOOOVED Damon and Klaus. Bad people fighting their destructive impulses because they want to be a better person (if for a certain someone they love or themselves doesn’t matter) or just people tormented by their upbringing and them not knowing better back then but now trying their best to be good people even if they don’t always succeed in it (helloooo Echo) is one of my tv show kinks tbh. I could watch that shit all day and not get tired.

So it’s no surprise i started love-hating and later just loving Echo immediately in season 4. Before that she just wasn’t that important of a character for me to really care but i was always intrigued by her.(*whispers* i also started liking Becho since MW, i just KNEW it would happen some day, i smelled that from a mile and 3 seasons away) I JUST LOVE ECHO SO MUCH!! SHE WENT THROUGH A LOT AND SHE DIDN’T KNOW BETTER AND SHE JUST DID WHAT HER PEOPLE NEEDED HER TO DO EVEN IF IT PAINED HER TO DO SO!!! A LOYAL QUEEN!!

I still have hope some people will change their minds on Echo some day, maybe next season if Echo makes it that far. I swear i’m gonna turn religious these days so i can pray for Echo to survive all this bullshit. I don’t even mind Becho breaking up as long as my baby stays alive. Bellamy and Clarke getting together is fine with me, i’m chill with most ships in this show, but my baby needs to not get hurt in the process please.