tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post7500464723454597717..comments2024-03-28T23:03:57.917-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: The 100: Blood Must Have Blood, Part 1Billie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-72014332689744397312016-12-22T15:40:08.764-05:002016-12-22T15:40:08.764-05:00At first I was mad at the twist but it's compl...At first I was mad at the twist but it's completely understandable. The Mt.Men had all the grounder prisoners recaptured and threatened a mass execution so Lexa did what she had to do. This of course will cost her the Reaper rehabilitation program because I can't see the Sky Crew honoring their part of the deal now.<br /><br />The episode was also a great exmaple of the Unspoken Plan Guarantee rule: we heard Clarke's entire plan so of course it didn't work, we never heard what Dante and Cage were planning so it went off exactly like they wanted.Patrykhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13662838711958747484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-1499008365519304592015-11-27T17:38:30.062-05:002015-11-27T17:38:30.062-05:00When i first saw this episode last year i was spee...When i first saw this episode last year i was speechless..The same kind of speechless that happens after a particular significant Game of Thrones death. I could give this show no higher praise than that.<br /><br />I remember perfectly. The casting news of Lexa(Alycia Debnam-Carey) going to the new Walking Dead show and just the way the show was going. Everybody was expecting her to die heroically or awfully for Clarke and her people and redeem everything she had done.<br /><br />The episode was magnificent..The build up...The war plan and war cry from Clarke and Lexa...The appearance from side characters that i hadn't realized i even missed, (Monroe, Millers dad) Clarke and Lexa's small moment, Bellamy being badass Bellamy, Octavia and Indra in the tunnels, Wick and Raven in the field, the chaos inside the mountain, Cage and his fathers panic and the the plan just beginning to pay off....<br />THEN THE BETRAYAL..WOW..<br /><br />I was so shocked and disappointed in Lexa..Then realized it was completely within character (weak-ish motivation and poor future planning from her aside)..The writers achieved a near impossible task..Making that action work from a plot perspective : the surprise of the betrayal the understanding of it if you had been paying attention to Lexa's character and somehow raising the stakes for the people who are the main characters for the 2nd part of the finale. But also they made it work from a character one.. <br /><br />While frustrated, annoyed and disappointed with Lexa's decision it did not <br />make it any less a great piece of TV that flew in the face of everyone's expectations...I didn't agree but i understood exactly where she was coming from...You could argue many ways how it was the wrong choice for the future of her people or that the whole 'blood must have blood' went out the window..She has made the exact same decisions leading up to this just on a smaller less personal scale in regards to Clarke. But Lexa has been flawed from the start and has been consistent since she was introduced.<br /><br />The betrayal scene was extremely well acted as well..Alot of emotion with little dialogue.<br /><br /><br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com