I'm kind of disappointed they're collapsing Holbrook into the evil approach, but my working theory on the show - if the girls suspect someone of something, chances are really good they are actually completely innocent.

I'm curious to what degree the MCU coordinates development between the films and now the show(s).

So I'll be honest - this show has always been a "guilty pleasure" watch for me, even I'm someone who's completely outside anything resembling a target demographic for it. Teen melodrama cracks me up and this has just the right element of insanity thrown in that I can watch it and be surprised.

I think this show does an amazing job of pointing out, in a very subtle way, the very flawed nature of human beings in groups and how we're all concerned about the "us" vs. "them." There's no real "arch-villain" - Mt. Weather is doing horrible things, but President Wallace still has some degree of principle, his…

Looking back at it, my inability to see it coming is quite disappointing (or a testament to the brilliance of The 100?)

I didn't really give it much thought, I'd just assumed in the back of my mind that "The Commander" would be male. Inherent bias, sociological conditioning, the emphasis of showing male characters as the Grounder soldiers (women are definitely, casting-wise, the far minority). Whatever it might be - I suspect the…

I had been wondering if it was an actual language in the real world, but a quick Google shows something more impressive - it's a complete language, but created for the show.

I actually went really in detail on my headcanon theory of this last week. Short version is I suspect Grounders are prone to more radiation-induced genetic deformity than Mt. Weather would like in their gene pool.

I actually didn't notice it either way, but I'd doubt he was physically blinded. I'd think it was just being played as someone who's been held in a pit for days with limited food or water, then badly beaten and driven through a dense forest until bursting out on a sunny clearing.

You have to wonder about this show if the CW isn't a blessing or a curse.

*ratta-tat-tatt*

I bet Clarke tries to play the "I made friends with Anya" card, only to find that she's lost for words when explaining how her people then went ahead and killed Anya.

Fair points. If I'm being overly literal of your word choice I s'pose that's on me. Just so long as the site keeps putting up reviews that inspire good conversation it's no skin off my back.

Hey thanks for responding on your thought process!

Ah yeah I was thinking the brace looked a tiny bit different/more technological. It's pretty hard to play out "can barely walk" on a show that's built around mobility in a forest, so I guess I can't fault them for doing that.

Yeah I was confused that after the Commander's speech that Kane has a noble heart and honest intentions of peace or whatever, they kept him around despite sending Jaha out to tell the rest of the group to leave in two days.

Random thoughts - are they downplaying Raven's injury/nerve damage? Last episode she's limping along Camp Jaha with a cane, and two days later she's on a mountain hike?

The Ark had a female Chancellor prior to Jaha - that blonde woman from Battlestar Galactica who stole the dropship?

Also, you're totally right that the time jump was a bit disappointing. I would have liked even a 30 second cold intro of Clarke & Co staring down Finn & Jasper in the middle of a mass of dead bodies and villagers panicking. Something to really convey in-the-moment disgust. Then all of them running for the hills…

Maybe you're right, but the phrasing's poor. Reviewer guy said - "[t]he only thing stopping me from giving this episode an ‘A’ is the way
the writers seemed to gloss over Finn’s massacre at the end of the
episode."