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When I got home at night, I wanted to be quiet and read. My personal life suffered, and I didn’t go out much because I just didn’t have the energy. My life had to revolve almost exclusively around my work.
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In the fall, I was going through my tenure review at work, teaching a full load, and preparing for two conferences. When the Supreme Court marriage decision came down in June, fans produced pride-themed art and gifs of Clarke and Lexa saying “love wins.” It was a heady couple of months. I re-watched the second season, and the subtext and lead-up to the fateful kiss scene were undeniable.
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At that point, I did what any fan (or scholar) does – found out everything I could about the series and its impact on the wider culture.
In the months to follow, I must have seen a tweet or two, maybe an article posted somewhere about fan response to the Clarke / Lexa pairing and the fact that this show represented what appeared to be a new era of queer representation on mainstream, non-cable network television, a new world in which mainstream audiences would cheer on a bisexual lead in a same-sex romantic relationship. We got a classically heartbreaking “duty vs. love” betrayal at the end of Season 2, but we knew there would be more to come of this relationship because it was left so open-ended, and even the so-called betrayal scene spoke of the connection between them. And they find each other in this chaotic world of conflicting political aims and try to negotiate those in the context of a budding romance. So here we have two young women, two born visionary leaders, with the weight of the world shoved onto their shoulders at a young age, both with a history of pain and loss. They set up their female lead and her possible love interest as queer, and they did so cleverly and organically via a sly coming-out moment by Lexa, several subtext-heavy scenes between them, and, finally, an actual, mutual kiss.
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And then The 100 did something utterly unprecedented on a network TV series. The burden of leadership falls squarely on Clarke, our main character, who develops an increasing rapport with Lexa, the commander of the Grounders.įor some reason, maybe due to the superb, sparkling acting of both Eliza Taylor and Alycia Debnam-Carey and their remarkable onscreen chemistry, I became captivated by their relationship. Former foes have to come together to fight a common enemy, and the survival scenario continues. I liked the show enough to start watching week-to-week in Season 2 and was impressed with the way they kept expanding this world they had created, including even a fairly fascinating fictional language and a surprising amount of detail and backstory. Sure, the first season got off to a rocky start, but the core concepts were all there: a failing space station, uncaring powers-that-be, the fairytale setup of kids abandoned in the woods, the introduction of conflicting forces, and some pretty good characters that kept getting better.
A sucker for sci-fi survival scenarios, this show hit all the marks for me. I started watching The 100 in 2014 just after Season 1 went up on Netflix. I don’t care if I spoil this for you because I can no longer support this series, and I will no longer be writing these recaps. It deserves to be spoiled: Lexa dies in Episode 7 of CW TV’s series The 100.