Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160223183610/@comment-27951668-20160310234622

Skyzy wrote: A lot of these questions are popping up on the episode pages and the discussion pages so I thought I might create a master post to collect them. These are not for questions that have yet to be answered but for questions whose answers seem to have been swept under the rug or forgotten and dropped.

Here are some of the gaping plot hole questions I've seen. Please add your own.
 * Why didn't Roan take Clarke to Nia to help her overthrow Lexa? He even tells Clarke when he gives her the knife that she's only heard Lexa's side of things. If Nia had Clarke, she could overthrow Lexa and take over the Coalition and unbanish Roan.
 * Without using social media to find the answer, was Roan banished from Azgeda or from Trikru? And why? How? What?
 * Why would Indra so willingly help Clarke radio Kane after her army was slaughtered by the Sky People and Kane couldn't even bother radioing her ahead of time to warn her?
 * Why did Lincoln refuse to leave Arkadia once the kill order was lifted when he's been wanting to run away since IABD? Especially considering he knows how badly Octavia wants to leave? (And it's not because of that BS peace excuse. He attempted peace with Anya and Clarke and was still wise enough to want to leave when that didn't work.)
 * Why was Clarke made ambassador when she hadn't ever been to Arkadia, much less had been off-the-grid for three months?
 * Literally anyone else who was there from Arkadia (including Pike) would have been more qualified
 * At the very least, Clarke should have had some conversations with her "people" she hasn't seen in three months (Abby, Bellamy, Octavia, Kane, Pike) before letting them return to Arkadia so they could hold an impromptu election for a new Chancellor, reject the Coalition they just joined, and then go massacre the 300 warriors the Coalition sent to protect them.
 * Speaking of which, why didn't Abby let Clarke know that even though they just joined the Coalition moments earlier, she was going straight back to Arkadia to hold an election for a new Chancellor the very next morning? That seems like something an ambassador should know.
 * Why did Lexa so readily agree to letting the Sky People off the hook while she's camped out above her 300 dead warriors?
 * Did she not remember that just two days prior she was fighting Roan to the death to keep command because the entire Coaltion (except for Clarke) gave a vote of "no confidence" in her ability to lead???

Just some thoughts on this whole matter:

- Regarding the Roan situation, do we know for sure that it was Lexa who banned him, or did he potentially get banned by his mother, and was counting on the Commander's authority to overrule her command and send him back to the Ice Nation? I'm considering this as an option, since Lexa did not take the option to kill both Roan and then spear Nia during the battle, and potentially put someone loyal to her on the throne of Azgeda. Instead she made it perfectly clear  that Roan is to be the new king, indicating that she prefer him to Nia. While she would of course hate Nia for what she did to Costia, would she still put Roan on the throne if she'd throught him dangerous enough to banish him? Roan said he could not approach Azgeda Warriors, why would he have to fear his own people if he was banished by the commander against his mother's will, especially with his mother more or less rebelling against Lexa anyway?

-Indra. Yes, the whole Indra-situation does not make sense. Indra who was the  most misstrustfull towards the Sky People and still has no reason to love them helping, especially with Clarke seemingly having such a hormone-impact on Lexa that the leader Indra believes in does not think straight anymore just does not make sense. Why would she believe Kane had nothing to do with the killing anyway, since he did.not.inform.her. despite having the means?

- The whole "Clarke as Ambassador" / "Blood must not have Blood" scenario is both so uncharacteristic for the Lexa they have shown us so far that it just seems like a way of patching her and Clarke up again, after Lexa probably turned out to be more popular than expected.

The Lexa we have seen so far puts politics before feelings, and seems able to count too. Lincoln himself was sure that she would not let her people die for the sake of a murderer (Which means for the sake of one  person.) Lexa was ready to accept the bombing of  TonDC to be able to save her people in the mountain, which most likely outnumbered those at TonDC. At the same time she had no qualms about breaking ther pact with the Sky People once they had outlived their usefullness, so she could save her own people without making more sacrifices.

And suddenly, three months later, she suddenly lets 300 warriors be killed without an answer, just because Clarke is making puppy eyes at her after Lexa appointed her as ambassador? An ambassador who has been out of touch with the peole she's supposed to represent for months, did not want that responsibility, and is basically kept in Polis to humour Lexa at this point?

The 'peace' argument for this is shaky as well; with Nia dead and Roan an ally for the time being, Lexa effectively has peace amongst her clans in the coalition. The only ones who are out of line are the Sky People at this point. Why would Lexa need to bring them into a coalition, knowing that the other clans dislike or outright refuse the idea? Why would she jeopardize everything she has tried to archive so far? The only obvious reasons are her feelings for Clarke (if Skaikru are her people too, Lexa would not have to make the decision she made at mount wether again), but we have never been given the idea that Lexa would do something like this for personal reasons before. She made peace with the woman who sent her her lover's head, and yet she is now giving in to Clarke? Why?!

Also what is this whole 'scared of guns' argument all of a sudden? The reason grounders did not use guns,  or so we have been told in season 2, is that the Mountain Men would wipe out the whole village of the grounder who used a gone. Now with Mount Weather (and their technology too) blown up, their reason for not using guns as well is what? That they look more badass with swords?

Why did Abby even stay chancellor at this point, if she wanted Kane to do it? That whole "re-election" thing could have been done one or two months prior, while they were apparently having peace; but of course it has to be done when it's too late to fix anything.

Bellamy suddenly turning into the "I will do everything to keep my people safe" argument makes as little sense as Lincoln not just running away with Octavia. Lincoln was always shown as having a deep understanding for politics and structures of power (demaning Clarke to talk to Anya, explaining the Sky People why Lexa was demanding fin, and why it was a good deal for the Sky People), and now he willingly stays at Arkadia when he can see what this mess is spiraling into?

Both him and Lexa have apparently lost a nice chunk of their thinking ability between seasons :/