Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25176701-20170210013451/@comment-25176701-20170212022307

No doubt she didn't know ALIE was going to destroy the world, but it only happened because Becca didn't code her right, which is her fault. Her piece of technology. Her responsibility. It's like somebody building a car with seatbelts or airbags that don't work properly. If somebody gets hurt because of it, the creator would have to take full responsibility since they were the ones who built it wrong, leading to injury.

I don't think Jaha had made many bad decisions pre-Season 2. He definitely had some hard choices to make in S1, but he was the Chancellor, so it's a given that certain decisions were going to be brutal. That's what leaders have to deal with, and they can't go crying about it. You could tell that he was definitely upset with the choices he made, though. He wanted to join the people in the Culling because 1) He felt like he deserved to make the same sacrifice as everyone else and 2) He couldn't live with his choice because he felt like he failed to protect his people. You could easily see the regret he had on his face when he "woke up" from the COL, and he said it himself: He'll have to live with the decisions he made, which is arguably the worst consequence out of all possible ones. Keep in mind that he was the one who volunteered to stay behind so that everyone could make it to the ground safely. He was willing to die for his people, and if that's not a leader, then I don't know what is.

He wasn't a "little touched by the death of his son". When a parent loses a child, they lose a piece of themselves, too. He had no other family to keep him grounded either. When he was in space, the air supply was slowly fading away, he was suffocating to death. If the brain doesn't get enough oxygen, it can have serious mental side effects. He was wandering the desert for days, starved and thirsty, and when he thought he found safety, he was betrayed by Sienna, carted off to a Grounder prison where he was tortured, and came back home (all of those things contributed to his degrading health), upset to find out that everyone had hopes in a peace treaty that was surely doomed (he wasn't wrong). He felt that, yet again, he had failed to protect his people, so he left in hopes to find a more peaceful life. By the time he found ALIE, he was really suffering mentally because being in a hot desert surviving on minimal food and water that long isn't exactly yoga class.

A healthy mental state didn't even exist by the time he met ALIE. He was so desperate and off the rails, and it all was because he decided to stay behind on the ship so everyone else could live. If he had made it down with the rest of the SP, he wouldn't have suffered as much as he did. ALIE took advantage of his weak mindset and emotional pain, just like she did with EVERYONE else, to get him to do what she wanted. If I had been through that much physical and mental pain, anything to get rid of the constant dark and agonizing feeling would have been tempting. I can't blame him for taking the chip. He was broken.

If I blamed Jaha for taking the chip to rid himself of his pain, I'd have to do the same to literally everyone else.

If I blamed Jaha for what he did while under the influence of the chip, I'd have to do the same to literally everyone else.