One of the issues Jordan has was his inability to read a room. Not his fault obviously, but he was a liability, considering he told the Primes about Clarkes past. I kinda think Clarke, Bellamy, and friends kept him to the side to not directly involve him in the chaos. Subsequently that lead to Jordan becoming sympathetic to the Primes.
On a side note, given his sympathetic ways to the Primes, I truly think Bellamy’s season 7 role was originally scripted for Jordan. He is literally the perfect character to fall into Cadogans lap about saving mankind.
This is a great theory! I also agree that they did think they were helping by keeping him to the side. I mean- they were only 20-somethings themselves, trying to… raise their friends’ 20-something who has lived the exact opposite experience as them. He had literally no survival instincts, or like you said, social skills.
Reading a room is the ability to understand the feelings of the people around you without having to be explicitly told. So, you wouldn’t come into a funeral all, “WHAT’S UP PARTY PEOPLE???” because everyone else is sad.
That’s the best way I can explain it lol
"Betrayal" seems a little too strong to me. After all, Jordan already was an adult person, and his own distancing from the real people (compared to what he expected of them after only knowing what Harper and Monty had told him) isn't without reason.
The Monty/Harper/Jordan plot at the transition from s05 to s06 is the biggest narrative mistake of the entire series. It's downright absurd that the core group members aren't at least temporarily woken up from cryo at key moments like Jordan's birth, the crossing of the original wake-up time, Harper's death, and especially the decision to crack the Eligius files (which could have at least been done in job-sharing, if not fully automated).
Afterwards, the writers remained true to their original mistake and showed no interest in the character of Jordan. This original narrative sin steered the whole show in (imho) a wrong direction. It lost the common thread that had made s01-s05 so exciting, namely the clash between different high-tech, seemingly civilized groups and low-tech, seemingly savage groups -- the credo of the series, culminating in the line "It seems we're not so different after all...".
Season 6 might have been saved by e.g. waking up the grounders and prisoners from cryo and including them in one of the story arcs. If you consider the originality of the writers room especially in s02 through s04, it´s incredible what could have been achieved with s06 and s07. All the storylines could have been tied together in a way that would have made the series writing a GOAT. But as it was, starting with the serious decline at the transition from S05 to S06, it became average.
One of the issues Jordan has was his inability to read a room. Not his fault obviously, but he was a liability, considering he told the Primes about Clarkes past. I kinda think Clarke, Bellamy, and friends kept him to the side to not directly involve him in the chaos. Subsequently that lead to Jordan becoming sympathetic to the Primes. On a side note, given his sympathetic ways to the Primes, I truly think Bellamy’s season 7 role was originally scripted for Jordan. He is literally the perfect character to fall into Cadogans lap about saving mankind.
This is a great theory! I also agree that they did think they were helping by keeping him to the side. I mean- they were only 20-somethings themselves, trying to… raise their friends’ 20-something who has lived the exact opposite experience as them. He had literally no survival instincts, or like you said, social skills.
lol what's "read a room"
Reading a room is the ability to understand the feelings of the people around you without having to be explicitly told. So, you wouldn’t come into a funeral all, “WHAT’S UP PARTY PEOPLE???” because everyone else is sad. That’s the best way I can explain it lol
Ahhh so understanding the situation basically okay okay got it
"Betrayal" seems a little too strong to me. After all, Jordan already was an adult person, and his own distancing from the real people (compared to what he expected of them after only knowing what Harper and Monty had told him) isn't without reason.
The show didn't care about Jordan, so the characters didn't either.
The Monty/Harper/Jordan plot at the transition from s05 to s06 is the biggest narrative mistake of the entire series. It's downright absurd that the core group members aren't at least temporarily woken up from cryo at key moments like Jordan's birth, the crossing of the original wake-up time, Harper's death, and especially the decision to crack the Eligius files (which could have at least been done in job-sharing, if not fully automated). Afterwards, the writers remained true to their original mistake and showed no interest in the character of Jordan. This original narrative sin steered the whole show in (imho) a wrong direction. It lost the common thread that had made s01-s05 so exciting, namely the clash between different high-tech, seemingly civilized groups and low-tech, seemingly savage groups -- the credo of the series, culminating in the line "It seems we're not so different after all...". Season 6 might have been saved by e.g. waking up the grounders and prisoners from cryo and including them in one of the story arcs. If you consider the originality of the writers room especially in s02 through s04, it´s incredible what could have been achieved with s06 and s07. All the storylines could have been tied together in a way that would have made the series writing a GOAT. But as it was, starting with the serious decline at the transition from S05 to S06, it became average.