Exactly. If you look at Season 1, Bellamy held control of the camp for most of the season instead of Clarke for this precise reason. And in Season 2, whenever Clarke and Lexa needed to address a group of people, Lexa was always the one who gave the rousing speech that fired them up, while Clarke laid out the…

Something that's been pretty consistent about Clarke is that she's NOT a charismatic leader. When it comes time to make a big speech to sway the crowd to her side, she tends to falter compared to people like Bellamy who are really good at the whole rousing speech thing. She's more likely to just tell people "this is…

Really not seeing a lot of love for democracy in this thread.

See, I loved that Monty revealed the list now. We all knew it would have to happen eventually, may as well get it out and the open and deal with it somewhat rationally.

My go-to source of humor on this show is Trigedaslang. Apparently "good people" translates as "standup crew", and "You should leave" translates as "You best bounce".

And Emori seemed to be nervous about something other than drones.

Oh, come on. When in fiction has a person falling off a cliff into a river ever ACTUALLY died?

People choose to follow Clarke's leadership because they've come to trust it. If new information comes to light that erodes their trust in Clarke, it makes sense to then question her leadership.

Lance wasn't charged for helping Damien Darhk because he was acting under duress, with Damien threatening both his and his daughter's lives. Whether that would hold up in a real world court, I'm not sure.

Darhk was fantastic, but he was also overused. There's only so many times you can have the hero and the villain fight each other inconclusively before it gets old.

That depends on what her plans were going forward. At this point, we don't actually know if she planned on going public with what she found out about him. Or, if she did go public, whether she'd do so herself or act as a source for a different journalist.

Although, over on Legends of Tomorrow, Nate figured out Oliver was the Green Arrow just by looking at news reports and putting two and two together. 'Course, Legends doesn't really do secret identities beyond a basic "pretend you're from this time period" level, and even that level of discretion tends to only last…

Originally, she was investigating how Oliver managed to fake his own death, because "mayor fakes his own death" is pretty newsworthy. Pulling that thread led her to evidence that Oliver was in Russia during the five years he was supposed to be stranded on a deserted island, and that's not the sort of thing a reporter…

I think we're not supposed to know how to feel about Susan at this point, because that puts us in the same position as the characters. As of this episode, they know everything about her that we do: that she's been investigating Oliver's time in Russia and has pieced together that he's the Green Arrow, but DID choose…

I loved most of that fight scene, though Curtis lying on his back, holding up his hands and feet while two people repeatedly kick him . . . that was just embarrassing.

Said guy was also, at that same moment, involved in a large murder and kidnapping enterprise, so it's not like him knowing Oliver's secret was the only factor in the neck-breaking decision.

Agreed. That's why, last season, she was the one who got Damien Darhk to back off by holding a knife to his daughter's neck: she's the only one on the team who could do that and have you not be sure that she's bluffing.

That implies there's anything in the world more sinister than running Paddy's Pub.

I think it's been well-established that Frank puts just enough of his money into the bar to keep it afloat, but never enough to actually improve it.

I don't remember the episode title, but there was one where they were upset that a Korean bar was going to be the last bar on a Philadelphia pub, because normally Paddy's is last on the pub crawl, and the only time the bar turns a profit is when all those people just stick around for the night once the crawl is over.