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In the most recent episode of "The 100" season three, the commander Lexa died when her advisor Titus tried to kill her girlfriend Clarke Griffin. Right after her death, it was revealed that each commander was implanted with a chip that contained the second A.I. that A.L.I.E. is so desperately looking for.
Executive Producer Jason Rothenberg told E!Online that the idea for Lexa's death came about because star Alycia Debnam-Carey was not going to be available in the future because she is also working on "Fear The Walking Dead."
"I love Alycia Debnam-Carey. She's incredible, but we definitely also were factoring in the idea that we have an actor that was starring in another show," he explained. "As it was, I had to sort of beg, borrow and steal to get her for this season. We were lucky enough to get her. So in weighing in all those factors, it became clear."
"The 100" showrunner added to Entertainment Weekly that he also wanted to play around with the idea of reincarnation in season three and Lexa's death was the perfect way to introduce that into the storyline.
"I loved Lexa more than anybody does," Rothenberg said. "And she was an incredible character, so I'm really sad that we're not getting to write her anymore and tell her story anymore. But I felt like the story we're telling needed that moment because ultimately we're telling the story in which reincarnation is possible-it's a technological reincarnation, but it's reincarnation. And to do that, to be reincarnated, first you need to die. And so that became the obvious endpoint for the story."
However, many fans lashed out at Rothenberg and pointed out that Lexa's death is a major blow to the LBGT viewers.
Medium pointed out that many fans instantly fell in love with the relationship between Clarke and Lexa because their sexuality was not used as a plot point and it was positive representation for the LBGT community.
Fans are also angry because queer women have been told time after time in popular fiction that "their happiness cannot last" and usually if a show has two women in a relationship, one of them ends up dying.
Even though Rothenberg claimed that Lexa had to die in order to further the A.I. plot and because Debnam-Carey would be unavailable in the future, fans of "The 100" noted that he could have come up with a better ending for the commander.
Instead, he relied on a terrible trope that only added to the negative stereotypes surrounding queer women.
"The 100" season three is currently airing on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. ET on the CW.
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