I ended up saying "WHY!" out loud at the TV multiple times during this episode This one's garbage.

Snart, Sara, Ray should stay. Firestorm is a toss up, the character appears too expensive to actually be used on the show (how many minutes of Firestorm have we even had through 8 episodes). Atom is the same but Brandon Routh makes Ray fun even when he's unsuited.

This episode is a straightforward, indisputable F.

Something I've not seen mentioned in the discussion.

Spot on, the continual rants from the Professionally Outraged undermine the cause they want to espouse more than any bigotry ever has.

That's not the fault of The 100 (or any other shows where a death is justified). It's a criticism of those shows which actually fulfil the trope you're describing. The 100 is definitely, empirically not one of those shows.

You can post whatever stream of consciousness you want and you're entitled to do so. But don't expect to make such artificially offended nonsense comments without a reasoned response. Lexa died because the story required it for perfectly acceptable storytelling reasons and some non-storytelling reasons as the…

Lexa died because it was an integral part of the story, it came when the actress was no longer available and the plot required a revelation of the nature of the Heda's Spiritual Resurrection.

The next commander will have the EXACT same viewpoint as Lexa. Blood Must Not Have Blood is not the central tenet of the ALIE2 controlled Heda's worldview.

Any show is always better by adding Roger Cross.

Clarke is bisexual and in all likelihood will survive the entire series.

Some of the most important deaths in history have been due to stupidity and/or accidents.

Utterly idiotic comments. There is no equality without equality of death. In this show a recast male character is dying this season as well who has had intimate moments with another character as well.

If a character cannot die because they are female or gay, then you are not only tying yourself into knots in trying to tell a story and making it much harder to include those characters but you are, by implication saying only straight white men can die.

Thirteen is a recurring theme across Western culture going back to the myths of the Thirteenth Tribe of Israel. It is a portentious number.

That really was a phenomenal episode of television. For the first time ever, I actually agree with a Kyle Fowle review of the show. Truly something epic has happened.

The writers treated the Zero Matter as a Deus Ex Machina and its properties and effects changed with almost every episode depending on what the script required.

I'm sure people at Fox didn't think continually cancelling bubble shows on cliffhangers would end up with audiences refusing to give their shows a chance.

They key plot can easily be resolved in SHIELD. The stupid, pointless, unnecessary cliffhanger with Thompson, not so much.

As long as there is The Shannara Chronicles, no other show can take the title of "Just… The Worst"