#i made this blog so i could ramble about peacemaker and by god that's what i'm going to do

[bellamyblake]

I gotta say, I really love seeing the way Bellamy is in the beginning of season 2 because the truth is that no, he’s NOT different. 

He had those same believes and understandsing before, the difference now is that he knows which lines he can’t uncross and what he can’t come back to. 

I like the parallels they make with F/inn the supposed peacemaker who called him everything under god’s green earth in season 1 but ended up shooting that grounder they questioned in the bunker without a blink while Bellamy argued that there’s a difference between being at WAR and an execution which is not something new, but rather something I believe he understood very well  in season 1 and especially following the events with Murphy which served as a great lesson for both Bellamy AND C’larke. 

Did he hate the grounders-yes but he did so because they killed about 20 or so more kids, some right before him and they were in active war. Many people argue that he hated the grounders from the start which is why he did what he did in s3 (we’ll get to that when we rewatch) but it’s not true.  

Anyway, my point stands that I believe he knew where he stood always-did he made mistakes, yes he did but he learned from them and you could definitely see it and he also held certain believes because he was trained as a guard and ultimately a soldier on the Ark and he understood those differences between right/wrong and tried to do his best (yes that counts for s3 too but again I’ll get there when I get there). 

Grounders seem to be there for certain characters to just fall in love with and try to make them out to be good when they attacked a 100 kids, killed 1/3 of them, then attacked them with the intention to destroy them completely because they were the ones who refused to make peace, not the 100. 

Either way, I love the comparisons here in the beginning of s2 and who Bellamy is. I know many of the OG blogs and some others said they didn’t like season 2 Bellamy because he suddenly became this good guy coming from a bad boy they all thirsted to in s1 (we all did, let’s face it) but I think people read the situations wrong-Bellamy was never some as*hole who just wanted to kill gounders because he liked it. 

He came to the ground with the agenda to protect his sister, then let all of those kids IN to the point he was willing to die to protect them, all of them and he saw the grounders as an enemy because that’s what they were but saying he turned good guy from bad boy is plain dumb and undermining Bellamy’s whole character because HE is not THAT stupid. 

He knows that difference from war and execution, something Finn doesn’t and he sees stuff way more clearly than his sister or even C’larke, let’s face it, ever did in the end of s1. C’larke was willing to set them off to sea when just letting them out in the open being exposed in enemy territory is plain suicide and got back to bite them. 

Bellamy didn’t want to stay back and fight because he wanted to kill grounders or get his fight or his war, he did it because it was the smart thing-fight for the land you’re already on, for the home you’ve already made and try to take a stand, rather than run.

But anyway, I’m just rambling. 

[bisexualpeacemaker]

i just think that it's so crazy that peacemaker hbo managed to create such a compelling narrative out of such an unlikely character. like, it would have been easy to go for a spin-off with a character like harley quinn or blood sport - actors we all know and love, characters who are compelling and already established as the good guys. if anything i might even have expected them to resurrect rick flag, a fan favorite, and give him his own show or a prequel.

but instead they chose Chris, who is without a doubt the least sympathetic and most annoying character in the Suicide Squad. we don't like him. he kills a character we do like, and makes himself into a pretty malicious figure. there's nothing about him that really seems compelling.

but for the story they wanted to tell, there's no one else they could have picked. chris is a character who is deeply hurt by personal and societal trauma (the trauma of growing up in an abusive, toxic, racist household; the trauma of the violence that he's seen trying to live up to his father's expectations; the trauma of growing up as a queer man in a conservative small town; the trauma inflicted on men by forcing them to live with toxic masculinity), and his background makes his views extremely problematic. but he is fundamentally a good person who wants to do better, and he is given the chance to do that not only in the bigger moments in the show (like his reaction to goff's offer) but also in smaller moments with characters like Leota and Economos, who he hurts through insensitive or malicious comments and then he has to own up to those actions and do better.

the thesis of the show is that we can change when we open ourselves up to people and their diverse experiences, and that using the "greater good" to excuse violence (which we see in the antagonists like Waller and Auggie as well) will always fall flat. Chris learns this through developing relationships that matter to him and realizing that his mission doesn't matter if he can't protect the people he cares about. and idk it's just amazing that we are getting that kind of nuance from this show about john cena and his pet eagle killing aliens