User blog:Skyzy/Ye Who Enter Here Review

Disclaimer: I'm not into political shows, AT ALL. I never could get into West Wing, I only watched the first few episodes of Scandal before giving up on it, I disliked all the political drama in GoT and eventually gave up, and I'll probably get around to watching House of Cards about 5-10 years from now. If you're interested in Clexa and the summit then read any other review out there. I will briefly touch on it in terms of story but it holds little interest for me overall.

Highlights

 * The Grounder Anthem Montage is now up there with the Bellamy Harvest and the Madness of Murphy montages.
 * Some great lines from Clarke this week. Clarke (to Lexa): "The difference is, you have no honor and I had no choice." Clarke (to Abby): "You can be the 13th station or you can be the 13th Clan."
 * Lexa's Mortal Kombat style Finishing move with the Ice Nation rep
 * Kane telling Abby off when she tried to justify moving into Mount Weather as part of her saving Nyko. Kane: "Opening a hospital is one thing, moving Farm Station survivors is another."
 * Kane in Polis is exactly how I am whenever I travel anywhere new. Abby in Polis is exactly the people I hate traveling with and will ditch as soon as I can. Btw, I loved the background theme music in this scene (and I think it was also playing in the beginning when they first showed the tower?).
 * Indra!
 * Indra smiling at Kane!
 * Octavia revealing to Bellamy that she and Lincoln are leaving as soon as the kill order is lifted. Seriously, these two need to run far away from all the death and chaos and be protected until the end of time.
 * Sinclair! He gets his own bullet point because I've missed him.
 * Sinclair and Raven bonding! He tells Raven something similar to what my brother often reminds me when I'm being hard on myself: "stop treating my sister that way." It reminds me that I wouldn't hold it against a family member, friend, or coworker so why am I holding it against myself? Loved this scene soooo much!
 * Roan's conversation with Clarke that she's only heard Lexa's side and not Nia's. This is a very good point: what if Lexa in reality is worse than Nia?
 * Roan bowing first to Lexa after Clarke bowed was intriguing. Roan is pretty much the only part of the Polis story that I'm interested in.
 * Ice Nation assassin: The most awesome scenes in the entire episode. I have an entire spin-off series I already created in my head about him and a secret organization of assassins taking it upon themselves to avenge the injustices the Coalition allows to happen for political motivations (full-on Mr. Robot style but more murder and less hacking).
 * The countdown reflected off Gina's eyeball.
 * Indra and Octavia!!!11!!!1!
 * Indra asks Octavia if she has kept up on her training. If so, this means Lincoln has been training her these last three months and I find that adorable (hey, there was no Lincoln in this episode so I have to get my fix from somewhere).
 * Echo is back! Can I say once again how happy I am they did not go down the Bellecho route? I personally think Echo got Bellamy out of Mount Weather on purpose to save his life. His presence there wouldn't have stopped the attack so there was no need to send them off on a wild goose chase.
 * Emerson is back! I love all the possibilities of Emerson's character and he fascinates me. He could go in so many directions so I really hope they do him justice. Him getting a tiny bit of revenge against the Sky People was a lovely touch.
 * And I'm so glad they blew up Mount Weather and now we don't have to deal with that plot line any more. I was willing to accept the storyline if they continued it, but I wouldn't have been all that thrilled because it felt too neatly delivered (Sky People pissing off the Grounders by moving in, etc...).

General Thoughts

 * Did they ever lift Lincoln's kill order at the summit or did they forget about him again?
 * Does Nia not know her son is/was on Lexa's side?
 * Which side is Roan on, anyway? When will we finally get his story?
 * Roan said that Clarke is his way back to "home," which means he considers the Trikru home? Does he have a Trikru spouse?
 * I admit, I was momentarily shipping Roan and Echo, but I now like the idea of Roan having a Trikru wife. I've now moved on to shipping Echo and Emerson (Emercho? Echerson?).
 * Is Bellamy's trust in Echo foreshadowing Clarke's trust in Lexa? (Or maybe even Lexa's trust in Clarke?)

Lowlights

 * No Lincoln
 * Really, Sinclair? Mount Weather has "impressive" security? Yet Monty was able to hack them how many times?
 * Where's Monty, btw?
 * I'm not too sure about this Clexa bowing thing and I unfortunately don't really care enough to dissect it.
 * All the political stuff. I don't count this as a negative against the show or episode because I know it's my personal tastes. I can appreciate it; I just get easily bored with it. I had to rewatch the Polis scenes about fifteen times to get the plot written because my ADHD was so bad, I'd keep checking out and miss what happened. I'm like Bellamy in Mount Weather: while everyone else is off talking, I'm busy over here doing.
 * How is it the Ice Nation knows of the Polis tunnels and can so easily smuggle in knives and bribe guards?
 * Bellamy, who gets his own discussion point.
 * Gina, who also gets her own discussion point.

Bellamy
Even before Mount Weather exploded and Gina died, Bellamy was already unraveling. He killed the elevator operator guy without hesitation and said that it was necessary when Octavia called him out on it. That was the first time Bellamy has ever needlessly killed someone (he only wounded the Ice Nation scout in the first episode). Add on his sister declaring her intentions to leave him and Clarke's refusal to return to Arkadia and it's obvious; Bellamy was already on the path to joining Pike's fanatical anti-Grounder club without the added benefit of his plot device girlfriend being killed.

Gina
Gina was an unnecessary character to begin with. She wasn't even mentioned in the last episode so I forgot I was supposed to care about her when she appeared in this episode. She did nothing to further anyone's story except die and even her death wasn't necessary (see above). The only reason I can think as to why the writers threw her in was to quiet the Bellarke shippers but they're naive if they thought that would work. So long, you glorified red shirt. You did as well as you could with what you were given.

4.3/5, 3/3 episodes. Better than last episode by a smidgen (the Grounder Anthem montage and the Ice Nation assassin).