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This episode was, from what I saw, mainly about the value of a person.

To backup my statement, I'll use a line that Luna used, "Is this my punishment for not taking the Flame?" "No one deserves this." Bellamy responded.

For my example this week, I'll use Bellamy. We know Bellamy was a scumbag back in Season 3 (Sorry Bellamy fans, but he was.) He's been trying to get redemption for the horrible things that he has done in the past, specifically killing the army that was sent to protect Skaikru. Bellamy needs to stop focusing on the bad things that he has done in his life, and focus on the good things.

I like Luna (and that's not because she's attractive) but I'm not going to get into that because there's still some controversy about the character. I will say that I called at the beginning of the episode that her Nightblood was going to save her.

Interested to see more of Gaia and how her character is going to tie into the rest of it. Also, her being Indra's daughter. Speculation: Was Indra a Flamekeeper scout? Gaia said a line that made me think that Indra was at one time, but then instead became a warrior.

I will say that because I read the books I (hate saying this term) ship Bellamy and Clarke. There was a lot of "Bellarke" moments in the episode and that made me happy. "If I'm on that list, then you are on that list". Though Brilliant, this list is going to come up in many different episodes, and I want to know if Octavia is somewhere on this list. Otherwise, I'm actually going to be pissed.

Roan was... okay this week. I realized it this week (probably late for me) but he's ruling by fear, which isn't the way his character seems to want to rule. It's not direct fear of him, however, it's fear of the flame, and how much power he holds because he has it.

Dammit, Jaha needs to stop. Cool, he has a theory and hope, but just because hope got him to the CoL (which was God Awful btw) doesn't mean he should follow hope forever now. In fact, he should resent that.

Murphy was awesome this episode. I'm glad that he stole medicine to do some good, and that he's staying in Arkadia for awhile. He's had some development that I enjoy, even though he's still fighting his own demons.

sigh* I was upset about Raven this episode. Sorry, I was. Her character has become poorly written, and all I really see her as now is a heartless "dictator", which really REALLY sucks, because she was up there on my top 3 characters of the show. I know I said that I was glad that she was taking a leadership role last week, but this was not what I had in mind when I said that.

There's my Summary/Rant for this week. See you guys next week!

Master of Angels out.