Sehj_Delena

2x09: Remember Me
Airdate: January 21, 2015

After the death of a friend, Clarke and Octavia attempt to rejoin the other 48 after the attack on Mt. Weather. x

• Don't look for more love triangles to sprout on the dark and life-and-death show. "Probably more like casual survival sex," Rothenberg says. "The love story is important and has its place for sure but icing on the cake is a strong word for it. It's more about survival but romance will come." X

• Question: Any information on The 100? Maybe about when the reunion between The Ark adults and the remaining 100 (48) will happen? —Isabella
  Ausiello: When the two groups do eventually reunite, the adults will need to listen to the kids if they want to stay alive. “We actually have a lot of good information that can help with the survival of our people,” Marie Avgeropoulos explains. “We know how this has been going and what dangers lie on the other sides of our gates.” And if/when they don’t heed The 100’s advice, the Ark survivors will “get what’s coming and they’ll learn the hard way, too. You’ll see a lot of that in Season 2.” X

• "Like everything else in our show, when there is violence, people are injured," Rothenberg told us of Raven's injuries from the season one finale. "Even though she survived it, it's real and people don't just bounce back from things like that. It's going to be something that haunts her and will make her life hard for the foreseeable future. She'll have a brace on, like a badass Mel Gibson from Road Warrior brace, for I think the entire season, or at least through episode 10, which we're shooting now." X

• "I will say that we will find out exactly what happens to Lincoln, or begin to find out what happens to him, in episode 5. His character takes a very dark path for at least three or four episodes or more." X

• "Ultimately, if and when there is an alliance between the Grounders and Arkers, Octavia will become a crucial part of that alliance as a person who can bridge both worlds. That's a season-long storyline. She's definitely taking that role of Grounder on, first through her relationship with Lincoln and she'll befriend another significant Grounder this season. We'll see her take that journey further." X

• "She's not going to witness any of [what he does], but when she does get wind of it, it does concern her, definitely. Raven senses a change in Finn." says Morgan. "She knows Finn better than anybody and she knows that's not him. There's a part of her that doesn't even want to believe it ... Finn's family and he'll always be family. "Raven definitely intervenes with Finn," Morgan adds, "but she doesn't know about it for a while." X

• Executive producer Jason Rothenberg says that the Bellarke spark is definitely something the writers are aware of as well. "We love those actors and those characters, and it's definitely something that we see the way everybody else sees it," says Rothenberg. "I don't know that it'll be a romantic thing, but the people that are looking for [Bellarke] will be happy. And the people who don't care about it won't mind the way we treat it." X

• “You should be worried for everyone,” Bostick confessed coyly. “Literally everyone. I can’t say who, and I know we have a lot of redshirts, but there will be some really shocking deaths this season.” He has the show’s diehard fans on his mind, as well, noting that they will be put through the ringer and that their emotions will be toyed with. He admitted, “I’m kind of worried for the fans. Don’t get attached to any character because things are going to go down.” X

• Jason Rothenberg adds that this may be a catalyst for an alliance against Mt. Weather. "The realization that they're turning Grounders into Reapers ... I don't want to go too far in this answer ... it definitely plays into the bigger story and the relationships between the Sky people and the Grounders. Yes, they are going to have to find some kind of way to bridge their differences." X

• Rothenberg also reveals that Lexa, the Grounder commander viewers met in the abandoned subway station prison, is going to play a huge role going forward. "She's going to factor in in a really big way for the rest of the season." X

• We’re going to lose a lot of lives this season. We have a memorial wall in the writers’ room of various headshots of the actors we keep losing. We’re running out of wall. There’s going to be some huge losses and the fans are going to be shocked. It’s going to be very entertaining but very sad. X

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Fuzzy Dunlop

TFTNT

I went to go see what you were talking about and I just wanted to point out that one of the people he needed to placate was a person that I see spamming Jason constantly, who I am sure is certifiably insane. Like, in no universe will she get her way by stalking Jason on Twitter and then sending him the same tweet ten times in a row and arguing with him all day. It's "fans" behaving like that who are ruining it for everyone else and are responsible for this situation where Jason is being stubborn about sticking to his original plans. Why would he want to change his story just to give in to someone like that?

Damocles

I have no problem with Jason responding to some of the super-crazed Twitter people that just won't LEAVE IT ALONE. But he's the one getting paid for a show that's on the CW, and he needs to remember that. We aren't getting paid to watch his show, and he wants us to enjoy it and keep watching - so as a professional he should keep it a bit more under wraps IMO.

We could also be completely mistaken and he's just mostly being tongue-in-cheek, but that's not the impression I get sometimes. I know a guy running a sci-fi show would probably want to keep the lovey dovey stuff at bay, but romance is present everywhere and fans like it, end of story. The way you present it doesn't have to be some sappy Twilight stuff, it can be done in a mature manner as well.

Fuzzy Dunlop

I think he's trying to do it in a mature way. People don't really ask for that, though. They ask for things that would, frankly, turn the show into nonsense. The CW is paying him, the crazies on twitter are not. He has an obligation to write coherent stuff that is actually watchable, so I think he naturally resents the people who are relentlessly trying to pull him away from that.

Sehj_Delena

If anyone would like a title or has one let me know so I can edit it. Also,I am proud to say I haven't tweeted Jason ever

patinkin

lol rothenberg is pathetic. i like the 100 and everything but he thinks of it as some groundbreaking genre show on the same level as GOT or TWD and it's just not. sorry dude

i know how heretical some shippers on twitter can get but he's a grown ass man. like if you genuinely don't want to write bellarke because it won't make sense for the story you're trying to tell, then fine, more power to you buddy. but the idea that he would refuse to do a storyline to 'spite' fans is honestly the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard from a showrunner. he's coming off more childish and immature than the shippers on twitter and that's a real achievement

SassyCat

Does JR realize that there has been instances where the entire ending of a movie has been changed because when the original ending is screen tested before release, the test group totally hates the planned ending for whatever reason (Pretty in Pink is a good example)? The writers don't leave the ending consumers hate just to spite them. That's biting the hand that feeds you!

@patinkin I agree with you that Jason is being immature and unprofessional if his refusal to write Bellarke is just to spite fans. Really, WTH? That's one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. He resents fans for loving a couple that he created on his show? That's just doesn't even make sense. Obviously, Bellarke's relationship was planned or why have they shared so many meaningful moments? Now it feels as if Jason advocates writing against the direction Bellarke's relationship should naturally progress, even in disagreement with other writers. Anyway, whatever Jason.

Sehj_Delena

Well, when u guys put it that way Jason is a weirdo good god! He is going to write a disastrous story for Clarke and Bellamy ugh! And less said the better abt how much he stans GOT and TWD.

ParsD

IKR? He's so embarrassing.

And honestly, I wonder how many people have only started watching after hearing about it first from Bellark shippers on tumblr/twitter/lj...

Fuzzy Dunlop

I don't see why everybody is jumping straight to the idea that he only doesn't want to write Bellarke purely out of spite. That's obviously part of it, but he started out not wanting to write Bellarke and the fans just made him more stubborn. He clearly has other reasons why not and it's his story. The writers can have their opinions, but ultimately they are just executing his vision. Like maybe he wants to portray a meaningful relationship between a man and woman that can be deep and important without being sexualized for once. It's not like it's a 100% objective fact that Bellarke has to happen or the entire show stops making sense.

Again, Louisa May Alcott did this exact same thing and her work is still beloved like 145 years later, even though she didn't put Jo and Laurie together to spite the demands of her readers. Jason should be more concerned with telling his story than letting the idiots on twitter tell him what to do because at the end of the day, the quality of the story will bring more success to the show than blatant pandering. (Maybe Pretty in Pink would have been a better movie if Duckie had gotten the girl in the end.)

mackayfire

Hey guys!

I'm not caught up on the twitter happenings. What is this about Jason not wanting Bellarke?

Did he say something to that effect recently? I know it's not happening right now but I never got the impression he wasn't open to them in the future.

Sehj_Delena

This is supposed to be funny!

ParsD

Not really though. She never intended for Jo to end up with Teddy because if that happened, Jo would be settling, and Jo wasn't the kind of girl who would settle. It would've been completely inorganic to her character. And she had Teddy marry Amy and Jo marry that old professor dude to make a definitive endings, but also endings that made sense.

So it's not really the same thing at all, since everything LMA did ultimately resulted in good storytelling and closing loose ends. And I say this as a huge Jo/Laurie shipper.

taragenie

To be fair all the critics have been comparing it to all these shows too. Battlestar Galactica too. The 100 was on all of those "best of 2014" lists in Decemeber. It's getting huge criticial acclaim and you can tell by twitter that a lot of people started watching during the hoilday break because of all the acclaim.

Yeah that's what we're trying to say. It's fine if he doesn't want Bellarke to happen for story purposes, but Aaron straight up told us it's just because he wants to spite us. I see Bellarke haters on twitter even saying he's a big man baby.

ParsD

I've heard the show compared to BSG and Lost, but the dummer kiddy version of it. I'm not so sure about the critical acclaim for the teen side of the story anyway, since most of what I read that praised the show involved the Ark SL.

Yep.