In everyone's direction, alas.

I mean, having read Mo's article, and looked at the tweets... honestly... and I hate saying this, but I think /u/JagerJack might have a bit of a point :/ I really was under the opinion that Jason had been more actively baiting fans... but I don't see that from these tweets.

These really do seem like very thin evidence to suggest that people were 'actively' led on. It may feel like that after the emotions of the episode, but looking at it from a distance... it kind of just seems like a show runner, being bugged incessantly by shippers for over a year, was trying not to spoil his own show but also trying to interact in a positive way with fans, which is his job.

I mean, it's possible that The CW has reviewed the evidence, looked at his fan interactions, and basically just agree with him. And that's why they're staying silent on this issue.

I just don't see how anyone could look at those tweets and see these as any kind of guarantee that Lexa was going to live. Her death was telegraphed heavily. I knew it was going to happen. The leaks of Lexa from the finale convinced me it was going to happen. There were even support threads here where everyone was trying to reassure each other that this couldn't possibly the case. Those threads wouldn't have existed if, deep down, they truly believed Jason had given them a cast-iron guarantee.

The thing is... everyone seems to truly believe they were purposefully or even accidentally 'led on'. They seem to be using these tweets as evidence but I don't see any evidence of misleading information. I just see evidence of a show runner trying to interact with fans in a positive way and also trying not to spoil his own show. And that is causing the reaction to spiral out of control. I honestly just think they misinterpreted Jason's tweets and saw what they wanted to. And I'm actually beginning to think this is how The CW might feel about it too, and that's why they're staying silent.

The thing is... what's the end goal here? An apology from Jason? His job? The whole show to come crashing down? If you look at the tweets... what else was he really supposed to do? In hindsight, he could have written the death better. It was clear he went for the emotional jugular with it. In hindsight, he could have realised that fans were taking all his interaction the wrong way. He could have put 2+2 together and possibly predicted this outcome. But I didn't, and I don't think a lot of other people did either. Are we really going to suggest a guy should get fired just because he made some very slight misjudgements which he was pretty much unable to avoid given his job description?

I think it's important to make the point that this group of fans were perhaps particularly vulnerable to 'believing' that everything was going to be ok based on such interaction, because show runners need to know this for the future. But I still don't see how Jason could have avoided such interaction unless he just didn't interact with the fans at all...