This is a review, not a recap.

It would be really great if the season ended with the battle between Wonkru and the convicts having destroyed Shallow Valley, and then they cut to Monty and Harper a few hundred miles away, surrounded by green from the surviving apple tree and the surviving canister of algae.

It was pretty clear to me that one of the deaths Madi had relived was Lexa’s, and she undoubtedly saw Clarke from Lexa’s eyes as it happened. She therefore knows that her adoptive mother watched one of the two major loves — a Heda — in her life killed suddenly and violently. It makes sense that Clarke is so opposed to…

The most recent season, under new showrunners, was actually pretty great. The earlier seasons definitely wasted her talents, though.

What changed is that Bellamy wasn’t willing to fight with her before, and is willing to fight with her now. She believes the same is true of Indra.

Clarke will do anything to protect her people. That’s been consistent from the beginning. What’s changed, especially with this time jump, is how she defines “her people”. She is a kru of one, Madi.

The interesting thing is that what made her so effective before is actually counterproductive now. Madi has it right.

I believe the show is referencing the same thing Booth was referencing: Marcus Junius Brutus’s brutally lethal coup against Julius Caesar.

It could apply equally in the cult of the Flame trying to overthrow Blodreina, or McCreary trying to overthrow Diyoza.

Every time Adora very pointedly refused to acknowledge the reality of Camille’s activities in the community, I flashed back to Katharine Hepburn’s performance as Violet Venable in Suddenly, Last Summer.

The way the premiere weaved in and out of present day and Camille’s memories, and the intercutting between Amy Adams…

Once she realized her mom’s new boyfriend actually was trying to help, she made a genuine effort to be decent.

If Freeform cancels it, hopefully Netflix will add it to its Marvel roster. I feels much closer to “Daredevil”/“Jessica Jones”/“Luke Cage”/“The Punisher” than it does “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” or “Agent Carter” or “Inhumans”.

There isn’t a single main cast member that doesn’t feel exactly right for his or her character. These are people that, by all rights, should be deeply unlikable. But the performances are so good that you’re in their corner even when they’re being awful.

More like the world’s a little racist, and there are places a pretty young blonde woman can go that even a pretty young mixed race woman can’t.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s, like, dozens of Doloreses running around, each copy with exactly the right body for its assigned task.

That’s why I don’t think it’s related to the brain bleed.

The addiction seems to be a fairly recent development, so I don’t think the pills are related to the brain bleed caused by A.L.I.E. It sounds like the addiction started a few years into their time in the in bunker.

Did Trump need a mention in this review? Probably not.

I sort of got the impression that she took the pills because her daughter was left outside to die and she didn’t want to go on living if Clarke was dead, so they were a way to numb everything.

The weird thing is that nothing from David’s sabbatical inside Syd’s head matches up with that we’ve heard since.

It’s very frustrating to see yet another villainous portrayal of mental illness.

I don’t have a problem with David being mentally ill, and I don’t have a problem with David being the villain. I do have a problem with David being the villain BECAUSE he’s mentally ill.

I do think most of the events of tonight’s finale were manipulations by Shadow King. Certainly I don’t think David would have broken so soon if the Shadow King hadn’t backed him into this corner.

But it was David who was desperate for Syd’s love, and it was David who didn’t have the patience or the basic human respect…

The pilot basically did for superheroes what Love & Basketball did for sports movies: it took a strongly defined genre, with strongly defined expectations, and put all of that in the background to tell a character-driven story about two people whose lives are intertwined with one another.

Because Tandy and Tyrone work,…