#Jason ROTHENBERG

[elowai]

Tony Gilroy [to female fans]: “If you don’t see things the way I don’t see them, then fuck you.”

Bro is currently lashing out on interviews…..against fans of his work (RO and Andor). The Matt Damon quote on Gilroy is killing me lmao.

I am so writing an essay on his writing of women AND how (apparently) has a history of TAKING CREDIT FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S WRITING.

IT IS JASON ROTHENBERG ALL OVER!

[stargirlie25]

Jason had a habit of setting up the most perfect enemies to lovers only to not go through with it. I just love that!!! *eye twitches*

[atrocities-inc]

If I had a nickel for every time a beloved series of mine had a terrible last season with so many character assassinations and a plot that made no sense, I’d have 2 nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.

Looking at you Jason Rothenberg and Steve Blackman…

[theshipdiaries]

I don't think I would ever be able to go to panels of my most watched tv shows... they all did me dirty and it would be hard for me not to just RANT the entire time specially if I got to ask a question. And if they show runners were there? Security would be dragging me out

[dragynkeep]

don't mind me just imagining a world where jroth and kim shumway were banned from twitter and social media as a whole for the duration of the t100 apart from five minutes a month

part of me wants to remember what made the fandom so toxic and how much it came from those to wankers to basically highlight how not to interact with a fan base but I also don't want to get annoyed and frustrated (which is sure to happen as most i remember is jason/ kim says shit= fandom bullying got a jolt and huge upkick/ daddy basically remembering specific interactions? would be helpful but also scared and nervous)

them & that layne loser who was so determined to have her opinion be canon?? like the shit that came especially around the lexa death / s3 era was just horrendous on all sides & the showrunners did nothing but make it worse.

then when it got exposed that they were being abusive on set & their racism / sexism soon followed, then they finally shut the fuck up. interesting!

[neyantkomskaikru]

It’s also the reason that ADC refused to take Jrat’s calls until the very end, and even then, she only did it for the fans. He truly hurt a lot of people by letting his ego get in the way. That is also the reason you haven’t really heard from Jrat since. He fucked up his career. He had a chance to go out peacefully with Clexa fans, but instead he chose to stick the knife in our ribs because he REALLY hated us.

It’s interesting because we’ve never had jrot write Clexa. Every episode that’s been credited to him has had NO direct clexa interaction. This was the first. And you can clearly see from the way she was written in this episode, that this is how he always saw her. A plot device. A pit stop. The one dimensional fantasy character that exists to help the hero on their noble quest and sacrifices themselves so the hero can move forward. Just a blip on the radar.

THAT’S WHY ALL THIS HAPPENED.

Everyone else on the writing team (production and directors as well) was developing Lexa as a multidimensional character, layering her, developing clexa, giving them true meaning, making it a real and true relationship with powerful characters, but jrot never thought of it that way and didn’t have anything to do with it. The minute his “idea” came in to take over with the AI plot we saw Lexa instantly erased and she become a plot device, flip her dead body over, cut out the AI, and ooooooohhhhh let’s all pay attention to that now!

Lexa in the finale (while ADC and Eliza did a great job in showing the affection and love and relief between the two to the best of their ability) was just written as a plot device to help Clarke out in the ‘matrix’ for a few minutes. “It’s a firewall.” Jfc. Really. Lexa’s gonna talk about firewalls and ALIE and software updates? She was written in to give Clarke a little boost along her journey, something for the fans to go “yay! lexa shows up!”, and it was so painfully obvious. He didn’t even believe they warranted an “I love you” parting until after shit went down with 3x07 and then ADR’d and edited the fuck out of this episode to try and ease some of the backlash. Sorry, but no. In his mind, Lexa was the little fantasy creature in an epic adventure quest to help the hero out in their time of need and when her job was done, she outlived her usefulness once again, and she was gone.

I’m not upset about it really because a) I already grieved for Lexa and b) it was SUCH a poorly written/edited episode that it’s almost comical. I mean, COMICALLY BAD. So I can’t take it seriously. But in Jrottenburger’s mind, Lexa was never anything more than someone to give Clarke a little boost over the fence.

I thank everyone on that writing staff who saw her as more and wrote her accordingly despite their boss’ shortcomings and utter lack of vision/creativity.

[poolofunidentifiedfluid]

thinking about how the last time I watched a show where the main ship had two actors with insane chemistry (later finding out the actors were just in love with each other), but the ship was a very long, slow burn It was hard to tell whether they would be endgame or not and then the writers of that show made one of them kill the other in canon. So whatever tim minear does it cant be worse than this

[alannacouture]

I just stumbled across this again. Please excuse me while I go bash my head against the wall to remove all trace of non-canon S7 from my brain & I curse Jason Rothenberg into the fiery hell from whence he came 🤯 😡 😭

[fadeintoyou1993]

that one post thats like when someone knows a showrunners name you know theres history there

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

Thought I had long since made my peace with the tragedy of show!Bellarke, but was randomly reminded of when Bellamy was traipsing around the woods with Josephine outside Sanctum, and we all thought it would be Day Trip 2.0, and Bellamy would hear some form of Clarke’s radio calls from the 2199 days. Yeah, we were clowns, but it also would’ve been so??? easy??? to include the radio calls??? But instead they were literally ignored basically as soon as Bellamy and Clarke made up fully during the lanterns scene. You’re telling me that Gabriel’s camp pulls in radio calls from every other planet introduced to us, and yet there’s not even a mention or reference to Clarke’s calls to Bellamy? It was the basis upon which they rebuilt their relationship, and it doesn’t even get a single line??? And I’m not even talking a whole dramatic love confession over the radio, it would’ve been enough to see Bellamy hear even one of her most mundane calls. His expression at realizing that Madi and Clarke were NOT exaggerating when they admitted to the radio calls. That they really were every damn day. And it even could’ve been one we’d heard before, or of a similar vein. But no. That’s the line they drew in baiting us. I’m so spitting mad over this again, and trust me, I was apoplectic over this when it was first happening (once I had scrapped myself off the ceiling after the CPR scene, that is, and wow, what an amazing scene used as bait!!! But not the radio calls, no no, that’s too far!!). Jason Rothenberg, you are forever on my shit list.

[unsaidace]

I didn't even watch The 100, but I knew all about Lexa's death because it was talked about all over social media, including here on tumblr. Like...people were rightfully hurt and pissed about one of the only queer female characters on tv being taken from them.

That’s what I’m saying; Lexa’s death was horrendously handled, it was classic Bury Your Gays fuckery, and then JRoth comes out with “I didn’t realise it would affect fans like this”, as if that’s any excuse. Recommending a show that actually fell into harmful LGBTQ tropes and practices as an alternative to 9-1-1’s “queerbaiting” (even though the show isn’t actually queerbaiting, certain fans are just shipbaiting themselves) is utterly fucking ridiculous.

Plus, as someone mentioned in the replies on my post about PinkNews recommending it as an alternative to 9-1-1, the way the showrunner treated his POC cast and characters was fucking abhorrent; one cast member in particular, Ricky Whittle, left the show after his character, Lincoln, was killed off (largely due to conflicts with Jason Rothenberg, The 100’s showrunner), and later spoke out about how toxic it was to work on that show and how he felt bullied by JRoth (all of this on top of having his role significantly reduced towards the end of his time with the show).

Nobody in their right mind should be recommending The 100 as a show to watch in 2025, that show was a fucking disaster, both onscreen and behind the scenes. There’s a reason JRoth hasn’t done anything of note since then.

[flodaya]

literally my roman empire

[butraura]

Tim Minear just took home Gold at the Crappy Showrunner Olympics! 🥇🥇🥇🥇

[userlaylivia]

i really hate writers/showrunners who COMPLETELY ignore the fans and the people who made their show what it was and the fans who deserve better!! like honor your characters and ships that watched your show, honor the fans because without us you wouldn't of even made it as long as you did!! your shows wouldn't exist without us!!!!

[rhaenin-time]

Before HOTD revived a lot of activity, people would be like, "Damn, HBO did a finale so bad that they killed a fandom in a way that's never been done before or since."

As if The 100 creative team didn't watch the GOT fallout and say, "Hold my beer."

[bkenber]

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