I wasn't talking about looks, just their positioning. Lots of walking and standing together, particularly the scene where Abby refuses to give Finn up to the Grounder riders and then when Kane reappears back on the scene. There was one very clear shot of mirroring between Kane/Abby and Bellamy/Clarke. Like I said, it's not romantic but it's not just coincidental either imo.


On your second point, sure any "non-sociopathic human" would be compassionate but considering this is the same Bellamy who just kinda stood there when Clarke collapsed from the virus, I'd say this is some small measure of progress. So it's not entirely overblown as you've suggested.

With the positioning, I'd say that yes, they are deliberately setting up the kids vs. adults leadership power struggle.

I still think the other stuff is overblown. Bellamy didn't do anything when Clarke collapsed because she had a contagious, potentially fatal virus and Bellamy needed to stay well to make sure the 100 survived (plus Finn already had it covered). But he's not gonna catch a case of the head wounds if he puts a band-aid on her bleeding forehead. It's all just common sense.

Common sense? Perhaps. Not sure if I'd agree that Bellamy was more concerned about ensuring there wasn't a leadership vacuum at the time that Clarke collapsed though. That struck me at the time as being slightly odd, when he just stood motionless. The natural instinct would have been to reach out or recoil back and him doing neither felt a little unnatural. But whatever.

The larger point here is, it was nice to see him being visibly concerned about her, in a way we'd not quite seen before. I think a little fangirling over that isn't such a bad thing, no one seriously thinks they're getting married tomorrow as a result.

I feel like the Spacewalker ep had some very deliberate Clarke/Bellamy presentation, positioning and mirroring, the works. Of course none of it is romantic but rewatching the ep over the holidays, it felt very clearly deliberate to me. Anybody else get that sense?

Now to what end, who knows. Hopefully that means that the story is continuing to naturally pair these two up, and perhaps we might start to see the seeds of a shift in their dynamic from leadership partnership to a much more emotionally rich one. The circumstances are certainly ripe for that shift to take place soon.

So far the evolution of their relationship has not felt contrived at all and i'm willing to trust that the writers/showrunners know exactly what they have with these two. So far, so good. Here's hoping it continues that way.

Wish they'd cut it out with the fan-baiting though. Unnecessary and quite frankly childish.

Ideally no couple who is a slow burn or slow build should get together in Season 2 but judging by the pace of the show and the way it rattles through storylines it will be interesting to see how quickly Clarke moves on considering they never showed her really mourn over people who you would think meant more to her prior Finn.