Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25112275-20141218163520/@comment-208.102.161.70-20150108194132

I'm rather surprised at some of these posts. I'm not saying this to get people on this discussion board upset, but no one I've spoken to before about this show liked Finn as a character, if they really noticed him at all. I'm not saying that to start an argument, I'm just expressing my surprise at how many people are so upset about his death. To me and the people I know who watch the show, he wasn't even a central character on the show just a minor romantic interest. It was only once he killed that village that the character was even given any development, and only in the episode where he died that his character was given any depth through a backstory. Not that a backstory is necessary to give a character depth, but Finn to that point had been rather one-dimensional. He was a character who wanted peace against all odds, and had a (reciprocated) crush on Clarke. I suppose I just really didn't realize that he was such an important character to people. I thought that once his romance with Clarke ran its course and more characters that were central to the plot were introduced he would fade into irrelevancy.

Again, not to start an argument, but could a fan of the character Finn explain his popularity to me? I guess I just don't understand it...