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It really pissed me of to see how a lot of people justify Lexà's betrayal to Clarke. I remember how mad i was at lexa's deal. I was genuinely pissed off. Crying rewatching this knowing that betrayed Clarke was Lexa deepest regret. I really have no idea why people like Lexa. She sealed the deal for me here. I really hated Lexa here, and I never fully liked her as much again as I did before this betrayal. A lot of forgiveness for Lexa in the comments, but they way I see it.. even if she did it for the immediate best outcome for her people.. she was working together with people she had a deal with, and betrayed those people without caring what happened to them. It may be somewhat understandable cause "for her people" but it's still a betrayal and really betrayal. It was not a difficult decision, it was a betrayal, a mistake, and Lexa knows it, and it will have consequences. So Bellamy and Clarke got blindsided...this episode really made me mad it was so good tho. It made me look at Lexa differently, yea make the decision for your people but it was foul & that's the only problematic thing Lexa has ever did.

* English is not my native language. I apologize for the grammatical mistakes. *

Spoilers!!!!

I am writing this review because some other reviewers claim that Lexa's decision at the end of this episode doesn't make sense. That is nonsense. She made very rational decision that is in line with her character. First of all, just because they managed to open the doors it doesn't mean the victory is certain (at the end of the first season, the Grounders broke a defence line of the delinquents, but they were still defeated). The underground bunker is easy to defend but hard to conquer. The Mountain Men have machine guns while the Grounders have swords and spears, that is big disadvantage and they would have to fight in a tunnel where you can't outmaneuver the enemy so advantage in numbers won't meter that much. It was clearly stated that this was a rescue mission and it was also clear that they lost contact with Bellamy. She could not just assume that everything was fine, she didn't know the situation inside the mountain. Attack on the main entrance was supposed to be just a diversion, and Bellamy was supposed to free the prisoners. By accepting the deal she rescued the prisoners, which was the primary objective. Why would she risk her army when she didn't have to? When she sacrificed people in Tondc, there was no deal on the table, and she had to assume that they will have to fight all the way, in this case she had the other option. To try to take the mountain would be a move with an uncertain outcome, she chose to take the primary objective and to have a successful operation instead. That was not bold decision but it was rational one in regard to the circumstances. The only reason some people think that her decision make no sense is because of the movie logic by which heroes always win so they don't have to be cautious. Lexa, as a character, was established as someone willing to negotiate (she made a deal with the Sky People) and cautious (she wanted Octavia dead to protect the secret about the attack on Tondc). Motivational speeches and chanting slogans is something that leaders usually do before battles, it doesn't have anything to do with somebody's personality and character.

This episode actually made made me angry. It was almost like the writers insulted the intelligence of the viewers. To end this episode completely opposite of what the characters portrayed up to this point in the series, and the flow of the plot is to say the least irritating. The commander would have never made that decision. To end the threat of an enemy that has plagued there people for a lifetime, so some could be released is ludicrous. Tribes that have known no other way but to fight, to give up and take a deal is... all I can say to the writers of this series is, what were you thinking????

I think it's nuts how everyone's buying into this "Lexa chose her head instead of her heart" thing. Mount Weather has been a long-term strategic threat to the grounders for years. I wish someone would explain to me how letting such a strategic threat continue, when you actually, for the first time ever, are THAT close to terminating it, qualifies as "choosing from the head"? All the tactical sacrifices, like what happened in Ton DC, made sense only when the goal was strategic victory. How is getting back even 250 caged grounders home (after sacrificing 250 at Ton DC) a strategic victory? If the plan had gone wrong, and this was all Lexa could salvage, I would understand it. But the plan was working- the power was down, the door was open, and the RATIONAL choice would have been to take out Mount Weather once and for all. Choosing from the head would be Lexa telling Clarke that this was NOT a rescue mission. That Lexa would be willing to sacrifice all the caged grounders, AND the 44, to be able to eliminate Mount Weather as threat forever. THAT would be choosing from the head (AND a betrayal of Clarke, but a betrayal that made SENSE). Instead, we are supposed to buy that Lexa, the commander of a Warrior culture with no higher value than courage in battle, just give up her first and only chance to free the 12 tribes from Mount Weather and its reapers, and just slink away. The only sense this makes is that it lets the 100 writers keep Lexa alive and at the same time absent for as long as necessary until the actress is free to guest star again. And we all fall for this logical sleight of hand and say: Lexa chose her head instead of her heart. Lexa was smart. She must know that whatever promises for the future Cage or Dante made are worth nothing. That the veil will be up again, that the technologically superior Mountain men will continue to be a threat, and that she lets slip by her only chance to eliminate it, and is willing to continue to live in its shadow, is simply absurd- I wouldf like to see ONE historical precedent of a great leader / general who made the same un-strategic, short term decision.And if the logic is that now the Mountain men will get all the bone marrow they need from the sky people, and will not need the grounders anymore, that's short sighted too, since the Mountain Men see the grounders as savages, and once they've eliminated the sky people for bone marrow tand get OUT of the mountain, they will of course NEED to eliminate the grounders so THEY can live in peace OUTSIDE. It's even worse now the Mountain Men don't NEED the grounders alive- they could arm missiles with biological "veil" warheads, for instance, or use a new tech Final Solution and wipe the grounders out entirely, since they have NO reason to co-exist peacefully with them. And with the loss of the alliance, Lexa has lost also the Sky People Tech support. NO SENSE.I'm so angry and depressed- not with Lexa, but with who wrote her- HE/SHE, the writer, is the BIG BETRAYER, not Lexa. This is just SO depressing. I don't think I've ever been so angry at a TV show

It's shameful to see the raters give this episode a high mark. This is the worst start of a season finale I've ever came across. There better be a turn-around with the other half, because the lack of logic behind this one blew my mind. I was intrigued to see a great antagonist (father, not son)return to bring up an idea and it was legitimately the best I could think of (besides surrendering110... But I'm honestly surprised Lexa agreed. Where did her short-term memory start? The motivational speech did not reach it's actions, the mountain men were vulnerable, missiles were eliminated, there's been decades of oppression for the grounders, and the warriors that are being released will take forever to recover. I'm just baffled by the chiefs change in decision... Just like Finn's spontaneous frenzy craze that got him killed. Lexa was willing to let a group of her people die for her love to Clarke and decides to just screw that idea up. Didn't she even out the losses she made that same day...

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I stopped watching this TV show after this episode. How the great leader Lexa decided to make an agreement with a fallen army? Betraying the others without logic. For me the writer's didn't know what to do to continue and choose the worst illogical and stupid option. This was my last episode, the story in general is great but there are a lot of small details totally out of context.

Also, the bomb thing, when they refused to warn everybody because then the others will know they have an insider?. Common. So they sacrifice 250 for 43? How do they know they were able to warn everybody because they detected the spy? Something by the way it happened. That cliché used to Lexa over Clark, "to be a warrior and don't act with your heart" is very poor.

The first episodes caught my attention and kept me watching the TV show after these big mistakes make me fill disappointed and I didn't want to continue with more illogical things in the future just to keep the story going.

Thanks.

Cesar

I should have just known better by now. I've stuck with this show despite the character's terrible decision making skills and the god- awful writing. But Season 2 got through mostly intact. The storyline is really great. And Clarke's story arc (along with Bellamy's) has been really good. In fact, Clarke's arc might be one of the best character arcs I've ever seen on TV.

Then this episode. Yes, the writers have faltered gloriously and laughably before. But never before with so much at stake as far as the plot goes. Having taken the entire advantage, the grounders throw it all away. Having built an interesting culture for the "Tree-People", one almost as well realized as Herbert's Dune, the writers throw it all away. Hell, the episode is called "Blood Must Have Blood" an ethic the Tree People have lived and died by often at their own peril. We got it, they spent multiple episodes earlier this season killing off Finn to build up how important this ethic was to Lexa's people.

Then...this? The writers not only had their characters make a bad decision, they also did so and undid all their world-building in one fell swoop, for no apparent reason whatsoever. The Tree-People must have blood, they have to. The writers spent the whole season declaring just how important this is to their culture, and how unreasonable it is, and how the blood letting could put everything in jeopardy for them but it HAD to be done. Then...baffling. Just baffling.

This isn't even touching on the lack of scouts at the battle, sending Raven and Wick alone for part of the mission, why Mount Weather seems to have so many soldiers for a fortress of 350 people that has no need for soldiers, why Clarke *had* to get through the front door when, obviously, other doors exist.

Baffling. Stupid.

I'll keep watching and keep laughing. But for a while there The 100 had me going on its best joke: That it was turning into a legitimately good television show.

All the plans, all the efforts puts to claim Mount Weather, for what? The battle shutdown is really really illogical. What's up with Commander's mind? I see, she still try to explain what's happening, but it is still sound odds. Everything will be JUST fine if the writers don't comes up wanting Shock Value.