Replying here because Kinja is awful and I could barely find this review and it won’t let me post a reply in the main discussion.

I agree with all of this though. glad Jane is heading out (for now), glad Kat went to get her girl, glad Sutton managed to get her job done despite being in personal turmoil. Nice to see…

If I am being generous, I think buying the ticket for Adena’s flight showed us how impulsive Kat can be via quality show-don’t-tell storytelling. She just did the first thing that came to mind rather than really think it through. Sixty seconds of thought might have gotten her to buy the cheapest ticket that got her…

I can’t stop liking this show, even knowing that with modern safety codes, there is no way in hell even POTUS would “trap” people in an adjacent office building, or even the building he is dining in. I just don’t care because the core of this show (the relationship among the three friends) is so lovely to watch, I am…

Unpopular opinion: I hope Minnick stays. The character is a bit stiff, can't argue that, but just as I suspend my disbelief that Edwards wouldn't just give the liver damage guy a good shove and run like hell, I suspend my disbelief that Dominczyk is a not-so-great actress (seen her in other things and she wasn't half…

I'm so glad the rest of Skaikru found out how important Clarke and Lexa were to each other. Oh, wait. <sigh>. Nevermind.

I don't know. I will wait and see. I am not feeling Clarke at all right now. Her talk with Luna might have been manipulative but not in a masterful way.

Indra has had a completely different experience in life. Very difficult to compare to Pike. When we first met Indra, she was ready to kill anyone who even smelled like they might threaten Lexa. I lost count of the number of times Lexa raised her hand giving the "enough" command when Indra was about to stab Clarke. It…

Good point and given that, I am opting for the bad writing "nothing to work with" option I mentioned above rather than the "off day for the actress" option. I just watched this Fangirling web show that Eliza was "interviewed" on. Good Lord, bless her, those women did NOT know how to properly interview someone and…

No pass required in the Lexa/Octavia case because it gave the viewers all those juicy scenes. Lexa the badass, Clarke the savior, Clarke backing Lexa up into the table, Lexa putting a stay on the kill order because she wants to get all up in Clarke's business. I mean, her decision was based on what was the "right"…

Absolutely! Without getting into leaked spoiler footage, she does seem to be hanging on to the hope that Lexa is still 'out there' in some way. And I am OK with that. I just feel like her lines were so flat this episode. Maybe my expectations are too high because most every other episode we see Clarke doing the near…

I might be a bad person but if I were in Pike’s shoes, I might have taken the same approach. I am 100% against raising a hand to any juvenile
in any situation let alone a student-teacher situation but these kids were as
good as dead if they didn’t stick together once on the ground and Pike’s method to teach them that…

Yes to all of this. I keep thinking in the back of my head that maybe Clarke does ultimately suffer some sort of mental breakdown from all she has experienced between her Dad being floated through current day. How else to explain that I thought Clarke had been chipped throughout this entire episode?

WAIT! I liked Luna's introduction visually BUT, this was the most anticipated moment in the show since Clarke and Lexa's intimate pre-commercial break moment and it fell VERY short of expectations.

Pike's backstory is in no way redemption. Lovely to see he was the only grown-up concerned about sending the delinquents to Earth but it explains nothing about his penchant for genocide against 300 Grounders napping in between protecting Skaikru. Still a few episodes left to maybe delve into what really happened when…

That is a fair interpretation. He certainly could have been thinking "Clarke's pretty cute" vs. "wow, I think I likey like her". It would be great if they just developed them right up until the end as him wanting to be the man Clarke thinks he is/can be and him being a faithful protector and friend. People see what…

There is a platitude for that too! "Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."

Same rule applies. Bellamy wasn't a leader in that moment, he was emotional support for Clarke. He always acts in service to a leader. Google any motivational quotes about being a leader, try to apply the platitude to Bellamy and he will fail time after time.

I did not like this episode either, maybe because I am not a fan of the horror genre. Felt like filler and with so much story to tell and not many episodes left in the season, I was disappointed.
- There were some solid dramatic moments but also some that fell flat. e.g. some of those goodbye hugs were emotionless and…

Just another opportunity to show the audience how exactly no one thinks of Bellamy as a leader. That was just him being a sheep to Pike's authority.

In S1 when they find the guns and Bellamy is showing Clarke how to shoot, he touches her shoulders and just from his reaction you can clearly tell he has feelings for Clarke. It is a quick moment but one meant to show he cares for her at a minimum and might feel even more. I am not a Bellarker and hope they keep that…