Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-73.10.163.88-20151106040058/@comment-76.17.103.248-20151110222009

These are the typical kinds of comments I read from people who didn't care for Finn. But this is an oversimplification of the character. First of all, after Raven came down and Clarke broke up with Finn, the triangle was still there, but it receded into the background. It was mostly Raven coming to the realization that she had lost Finn. In the fore front was Finn trying to keep the group morally anchored. Remember how Bellamy didn't want Finn to torture the one-eyed grounder because he had come to realize from his own experience that it was a line he wouldn't be able to  uncross? How do you think Bellamy would have felt later if he had shot Murphy when he came back to camp? It was Finn again who prevented that. Finn was also busy helping to find Octavia, setting up peace talks, and delaying an attack by suggesting they blow up the bridge. I wouldn't call that a drag on the show. Finn's storyline wasn't all about a love triangles.

It's funny how some people beg for Bellarke, but they can't tolerate any kind of romance invovling Finn. But as I said, it wasn't the principle storyline. We just got hints of how Clarke and Finn really felt about each other. That of course set up the tragedy in season 2.

Finn was only weak when it came to confessing to Raven how he truly felt about Clarke. He felt the need to be loyal to they girl he grew up with, and he didn't want to hurt her. Not wanting to hurt people is not the worse weakness in the world. Some of us could use a little bit of that. Someone indicates how sad it was for them to lose Finn and how it changed the show for them, and you answer, "Thank God for that." Nice. But you're entitled, I guess.

Finn, however, wasn't weak. The thing that refutes that most is that he turned himself in to the grounders. He knew they were going to kill him in the most brutal way possible, but he turned himself in anyway to save others. Weakness? Not much!