Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25112275-20141218163520/@comment-25869525-20141230232529

TheOmegaWerewolf wrote:

I agree. I'm very unhappy about losing Finn. For one, he was my favorite character and even though he didn't matter to some people he mattered to me. Secondly, Finn did NOT deserve to die. People only dislike Finn because he gets in the way of Bellarke. I feel like people just used the massacre he created as an excuse to not like him, because Bellamy did the same thing that caused more deaths. Bellamy has done so many terrible things and yet I feel like nobody understands that. They justify his actions. What he did was no different than what Finn did. I even think Finn had a better excuse for what he did. He just snapped. And it was also partially self-defense. Bellamy has no good excuse. He murdered 320 innocent people for his own selfish reasons.

In my opinion, I'd rather Bellamy have died than Finn. Never really liked Bellamy for all the terrible things he has done. He gets let off the hook way too easily for murdering and hurting innocent people.

I guess if they killed off Bellamy most fans would stop watching, so they decided to kill Finn off instead. Though I'm not so sure on the "self defense" thing with Finn, you are right that Bellamy is, at best, no better. After all, he DID steal the radio from Raven's dropship and toss it in the river, which resulted in not only the 320 on the Ark that got to become the "pretty meteor shower" seen from the ground, but also at least a few of the delinquents on the ground at the time due to delaying the Ark folk getting the message that people could live on the surface. If they'd known that, they would not have needed to float those 320, and some of those could have survived the Ark coming down.

I know, some will argue "he didn't know" that the Ark was planning to make more than 300 people get out and walk. But, I'd say at the time, he plain didn't care. That was 1st season, and Bellamy was still going around acting like a wannabee Stalin. However, I think the main thing was he really had no problem letting those people die just to keep filling his lungs with air. Callous indifference, I'll call it.

Each (Belllamy & Finn) had their own reasons for the things they did. I don't see either as "better". In fact, I think really, most of them are guilty of something or other related to placing little to no value on the lives of others. On the Ark, they hid behind "the greater good", a phrase people use to try to justify in their minds, doing something they flat out know is evil. If Finn deserved to die for those he killed, then to be consistent, nearly every character shown on the series deserves to die for something they've done, or been a part of.