The 100: Lexa Made The Wrong Decision
I know I’m not the only one that was blown away by Part 1 of The 100‘s Season 2 finale “Blood Must Have Blood.” At the end of the episode we saw the Grounders’ Commander Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey) turn against her alliance with the Sky People to save her own. Essentially Lexa threw Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and her people under the bus.
Lexa used Clarke–and the rest of the Sky People–to get intel from inside the mountain, to make their attack plan and to develop the technology needed to get them inside the mountain and then she left them there to die. She knew they wouldn’t be able to defend themselves against the Mountain Men on their own. She knew that she was sentencing them all to death, and yet, she did it anyway.
Yes, as my fellow Junkies scribe Bridget Liszewski pointed out last week, Lexa did her job as Commander. She saved all of her people who were being held captive by the Mountain Men and she prevented more of them from being killed in a war. But was it really the right decision? Is what she did really going to benefit her people in the long run? I have to disagree with Bridget and put it out there: Lexa made the wrong decision. Clarke and the rest of the Sky People have more than enough reason, and a right, to be mad about it. Here’s why:
The Mountain Men still have the technology
Sure the Grounders and the Mountain Men made an agreement to set the captured Grounders free but what’s keeping the Mountain Men from going back on that agreement? What’s stopping them from using all that technology they have inside that mountain to rage war on the Grounders? They could fix the acid fog machines and use them against the Grounders. They could set off more missiles and destroy more Grounder villages. How do we know that they won’t still do this? Because they said so? Sorry if I’m not ready to just take their word for it.
The bone marrow may not be a long term cure
What if after a few weeks, months or years the Mountain Men start to get sick again? Will they start capturing the Grounders again? Will they start killing them for their bone marrow? Again, there is no way to guarantee that the Mountain Men won’t go right back to doing exactly what they have been doing for the last 97 years.
What happens once the Mountain Men leave the mountain?
If the Mountain Men succeed in curing all of their people with the Sky People’s bone marrow then they will start coming out of the mountain. Lexa can’t possibly think that they will just all live together in harmony can she? The Mountain Men are going to want to claim territories and land for themselves, and they aren’t just going to move into some unoccupied area. It’s pretty much guaranteed that they are going to want the land that the Grounders are already occupying. This will almost certainly result in more war and many more Grounder deaths.
Clarke will retaliate
Yes, The 100 writers are known for not being afraid to kill off their main characters, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that that will never happen to Clarke Griffin. She will either free her people from the mountain or team up with the remaining Sky People and retaliate. I can just about guarantee that we are going to see the Sky People attack Lexa and her people and I would not be surprised to see Lexa die by Clarke’s hand if they are successful.
That kiss happened
There is something between Clarke and Lexa. No one can deny that. Lexa has always said that her people come before her heart, but that doesn’t mean her heart can’t still be a weakness. The whole “Clexa” kiss/relationship is pretty one sided right now. Clarke was taken off guard by it and wasn’t even thinking about a relationship. She doesn’t know how to balance war and love, but Lexa does. I think it’s possible Lexa could be tempted to seek Clarke out and if she does she would be putting herself and her people at risk. I don’t think that Clarke could ever forgive Lexa for abandoning her but I think that she may be able to convince Lexa that she has in order to gain the upper hand. Things are definitely not over between Lexa and Clarke. One way or another these two will be drawn back together and I suspect one of them is going to use it to their benefit.
Having said all this I really hope that there is something that we don’t know yet. That there is one missing piece of the story that will make what Lexa did understandable. Maybe she has an ulterior motive? Maybe she thinks she can build up a bigger and better army? Maybe she will wait until the Mountain Men are distracted and come back and attack them when they aren’t expecting? I really do hope that come Wednesday Lexa’s decision will make more sense to all of us. I don’t know what is going to happen but I suspect that in true The 100 fashion we are all going to be blown away.
The 100 Season 2 finale airs Wednesday, March 11 at 9 p.m. ET on the CW.
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The Sky People left Clarke as well. The only people to ever truly care about the 100 are the 100.
Sad but true… Hopefully Clarke figures this out
I agree with Jason Rothenberg and all the other 50 reviews. Lexa made the RIGHT decision for her people. It’s her duty to keep them safe, and that’s what she did. Going with her heart just becaus she cares for Clarke would have gotten a lot of her people killed, and she didn’t even know if they’d win the battle. If she wasn’t offered this dal, she would have stuck with the plan, but plans change!
Agree 100% that Lexa made the wrong decision. Sacrifices have to made in many battles in order to win the war. Why sacrifice your people in Tondc, but not in the ultimate battle to free your people of the Mountain Men once & for all? Now everything is status quo, & the people in Tondc all died for nothing.
I completely disagree. Lexa made the right decision. Let’s face it – the huge majority of grounders don’t like Clarke and her people. They are, to the grounders, murderers and war criminals and the only reason they haven’t slaughtered camp Jaha is because Lexa has told them they will die if they break the truce.
Lexa is not commander by choice or by promotion. Its spiritual – the reincarnation belief. She was chosen and it’s her duty to have unwavering loyalty to her people and if she shows weakness (As Lincoln said) they kill her. That means her spirit may go to someone who has less patience with Clarke and co. so it would be a pretty stupid idea to kill the only commander to date that has wanted to foster peace.
Despite what people say, it was clear everyone in the mountain had to die – Clarke just had to learn that and so , just as Lexa got her people out of the mountain by betraying the sky-people, Clarke betrayed the allies among the mountain men who were helping them and killed them all with their families. Maya said none of us are innocent, but then again the 100 aren’t exactly innocent having burned a village to the ground with Raven’s flares and all the other grounders they’ve killed. Even back to the pilot episode – Jasper got speared because he looked like a mountain man and was celebrating getting to the mountain men’s home turf.
Plus – what do you do with the innocent mountain people? Give them some marrow and then bring them back to camp Jaha? You want the partners and children of the soldiers and doctors you kill to see the faces of their killers every day? That’s a lot of resentment in one place. How would Bellamy cope saying hi to little Lovejoy everyday knowing he had throttled the kid’s dad to death?
There are far too many similarities between both Clarke and Lexa that have been put in the show to have Clarke and the sky-people simply try to kill Lexa and the clans. Won’t happen. Lexa is the only person that knows what place Clarke is in right now. Sorry Bellarke fans but he has no idea. I can see a reunion between Clarke and Lexa but it’s more probably on the personal betrayal issue rather than the bigger retreat. Clarke will understand after the mount weather extermination what Lexa had to do to save hundreds, if not thousands from decades of suffering. She won’t understand why Lexa betrayed her.
Then we know nothing of the deal. Maybe it went something like this?
Dante: “We have hundreds of your people in cages, leave us the 44 who were killing you a few weeks ago, take your hundreds and go and we won’t take anymore of you. Bear in mind we don’t need your people as prisoners anymore so if you don’t agree to this, we’ll machine-gun the lot and fire some missiles at your capital and civilian areas. Your warriors will find nothing but corpses and their families will be dead. Your warriors won’t be too happy with their commander and those sky-people out there and will probably kill you all on the spot. By the way we also have a missile pointed at camp Jaha as well as we only need the ones we have.”
Personally I think Lexa made exactly the correct decision at the time and, if she hadn’t, then Clarke would not have been able to do what she did and we wouldn’t have had a fantastic finale.