Talk:Sky People/Council/@comment-28398720-20160905003553/@comment-186.77.204.3-20161010064341

Neither Bellamy nor Hannah or Monty should be listed as being part of the Council during Pike's regime, as there was no Council anymore. The Council was not an appointed body, but an elected representative one where its members were elected by the different classes and stations (e.g. the workers, etc.) Diana or someone else mentioned this in S1, even though they could remove one if they all voted for it. And the Council was THE goverment. They made decisions by votes as a governing body. With Pike, he decided and imposed his will. There was never a vote for each decision nor a new election of Council members, just the Chancellor.

When Pike meets several of them, he's calling them there not as a Council but as the people he needs to carry out a specific decision he has already taken. The execute things as his minions, but are not part of a governing body. He needs to clear out a village to plant corn, he calls specifically the people left from Farm Station and announced them as such (Hannah, Monty, I think Monroe too) and Bellamy is there as his main soldier minion. When he's talking about security, it's other people there, part of the guard, he is instructing. Only people he gives order to. There is no Council with his rule. The meetings are tactical or for planning, but not of decision-making. If those he calls don't have a say and an official vote, they are by definition not a Council.