Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25112275-20141218163520/@comment-25176701-20141221003748

24.99.67.19 wrote: I've always been uncomfortable with capital punishment. What Lincoln said is true "If death has no meaning, life has no worth". But Finn's life had worth, too. What the Grounders wanted to do was not justice. It was revenge and, as Finn said, punishment. Finn certainly didn't deserve to die the way the Grounders wanted him to. I don't know if anyone would. That was beyond barbaric. I've had a problem with mercy killing, too. But I have to say that Clarke did the right thing in sparing him that kind of brutality. And practical or not, I don't blame Abby for not being willing to give over an 18 year old boy to something like that?

The Grounders are hypocrits. They say the villagers were innocent. So were The 100 when they kept slaughtering them. And the Finn that lost his mind in that village was their creation. They traumatized an innocent, peace loving boy to the point that he lost all perspective of right and wrong.

Finally, I am so devastated at losing Finn and, in conjunction Thomas Mcdonell, that I've lost my appetite. I'm not sure I can watch the rest of the season because I will be looking for Finn and he won't be there. This was a beautifully written and beautifully performed episode, but the price was too high. This fad of killing main characters (copying Game of Thrones) sucks. For me, the character carried more weight than the story. I wish they had thought of something else for season 2. It was way too soon to lose Finn, if ever.

I agree with you. It was too soon to lose Finn (I honestly hoped we would never lose him). And it was cowardly for all the people who wanted to hand Finn over to the Grounders. They were all cowards that were so desperate to save themselves that they were more than willing to hand over and 18 year old boy to be tortured to his death. I'm not a fan of Bellamy, but I loved when he hit the one guy with the gun who tried to hurt Finn. What if the murderer of the village was somebody younger, like how young Charlotte was?

And you are right about the Grounders being hypocrites. They whine about innocent children and elders being gunned down, but THEY were the ones hellbent on killing a bunch of kids to begin with. If they hadn't attacked Jasper, then their village wouldn't have been slaughtered (Jasper getting speared was the incident that started the war). And the Grounder village of people tried to kill Finn... Therefore, not really innocent. Anyway, they were warriors so they probably have killed or would have killed at some point in their lives.

I was just sad when Finn died. It was a beautiful scene, though. It showed how much Clarke cared about him. The Ground