Talk:Lexa/@comment-85.135.128.86-20150221170430/@comment-76.20.58.170-20150303063247

Also adding: as much as I love Octavia, this last ep with her breakup with Clarke shows she completely lacks 3 critical traits a leader must have:

1. Strategic vision. aka seeing the BIG picture the way Clarke and Lexa have consistently done since S2 began and

2. Emotional maturity. Every leadeship main character from Clarke, to Crazy Jaha, and Kane possess this. Regulars like Lexa and Indra possess this. Yet sadly, Octavia's universe still revolves around Bellamy. This is regardless of how much bad@$$ery she has shown in her Grounder training as Indra's 2nd. Proof: Octavia couldn't see the big picture why it was necessary for Clakre to kill those warriors and tribal generals (in order to save other Grounder tribes who were likely NOT present at that leader summit at TonDC). And she was also taking it completely personally that Clarke nearly murderd her in the process. Octavia has yet to undertand the concept of Collateral Damage and get a better control of her feelings before anyone could seriously consider her for such a powerful leader position.

In fact, even after Indra pointed out Octaiva's emotionally myopic shortcommings at the end of the last ep, I still think Octavia will bear a grudge towards Clarke if she survives. And she will likely blame Clarke if heaven forbid Bellamy dies.

3. Ruthlessness. Especially where it comes to FOLLOWING ORDERS FROM SUPERIORS. And executing those orders if it means causing the death of your loved ones (aka Bellamy, Lincoln etc.). Both Lexa and Clarke have shown this when it was necessary to achieve their goals. But Octavia still has yet to prove herself. Remember how ruthless Lexa's Grounder bodyguard was when Lexa calmly ordered the hit on Octavia? How he didn't hesistate in attempting to carry out her command? Even though he most likely knew and/or respected Octavia? Well that's a quality the Octavia still needs to be tested by.

And based on the preview of the upcomming ep, it looks as though Indra will be putting her to the test very soon. I'm willing to bet that that shocking clip (in which Indra holds a knife to her throat) has something to do with Octavia faltering in being either rutheless or lacking strategic vision in those Reaper tunnels.

I'm going to call it: Octavia and Indra will lead the assault into the Repear infested tunnels beneath the Mtn. During the ensuing battle, those Reaper repellant noise devices go off and trigger Lincoln to regress into returning a reaper. Or perhaps the stench of blood will be what causes him to revert.

And when that happens, Lincoln will not be able to resist.......

So that clip that we saw with Indra holding that knife to her throat, could be due to Octavia's refusal to kill Lincoln.