Well, when the Machine told her to drop her search for Shaw, she didn't. Also, while it wasn't direct disobedience, per se, that game of chicken in Asylum probably would have ended very differently if it were Samaritan instead of the Machine.

See, I was thinking that it was both, which was why he chose to propose using that book. He mentioned being uneasy about getting married with her not knowing his real last name, so that might have been a sort of symbolic compromise in his mind.

I think that part of it was making sure that there was no way for the passphrase to ever get out. Like, even if he shot Harold, as soon as he pulled the gun, Harold could have said the word, and then Greer would have known it. Now, Greer would never purposefully use it, but his knowing it would mean that someone…

Yeah, she mentioned that in a couple of interviews. I get why they did it, and I think it definitely worked. At the same time, though, I now can't stop wondering where she's hiding in all the Finch/Machine conversations.

Well, the line that Root wanted him to cross was giving the Machine a way to defend herself, with Harold's fear being that there'd be no way to control how she chose to do it. So, strictly speaking, he still hasn't crossed that line, though he's certainly been more liberal in using the Machine for his own plans.

Yeah, I kind of feel like, if anything, this action being a result of Root's death is less like him being pushed into crossing a moral line and more like him doing the one thing he knows she wouldn't have let him do if she were still around.

I think the big difference here is that How I Met Your Mother only got it's fans really pissed with how it ended. Rothenberg isn't apologizing because people are upset with a creative decision he made, he's apologizing because those people are largely not going to watch the show anymore (or discuss/promote it on…

That's kind of been Bellamy's MO for the season. It was the same thing when he went along with Pike's plan to slaughter the grounder army and then acted surprised when Pike actually slaughtered the grounder army.

Hey, you don't have to respect it. They also don't have to keep watching/supporting a show after it's taken a creative direction that they vehemently dislike, just so you'll respect them. That's kind of how the whole thing works.

I've decided that she was still a little off her game from almost freezing to death. Plus, she was probably holding back, because she didn't want to kill him.

Yeah, it was nice that she got to have her emotional goodbye with two people who cared so much about her…and Murphy.

Agreed. Being kind of generally a fan of this genre, I've seen a lot of characters that I loved die, which is always sad, and I've seen a lot of them be discarded, which is both sad and insulting. Lexa was not discarded. I'm not happy that she's gone, but I do still trust that her character will continue to matter…

Part of the problem, though, is that the responsible party is at least half their population. Arkadia is basically a rogue state at this point. They made the decision to ignore their agreements with the other clans and their democratically elected leader just carried out a war crime and came home to thunderous…

I don't think Pike would sit down for peace talks, though. I don't think he'd even let a messenger live long enough to invite him to peace talks. Like, he was planning on just leaving 300 dead bodies in a field for the other grounders to eventually find and letting that be his message (the petty side of me almost…