User blog comment:Skyzy/Watch the Thrones Review/@comment-16845200-20160213024435/@comment-26247132-20160213210442

""prop up the storylines of white characters." not saying that this was intentionally done, or that it was done at all, but it can be perceived that way. i've already seen this argument floating around. again i don't think it was done intentionally, but it's still...glaring."

Yeah, that's why I'll be really frustrated if Lincoln's (and/or Indra's) story ends with this Arkadia plotline because it'll be another POC death used to prop up a white person's story arc (no offense to Octavia). As I said before, this show is better than most in terms of diversity and I don't think it's intentional, but people should be educated and remaining silent isn't going to educate anyone.

Manifest Destiny/White Man's Burden, you mean? ;) I think it's even been stated in some interviews from Season 1 and 2 that this was intentional.

And I was just as bored as you throughout most of the Arkadia scenes. The Monty/Jasper plot is so far pretty much the only thing worthwhile to come from Arkadia and even then, I'm still missing action-adventure Monty of the first two episodes.

With the Nia death, I was joking it would be her but I really thought it might be Titus who got killed. Like, maybe Lexa found out he betrayed her in some way. I wonder if that's the last we'll see of Nia. Maybe CoL or flashbacks?

Roan banishment - there was a JR interview where he said his banishment from Azgeda were the terms of the Ice Nation joining the Coalition. Really irritated this was never stated anywhere onscreen and left me wondering for four episodes. It still doesn't explain why Roan wouldn't take Clarke back to his mother when she could use the power of Wanheda to take over the Coaltion from Lexa and unban him herself.