User blog comment:ILoveRichardHarmon/Finn dead/@comment-26500342-20151118033551/@comment-26247132-20151121205738

Thewritersdiary said: "I'm not...saying that he had good reason to do what he did." I don't think anyone thinks Murphy had a good reason; just that he had a reason.

Murphy did not "flip to good." I also don't think anyone thinks of Murphy as "good" now. Most people recognize him for the antihero he is: not "evil" like Cage and Dr. Tsing but also not "good" like Clarke or Bellamy.

Finn, however, was portrayed as "good" from the start to the very end, even after he killed all those people. Finn did not "flip to crazy" either. He even says in Murphy's Law that he's "reckless and irresponsible," which is a recipe for exactly what happened. It might have been a bit abrupt (I blame that more on how short the seasons are) but it was laid out from at least the middle of Season 1.

As to reasoning, Finn ignored both Murphy and Nyko who told him numerous times they were scavengers and that the Sky People were not there and that Delano was an outcast and a liar. Plus, Finn literally mowed down people trapped in that pen, not just the ones trying to escape or stop him.

Murphy, on the other hand, only killed the two people he thought were directly responsible for his hanging and injured Raven. Even if he had killed Raven, it still wouldn't add up to 18 dead people. Numbers-wise, Murphy simply murdered less people.