Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30860185-20161226231936/@comment-26415383-20161231230423

I'm pretty sure the braid cutting thing is something they do with all warriors, we see Indra do it with a dead grounder in Coup de Grace.

As for the Lexa and the Commander thing, I wouldn't be surprised if the show is moving away from that power structure, especially since they're all going to need to work together to save the world.