Clarke and Bellamy are not “inevitable” on the show and they never have been. Nothing was ever established. Eliza Taylor herself has said Lexa is the love of her life, and has openly said shes not a fan of Bellarke and prefers them as friends. The show is not following the books. Understand that, yea?

I felt Clexa, Rellamy, Flarke and Bellamy’s GF who got killed, forgot her name already, were all there to simply delay the inevitable .. Bellarke. “Bones” did the same thing. Booth&Brennan had a string of romances, serious and not-so-serious, all designed to keep them from becoming an item and stay in the ‘friend zone’ season after season. NCIS did the same thing with Tony and Ziva. Their showrunner said “Keep your OTP apart as long as possible.” The 100 appears to be going down that same path. But we’ll see what happens. I appreciate your being respectful. :)

Okay. I think the show itself (in the opening credits) and the writers have been very upfront about The 100 not being an adaptation of the books, though. The two stories really have next to nothing in common at this point beyond the most basic aspects and therefore I don’t think anything from the books was ever really a safe bet with regards to the show. And the writers shouldn’t feel like they suddenly have to change that, imo.

The two versions of Clarke, for example, are very different and what makes sense for one version of her won’t necessarily work for the other. That’s why I also don’t get your reasoning regarding Clarke/Lexa. Nothing on the *show* suggests that it was ever meant to be an “obstacle” for anything or anyone else. Regardless of what may or may not have happened in a medium in which much of the world the show has created doesn’t even exist. You just can’t apply the book context to the show context when they’re so very, very different.

I personally don’t see the dynamic Clarke has with Bellamy as any different from the ones she has with Raven or Octavia, for example. I guess that may explain why Princess Mechanic and Clarktavia are a thing in fandom too, though. ;-) No, seriously, I think we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that. I get that fans always want to see their favorite ships to get together in canon too, but I personally didn’t see anything in The 100 that made Clarke and Bellamy this great romantic pairing. Even less so since season 3.

And honestly if this show makes a point of establishing that male and female characters can actually be friends without everything having to be about romance, in the end, I’d actually applaud them for it. In my humble opinion more shows should go down that path.

No, I’ve never read the books. I just knew Bellarke was endgame, so I figured it was safe to get invested in them. In my view, there’s been something happening between them from Season 1, complete with closeups of them touching, closeups of their reactions to touching (or hugging), and everybody else’s reactions to their reactions to each other, especially their reactions to Bellamy when he was so desperate to rescue Clarke he was being foolhardy! It’s a very slow-burn like “Bones”, whose main OTP didn’t acknowledge they had feelings for each other until Season 6 or so. But we always knew it would happen.

You do know that the television show and the book series have next to nothing in common beyond the most basic general dystopian story outline/setting and the characters names, right?

I don’t know how to say this politely, but I need to point out that you sound like an idiot. If you have paid any attention to interviews with the cast and Jason himself, especially ones from season 1 and early season 2 , it is very clear that there was no intention of Bellarke on the show from it’s conception. Jason would acknowledge that it’s a part of the books, tell people to enjoy the books, and then emphasize that all he took was the concept and created his own storyline. Heck, the books have different storylines, characterizations, and are missing a ton of characters from the show. THEY ARE DIFFERENT. It was only recently, as in season 3 that he even started pandering to you guys because so many of you were butthurt about Clexa. There was fan service all over season 3 (and I acknowledge that it wasn’t just fan service for you, there was so much for everyone, and I feel it affected them negatively). But what also affected them negatively was the blatant lying and baiting of Lexa/Clexa fans who figured out Lexa was going to die and were preparing for it. A writer literally revealed herself in a fan forum of the show that was Lexa/Clexa orientated to straight out tell them that she wasn’t going to die. This of course spread, and she writes for the show so why wouldn’t people believe her. They’d been trustworthy to that point and were selling Clexa hard. Unfortunately, now we now why. Any decision they might have made about fan servicing Bellarke after Lexa’s death looks to have changed after the backlash.

Main point: Bellarke was never the plan all along. If it happens it happens, but based on explicit reactions and words from Jason in the past it was most definitely not planned from the get go. If it happens, it’s pure fan service. So get over this delusion you’re spewing.