User blog comment:Bringbackthewikia/On Octavia Blake/@comment-217.247.45.69-20161002003412

I haven't read any of the links yet but I know what the general point of this post is. So I am giving my two cents. I think towards the end of season 3 the writers started to not use her as the voice of reason anymore. Her physically assaulting her brother, with others trying to stop her, looking at her and Bellamy in uncomfortable silence showed we weren't supposed to approve of her lashing out at him. People celebrating that were projecting their own emotions onto the scene in my opinion.

And at the end when she killed Pike the show also framed it as something bad. The narrative wasn't trying to portray her as the heroine who got revenge for a lover.

I think she is on a downward spiral that will continue in sesaon 4. Hopefully, we will get some nice character growth out of it. That Octavia lets go of the violence.