Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-25176701-20150119013621/@comment-25176701-20150415011944

The thing that bothers me the most about Finn killing all those people is that it seems like the writers only had him murder all those Grounders so that after he was killed off, people would start hating/disliking him, not many people would be upset with his death, so nobody would stop watching the show after he died.

Also, it seems like he was only killed off because the majority of the fandom hated/disliked him throughout Season One. The massacre seemed like it was just done to make him more unlikable. Instead of having Finn massacre all those people and die because it was how the Grounders wanted to punish him, the writers could have had Finn die in the war against the MM. The problem with that is The 100 would have lost more viewers (probably not too much, but defiantly more than they lost after killing Finn off after he massacred those Grounders) because he would have died a much more likeable character.