Well-put. I'm a little angrier about the staging and sequencing, and micro-plotting but we'll see how they handle the fallout in the coming episodes.

I hope it's not Clarke who destroys it, Raven needs to be the one to do it. But yes. I sort of hope this happens just so I can cry like an idiot and move on. Also seeing ADC's face again would be awesome.

So many possibilities, I think. I'm not sure I quite understand the A.L.I.E. storyline yet but I like the idea of dichotomies you speak of. But knowing the show, they'll deliver some extra tragic closure for Lexa and some of the other people we've lost (how awesome would it be for me to see Dichen again).

God I hope not. I'm hoping it'll be that girl from the Ice people. Clarke doesn't have black blood in her to make exciting eye make-up so she's immediately disqualified from running.

I'm curious to see how/if Lexa will appear again in '''spirit''' form in the City of Light since 'death is not the end'. Not that it will make up for my ire in this episode and I'm not even sure I'll be bothering to watch this show for a while yet (probably binge watch it after this season is over, which seems to be…

Oh, please. I am allowed to respond viscerally and emotionally to the death of a character I loved and who was part of a relationship that was important to me as a bisexual person. Take your preachy comments elsewhere because I genuinely don't care for your patronizing tone.

Yup, I'm done too. I'm a bisexual woman and Clexa was so amazing to see on TV because we just don't get representation like that anywhere, to be frank. I wasn't expecting a happy ending because this isn't that type of show but playing into this trope so egregiously, literally five seconds after they have sex they get…

I'm disgusted, to be frank. Rothenberg goes on and on about how 'progressive' this show is but he uses the oldest trope in the book with one of the most celebrated same sex couples on TV right now? It's 2016, I shouldn't be having to relive Joss Whedon's lame ass writing choices when it comes to lesbians on TV. I just…

A STRAY BULLET, I CANNOT BELIEVE.

Wow, wow. Tragic lesbians punished for their one moment of intimacy. How radical and unexpected. What in the actual fuck was that. And if they were going to kill her, really, allowing them to be intimate and then killing her five minutes later isn't epic tragic storytelling it's just cruel and unnecessary and clichéd.…

Okay, I haven't finished watching this episode so I'm typing without looking in the comments but we need to talk about how hot badass Titus is, oh my god. He was beating the shit out of everyone in this episode. Hello there!

But wasn't the point of Bellamy's whole speech this episode to show that this is him/how he sees himself. Pike played a role but Bellamy's choice isn't so far out of line with some of the choices he's made in the past in the end. His 'abandonment' issues, his dislike of grounders since day one, his tendency to act on…

Genuinely excited for Raven's and the Jaha/ALIE storyline now. The possibilities for a batshit A.I. and the smartest girl in the galaxy basically are endless. It's incredible how the most confusing and seemingly aimless storyline on the show just got catapulted into being the most intriguing. That last scene was…

Bellamy's abandonment issues are irritating and don't make a whole lot of sense, so they come off as a flimsy justification and emotionally manipulative given how he railed at Clarke. However, I agree with others, this behaviour is in character for Bellamy but it's very difficult to watch and I kind of wish he'd be…

Bellarke shippers are the absolute worst, much like the Sterek shippers of the Teen Wolf fandom or, and I'm showing my age here, the Chlois/Chlark shippers in the Smallville fandom. Their fan entitlement is hilarious but also a lot disturbing (especially since this time it comes with a dash of lesbophobia/biphobia).

I keep getting scared they're going to kill Lincoln, especially since Ricky's lead on a big show. Lincoln's really the only person in the show whose always had the purest intent when it comes to building some kind of peace between the nations and cooperating. I can't help but feel that he's going to pay the price for…

I think on further reflection, Bellamy's behavior is actually really in character. It's only out of character if you think Bellamy's somehow completely grown out of the character we knew from the start. The guy's always been impulsive, he's always been desperate to follow someone who can talk a good enough game to…

True. It was just a silly choice. It makes me sad because unlike Finn, Bellamy's development over two seasons was actually fairly well done so this turn-around is just cheap. I wish Raven was around, maybe she'd be able to talk some sense into him but I don't think the writers know how to let her be involved in the…

A 'rebound' from what though? Bellamy hasn't had a romantic relationship with anyone on the show. His whole storyline is nonsensical at this point.

Didn't they do the same thing with Finn?