Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26247132-20160520020402/@comment-4952704-20160521120352

So uh, i think i'll just leave my episode review here and then my season review afterwards.

Episode: 

First of all, i kind of liked that ending. Not the very end, but when everyone comes to their realizations, that felt very realistic and honestly why i loved the ending of Season 2 so much. The episode as a whole didn't really have a lot of good moments, the worst of which being the death of ALIE and her story conclusion. In retrospect, when you look back, ALIE did not contribute jack or shit to the story, other than to tell everyone the world is ending very soon.

I'm also a sucker for redemption stories, and i'll be in the minority for saying this: I wanted Pike to stay alive, or at least incarcerated. A lot of my favorite moments in a lot of shows is when the bad guy is incarcerated, and the characters pay him a visit. I'll cite one show in particular, Daredevil, which had an excellent scene in the later half of Season 2. I'm not saying Octavia should have forgiven him, i'm just saying he could have stayed alive and became what i wanted Emerson to be.

Lexa's semi-return was nice, but it made little to no sense and it was dumb when you look at it in retrospect. I liked Jasper's snap into reality as well, pretty much all the reactions after the fact. Hell, my main man Murphy survived, which was nice for me. To summarize, City of Light stuff was garbage, Raven became convenience: the character, the attack on the tower was okay, but the ending was nice.

There's one thing left though, the "cliffhanger". Realistically, there is no feasable way they could stop it and they'll probably just find some shit ass plot convenience for them to stop it, which pisses me off. However, I think if they don't find this 'shit ass plot convenience' and have a good way to stop these nuclear plants, I think it has a lot of potential. I don't think we should have another villain like how Pike, ALIE, or the Mountain Men were, I believe they should stay grounded (pun intended) and learn from their past mistakes and actually work together.

One final point: Please, show us the Eastern World in Season 4. There's so much potential to be had since it could be the exact opposite as what was shown in the Western World.

Season: 

From all the CW shows i watch every week (including this one), i have noticed a common theme: They make shit up as they go along. I have a lot of faith in this show, as i do any, but please JRoth, have something coherent, have something that will matter in retrospect instead of adding conveniences so you can move from Point A to Point B in your story.

There was a lot of needless deaths and needless everything pretty much. I genuinely liked Pike as a villain, he could've took a different route in how his story went, but he was fine. There was one episode i couldn't be bothered with looking up where it showed a flashback where he was a teacher and i thought that was handled excellently. ALIE is pretty much where i noticed they were making shit up as they went along, they had no plan. If you took her out of the story, the only thing you miss is what she warns everyone of at the end of the season. I'll give her something: she is pretty.

The Polis stuff was exactly, 100%, no exaggeration, meh. That's all i can summarize it as, 'meh'. It's not something i'll take away from the series as a whole, i liked the idea of "Blood must not have blood" but that was handled terribly. Pretty much there was a lot of "covert racism" as Skyzy put it and i don't have much to say on that matter other than she's pretty much not wrong.

Oh and fuck what they did to Emerson in the later half of the season. That was completely lame. There is no other word to describe that other than lame.