Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13022928-20170506042257/@comment-28149560-20170506200242

While I kind of agree about Indra, replacing Roan with Echo wouldn't have been logical in my opinion, mainly from Roan's point of view. Roan was way too confident and proud to let anyone else fight for his clan. I think that he felt that it was his resbonsibility alone to save his people, instead of being "a coward" and stay away from the fight. On top of all that, I don't think he trusts anyone other than himself enough to let somebody else fight for him. So I think that it was very in-character for him to fight.

As for Indra, I agree that it would have been a lot more impactful for Octavia and the audience, if Indra died, but we don't know anything about Fio or how good he was compared to Indra or other Trikru warriors. Of course we can assume that Indra is experienced warrior, because she is the chief, but Fio could have been one of the best warriors of their clan or even better than Indra. Maybe we get an explanation on this later, who knows.