I was sad that Pike died , as well . Obviously he did a lot of bad things that should not be ignored , but if his deeds mark the standard for who should live and who should die then they better start digging the graves now . I don ' t think Pike was a terrible person , at least to the extent that many do . I think he was someone who was driven to extremes in a time of extreme hardship sound familiar ? . The only difference is that he wasn ' t on the same side as everyone else . If you think about it , had he made it to the ground in season 1 , his ideology on grounders would not have been very different than the 100 ' s . To be honest , I expected Pike to die at the end of the season . What pisses me off to no end was that it was Octavia that did it . A lot of that is my dislike for Octavia seeping through , but I thought it would have been much more powerful to the story had the Arkadians put him on trial , thus showing to Pike in a grand gesture that his ideology wasn ' t suited to that world . I definitely agree that I wish he made it to season 4 . I mean , they ' d be putting a problematic character right in the center of the ' who gets a lifeboat ' conversation and no one can tell me that that would not have been interesting .