I actually kind of got what they were trying to do. The gnomes said that they would follow only the rightful ruler. So that was supposed to convince them that the only way to save the alliance was to fall behind Ander. But it doesn't work because the generals have never expressed any interest in an alliance with the…

Excessive makeup……?

Which, curiously, was also the biggest problem of the last season, with her previous roommate. Roommates are their kryptonite.

The timing might not have been -that- convenient, since we don't know for sure if the picnic scene happened the next morning or 30 weeks later…

He probably wasn't aware, since he mimics all the physical signs of zombiness with makeup. Seeing himself looking like a zombie all the time would not let him see the physical changes.

Of course! Some are Time Masters.

I thought it was a new wall in the process of being built. Very thick for a wall, but they use the building to store explosives…

#PleaseTellPayton

Good point, but he'd probably still need some sort of pole to put the symbol on.

And her warning that there could be water on the other side was so brilliantly possible in a real-world scenario.

Not quite. Redshirts don't provide alignment-shifting motivation for main characters. It's certainly not a good fridging either. It's probably somewhere in between. Maybe instead of a fridge, it's a red cooler?

I felt so asphyxiated by moral claustrophobia on every Ark scene. I could totally see myself, if I lived there, screaming that everything Pike proposed is so obviously and categorically stupid from a military logistics standpoint, only to watch the masses inexorably sway to his side and start digging us all into a pit…

I thought everything at Polis was an A, everything with Jasper and Pike was a B, and everything with Bellamy was a D-.

A democracy with only one power and no checks and balances is not a democracy at all; it's just an elected dictatorship.

The saying is "blood must have blood," not "blood should have blood whenever it's reasonable." :)

That's true. It actually makes him the opposite of evil, since he does double the effort as everybody else. …but, it is harder for him not to be evil than it is for any human.

Thinking really hard on whether that would definitely be a deal-breaker…

I'd guess that all the metahumans who didn't pledge their allegiance to Zoom got… well… zoomed.

Monroe has described his existence regarding his lust for human blood in similar terms to the constant struggle of alcoholism.

His aunt told him that he'd notice his powers appearing and growing as her life faded, sort of like inheriting them