Monty says they're Finn's ashes at one point.

There are, what, a couple hundred people in Arkadia? Societies that small don't generally have a large and complex political system; it's mostly just, "Hey, show of hands."

This episode was so Game of Thronesy, if you took someone who watched the first few episodes of Season 1, then showed them a select few scenes from this episode, they might very well doubt they even come from the same show.

My hope is that they initially just try to make the Grounder army retreat from their territory with a show of force, and things only turn to bloodshed when the Grounders insist on standing their ground because that's the Commander's orders. I think that would fit a lot better with Bellamy's character than jumping…

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Clarke has more than one outfit this season.

As long as this show keeps giving us fast paced adventures with funny characters who screw up more often than anything else, I'm golden. Getting some character depth is just a bonus.

In Soviet Russia, 80's outfits have fun with YOU.

Since everyone's talking about Clarke & Lexa and Pike & Bellamy, I'm gonna give my shout out to Lincoln, Monty, and Jasper, who were all great this week. Jasper spilling the ashes and having an "oh god, what did I just do?" moment was really fantastic.

Trying to depose the Commander seems to work on a might-makes-right principle. If you successfully oust her from power, then your actions were just. If you fail, then your actions are treason, and must be punished with death.

Although, given Bellamy's comments last week, he obviously thinks Lexa's just going to sell them out to the Ice Nation like she did with the Mountain Men.

To be fair, if the duel had gone differently, Lexa would be dead, the Ice Queen's puppet would be the new Commander, and the 12 Clans (none of whom respect Skaikru's place in the coalition) would subsequently lay waste to Arkadia.

I didn't mind it, because Bellamy did have a quasi-cult of personality going back in Season 1, and some of that's obviously still stuck with them.

"Most of us have disagreed with the grades."

They had a spare Helicarrier lying around, manned seemingly by just Nick Fury and Maria Hill. It's the difference between having one guy who knows where you can get a tank and having a whole army backing you up.

That's because people have shifted to watching movies at home rather than going out to the theatre, not because they're watching fewer movies.

The followup movies and TV show have SHIELD survive, yes, but they have it stick around as a team of a couple dozen people. Given they presumably had hundreds of personnel before, that's still a pretty big change.

To which horror movie fans say: this is new?

Well, a lot depends on what exactly you feel a B grade signifies. It's supposed to be a rung or two above average, but what counts as average? If you count all the pieces of direct-to-video schlock that have been produced, just being pretty enjoyable could count as well above average.

Clarke and Bellamy definitely have a special bond, and the show could certainly build it into something romantic, but they could just as easily keep it platonic.

The tension wasn't really about whether Clarke would kill Lexa, it was about whether Clarke WANTED to kill Lexa. She was given an opportunity to do so and escape, so what she decides to do says something about where her character is at.