Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27794543-20180718011657/@comment-7971816-20180718112739

I feel like we've seen Octavia in conflict between Blodreina and herself in the last few episodes a couple of times, but this episode really brought that into the spotlight. She wants to save Bellamy but her status as Blodreina doesn't allow her to do that. I love that conflict inside of her, and an awesome job by Marie for portraying that.

I feel like this episode also was longer than the others, while it wasn't? Between Octavia visiting Indra and Bellamy, the actual fight and then her destroying the farm to get all of them to march, you'd wonder how they got that into 41 episodes, let alone Clarke/Madi and Abbi's storylines this episode. It was a very packed episode.

Makes me wonder if it's too packed? Characters like Monty, Harper and Miller are reduced to one-liners, characters like Kane are written out for two episodes with ease... And while you would think they'd use all that screentime to gradually show the effects of the timejump, they're going to wait until episode 11 to make a whole flashback episode? I'm not certain if that's the best storytelling, or the best way to get the fandom on board.

It's like.... I'm super excited to know what happens next episode every time I finish one, but after a bit I start to realize about characters we didn't even see. Vinson had more lines than Murphy, Raven and Echo, who are series regulars? Wasn't Murphy trying to save Abby?

I guess I'm just pleading for screentime for the people who have been with this show since the beginning. Last episode was so strong in that, this episode totally lacked that ensemble feeling.