Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27794543-20180801010831/@comment-7971816-20180808225044

Efadfa wrote: Just a reminder that Echo was, is and will always be a spy. And she's the best spy. It's not something you learn. You have to be born this way. You need to be very intelligent, loyal and at the same time follow your brain's choices, not your heart's. It's like being a policeman or doctor from calling - you don't ever finish your job, not even after hours. You are your job. When she was up on the Ark there were no threats, no loyalty problems whatsoever. The second they got to the ground it turned out suddenly there's another conflict. And Echo chose her side - Spacekru. And she's doing all in her power, very smartly, to achieve her goal - helping Spacekru win. And if that means helping Octavia, so be it. In my eyes she's one of the best characters currently, she's not weighed down by emotions, she's following the logic of achieving her goal in any way possible. And she didn't kill Shaw, which wouldn't be a bad idea, honestly. And the way she spoke to Clarke? Have you seen the way Clarke spoke to her? If they kill her, we'd be down another character who follows her head not her heart and we would be left with... Um... Indra? Now-Drug-Addict Abby? Turned-Ruthless Octavia? Yeah, I think I'd stick with Echo, thank you. I get that she is a spy. That's not the part that I don't like. She was useful in spying while in Diyoza's encampment. I liked that storyline a lot. But to me that's all she brings to the plot. And I was actually excited to see some background, some humanity behind that spy exterior. Like, who is Echo when you take off the warpaint and the spying.

And like you said, there was little spying to do on the ring. So she must have had other characteristics that somehow, Bellamy fell in love with. And I think that if you're going to profile Bellamy and Echo's relationship as some sort of dynamic duo, co-leaders and great lovestory, the producers should have been able to show us some change in her character that made that dynamic happen.

With Octavia, for example, she had been Blodreina for 6 years yet when the doors closed throughout the season, when she wasn't forced to be her because of the circumstances, we saw her cry. We saw Octavia underneath. And i think in that aspect they failed with Echo. She just slips too easy in that warpaint and those tendencies. There was room for more development but they just had off-focus reunions with Bellamy and then sharing loving glances.

As much as I like myself a ruthless and emotionless spy, if you're going to pair her up with someone like bellamy who is basically all emotion, then I as a viewer personally need to see some sort of middle ground where these two became a good match.

And I don't have anything against Echo as a character. But as the way she was written this season I was underwhelmed and I don't think the way they wrote her after the timejump contributed much to te overall story so in that aspect I wouldn't mind if they killed her off.