User blog:Skyzy/Wanheda (Part 2) Review

This one is so late because I was attempting to make it more paragraph style instead of listing but...just too many words and I got bored writing it and figured anyone reading it would get bored, too. So, for now, I’m sticking with bullets.

Highlights

 * Monty and Mom reunion. I really like Hannah already and hope she sticks around (and she can even replace Abby).
 * Indra! She will always get her own bullet point in every episode she appears. She's the only female adult right now who is the least bit likable.
 * Kane calls Indra "leader of the Trikru." Way to be vague, dammit! Use an article! Is she a leader or the leader? Please explain the Grounder hierarchy!
 * Linctavia kisses!!!!! They are the high point of every episode. It's like as long as they get a nice little moment together, I can handle whatever horror happens throughout the rest of the episode.
 * Octavia's tattoo was showing. I really really hope they tell us about why she got it and how and the meaning behind it. From the BTS pictures, it looks like it's not yet finished so maybe we get a Linctavia scene later on where he's tattooing her or something (I can wish).
 * Jackson being smart and standing up to Abby. I'm probably closest in age to Jackson so he's the character who I might relate to the most on a life-level. I'd love to see him realize he's just as good if not better than Abby. Abby sucks.
 * As of this episode, Roan is my favorite new character this season. For some reason, I had already assumed since last episode that Roan was taking her to Lexa so the "big reveal" at the end wasn't really a surprise for me. Aside from that, I am loving his and Clarke's dynamic!
 * Eliza Taylor was incredible in this episode: Clarke in her speech to Roan about him being the same as her and when she pleaded with him for Bellamy's life and when she screamed at Lexa were all noteworthy performances.
 * Octavia seems to be the only person who knows how to handle Jasper by simply hugging him and being there for him when everyone else (Abby, mostly) is doing so many things wrong like forcing him to face his feelings and taking him back to the location of his trauma when he is nowhere near ready for that.

General Thoughts

 * Jackson and Nyko: I would love to see this relationship develop further without Abby's harmful interference. I think if it's just the two of them, they might actually be able to pull off the Mount Weather Medical project. (Abby will ruin it, though, so keep her away.)
 * Emori tries to manipulate Murphy by thanking him for saving her life when she was the one who saved herself from Gideon. I really hope Murphy doesn't fall for her and get burned.
 * Why was Maya's favorite painting the Second Cirle of Hell, which is Lust? Who was our Maya inappropriately lusting after in Mount Weather before Jasper's arrival?
 * Roan's banishment. First, why did he leave the Ice Nation and how did he get accepted into the Trikru? Second, why/how did he get banished from the Trikru and why does he want back in with them so bad over Azgeda? I am now very, very interested in this story line.

Lowlights

 * Abby still sucks. She's even worse this week, dragging a destructive and damaged Jasper along with them on an emergency mission to Mount Weather that might already threaten the tenuous truce.
 * Jasper destroying all that priceless art. I have a hard time when shows do that. Sleepy Hollow did it last season in that ridiculous Jefferson Library episode where they didn't even bother shoving a book or two down their pants before lighting the library on fire. I stopped watching that show this season (for different reasons but ultimately, all I bitterly remember is the destruction of that library).
 * How did it take them that long to realize Bellamy had changed clothes with a dead Ice Nation scout? And why did they bring the corpses into the cave in the first place? Couldn't they leave them outside the entrance? I don't think the army would have noticed the bodies from that distance....

Monty's Dad
The evasive way Hannah said Monty's dad loved Monty and wanted to find him when Monty first asked and the weirdly disjointed story about the snow and Pike taking over to tell it, something fishy is going on. I'm thinking there is more they're not telling. What is it that all members of the Farm Station would be united in hiding? My guess is cannibalism over the cold winter.

City of Light
The biggest question no one seems to be asking yet is if that's the real Gideon or just a copy/simulation. And if it's the "real" Gideon, then how can you tell?

Another question: if A.L.I.E. killed humanity to "save" it then where are all the people she killed? Are they considered expendable? What makes the current human race more valuable now for her "saving" program than the previous human race? Why did she "jump the gun" so to speak on wiping out the world if her hardware/software wasn't yet at the level where Jaha would have to intervene 97 years later to bring her up to code? Wouldn't she have waited for her creators to make her a little more advanced or were they threatening to terminate her and that's why she took action when she did?

And who are the "other buyers" Emori mentions that want the A.L.I.E. tech? And was it really A.L.I.E. who was the lady in the drone who first recruited Emori and Otan or perhaps there are more A.L.I.E. minions we haven't yet met? Maybe Gideon style and already living in the City of Light or maybe previous versions of A.L.I.E. that she might have resurrected after killing off the rest of humanity.

Finally, Murphy says, "Otan ate the damn chip." Is that how the chip works by ingesting it and absorbing it? Or was that a figure of speech? How does this work? Is it like a virus taking over your system and replicating itself into your DNA, changing your DNA and making it a little extra? How does it interact with the City of Light and transporting you there? I am still fascinated with all the possibilities around this story and what it might lead up to (I'm hoping for a philosophical debate on the definition of life).

A-, 96%, 4.25/5. I have to rethink this grading scale because all the episodes are probably going to be at least a 4 already so there isn't much room between 4-5 stars. They ruin the curve. Maybe a ratings system in comparison to other episodes? 2/2 (best of the two episodes we've seen so far)