Everything is contaminated. But everybody alive at this point has surviving a drastic evolutionary culling. They all have, to varying degrees, significantly higher tolerance to radiation than the average person alive today. The prisoners and the Ark people from solar radiation, the Grounders from the original Primfiya.

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Octavia sees things in black and white. That’s the source of her strength, but also her greatest weakness. In the bunker, she could make things black and white. On the surface, things have gotten a lot grayer, and she’s not adapting well to that fact.

I want her and Murphy to make little lobster-handed babies together.

Alex is 29, which is a actually pretty common age for people to really start feeling the pressure to have kids.

Agreed about the horrible career choice for that, though. At least one of the recent episodes acknowledged that.

The genius of the current utilization of him is that they can write him out at anytime, if he decides he doesn’t want to do the show anymore, if there’s a scheduling conflict, or if some illness debilitates him. They just have Bernard’s control module debugged and, poof, Ford is gone.

The show did a REALLY good job disguising the fact that Anthony Hopkins wasn’t just signed on for one season and done, but rather has an ongoing role with the series. So last week’s final beat had a genuine kick to it.

Given that current iterations of the hosts are basically organic (with the exception of their brains) it makes sense that the technology to restore their bodies would also work on humans.

And I equally loved Maeve, still stuck on that gurney, taking a little of the smugness out of Dolores by pointing out that what she did to Teddy was just as immoral as what the humans did.

Make Eden Sher and Daniela Bobadilla series regulars so we get more Sue and Lexie, and then have the rest of the “Middle” cast pop up in guest appearances.

For someone so literal, Kerry Loudermilk sure can speak with great poetry.

I don’t think that Maeve is more “awake”, but I do think she is more human than Delores.

Correct. Not that Kara’s “we can’t have anything that could possibly hurt me anywhere on Earth” stance was a particularly good look.

Good point. Didn’t even think about that.

I don’t know that we have enough information yet to make that assumption. What we do know:

I love that Clarke gave Madi the fairy tale versions of all these people who have done truly horrific things. She found the nice and decent and noble things to share about them.

I would get that the birth control method was: If a pregnancy occurs, both father and mother go into the arena.

The only way I want Bellamy and Clarke together is maybe in the final episode, where they’ve dealt with the last of the threats and the future of humanity is secure.
At that point, maybe give them a remote cabin away from the rest of the world and let them just rock back and forth on their porch in adjacent rocking…

Because she expects transparency and trust, when she wasn’t herself being transparent and trusting.

Well, you’re not wrong there. That scene in the library was poignant and wonderful.

This was right up there with the “Justified” finale for me. Not bold, not flashy, not a watercooler conversation starter like “The Sopranos” was. Just a true and satisfying end to this nine year journey, written by series creators DeAnn Heline & Eileen Heisler and directed by the woman who’s directed more episode of…