Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-97.93.25.130-20141113053725/@comment-25112275-20141113123310

I understand how you feel. I was upset with his death as well.

However it is plausible. The rope just wasn't tight enough. Sterling mentioned that Mel was his friend on the Ark. The boy acts hastily and is determined to save her. This is noble, but also bound to cause error. In the end, the error proved to be fatal.

This does happen in real life. Many rock climbers check a the knots many times to make sure they are correct. One slip, and they could die.

Sterling was acting hastily. Rightly so, had he not tired to save Mel, they would have left. Finn wanted to leave, which in turn made Bellamy decide to leave. They were going to leave the girl on the edge.

In the end he died and it sucked. Sterling was one of my favorite "red shirts", but Mel was saved. Which is what Sterling wanted.

He wasn't worried about "pimples" or "how others see them". He was simply trying to save a friend. Finn would have done it if it would have been Clarke. Bellamy would have done it if it would have been Octavia.

What bothered me, was the fact that no one, thought to hold the rope. Yet when Bellamy went down, they did.