#khaleesi?

They showed the fighting pits happening like all the time and gave the impression that they happened everyday. But I was doing the math. 1200 people start out in the bunker. 814 in the end. That’s a loss of 386 people. That seems like a lot. And it is. And I stand by my belief that if Lexa or Clarke were in that bunker maybe nobody would have died.

But they were in that bunker for 6 years give or take a few weeks. So (rounding) that’s about 65 people dying a year, which is about 5 people a month. That averages to about once a week. But we saw in the first fight with Cooper and the last with Kane that there have been fights with at least 4 or 5 people. So I think it’s safe to say the pit fights averaged once or twice a month. But the show made it seem like that’s all they were doing.

Can you imagine once or twice a month. Think of all the other things they were doing. Think of how many days of peace they had, especially before the dark year. Think of how easy it would be to justify one or two pit fights every once in awhile for the greater good of everyone in the bunker, as far as she was concerned, the last of humanity. Just like how they floated people on the Ark. and I think that’s important cause if you compare the bunker and the Ark they are not so different.

Octavia kept the last of humanity alive. Not only did she create Wonkru, uniting 12 clans, but she kept them alive and for the most part achieved a peaceful living, with the least amount of loss she could afford.