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Starforce13 wrote: @JCB95 Wounding a bunch of redshirts wouldn't have the same impact as wounding Miller and Gaia. We wouldn't have cared if they get medical attention. If Miller was still fine, he would have led people back and Echo wouldn't have felt compelled to come to Madi, which led to the main plot for these 2 episodes.

I agree that if they delayed Cooper's death to this episode, it would have been more useful. Her death felt unnecessary tbh.

Yes, Raven and Shaw could have fixed the machine gun, but they didn't have time to. Raven prevented it from blowing up the first time but they parted ways right after that. They left Emori to fix it but she couldn't because she's not nearly as an expert as Raven and Shaw.

I used to dislike Murphy but he's changed a lot. He used to be a bully and the one who ruined their plans all the time. But this time, he's working as part of a team and risking his life so many times for them. He's made more development than most characters. Honestly, I don't know how you don't see that.

You can't go around killing characters just for the sake of bringing their story to "full circle." Instead, you can use that to help develop the next story. That's what creative writers do. And yes, you can tell what a character feels through emotions, without them spelling it out for you. Look at Octavia's face as she leaves Polis and throughout the journey. You can tell she feels guilty and doesn't feel worthy as their leader. She hasn't even had the courage to address them. Miller is the one who has been rallying people after her. Wounding redshirts can be compelling as long as you do it right. Like I said though you can wound the redshirts, Miller and if she had survived copper. Then you can show the urgency of needing medical aide as well as having wonkru suffering a loss. Just seeing a bunch of redshirts die softens the blow to wonkru. It doesn't make it look like wonkru lost a lot. I think Miller going back would have been interesting. Octavia being pinned down and forced to watch her people get slaughtered, that would have been gut wrenching.

An easy fix for the gun would be it was fixed off camera. Just having it be faulty just made for stupid scenes. At the beginning of the season spacekru mentioned he had separated himself from them during the six years. At the beginning of the season he was on the outside of the group and was just doing wherever to survive. Murphy has been stale this season and don't forget it's his fault Mcreary took over the valley.

I agree you can't just go around killing characters off, but if the story fits then go for it. You can always make a new storyline for the next season, but I feel like it's a hit or miss with the writers of the 100. Raven for example never transinsions well. She's just doing same thing Season to season. A death would greatly improve the finale, because we've only lost a bunch of redshirts from wonkru if that's all e lose it makes wonkru look weak. The same goes toot spacekru, not everyone can have a happy ending.