Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-26500342-20160108000001/@comment-26247132-20160302022328

71.94.221.9 wrote: One thing I will disagree with you on is Octavia having a baby, as introducing a baby on a show is usually the kiss of death because it is logistically a hard thing to do without weighing the story down. And the child ends up being largely off screen. One of my least favorite tropes. and about tropes, yes overuse is bad but they do exist for a reason and every writer uses them even the greats. They are merely tools to propel the narrative and just about anything can be considered a trope, so writers are damned either way. It is just how they are used that matters. The only reason I want Octavia pregnant now is that I want Lincoln to have some lasting legacy in that world. Pregnancy plots, I mostly agree (in fact, I didn't want Octavia to be pregnant up until the last few weeks). With this show, however, the Timeline is really short, meaning that even if Octavia is pregnant, she probably wouldn't have the kid until Season 10 or something.

As for the tropes, that was one thing this show always had going for them: they either utilized or subverted tropes really, really well. They stopped doing that this season and I don't know why.

(Re: the ratings thing, I didn't mean it to come off that I thought you were being snarky; I was just teasing you a little. ;) )