Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25112275-20141218163520/@comment-25869525-20150106043639

I'm starting to see Finn as possibly the "Colonel Blake" of the 100. To clarifiy that, for those not familiar with what I'm talking about: On the 1970s TV show MASH, there was an episode when Colonel Blake got his discharge from the army and was being sent home. Everyone is all happy for him up to him leaving on a helicopter. The final scene of the show has Radar reading a report he just received, that the plane with Blake aboard was shot down over the Sea of Japan, with no survivors.

I think what the creators of that show were going for was to drive home the point that in a war, sometimes the people who die, are the ones you've come to care about, or like. You can't always just have nameless drones dying, or we get back to "The main people cannot die, no matter what they do." and with that, kiss goodbye any element of suspense. (I still see this with Clarke & Bellamy; I just don't see those two getting killed off. And really, I do think if they died, the show would die the following episode.)

I liked the character of Finn. I hated seeing him "take a dark path". And I hated that the character had to die. But, as others have posted, if it moves the story, and provides some good character development, and ultimately, provides a show that keeps us coming back to watch when a new episodes airs, then they are doing their jobs over in the writers room.