Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26564154-20160219003429/@comment-25176701-20160219042105

I don't know why people are complaining about Lexa being merciful. It just makes me like her character even more. She's a visionary and always has been. Lexa is different from the previous Commanders and she sees the fine line between peace + justice and war + revenge.

Now, just letting everyone off of the hook is totally not right. Somebody should answer for the massacre. Everyone involved should get into trouble, but Pike should get the max penalty for it since he was the one who inspired everything.

However, it's not fair to wage war against the whole Skaikru population when only a handful committed the crime. There are innocents, good people, and children there, and they don't deserve to die for a crime somebody else committed. That being said, I'm not sure why the Grounders can't just do what they did with Finn, and request the person who committed the crime (Pike and the others if they want them) to be handed over? It's so unfair that Lexa was considering punishing the whole camp at first and just outright cruel.