Talk:Maya Vie/@comment-26269248-20150418075707/@comment-50.65.142.96-20150430000105

The writers have said that they felt the weight of Clarke and Bellamy's actions wouldn't have been felt quite as much if Maya had lived. It would have sucked that those people all died but at least our favourite Mountain Person would have survived. This way we are forced to deal with the nature of what Clarke did. if Lincoln had died in the Ring of Fire, it would have had similar consequences because we would have seen Octavia's grief. Now we get to see Jasper's and the strain on his friendships with the three people responsible for her death. It wouldn't have been quite an awful act to irradiate the level if none of our characters got out without any grief or anger and we would have brushed aside Clarke's guilt and felt she was overreacting.