Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27794543-20180509010507/@comment-5575784-20180510005720

I'm gonna try and keep this one short because I gotta be somewhere in like 10 minutes and if I don't do it now I'll forget

TL;DR Let the War Begin!

I'm going to mainly wrap my analysis over this line

"There are no good guys"

Our main characters are likeable, because you see the story that brought them from space to the ground. They were all crimals returning to the earth after a century of being from the sky. They know that the Earth might be inhabitable and they create their own campgrounds. They find out people have been living on the ground before them. They capture one of the people from the ground trying to get them to talk.

The same could be said about the prisoners of Eligius, but here's the reason that we identify with the protagonists a little bit more. What happens AFTER they get the "grounder" to talk.

Skaikru were trying to have peace between the grounders, and made a fashioned base of operations around the crash site of their dropship. They didn't try to do anything fancy, but they did end up going to war with the grounders at the time. However, they fought to survive and they now consider some of the grounders their allies (until they become the 13th clan). That's all they wanted, they didn't come to conquer, they came to survive.

The people of Eligius came to conquer. They even said that the Earth was "their home". They are willing to take the place by force and sometimes even rush to violence in order to dominate over the land. They took over the grounder village, rather than trying to make peace with them. They came with guns, as if they were expecting some sort of fight.

The people in space realize that all that's left of Eligius are the prisoners. Vile, cruel and bloodthirst prisoners, who have come up with their own system of survival. Conquest.

This episode really didn't have much substance to it (I probably will watch it again) so it is kind of a let down. However, this episode wasn't a throw away as it provided SO MUCH exposition and "railroading".

For those who wanna talk about the Bellarke reunion, go for it. It was a bitterswet moment that I believe should be somewhat discussed if you're up for it.

Until next time,

Master of Angels