Talk:Sky People/The Culling/@comment-92.10.59.49-20150626074102/@comment-25176701-20150626145907

"and he didn't know what her actions would result in."

I think you mean "his actions" and not "her actions".

Maybe he didn't know that 320 people would die when he tossed the radio into the water, however, what he did KNOW was that the Ark was dying. He knew that if those people didn't make it down to Earth, they would all eventually die in space. Regardless, he tossed the radio in the water AND kept taking off the wristbands. Even if the Culling didn't happen, what if the Delinquents couldn't contact the Ark because the radio was now gone and Raven wasn't able to build a new one? All the Ark citizens would have died anyways. Worst of all, Bellamy did it on PURPOSE. He KNEW what he was doing was wrong but he did it anyway.

"he was afraid that he will be killed for shooting the chancellor"

He shot and tried to kill the leader of the Ark. I don't care why he did it because the point is that he did it, once again, knowing that it was the wrong thing to do. On the Ark, the punishment for doing something like that was execution, even if it wasn't the Chancellor he shot. He had no reason to go and destroy the radio just to save HIMSELF when there were many more lives at stake. Btw, I don't know if you remember or not but in S1 he tried to run away from his crime even after causing 320 people to die (nothing says "I'm sorry" like that, right?). This was in the episode 'Day Trip' and he didn't come back until Clarke convinced him to come back and face what he did. Meaning, if it weren't for her then Bellamy would have succeeded in running away like a coward and left the other Delinquents without leadership, leaving them to die during the war with the Grounders.

"And yet he still felt guilt and knew what he did was wrong and made amends in every way he could"

This is probably the first time I've ever said this to you but I do agree with you. To me, what Bellamy did towards the ending of S1 and first half of S2 wasn't nearly enough to make up for all of the innocent lives he took. I thought he wasn't redeemable at that point, however, by the end of S2 I believe that he has redeemed himself from the Culling and everything else he did wrong in S1. However, know that just because he felt guilty and tried to make things right doesn't mean what he did was okay or easily forgivable.

One last thing. The thing that bothers me most about the Culling was that Bellamy never truly faced what he did. Sure, he felt bad and tried to make things right. However, he didn't publicly apologize to everyone else when everyone came to Earth. He didn't even apologize to Kane in private, for making Kane pull that lever while Bellamy knew full well that there was no need for that. Also, he didn't even get into trouble for killing all of those people. In real life somebody can't just do something like that and expect not to get into trouble. I always viewed it as cowardly for him not to apologize to anybody he hurt (the people who lost somebody they cared about b/c of him). The only people who were shown to know besides him were Clarke, Finn, and Raven. I'm not even so sure Octavia knew. She knew he shot the Chancellor but that was it.