Talk:Watch the Thrones/@comment-76.95.186.27-20160205210644/@comment-26247132-20160211230628

"the SP gave the Grounders what they wanted all along: revenge/blood for blood."

The "blood must have blood" thing is only one aspect of Grounder culture and we don't know how highly it rates in terms of beliefs but it definitely rates below truces and alliances. Otherwise, if they believed so strongly in an eye for an eye, then the Coalition would have never been formed in the first place. "Either way, it was because of the SP that the Grounders got what they wanted. Yet they show no gratitude towards them."

They didn't ask for it so why should they be grateful or indebted to the Sky People for something they didn't ask for? And again, they already had gotten what they wanted: their people back from Mount Weather and a stop to the Reaping.

"But haven't we already established the fact that once the MM made it to the ground, the war between the MM and Grounders would resume? The SP saved them the trouble."

We don't know that for a fact. It's making the MM guilty until proven innocent. For all we know, once they could survive on the ground with SP marrow, they might have set off for parts unknown or been perfectly happy in their MW territory. Either way, there would still be less deaths to the Grounders because they weren't being harvested or turned into Reapers any more and the Grounders would have been on more equal playing level, being able to fight the MM on their home turf (the ground).

Lexa is smart and I'm pretty certain she was shrewd enough to purposefully keep the MM as a threat precisely so her Coalition wouldn't dissolve. The SP ruined it by getting rid of their common enemy, which ultimately leads to it being the SP's fault for starting the inter-clan wars back up (potentially causing more deaths than a war with the newly immune MM). That's the reverse of being helpful.