Talk:Lexa/@comment-26247132-20150410172932/@comment-26253759-20150412115908

Lexa allowing the missile to hit just to stay in control ? Hell no !! She is not someone like that. She is ruthless because she knows how to make hard choices to lead well, in order to protect her people. It never is about what she wants in fact, but about what she need to be to save her people. It was all about to keep the MM from finding out about "the spy inside their walls". Lexa said the warriors would be safe inside the woods, that may include the other leaders too. And don't forget, as the commander of the 12 clans, she can easily killed anyone opposed to the coalition or the alliance (as she said in 2.10). By the way, as she said after, Clarke thought it was the only choice too. She recognised that. Clarke told Abby that this was Clarke's call too.

Besides Lexa never wanted to break the alliance with the sky people, but she has to choose her people first. Her call to accept the deal was in the purpose to minimize the casualties among her people. She gets the prisonners back (since the MM detained them at that moment) and no more bloodshed. That's simply like that. Throwing hundreds of her warriors and letting the MM killed the Grounder prisonners would have been a bad decision as their leader. Choosing Clarke and the 47 over her people ? Really.

She did what she had to do to save her people according to the circumstances that presented themselves. Clarke did the same in fact, since Cage refused Clarke's attempt to make a deal without killing everyone. So letting the radiation inside, was the only way, and sadly the best call. The consequencies were just differents.

Lincoln just said that breaking the alliance and letting the sky people on their own, dishonored them but it was driven by his feelings for Octavia too. He feels like a sky people