User blog comment:Skyzy/Watch the Thrones Review/@comment-25176701-20160213003949

This episode exposed an enormous problem that I kept hoping that this season wouldn't run into: Lack of character development. They hyped so much about Queen Nia prior to S3 and basically EVERYONE couldn't wait for her character. Granted, she probably wasn't going to make it out of this season alive anyways, but I'm pretty sure we were all hoping that she'd have at least more than just 20 minutes of screen time total, and would appear in more than just 2 episodes. It seems like new characters are being created just to kill off without having any real importance to the story. They've really screwed up Nia, in my opinion. They didn't (and most likely won't) show flashbacks of her/her relationship with Lexa prior to the Coalition/how Lexa forced Nia into the Coalition. They didn't even give her a fight scene with Lexa. Her death wasn't that unpredictable and surprising (since they already spoiled a newly added character would die in episode 4, that narrowed down the results quite a bit). If they keep killing off significant characters, then it's going to become 1) Boring because it won't even be surprising when anyone dies and 2) Waste otherwise good opportunity for character development. It was such a waste. Really. I was disappointed. In a way, it was better than Roan or Lexa because that was way too predictable. All of the press about this mighty Ice Queen and she dies right off the bat... They could have literally gave any ambassador Nia's storyline and it wouldn't have changed a damn thing. I felt so cheated with that.