What the hell is hus problem? Joining Pike? Continuously attacking his friends, this makes no sense. It doesnt match up with how his charactees changed the first 2 seasons
shareYou're having the same reaction most of fans had when we watched these scenes. I wondered why the hell the writers were screwing up Bellamy's character. Despite the necessary and obvious lack of development, over time you get to understand better what Bellamy is going through.
shareOne of Bellamy's primary traits is that he has a leader characteristic but he doesn't tend to make the best decisions when he doesn't have someone helping him. The person who kept him in line and helped him was Clarke. She then abandoned him for a person that had caused Clarke and him to kill hundreds of innocents. Then to add insult to injury his girlfriend died. So in his anger and hurt he turned to the only person who seemed to want protect the sky people since to him it appeared Clarke wasnt going to anymore. Pike just happened to be that person that took Bellamy under his wing.
If Clarke had been around, I doubt Bellamy would have supported Pike as long a she did because she would have been there to balance him out.
So Clarke is to blame for Bellamy's terrible arc in season 3 because she wasn't around to babysit him and stop him from throwing a tantrum?
shareNobody is blaming Clarke when they say that. It hurt Bellamy when she left and that was one of the many things that pushed him over the edge. It's just a part of the context. I don't get why people defend Clarke when someone just points out what she literally did.
shareBecause she's not his keeper. This notion that if Clarke had been around none of this would have happened is just a way to shift blame. Bellamy is 100% responsible for his own actions and saying that Clarke should have been there to guide him or stop him both takes away agency from his character and puts an unfair burden on her. Besides, people act as if she was vacationing in Polis without a care in the world. She was there as ambassador for the Skaikru, in a position to directly influence the most powerful political figure in that region, and the only reason Lexa didn't retaliate and slaughter the skaikru after the idiotic (yes, idiotic, because it put the skaikru in more danger) massacre Pike/Bellamy carried out was BECAUSE Clarke was there to influence her.
shareI don't see it as her being his keeper or him not having agency. He was taking a huge burden off Clarke's shoulders in MW, sharing the guilt of the genocide together, and then she left him. He essentially had to deal with it all on his own anyway and it hurt him. Add that on top of everything else that happened, he was emotionally unstable enough to act out.
I'm not blaming her for leaving at all and I probably would have done the same thing. It's not a way of shifting blame, it's just explaining the context of the situation.
I'm also not talking about whether it was a stupid decision or not, because it was, but that doesn't change the fact that Clarke left and it hurt her people. Bellamy is 100% responsible for his part in the massacre but Clarke is a big part of that context. She can be a part of the reason he was so upset without actually being at fault. That isn't blaming her for anything.
^ well said, hihihi-42.
And also, this constant ragging on his character that some people are constantly doing has got to stop, like give it a rest already. Yes, the man made a mistake, it's been explained. Even Jason explained his mindset, so has Bob. And it's clear that Bellamy deeply regrets his decisions and is shown learning from it (more of that in s4), which is a big step on his road to redemption, or whatever you call it. I understand disliking a character and that's fine, but this obsession with him, is a bit weird to me honestly. Another thing that I have noticed is that some people even blames him for Lexa's death, but Titus actions are not Bellamy's responsibility, that's all on Titus.
Yeah I think people put way too much blame on Bellamy sometimes. You never see any hate against Monty or anyone else who was on Pike's side. People have to remember that the entire camp was being starved out and terrified. They voted for this.
I agree, blaming him for Lexa's death doesn't make any sense, and i also don't think he's entirely at fault for Lincoln's death either. I've even seen people blame him for Jasper shooting first at the grounder meeting in S1, therefore apparently it's Bellamy's fault that the grounder/skypeople war ever started??
His arc wasn't written very well so I understand why a lot of people don't empathize with him right away, especially considering S3 just came out on Netflix in the US so lots of people are only watching it now. But so much of the hate is just excessive and serves no purpose. It gets annoying. I don't really go on twitter anymore because that's where all the crazy shippers/ bellamy haters congregate
When S3 was shooting and rumors about Lexa's death became noticeable, I had the feeling her fans would backlash against Bellamy, just because he's her partner in the Bellarke ship that is not romantic, but remains alive, besides his role in S3 handed everything on a silver platter for Lexa's fans to go against him. They were, still are enraged and Bellamy was their perfect victim, so I think it's useless wasting energy trying to make sense out of this. In S4 if Bellamy makes another big mistake, they will mercilessly claim his head on the silver platter!
I'm not blaming Clarke. I'm explaining why Bellamy was in the situation and feeling the way he did making him susceptible to Pike. It's been in his personality since day one that he has been easily influenceable.
shareAnd that's terrible writing tbh. In s3 Bellamy was essentially used to facilitate the plot, the writers sacrificed his character development and likeability for the sake of furthering the Pike storyline and then tried to fix it with a rushed, half assed redemption arc that fell terribly flat.
shareIt could have been a good character arc, but then they completely ruined it by forcing 10 other plots into one season (hyperbole).
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