Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-71.202.210.157-20150224231124/@comment-26139438-20150226144952

I totally agreee with what you both said, but I'll add something else (sorry if I make any mistakes, I'm French and still learning English, so I'm not always able to write down exactly what I think).

Let's take the example of Marcus Kane (because I just love talking about that character). The loved one he lost is his mother, Vera Kane. From the first episodes, we can clearly see that their relationship isn't a "great" one, in fact Marcus is distant with Vera. The moment just before the explosion on the Ark, when she asks him to take the Tree down to the ground, and he just seems annoyed and doesn't want to talk to her. We can't know why, maybe something happened between the two of them like years ago that made him act like that. However, he allows himself a moment with her, after the Culling, and I just loved that, when he says "I don't know who I am anymore", and she answers "You're my son." That was touching !

After the explosion, and her death (when he gave her the traveller's blessing...the one he said moments earlier to not remember just to get rid of her), the first sign of grieving we can see is when he says to Abby somthing along the lines of "and we can't do anything for the dead". But the best moment is when he plants the Tree on the ground, and smiles at it, thinking of his mother and her last wish, then he gets up and takes a look at the other trees, beautiful !

As a 40-year-old man, it's obvious that he doesn't grieve the same way as Clarke may have done for Finn, but I found that part really well handled.