Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25112275-20141218163520/@comment-25176701-20141223143139

MissASalvatore wrote:

I don't blame them for their reaction towards Finn because if it was reversed, I don't think the Sky People would have reacted very differently (people got floated for the tiniest infractions so capital punishment isn't new to them). Just because the Sky People are the protagonists of the series doesn't necessarily mean that they are in the right, it just feels like that because that is how the series is set up.

1. People only got floated for the smallest of crimes up on the Ark because they lived in space. It was much harder to live up there than it was on Earth, so they probably didn't want trouble makers around to make it more difficult than it already was. While on Earth, most of the crimes that the others committed were pardoned (with the exception of Abby's crime) because down on Earth they didn't need to be as strict as they were in space.

2. The Sky People DID react differently. When that Grounder was brought into camp in Many Happy Returns, people were very upset and angry (Don't blame them. The people thought that the Grounders had their children, and the Grounders did kill some of their kids), however, things calmed down and the Sky People didn't kill the Grounder, did they? Kane even allowed him the Grounder to go back to his home and tried to make peace with the Commander.

3. "I don't blame them for their reaction towards Finn"- I absolutely blame the Grounders for wanting to torture a teenager to his death for nothing except revenge. That showed just how savage the Grounders are. I even blame the Grounders for being mad, because it was the Grounders who caused Finn to have PTSD in the first place. Like I said before, it's not Finn's fault that the Grounders killed his friends and the other Delinquents right in front of him. And once again, the Grounders were trying to attack Finn (if they'd reached him they probably would have killed him, too), so it was self-defense. Just like when the Delinquents first landed, they attacked and almost killed Jasper (an innocent) but in their eyes it was self-defense because they didn't know what the invaders would do to them.