User blog comment:Dragonfly82/What's more worst? Bad ending or cliffhanger?/@comment-26247132-20150903162555/@comment-25176701-20150903184827

That wasn't one of the choices, but I'll answer anyway. Lots of main characters are able to get away with everything, because they're well liked by many. If they aren't getting away with something, they're killed off (Wells + Finn) because hardly anyone likes them. Basically, if a character is as popular as Bell or Clarke, they get to live and get away with things they shouldn't. If a character is as disliked as Wells and Finn, they're just not allowed to get away with anything at all and they end up dying.

"That means the writers think their behavior is acceptable"

Yeah. Apparently, Murphy's psychotic behavior and Bellamy's selfish behavior in S1 is acceptable in the eyes of the writers, because neither ended up getting in any sort of trouble for what they did. It wasn't so much that they were just pardoned for their crimes, but more of the fact that they were pardoned before they earned any redemption. But again, they are two popular characters, so they can get away with a lot more. It's how it is in real life. Somebody famous does something in real life and everybody defends them. I'm pretty sure people are still defending that douchebag called Justin Bieber. His fans still do anyway. Not to get too off topic about somebody I dislike and that's irrelevant to the discussion, but it seems like every week there's some new jackass thing he's done. Anyway, if somebody who didn't have all that money and fame did something terrible, everybody would hate them for it. The lead characters are just the same as any famous person: Everybody loves them. Everybody roots for them. Everything they do is okay and totally acceptable.