Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31351850-20170221103054/@comment-26415383-20170222160141

I have my issues with Lexa's and Lincoln's respective deaths last season but I'm going to disagree and say Lexa's death was indeed necessary for the plot. They needed her to die in order to open up the whole plot with the flame being ALIE 2.0. While I definitely agree her death lacked the agency it should have had (and they did kill her off in following a really really awful trope) I don't think her death was unecessary. And I don't think it had anything to do with pushing forward to the Bellamy/Clarke relationship.

They foreshadowed Lexa's inevitable death a lot even from the very beginning she was always talking about her death. Or in Bitter Harvest, the episode before she died how she had a dream where she warned if she kept going with blood must not have blood she would die. Though I agree it was handled pretty badly.

With Lincoln's death, I personally agree it wasn't necessary and I am not happy with Octavia's murder murder storyline (because it goes exactly against what Lincoln would've wanted for her) but I'm still trying to keep an open mind for where they take her character. Super physked that the show is finally acknowledging her actions as wrong rather than letting them pass as usual.