Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-25440448-20150312215244/@comment-16845200-20160204024537

i'll have to respectfully disagree with you.

50.167.134.154 wrote: If some REALLY good, self interested reason doesn't surface, Clarke is an idiot for bowing to Lexa. I'm a clexa fan but that's just too much. You don't pledge allegiance to someone who doesn't honor deals [...]

but clarke has a really good frigging reason: this ensures the protection of her people.

presumably, clarke is bowing to lexa because she's pledging the skaikru's allegiance to the commander's coalition to become the thirteenth clan. the one thing lexa prizes above all else is keeping her people safe. that is the most important thing to her, bar none. that's been made clear time and time again. lexa's number one priority is her people. that is precisely why she betrayed the skaikru at mount weather; that is precisely why she went back on her word with roan (more on this later). and by bowing, by pledging her people's support and loyalty to the coalition, to the commander, to lexa, clarke has just become her people; thus, it is in lexa's best interests to now keep the skaikru safe. why? because they're under her protection. there's literally nothing else to say, and i sound like a broken record but i repeat: lexa's people is unquestionably her number one priority. and clarke knows that. she can hate lexa, she can spit on her, she can scream at her, but clarke is not stupid and she knows where lexa's loyalties unquestionably lie. so yes, there is quite a bit of incentive for clarke to be bowing to lexa. why? because clarke is interested in protecting her people, too. and quite frankly, lexa's coalition is the most secure path to that protection. we have seen to what lengths lexa will go to protect those in aforementioned coalition.

twice we've seen Lexa disregard her promises, at mt weather

in lieu of sounding even more like a broken record, i will refer back to what i just argued above.

(that being said, look, i'm not trying to excuse what lexa did. what she did was really, really morally crappy. logically, though? not at all. in the context of this message, i'm simply trying to pick apart the reasoning behind it and why clarke would bow to lexa. this is exactly why.)

when Roan brought her Clarke and she locked him up anyway.

someone else has said this better than i ever can:

"Lexa locking Roan away really had nothing to do with him delivering Clarke to him. She locked him up because his mother was marching on Polis with an army. “Lexa is a great commander because she is ruthless.” Lexa will do what needs to be done in order to protect her people. “I’ll honor our deal when your queen honors my Coalition.” Basically, Lexa is going to pardon him if Nia stands down. If Lexa was to pardon Roan, she would have nothing over Nia."

lexa is not only a leader, but a politician. and imo, this was all about politics. politics in general is, frankly, a reprehensible business, if america's political climate is anything to go by these days, but it's also necessary.

again, was it morally dishonorable? certainly. but lexa never claimed to be a moral person. head over heart, remember? she protects her people. nothing else matters.

the issue of morality is something that the 100 has toyed with a lot but never quite got to fully addressing, imo. this response is already obscenely large, so to put it succinctly: the question that must be asked when confronted with this is, "is there any room for morality in this world anyway?"

She hasn't changed and doesn't even admit she was wrong. Clarke would've never done what Lexa did but Lexa keeps insisting she would've to make herself feel better about being a backstabber.

she doesn't admit she's wrong because she doesn't believe she was "wrong" when she turned her back on clarke at the mountain. (and i think that she wasn't "wrong" in the first place - but that's just my opinion.) lexa would make that same decision over and over again. why? because she needs to protect her people.

Clarke would've never done what Lexa did but Lexa keeps insisting she would've to make herself feel better about being a backstabber.

why?