Thread:Skyzy/@comment-4952704-20160226083046/@comment-26247132-20160304184947

The episode itself was good for the most part. I think I need to redo my ratings system because each episode itself is not bad, per se; it's just that each episode introduces more and more problems in the overall Season plot.

I liked the ALIE-Becca-Polis storylne. That was good. Murphy's storyline has also not been too disappointing (I'm not the biggest fan of Memori but I can put up with it). The whole "friends" thing between him and Clarke was a little weird and disconcerting.

The Octavia/Indra reunion was just another instance of Octavia being the white savior to the downfallen POC who need her to remind them of who they are when she's only been a Grounder for a few months yet they've lived this way their entire lives. At this point, I can't even excuse it due to her age/immaturity anymore.

Lexa's death - first, it was yet another recycled plot (this time from Buffy) and yet another terrible trope they embraced fully. JR claimed he did it to be "risky" (read: shock value). How is it risky to kill off the lesbian right after her five minutes of happiness when every other show already does that? If they really had to kill her off, they could have done so in a much better manner. And now it makes Clarke into one of those heroes who has the kiss of death, meaning they're going to probably milk that trope for all it is worth to make her love-hardened and bitter. I wouldn't even be surprised if they did a Dark!Willow // Dark!Clarke "homage" (like their BSG "homages").

I still disagree there was any need to kill her off besides JR being so unimaginative he wasn't able to figure out any other way to move his cumbersome and nonsensical plot forward. He didn't bother figuring out a believable villain arc for Bellamy so why is he so worried about "realism" now?