Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26226620-20160103035340/@comment-26247132-20160405193317

Unicornpotato wrote: It's no question whether JR made Ricky leave or not.

I think writing a character off, just like that, is very hard when the characters has as many connections as Lincoln. He was with Octavia, who would never have just said "Goodbye!" as all she wanted to do was basically leave.

That's a cop-out for lazy writers. I've seen tons of believable suggestions all over the place from Lincoln taking Grounders to Luna's tribe as a means of escape to Lincoln being tasked with finding Luna himself to all sorts of other missions that could have taken Lincoln away for the rest of the season.

BUT it doesn't matter about writing him off vs. killing him when the whole problem stems from JR's rotten treatment of a real human being. Ricky should have never needed to be "written off" or "killed" so the entire theoretical discussion is moot.