Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30425200-20161106122650/@comment-75.121.58.161-20170101175650

TheOmegaWerewolf wrote: Luna's character is a young, peace-loving, potential Heda with badass fighting skills JUST LIKE LEXA. Of course, she has her differences (she's still way more peaceful than Lexa, doesn't have hope that there could be peace like Lexa did, Luna hides from evil and Lexa fights it). For all we know that could and most likely will change. Luna is going to realize that she needs to fight the evil instead of running away from it to keep her people safe. That would be character development but it would also bring her closer to Lexa's character. We already saw Luna kill evil (Derrick under the influence of the chip) to protect the little girl, so that's more along the lines of Lexa's character than the Luna we knew prior to that.

Even if you view her closer to Lincoln (which there are definitely some similarities), that's just as bad. Lincoln and Lexa are dead and they were the two most significant characters in Luna's storyline, and now there is only Luna left who's only personality traits are a mixture between Lincoln's and Lexa's. Except for Abby, all of the girls on this show are young. It's a CW show, that's kinda their thing. When it comes to badass fighting skills, two things. One, you might as well just throw Octavia in there. Girl somehow learned to be a badass fighter that can take down others who've been fighting all their lives in what, 5? 6 months? Lol. And two, I would hope ​the children that they're training as potential Commanders know how to fight after all that training. That is the whole point of said training. Would it have been better if she had been a good fighter and a man? I'll take a kickass woman over a man any day. And there are lots of kickass women on TV and specifically this show. That doesn't mean she's a Lexa 2.0. And the peace-loving thing... well, we'll just have to agree to disagree, because I don't see Lexa as peace-loving at all. Well meaning, sure. Peace-loving, no.

On the contrary, I'd say it was Lexa who didn't have hope. Luna had hope enough to create her own society from scratch that was built around peace, while Lexa continued to perpetuate a society built on war. I don't see Luna as having run away from anything. Not all fighting is blood, and swords, and guns. Her fight was in her refusal to do the obviously wrong thing and continue this pattern of war and death. Her fight was to stand for something different than what she'd been taught her whole life. Believe me, going against the norm, going against what everyone ​tells you must be done, is terrifying.

In the end, Lexa did try to change because of Clarke. But it was too late. And narratively, she paid the price of her shortsightedness.