That rationale was laid out right from the beginning: when Pike talks Bellamy into the attack, he explicitely says its to stop the Grounders from attacking Arkadia. That episode just didn't do a very good job on making this seem like it would be a compelling argument.

When Indra says what happened, she explains that the soldiers on watch were all at the army's north end, watching for Azgeda. They weren't expecting an assault to come from Arkadia.

Indra said they killed all the archers first. After that, it's melee soldiers trying to advance on people with machine guns, presumably from a secure position with a good view of the army. With sufficient ammo, 10 against 300 can definitely work in that scenario.

Plus, aside from their quick getaway at the end of last episode, this is the first time Clarke and Jasper have been in a scene together all season. If there's any time the Mount Weather massacre needs to come up, it's then.

I really loved that about this episode. Right from the get-go they decided they were just gonna have some fun in the Old West, and everyone just went in with the assumption they were gonna make a big mess of things.

I don't know. Is it legal to make a movie where the dialogue consists entirely of Simpsons quotes?

My guess is there is a record of the past Commanders, but Ontari going around asking for it would be super suspicious.

Though, if Alie could simply force someone to swallow the magic pill, you'd think they would have just tried forcing it down Abby's throat instead of that suicide gambit with Raven.

I'm pretty sure, yep.

I have vague memories of having seen this movie, and thinking The Simpsons parody was actually much creepier.

Either they got saved with CPR, or they died from de-tox. Probably some of both.

I just realized, Octavia killed the guy who killed Emori's brother. I gotta wonder if she's lurking around camp somewhere, watching how all this plays out.

Plus, as far as we know, no one who's joined the City of Light has been inside that trading post before, so Alie's not gonna be able to recognize it just based on what Raven can see.

What Pike needs is his own version of the scene Cage had with his dad last season, where he admitted he had screwed everything up, and begged his dad to make it better.

With Pike gone, I'm assuming she's de facto in command back at Arkadia, which means the City of Light zombies are HER problem now.

Personally, I try not to pay much attention to behind-the-scenes conflicts, since it tends to get gossipy real fast, and there's often little way of knowing what really happened.

I want them to bring Pike before the Commander while Murphy's by her side, and he's like, "Who the hell is this?"

I think the confusion arises because we immediately associate the word "rape" with "traumatic experience", so if someone doesn't seem traumatized but what they went through, it might not register as rape.

If these were different characters, the consent issue would probably bother me. Like, if Jasper was the one chained up, and Ontari forced him into it even though he's still hung up on Maya, I'd probably feel really horrible about what happened. Or if Lexa tried doing something like this with Clarke . . . ugh.

We're told they had "minimal" effect on the timeline a hundred years in the future. Depending on how big a perspective you're taking, Star City spending a couple decades as a worse craphole than normal might count as minimal.