That said, in this moment, I don’t think she was prepared to fatally shoot anyone; this entire season has been leading up to Clarke having to choose between the human race and individual lives (once again we come back to the season-defining dilemma of saving 20 slaves or 500 Arkadians in the second episode), and that it should be Bellamy’s life specifically continues the running theme of Bellamy being Clarke’s particular weakness. Faced with the choice between saving her people and saving Bellamy, she chose Bellamy. As sure as she was that she had made the right choice by shutting the bunker doors and letting the technology-savvy Arkadians figure out how to stay alive for the next five years, she was not ready to kill Bellamy to ensure humanity’s survival. She’d rather take the risk if it meant he survived. Clarke has had very few moments of genuine humanity (as opposed to talking about saving it) this season, but most of them have been about finding ways to save Bellamy Blake. Make of that what you will.
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