Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-101.190.77.122-20150315075903

Clarke clearly has a lot of the qualities a good leader needs to possess. However, in the way she has been portrayed on the show, some of what she does displays more than a little arrogance and conceit. Clarke thinks she she knows better than everyone else. She definitely is an autocratic/dictator type of leader and can even bark orders at people who really don't answer to her.

Example 1: Episode Coupe de grace where Abby, just following her motherly instinct, early in the episode tells Clarke to trust her to do what is right for them. Straight away it is clear Clarke doesn't want to do that. She doesn't even give her mother a chance and instead just does things her own way. She undermines her mother's position as chancellor and takes the prisoner anyway.

Example 2: When she basically told Raven what to do and Raven said something like "that's fine but you don't have to bark orders at me" in retaliation.

Example 3: Her decisions to consider the safety of her own people as more important than others suggests many of her decisions have selfish motivations. e.g. the bombing on Tongdc, the irradiation of level 5 at mount weather. There's no argument both of these choices were exceptionally difficult and definitely you could argue the morals either way (e.g. would it be more noble for Clarke to have let her own people die rather than actively killing others to save her own. Particularly in the case of tongdc, simply not alerting the village to evacuate because of the chance that the mountain men might realise there is someone on the inside and find/kill Bellamy on who the plan rested, you could quite easily argue this was a reprehensible action on Clarke's part. The right choice here would have been to alert the village people evacuated them and created some kind of distraction to keep the mountain men focused externally rather than looking inside Mount Weather. 