If they don't want a one-to-one real time assumption, they need to explicitly say so.

How are these flashbacks going to get Oliver wherever he learned conversational Russian and then back to Lian Yu - alone - in time to grow that Chuck Noland beard he had in the pilot?

Hopefully they pulled a Marla Gibbs and got it written in their contract tat they get to come back to AoS if their show fails.

I thought Creel only changed into materials his hand touches. May forced him to change into something by touching it to his neck. If it's his whole body, shouldn't his whole body be made out of the fabric in his clothes, or the leather in his shoes?

We're to assume that the vast majority of Arkadia is with Pike, since the chancellor election "wasn't even close". That's one of the worse things about this plotline…most of Arkadia was led through the initial period after landing by Kane and Abby, and then inexplicably they're all about Pike as soon as he arrives.…

Yes, and still all I see when I look at Murphy is his Season 1 acts.

Monty is the reason the Pike kidnapping failed. Whatever Pike does now is indirectly on Monty.

By the time Finn did that, he was clearly mentally ill, by just about anyone's reckoning. Nevertheless, there was no coming back - he was still doomed, and the show wisely followed through.

This season seems to be trying (too hard I think) to be an allegory of contemporary events. Pike might as well be wearing a Donald Trump wig.

Not remotely. AoS didn't even try to do that with Grant Ward because it would have been futile. Bellamy should share Pike and Hannah's fate, whatever it is. Monty is an act or two from having the same apply to him as well.

It takes a while, and there are minor regressions along the way. The episodes with contemporary music in them tend to the be the weakest.

Bellamy is several orders of magnitude further gone than Finn ever was. Redemption is out of the question, ever.

Yeah that's probably what we're to assume…last week and this week were coincident.

I hope it isn't that kid that Lexa has foisted on us twice now, especially if they're going to throw Clarke at the new commander romantically.

Well Polis is still the site of some city…that skyscraper isn't a remnant of Polaris.

I'm wondering if Titus tries to blame Clarke (or Murphy) for killing Lexa, but if the AI allows the next Commander to have the memories of this one, that shouldn't work.

So are we to assume that everyone who takes Jaha's chip thing grows one of those AI things at the back of their neck?

Octavia spent most of this season so far being contemptuous of Skaikru, even treating Lincoln like something she just scraped off her shoe just because he's cooperating with them. Now here suddenly we're supposed to pretend she gives a damn about them…and then as you pointed out, suddenly she doesn't again.

The reactions of the three on Polaris was a bit trite, but the visual effect of the nuclear missiles launching and impacting Earth one by one was pretty visceral.

Titus announces the Commander is dead and nobody asks how?