Talk:Arkadian Civil War/@comment-24670104-20160924202543/@comment-28398720-20161022094732

To be fair, while Lexa was unique revolutionary, she was also (benevolent-ish) dictator, who stifled dissent with an iron fist. For example, in TonDC she killed a grieving husband\father for disagreeing, later in Polis she kicked an ambassadors out window for speaking up against her authority.

Also at that point the grounders are seen as warrior society, who built a cult around the commander, who lives by 'blood must have blood', practice public torture\execution, and was cahnting outside of Arkadia waiting for the go to massacre them all.

The only positive experience that the Arkers had with Coalition was during the MW conflict, but it ended with them being betrayed when it suited Lexa\Coalition needs. Three month of tenuous truce later, as Kane reach out for peace, they are attacked by a coalition member and witness the Coalition instability from within.

Then Kane, temporary chancellor, who went to Polis to propose trade agreement comes back branded like cattle and tells them they are now assimilated into the coalition, thus answer to the grounder laws/Commander...

I think that Kane made huge mistakes in how he dealt with situation and Pike was absolutely right to seek autonomy (life is more than just survival, there are things that its worth fighting for). Where it went all to shit was extreme reaction that followed that still makes little sense to me (but I suppose the production wise they needed to wrap things for mid-season ALIE plot take over)