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I think a lot of people were expecting a death, and are still expecting it this season. People rooting for Clarke & Octavia to die because they've been the most in the way of peace makes sense.

I also think the show generally just has too many characters though. The show promoted Tasya to series regular while I can vaguely recall 5 specific scenes she in as a significant part of the scene. Meanwhile you have characters like Miller, Jackson and Harper that have been around since season one and have a far more deeper relationship to the main characters and they deserve storyarcs of their own.

I was surprised everyone in SpaceKru survived. So I'm totally expecting one of them to die this season. I've heard people talk of Murphy which I think would be a shame. Richard is an amazing actor, his character has a lot of potential between Memori and his redemption arc with Raven. I've seen people questioning the purpose of Monty and Harper and at this point I agree, the actors deserve better (someone should count how many lines Chris Larkin had, as a series regular since S1 it's ridiculous). If Monty and Harper were to die I wouldn't mind solely because the actors deserve better. But my top pick to kill off anyone from SpaceKru would be Echo. I think the producers were aiming for some sort of sweet redemption story but at some point between 5x01 and 5x04 they lost track of that and she slipped back into her old sadistic ways. The way she spoke to Clarke, who saved her life? The way she wanted to kill Shaw? It's like echo's entire personality is her being a spy? And I don't think that's the women Bellamy fell in love with? So at this point, they should kill her off. Because they promoted Tasya to series regular just like Zach McGowan so if they kill her off they can keep their "this show kills off main charactres" quota they've been aiming at since S1.

As far as Wonkru goes, I agree that Indra would have been a more impactful death, and Gaia could have refused to go which would have jeopardized her life and her influence on the rest of Wonkru to follow the flame. It would have made Octavia's turn-around more meaningful. Especially with what Indra said about being willing to die in the pit last week. Miller getting shot was predictable, agreed, but that's because they had to shoot someone whose face we know. Ethan was a plothole they had to tie up. Miller would be the only injured one we would have felt something for. But as stated above, he's not dying either. And Niylah wasn't even in the battlefield. So no casualties there.

I'm pretty sure they're killing off Kane in regards to Henry Ian Cusick's new show. So that was predictable. I thought it would be Diyoza so Vinson was an interesting twist. Seeing  his crush on Abby I had it in the back of my mind, but it was a creative way to kill off a character with political immunity.