Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25176701-20160131025310/@comment-25176701-20160306005721

Thewritersdiary wrote: TheOmegaWerewolf wrote: ^Somebody on another website brought up a good point: Not everyone gets to die an honorable death. In real life, people die for all kinds of random reasons (cancer, murder, car crashes, etc) and none of those deaths are very honorable...

Not everyone on the show gets honorable deaths either, even if they are the "good guys". Wells was killed by Charlotte because she misunderstood Bellamy's words. Anya died by a spray of bullets.

So even if Lexa doesn't die a second honorable death in the CoL, I might be able to live with that. Because in the end, it doesn't matter if somebody dies an honorable death if they lived an honorable life, which Lexa did. She strived to do better than the previous Commanders. She sought peace instead of war. She was willing to lay down her life for people who wanted her dead. I won't think anything less of her just because she was killed by a random bullet and not on the battlefield, and I don't think anyone else should either. I can agree with that. I brought up the point because I know a lot of people were really upset by HOW Lexa died.

That's because she died in such a random way, like Wells and Anya. It was by no means honorable, which everyone (including myself) was hoping for if she was to die at all. But like I said, it didn't change my view on her. Also, I loved her last words "Life is about more than just surviving" because it really sums up her character, and it's what she's been fighting for since S2 and what she stated in S3 ("...a world where our children can flourish in..."). It was perfect. The final words weren't Clarke and Lexa confessing their love for each other, that would be too cliché (and they didn't need to for us to know). But her final words instead just pulled together everything she's been working towards.