We need to discuss the "shock factor" in The 100

If you did not watch the latest episode of The 100 Blood Giant or plan to, please do not read my blog post. If you did welcome and let's get down to what all of us are feeling right now about this latest episode! Anger, frustration, livid, and obviously shocked, but not in a good way whatsoever. The 100 director has decided to kill of one of our most beloved character's in The 100 Bellamy Blake. Are we angry about his death? Yes, but that's besides the point, we're angry about HOW he died! The director made Clarke kill Bellamy! Here's how this transpired. Bellamy was trapped on a planet for about five months give or take. During that time he had somewhat spiritual experiences that transformed his character and made him decide to follow Sheperd Bill. Sheperd Bill has lived for countless years with his body being frozen for a majority of that time. He's back now to make everyone face the last war, but not everyone is willing to go through that nor do they believe in this. Bellamy does, but at the same time he wants to save his friends and believes everything he's doing is in the best interest of everyone. When Shadheida offers to help Bellamy and tells Bellamy to give him Madi's book of sketches this is where it all has just gone to shit! Madi's book contains sketches that Clarke does not want others to see or know of for Madi's safety. Clarke begs Bellamy to put the book down or she will have to shoot him. Clarke is ready to go through a portal and it's about to close. If she didn't shoot him Clarke would've missed her window to go through. In the end of course she shot Bellamy in the chest which lead to his death and very heartbroken Clarke which concluded the episode. This feels like it was just done to be a "shock factor" and not a very good one at that. I could more so understand Octavia or Bellamy killing one another due to their on and off history of hatred towards each other. This whole scene just wasn't fitting for the show! Clarke and Bellamy are the head and heart of the show as stated countless times! Clarke is the head and Bellamy is the heart, both of them making sure that one never outrules the other and keeping each other on their toes. Bellamy even went through great lengths to bring Clarke back to life truly being her heart in season six. Clarke pretty much shot her own heart and that is where she shot Bellamy too making it seem like some sick poetry bullshit. There were so many things wrong with this scene/episode really making this season the worst for me. I, myself am so devastated! This is literally my favorite show, that I followed for six seasons plus some! If you were going to kill one of your main characters this was just not the way to do it. I feel like this was also just a big fuck you from the director to any of us who have shipped Clarke and Bellamy with the famous ship Bellarke! I had high hopes for Bellarke to happen, but I was content if it didn't happen and they just remained friends because their friendship was so damn strong. These two went from not really liking each other to becoming best friends. They shared hugs that really moved us all and were there for each other no matter what! They lived with thinking the other was dead a few times and so happy to discover the other actually was not dead. Now Clarke has to deal with the death of yet another loved one, hasn't she been through enough? Clarke lost her parents, Wells, Finn, Lexa, and now Bellamy! She is always the one who has to go through with killing others and living with that on her shoulders! Time and time again she is put through this while the others maybe go through it once. Now she has to also live with the fact that she killed her best friend. There's been so much us fans have asked for and the director is just being a big dick and giving us none of that! I really feel like he doesn't care about the fans and what we want. He pretty much said that Wednesday night when the episode aired. All I'm going to hope for now is that the conclusion to this show has an amazing ending because with what just happened I'm pretty doubtful right now. Now I'm feeling like how the fans of Game of Thrones felt when that show had it's final season and they were outraged by many things. This season of The 100 needs to be tossed out the window and rewritten. I feel like this whole season just went off the track of how the previous seasons have gone and now everything is just for shock factor. We thought Bellamy might have been dead before in the beginning and now he truly is dead. That was an even dirtier move! We thought finally we have this character back and he'll be here for the rest of the show. Nope. We had him back for three episodes and we saw him for about two minutes in two previous epiosdes. So we hardly saw this character at all and when he was found he just took ten steps back from all that character development we had been seeing. Bellamy was a jerk at first and not very well liked by the others. But he grew to care about his friends and became unselfish. He learned to listen to his people and tried to be the best leader he could be. He cared about more than just his and his sister's lives. Bellamy grew close to everyone and always tried to do the right thing. He believed he was trying to do that this season as well after his experience on the other planet. But this time not everyone's best interest was at heart and that was something he all of a sudden couldn't see? Couldn't we have said that he was brainwashed and found a way to help him and bring back the Bellamy we all grew to love instead of making him practically go back to his season three personality? Bellamy was one of the best character's and I feel like more should've been done with this character's storyline. It had an unsatisfactory ending and like I said the director just gave us Bellarke shippers the middle finger. I know it won't happen, but I really want this season to be rewritten because this one has just been really disappointing with this episode being the biggest letdown so far. With a heavy heart I say R.I.P. to one of The 100's most beloved character's Bellamy Blake "May We Meet Again". Also, there was nothing like that even said before he was shot! That is even more unfitting because the most important character's have gotten some sort of speech or phrase before their death and he gets none? That was another problem with this whole episode and I'm sure I'll think of others and add them to the post if they hadn't made it already.

My Review of the Live Action Mulan

Confession time! I caved and bought Mulan for $29.99 on DisneyPlus after hearing how much my fellow Disney friends loved it! I had been tempted to watch it since I saw the trailer. Also, seeing the film in my own home instead of going to a crowded theater where people may be distracting with their phones or kids who constantly talk was appealing. In my previous post I was pretty set on not buying the film for that price. But let's face it, if I decided to go to the theater I'd be paying that price for my husband and I to go anyway and maybe more with popcorn, snacks, and drinks included. In my home I can have whatever snacks I want and pause the film for bathroom breaks. Onto the film itself! By the way, there's really no spoilers. Mulan right from childhood knows how to fight and wield a sword. So instead of Mulan growing into a warrior she is pretty much already destined to be one. Her mother disapproves because she wants Mulan to be more demure so she can be married off. Her father encourages Mulan's chi, but soon stops for he knows the people in their village will call Mulan a witch. As we know, Mulan displeases the matchmaker and when she finds out her father is called to war she takes his place. In the family there is a difference. There is no grandmother which I did miss since she was such an awesome character in the film! Instead Mulan has a sister. I liked their relationship because you could see how close they were to each other. The film did have a more serious tone to it. There were a few funny scenes and they weren't even laugh out loud funny honestly. That was something I really missed from the animated film. I understood that this film was more focused on the true story and the culture, but I wish the movie was a bit more funny. Also, the hawk from the previous film is now actually a witch in disguise. She has chi just like Mulan and she was banished for it. She convinces Mulan to be her trueself to show her that the army men will turn their backs on her which they do. But Mulan manages to win them over by letting them know there's another attack about to happen and they must rescue the emperor. Mulan takes on the main villain by herself after the other men stay behind and battle the other men so she can rescue the emperor. She proves how much of a loyal, brave and true warrior she is and is offered to be a guard for the emperor. Before Mulan accepts this high honor she returns home to her family and they couldn't be prouder of the woman she has become. Also, there is a "love interest" for Mulan in the film, but honestly this person didn't feel like a love interest to me. There was no chemistry between him and Mulan and I only saw them as really good friends. I have been enjoying the live action films more than the animations lately, but this is not one of those moments. Mulan the live action was good, but not better than the animated classic. I give it 6/10.