Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-26500342-20160108000001/@comment-71.94.221.9-20160302054621

TheOmegaWerewolf wrote:

The only reason Lexa let those people in Tondc die and wanted to assassinate Octavia was to ensure victory at MW. She wasn't a full on visionary in S2 because she had wars to win and people to protect, but with MW gone, she can focus more on changing the beliefs of her people. My problem with this is none of those actions were ensuring victory at MW, which didn't mean too much to her considering she later made a deal with MW (even with the knowledge they have missiles but that is whole separate essay on why her deal was actually short sighted and strategically dumb). Therefor making all those deaths at TonDC meaningless. Killing off Octavia was merely to keep Octavia from blurting out that Lexa knew that the missile was coming and did nothing to stop it. But instead taking advantage of the scenario in order to "rally the troops" to continue to follow her. You do realize that was a village...so non armed civilians and likely children were in that village when the missle landed and not just her army. Visionary was not the word Indra used to describe the Commander...no, the word she used, Ruthless. The definition of ruthless is "having no pity or compassion for others." The only time Lexa starting to shift her position is when Clarke got in her face. Clarke is the one who stopped the assassination of Octavia. Any time you can name where Lexa showed her vision for peace, Clarke was there and was the one initiating that change. Listen, I like Lexa she is an interesting character on the show, but what I bristle at is this notion she is beyond reproach and is some sort of white hat perched high on a pedestal sent to save the masses from themselves. It starts to become hero worship and whitewashes her previous actions which were often very manipulative.