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Listen, I hate these Primes and would love for Bellamy to find a gun and blow ‘em all to kingdom come. But I just can’t understand the mindset that any of this is OOC. If there is one thing that 6 seasons should have taught us, it’s that Bellamy is an incredibly complicated character whose decisions are complicated, too. And let’s not forget that probably the darkest time in his life resulted from his desire to seek vengeance and fight a war. I think this episode showed us that that side of Bellamy is very much still in there (we saw it come out in 6x02 during the eclipse, too), but I think it’s pretty understandable why he wouldn’t want to be consumed by that again.

Yes, but this is also a difficult decision. I’m not a fan of the scripts being released, but even the script described this as the most difficult decision of his life. I think he did make the decision of what he thought was best for his people. And one can argue that . . . it actually might be. For now, at least. Any sort of retaliation right now almost surely ends in his death and the death of the others, which surely Clarke wouldn’t want.

With all that being said, I do hope he realizes the importance of keeping a close eye on Madi right now. Or, you know, it doesn’t all have to be on Bellamy. Any of them could be thinking about that, especially since they’re definitely not grieving as intensely as he is.

And he’s avoided bloodshed so far. And who’s to say he won’t continue fighting? Define fighting, anyway. Sometimes fighting is surviving and doing what you need to do rather than what you want to do.

Anyway, I’m probably done talking about this here. I thought it was a stellar episode in general, and especially for Bellamy, the man who cannot just have a good simple day EVER.