Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28398720-20160530203022/@comment-11565898-20170215182720

1)      Whoa, hold on there! Clarke and Bellamy don’t have any leadership qualities? Really?  Then who was it that had people building the wall? Or made the patrol shifts? Or assigned jobs in order to build a society? Who was it that met with Anya and tried to establish peace? Who was it that inspired the delinquents to fight? If not for Bellamy or Clarke, the delinquents would’ve gone all “Lord of the Flies” and died. Honestly no one was trained with a fire arm besides Bellamy, so really no one should’ve gotten a weapon. However, the delinquents needed people to fight so Bellamy trained them to the best of his abilities. Now do I think that Bellamy should’ve paid more attention in the choices he made? Of course! I’ve already stated that Bellamy has a hard time not thinking through his plans. However, Bellamy can’t control everyone. Jasper wasn’t drunk when Anya met Clarke for the first time. Jasper saw Grounders in the trees. Whether that was his PTSD or actual Grounders who is to say, but he still saw them. It was a threat and Jasper was trying to save his people. So while Jasper took the first shot, the Grounders aren’t innocent in that meeting. I’ve already explained why Finn actions aren’t Bellamy’s fault. As for Pike, Bellamy felt he had no other options after all the people he looked to for help had abandoned him in order to pacify The Grounders (Again). Pike offered him a way to deal with his anger and save his people. I’m not condoning what he did under Pike, but I have to defend him to an extent because I understand his actions.

a)      Their plan was to hide Finn until everything blew over. The only reason an alliance was made was because Clarke told Lexa she knew how to bring Reapers back and defeat the Mountain Men. Lexa then told her their peace would begin with Finn’s death. So it wasn’t a matter of her not using her ammunition but rather Lexa had to give her people “justice”.

b)      Clarke trusted Lexa because she had no other option to. It was either try to make peace with Lexa or risk her people dying by the Grounders hand. Which would you choose?

2)      You’re absolutely right. I just re-watched the episode and she never hit Indra even though Indra hit her. She did throw her on her back and went to hit her, but she stopped herself.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">a)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Also, I KNOW RIGHT! It’s so irritating that the writers make a couple or really make up a storyline without explaining A DAMN THING! Like I know that days pass in between episodes, but still!

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1level1lfo3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">b)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">There were 300 Grounders outside Arkadia and Indra was the only one left alive. I don’t know where you got the other three Grounders he killed. Maybe in the village? I’ll have to look, but you’re right that isn’t important. He still helped kill those people which is wrong.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">3)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> I do know how hard that is because I’ve gone through a similar experience with my family. I can tell you that it’s hard to be friends with your family when you have the responsibility to also be their parent. So yeah, maybe they had fun together and Bellamy cherishes those memories because he loves his sister. However, that isn’t the same as the relationship he has with Clarke or Miller or the rest of his friends. It isn’t an obligation to take care of them, but something he chooses to do. I’m not saying that he resents Octavia or Aurora because I don’t think he does. I think there was a period when he did as that is reflected when he goes off on Octavia in S1 (“My life ended the day you were born), but I think he recognizes now that his family and how he cares for his family is a large part of who he is. He loved his life because he had to accept it. It wasn’t wrong for him to do that. I pointed his childhood out to you though because I want you to understand why Bellamy is the way he is.

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"">4)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> A: Actually Pike sentenced Kane, Lincoln, and Sinclair to death at the same time. It was after Kane was questioned (remember Bellamy cried a little bit).

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">B: I don’t Bellamy thought that far to be honest. At the moment, it was just him trying to protect his people. This is why I don’t condone anything he did under Pike because I don’t agree with any of it.

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