User blog comment:Skyzy/Wanheda (Part 2) Review/@comment-16845200-20160203033507

i've...actually never found any huge fault with abby. i don't love her, but i don't hate her either. to me she's kind of like one of those weeds growing in between the cracks of the sidewalks that you largely ignore.

i'd assume indra to be leader of the trikru.

roan intrigues me. i kinda like him. i think he's setting up to have a really fantastic character arc in the next couple of episodes.

still meh abt jasper.

pike's entire group is just as shady af. i don't trust any of them. including monty's mom. sorry #_#

emori's cool, but she's still shady. she's manipulative, and not in a good way.

bellamy.........hmm. *tilts head* i don't know how i feel about him in this episode. on one hand his interactions with clarke were so so so well-played - kudos to eliza taylor and bob morley - and not gonna lie, they gave me minute shippy-bellarke feels, something i thought would never happen. :> on the other hand, i did also get the feeling that bellamy was going really overboard here. he seemed pretty worried about clarke last episode, but definitely not to this level? maybe it was because he finally saw clarke and she was so close but so far and he freaked out a bit? idk.

someone on tumblr wrote a REALLY cool and realistic analysis of the city of light; leaving it right here: http://hedaswarrior.tumblr.com/post/137710329889/alie-s3-outline-theory-before-the-premiere

and i loved eliza taylor's acting, as usual, but i kind of felt that the scene when she yelled at lexa was a bit forced. not when she was speaking dialogue, but that yells in between those. they seemed kind of...stilted? to me, they just weren't realistic.

adding my two cents: i'm never gonna get over that final shot of lexa. that was some powerful stuff right there, and the juxtaposition of it was simply amazing, oh my god, especially when you contrast it with the shot beforehand when the camera was pulling away from her. the last shot had her looking straight into the camera and walking straight toward you, the viewer, before revealing the spread of polis. her city, her people. that sent chills down my spine.

not a bad episode. not bad. felt less packed than the first one (which was to be expected), was definitely better.