And if Murphy tells her about the whole thing where, last he saw, Jaha was heading back to Arkadia with the machine that destroyed the world in his backpack . . . wel, that gives her a whole new mess of problems to deal with when she gets there.

You think that's bad, I've seen online comments from people who are so against cultural appropriation, they think it's wrong for non-Hispanic people to learn how to speak Spanish.

Bear in mind, Pike knows that Octavia is a traitor, so if she goes back to Arkadia, she'll likely either be killed or imprisoned alongside Lincoln. And if she manages to break Lincoln out and run away with him, like she wanted to do earlier in the season, she'll be killed by the Grounders for crossing the blockade.

Yeah, I think we can assume that ALIE 1.0 has been making improvements to the technology over the last 97 years.

That's a really neat idea. The could handwave it by saying that children, who were still growing, could more easily adjust to al the radiation their bodies were soaking up.

I want Clarke to take a page from Season 1 Bellamy and just surround herself with a harem of hotties. :)

I liked that detail, actually, because Elena was Bonnie's best friend, who she's never going to be able to see again. And now Damon, who's stepped up into her best friend role, is about to do the exact same thing . . . Bonnie's pain in that scene clearly had a "I can't go through this AGAIN" undercurrent.

Would stabbing an Original in the heart with the Phoenix Sword cause all their sire lines to die, or does the whole suck-their-soul-into-a-stone thing not count as actual death?

I guess with Tyler cured and out of town, Elena cured/sleeping, and Caroline in Dallas, the number of vampires in Mystic Falls that Matt actually cares about is pretty small. He considers Stefan a friend, but it's not really like they're close buds.

I kinda just want them to make a Bonnie spinoff now. Have her move to some other town as a witch-for-hire, getting into all sorts of wacky adventures, with a team of sidekicks where she gets to be the jaded, seen-it-all badass.

Depends on how you look at it. Titus tried to shoot Clarke because he thought it would motivate Lexa to change her course of action. And Lexa presumably entered the room at that moment because she heard shooting (in a room she knew Clarke would be in, no less) and investigated.

I'm hoping that, in time, people will look back on Lexa's death the same way they do Wells fulfilling the Black Dude Dies First trope. People were plenty upset by that when it happened, but almost everyone who kept watching is a lot more okay with it given the context of the rest of the series.

I think Octavia wants a violent response against Arkadia, just one that's focused on the leadership directly responsible for the attacks, not the civilization as a whole. The blockade makes it impossible for any Skaikru who are sick of Pike's actions to leave or defect, while doing nothing to actually aid the rebel…

Were Rob and Caitlyn all that popular, though?

Well, they COULD have written the season in such a way that Lexa's presence isn't needed much, but that would mean completely re-writing the story arc so that the Sky-Ground War happens more in the background rather than taking center stage. As great as Lexa is, that's a big hoop to jump through just so you can MAYBE…

I'm not sure how I feel about the stray bullet aspect, but that Lexa would die feels both organic and essential to the story given all the foreshadowing it's gotten. A few episodes ago, Clarke even asked Lexa, "Do you ever talk about anything other than your death?"

Roan was pretty firmly established as an opportunist. He turned against his mother by bringing Clarke to Polis, turned against his bounty hunter partner by kidnapping Clarke alone, turned against Lexa by trying to get Clarke to kill her, then turned against his mother AGAIN by trying to get Clarke to kill her, too.

Clarke and Wells were never a couple. Other characters suggest that Wells has romantic feelings for Clarke, but they're pretty clear they had a "just friends" relationship going.

Yes, but you can only really use that word if you yourself would be described as "queer". Otherwise it comes off as super offensive.

So you're criticizing a character for being racist, but also using the word "mongoloid" as an insult. Either you don't know what mongoloid means, or you're using some next-gen levels of irony here.