Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-25440448-20150312215244/@comment-50.167.134.154-20160206004227

Oh wow, this last episode was everything. I no longer despise Lexa anymore. I mean, dang, what was that?! I don't even know what's happening to my life right now. I agree, I don't think Lexa is intentionally malicious, I think she has a hard time trusting people so doesn't really know what it is to be trustworthy herself. Heck, she's probably rarely ever seen trust in acion anywhere. That being said, I still want to see her stay true to her word this time not to betray Clarke and I believe she will. But I have a few theories now.

1.  I think I was wrong about those hundreds of Grounder bodies in the trailer being the result of Ice Nation. I think the Arkers did that, particularly Pike. He was the crazy one who was like, let's get the missiles ready in 3x03! So clearly he enjoys bombs and they prob have enough to make an explosive at Arkadia. From the image you can see smoke rising, and I feel like that was more of an explosion of some sort (maybe in direct retaliation for the explosion that killed many of farm station). Or at least it was some kind of massacre of Grounders. And if that's true it's more likely the Arkers did it..

2.  Also, I think that scene where Lexa and Clarke ride up to discover those bodies happens in 3x05, playing out like this:  in 3x04 Lexa handles the Ice Queen threat with the fight with Roan. Clearly she lives through that fight because the scene where she and Clarke are on horseback is not likely to happen in the next show since there's so much drama now keeping them in Polis. So after Lexa handles the problems in Polis, she escorts Clarke home to Arkadia (possibly hearing of trouble there or just because it's time for Clarke to return to her people.)  On the way, they discover those bodies, remember Lexa looks shocked in the trailer at the discovery.

3.  This poses all sorts of problems. Lexa is now technically the Commander of the Skaikru but is anyone there really going to respect that with Pike screaming bloody murder in their ear. And dumb Abby was the one who was like "let's have an election at this pivotal time when we actually need stability in leadership." So maybe they do and Pike wins. Pike isn't going to respect that coalition! He's going to be like "kill them all!" So what does this mean for Lexa and Clarke? Lexa said she wouldn't betray Clarke and her people are now their people but when you have a kru in open revolt I hope that Clarke sees the necessity of them being put down, particularly Pike. But it's difficult because you're asking the Skaikru to go from a democratic government to essentially a monarchy. Yeah, they can elect their direct leaders, but you pretty much will be under this coalition and unlike on the Ark, the leader of the coalition doesn't change with your vote. She's there forever-- with a spirit change. And it's already clear that the Skaikru and the Grounders have very different cultural values (i.e. torture is bad vs. torture is a-okay.)  So many problems....