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This week we’re looking at one of my favourite television shows right now (and of all time!): The CW’s The 100. The 100 prides itself as a present that is inclusive to characters regardless of their sexuality: this is something we’ll touch on in further depth in a couple weeks when we discuss an overview of what The 100’s position on sexuality is. However, for today’s post, I want to focus on one LGBT character in particular. Clarke Griffin, the protagonist of the exhibition, is a teenage young woman with the world on her shoulders, inspiring hundreds and thousands of girls around the world. She’s also bisexual.
WARNING: Today’s upload contains spoilers from ALL THREE SEASONS of the 100, including the newest episode and the upcoming season. Read at your own risk!
Crash Course: The 100 is a science fiction television show that follows a group of teenage criminals living on a space station in the distant future. They are sent from the Ark Space Station down to Earth to observe if it is survivable after a nuclear apocalypse poisoned the ground with radiation. While they can survive on Earth, it turns out that not everyone was killed in the apocalypse: and the Sky People are not alon
WARNING: Scenes of explicit hostility, drug use, suicide, sex, and/or abuse occur regularly. Not intended for children or sensitive viewers.
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The reason for the trigger warning is that in the third season, episode 10, there’s self-harm, serious threats of physical violence, and rape.
100 attractive teenagers are sent into outerspace after a nuclear apocalypse made Earth uninhabitable 97 years ago. They’re all sentenced to die with the space station is running out of air, so they’re dropped back down on Earth to glimpse if it is still livable.
Not only is it survivable, but they uncover people still living there!
The show eventually became swallowed by its own mythology in the worst ways. Main character, Clarke Griffin, is a bisexual 17-year-old girl. She had a relationship with a Grounder (someone who’d been born on the ground), a Commander named Lexa. After a season of build-up and a culmination of their relationship with a sex scene, Lexa was promptly killed immediately afterward.
It was the worst ‘Bury Your Queers’ moment since Tara was killed in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and start
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It’s arrive to my attention on Queerly Not Straight that some people, a subsection of fans of The 100 in particular, execute not understand the pos bisexual or that Clarke Griffin is one. So, since the tides include turned in this ridiculous direction and we are here now, let’s divorce things down for those that are unsure, unclear, or uncertain about what a bisexual is.
Clarke Griffin is a bisexual. She is sexually/emotionally/physically attracted to both men and women. And that’s more than ok. It’s fantastic, liberating, and the kind of character that you hope for to see on TV. It doesn’t matter if Clarke ends up with a man or a woman, her sexuality remains that of a bisexual person and no amount of arguing or back and forth can change that.
Nevertheless, we are here because this explanation isn’t enough for those in The 100 fandom. Just
The 100: [SPOILER] Is Gay in the Books - So Why Not on the Show?
Set 97 years after nuclear war destroyed civilization and all of humanity relocated to a vacuum station, The 100 follows a organization of juvenile delinquents sent to Earth so as to repopulate the world. Among those sent to Earth is Octavia. However, The CW show makes a major change in adapting Octavia from the Kass Morgan novels on which the series is based. While Octavia is homosexual in the books, she's seemingly heterosexual on the show.
Just why the TV series made this change isn't transparent. However, it may be related to Clarke and Lexa's relationship, which some critiqued. Clarke's queerness didn't reach to the surface until Lexa was introduced in The 100 Season 2. When a romantic relationship blossomed between the pair, The 100 was celebrated for portraying a loving and well-rounded relationship between two women. However, in Season 3, The 100 killed off Lexa, which caused some to accuse The CW reveal of falling victim to the "bury your gays" trope. This is a controversial trend in television in which a same-sex attracted character is introduced and then ultimately killed off.
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