Talk:Sky People/Delinquents/@comment-26269248-20150608184743/@comment-7971816-20150608211822

I think this is simply because of the deliquents in Mount Weather were fighters now (compared to S1 where they got killed like John Mbege & others by inexperience) and the fact that some people (including and most notably the president, originally) were not antagonists. I think that tipped the scale more in favor of the lives of the delinquents then it had in S1, where we had unexperienced kids on the ground, a full scaled war because of territorial issues.

It also depended greatly on the people, I think. The Grounders are more savage, more muscle. Mountain Men were more brains, more mind. I think muscle can cause bigger physical damage (hence the dead deliqnuents in S1) but mind can cause big psychological damage (hence the tortured Sky People - Harper, Raven, Abby and lets not forget the guilt for Clarke and Bellamy and the loss for Jasper, among many other psychological struggles.)

- That's what I liked this season. It wasn't just 'kids, lets go to war' it was 'how do we win a war against a mountain full of defense'.