Talk:Mel/@comment-24155658-20160120122448/@comment-26500342-20160120211237

I think it was more about showing Murphy, Bellamy, and Finn's character development than anything else. The fact that Finn was so determined to let her die whereas Bellamy was determined to help her showed that; when Murphy wouldn't let Bellamy fall down the cliff after their makeshift rope broke, it also showed develop, especially when you consider the fact that just a few weeks previous, he tried to hang Bellamy.

They also needed a way to separate Bellamy and Monroe from Finn and Murphy and get Octavia back to the Sky People. I think it was all just a setup, but we didn't realize it at the time that we watched it. Plus, you never know: maybe Mel will turn up in Season 3.