Board Thread:Show-Related Questions/@comment-26525483-20151109020243/@comment-26247132-20151112015925

LightStone123 wrote: Okay. That's an interesting and understandable thought process. Is there any way one of them could die that you'd accept, though? Like, their death betters the story somehow or something?

I'd maybe keep watching if Octavia was pregnant with Lincoln's baby and he died (but then it's encroaching on too many other shows who pull that plot). But even then, the poor dude has been shot by both arrows (on the bridge and by Anya) and bullets (Octavia and Clarke), tortured by the Delinquents and the Mountain Men (decontamination like Bellamy), suffered through the Death of a 1000 Cuts (like Raven and Gustus), turned into a Reaper TWICE, chained up, locked up, and hit over the head too many times to count, cast out by his own people, and forced to live in Camp Jaha with the enemy. I always see people complaining about Raven and Bellamy, but what about Lincoln?!? He's been through enough already and they can even keep torturing him (since he can obviously take it), just don't kill him!

And Octavia dying, the girl who wasn't supposed to exist in the first place, would quite simply be rude to the inherent literary symbolism of her circumstances. She needs to have some sort of permanent impact on the future human race and she's not there yet in the show.