And it's a sci-fi action show in which she has a lot of pretty badass fight scenes. A little more relevant to this casting than her three seconds in Star Wars, maybe?

okay, but why are there pandas in a Lion King coloring book??

I thought S2 was ok and S3 was pretty hit or miss, and while it had good moments it didn't really feel cohesive overall and I was left at the end wondering what the point of a lot of it was and what I was meant to think or feel about it. It just felt like a collection of anecdotes stuffed in as filler. Having now…

That's what I'm hoping! But I'm not sure if it's just wishful thinking and me looking too hard or if there are actually signs that it might happen. Only one way to find out, I suppose.

A fedora requires that you be Matt Bomer in one of his White Collar suits.

I don't understand the A- for this episode at all. The whole thing felt like a poorly-written first draft of some mid-finale filler scenes.

I suspect her greatly increased salary on FTWD probably made it easier. (She'd better be making serious bank because man is that show wasting her. You'd think after all the S2 Lexa buzz they'd have realized what they had and written her a bigger/better part. I'm still holding out hope for the second half of the season…

This is an incredibly stupid question to have to ask, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to actually sign up for an AV Club account instead of just using disqus for this, and I'd really like to be able to rate episodes. I see login but no sign up except through facebook. Is it even possible to create an…

His name is Bryan.

The DC shows have a lot more special effects and guest stars though, while The 100 usually side-steps big set-pieces and stunts and just shows us the set-up and the aftermath. There were a lot of articles about how Legends of Tomorrow is so expensive to make it may have been doomed to cancellation from the start, so…

Yeah, I don't understand why they've chosen to keep the seasons substantially shorter especially given how much cheaper The 100 must be to make.

Completely agree. I love the worldbuilding and I always want more of it, but it would just be cool set-dressing except for the show's attention to creating compelling characters who go through real development over time. Either they need to write less plot and allow an additional character beat per episode, or the CW…

I'm surprised that this episode got a better grade than the last couple, because at least in those I felt like the action in Polis and Clarke and Lexa's storyline was being given the weight and time that it needed even if nothing else was. Tonight it felt like they sped through and glossed over half of that, too,…

I agree, but I think (I hope) that this is an issue of how things are distributed between episodes rather than just a giant plothole/out-of-character writing. All the comments by the writers since 3x05 have strongly implied that Lexa's decision was only to avoid war and a total massacre of Arkadia, not to do nothing…

I don't think the show is suggesting that all of the Grounders are descended from the 13th station, just that the mythology of the Commanders is and whatever ALIE-combatting science is behind the Nightbloods and Lexa's back tattoo.

That would be a fun parallel, for sure, and this show does love its parallels. Though if they really want to redeem him, he'd need to not be doing it just for Octavia, this time.