I thought the same but perhaps that would have started an immediate war as Indra's people would have attacked Arkadia rather than leave.

I thought Bob was exceptional in this episode and sub-par in the last one, which I see what him playing Bellamy as being crushed by the MW bombing and Clarke's 'betrayal'. I was really looking forward to him flexing his chops and he gave good emotions this ep.

I can't remember if I replied to you earlier in this post but if you watch Wanheda Pt 1 again he does show distrust. He tells Indra "you people love those" about kill orders and really doesn't respect their culture at all. Him encouraging Lincoln to join Skikru and wear the uniform is just proof of his disdain for…

I think that was more 'you can't just hit a guard and get away with it'. He's still being big brother teaching her how to survive on the Ark. Horrible how quickly Arkadia is resembling the Ark's regime, there will be floating next week I bet.

Same, I didn't see it coming at all and was pretty uninterested in the City of Light stuff but now I'm pumped.

Agreed, and the analysis of Lexa's decision is also flaky as Lexa might well have a long plan that she's playing. Maybe she just needs time to plan her next move. Far sensibler to wait for the Arkadians to starve and turn on Pike rather than attack straightaway and lose thousands in a hail of gunfire.

In Mount Weather Bellamy was doing 'my enemy's enemy is my friend'. He shared about 20 seconds with Echo. He never cared about the grounders in there before he went in and then he saw that their blood had been keeping people like Maya alive so I think he was hugely conflicted and confused about it. Plus he probably…

Yes, I wanted to cheer when it all came out because people - including his rabid fanbase - have just relied on Bellamy to be strong and then bossed him about when they see him veer back into his S1 behavior.

But he doesn't think they are an ally and he doesn't trust Lexa at all. How can he and Pike be sure that peace-keeping army won't turn on them when they have such a terrible image of outsiders.

Thank you for this. I don't understand people talking about his character growth because all the writers did with him in S2 was show him become an action hero. First episode of S3 he "you people"s Indra about the kill order on Lincoln/Wanheda.

yep, he's always hated the grounders and had no problem organising plans to kill them. surprised people he expected he would trust Lexa to not turn her army against them.

Lexa's people should just wait it out. Pike already mentioned they don't have many supplies and despite what he says he doesn't have enough resources to secure a 15km wooded area. They're acting like colonisers but how that works in history if you have new troops who can join. Ain't no-one coming to join Skikru now…

Yes, I cheered when Pike let Jaha just come in and start preaching to not be angry when Pike's leadership is all about reminding people about pain and fear. Setting up some interesting things for later this season (which will probably be next episode given how fast this show moves).

Not lazy writing at all in my opinion.
They had to let Pike be up for election - Kane's Chancellorship would have been perceived as illegitimate if they had left someone off a democratic ballot and there would have been a coup, or at best a mutiny. Kane and Abby thought their people were better than to vote for someone…

He's not that different though. At the end of S1 he said he wishes he had spare grenades he could toss into the grounder village and he's excited to go to war. He's always outwardly been ok killing grounders, everyone just forgot because he cried a bit, did heroic and noble stuff in S2 and is played by a really…

Yeah I didn't get that, Rick easily carried Carl to the surgery so he could have just swung Ron over his shoulder.

I think there has been a night inbetween the initial zombie herding + wolf attack and the wall falling. Sasha and Abraham spent a while in the police station and Morgan had the wolf overnight.

"No Heda no mo" was really fun.

Haha true, Bellamy should just sit this one out. Although he's always been a fan of 'hit them hard first and they'll be too scared to come back', right from when he was bullying people out of food in 1.2. They also probably learned diddly squat about warfare on the Ark so their crappy strategising and short-term…

He could then have done a bunk with Monty, making Pike etc. think they'd been captured by the grounder camp.