Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-86.143.250.155-20150316000928/@comment-25176701-20150807214430

Skyzy wrote: TheOmegaWerewolf wrote:

Also, Lexa basically would have just ruined her Coalition anyway. The MM and Grounders would have been at peace with each other, meaning they would no longer be a threat to the Clans. If the common enemy was gone, then what's the point of continuing the Coalition? Very true and it's something I have been questioning since it happened. Even if Clarke hadn't taken down Mount Weather, the threat to the Coalition was gone either way. Lexa would have to devise a new threat to keep them united or it wouldn't take long for a civil war to break out.

That's why I'm leaning more towards Lexa doing what she did so that her people wouldn't die in war. Unless she hadn't thought about the consequences of the MM being at peace with the Grounders or planned on taking them out once they used the Sky People's bone marrow to make it to the ground. If that were the case, though, and they did take the MM out then, when they'd be more vulnerable, the Coalition would still come to an end.