User blog comment:Lorisa214/Lexi's a horrible leader!/@comment-25176701-20150321151052

1. What Lexa's people wanted to do to Finn was not justice, it was revenge. I also believe she let Clarke kill Finn and did nothing about it because she never really wanted him dead. Even Lincoln said that if she were to show Finn mercy her own people would have killed her. She may not have wanted Finn dead but her people defiantly did.

2. It sucked that Lexa had to kill Gustus because she did tell him to protect her, and he was only listening to her. Though, it wouldn't be fair if she let him off of the hook and killed everyone else who did the same thing as he did.

3. She didn't let her people die to save herself. She wanted to win the war. She knew Bellamy's cover would be blown if she warned her people or the other Clan leaders because they would want to evacuate Tondc, and that would show the MM that the Grounders knew about the missile and that there was a spy in Mount Weather. In my opinion, the evacuation could have been done if it was done right, but it was still very risky. There was also little time to evacuate the people of Tondc in a non-suspicious way.

4. I believe the only reason Lexa kissed Clarke was because the writers didn't know if she would be able to come back for Season 3, so they rushed the kiss.

5. Yes, she betrayed the Sky People. However, she needed to do it to save her own people. If your people were being bled to death, turned into cannibals, and fed to those cannibals while being half alive, you might get desperate to stop that from happening. It was a good deal, if you ask me. Lexa got to save all of her people from Mount Weather and would never have to worry about the MM ever again, and it didn't cost many Grounders their lives. Lexa put her people first, like a good leader.

6. I disagree with you that her own people, who died in the bombing of Tondc, didn't matter to her. They did matter to her and even Clarke said that she cared about them. In war, sacrifices need to be made, and although I don't agree with Lexa's decision to let the 250 people die, letting them die did help with getting the rest of her people back. Also, she didn't just save the 150+ people from Mount Weather. She saved ALL of her people (all thousands of them) after she she made that deal, because the MM promised to leave her Clan alone and stop taking the Grounders. She let 250 people die but saved thousands more.

My Conclusion: Lexa isn't a horrible leader. She's a good leader because she always puts her people before herself, and she makes choices that, get people hurt, but also save a bunch more.