Talk:Watch the Thrones/@comment-27172898-20160212144210/@comment-25869525-20160220003909

Yeah. Pike getting elected was pure crap writing. Not even a trope. Not even a cliche, but pure crap! He came with a few dozen of his people who I could expect might vote his way. However, the people already at Arkadia, numbering in the hundreds, should have favored Kane. After all, even if he wasn't chancellor at the time, he was still a close associate of Abby, who was chancellor until her recent decision to step down to focus on being a doctor again. Under her leadership (or despite, but let's not split hairs), they went from being at odds with the grounders, to forming not just a truce, but an alliance. This would have given them the stability to establish themselves better, and make life easier and safer for all the sky people.

Instead, they decide to toss that down the toilet to live in a constant state of war, incited by a newcomer and his words of hate.

"Hi! Remember me? Pike, from back on the Ark. I realize you've been able to forge an agreement with the locals in the time you've been here, and have begun to settle in. But why not dump all that and follow me, and we can live on the edge!"