[Episode Discussion] 2.15 Blood Must Have Blood, Part 1

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Here we are, part one of the season finale - for you what was the episode's biggest surprise?


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So much frantic rushing around! The ep starts the same day as the last one, so Bellamy has just pulled himself out of the vents after nearly dying. Echo takes charge of the grounders while he rushes off again when Cage starts trying to get his people to turn on each other to find the 44 plus Bellamy. It's a smart move. Well played Cage.

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The second most difficult scene to watch of the season: the people who are hiding Maya and Jasper, trying to protect them, and even after Jasper gives them up, their execution. Uhg, the Mountian is so fucked up!

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A rescue mission. And Clarke wants to make sure everyone understands. It's interesting looking back, at how well Lexa understands what that means. No taking unnecessary life. Lexa sticks to that.

Also Munroe!

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Who did Indra lose to the reapers? A lover? Son? Best friend?

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I really like the little moment between Miller Sr. and Lincoln, this little acknowledgement of each others suffering as they get down to business trying to crack the door.

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I like how Wick gets a moment to be utterly horrified that he killed a person at the dam. He's in shock, and it's natural, and Raven, who's killed so many already, has to pull him out of it. Welcome to the ground indeed.

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The scene between Dante and Cage. Dante has been on a hunger strike, and what must it be like to have something that once brought you pleasure - a good meal - be brought to you when you can't feel anything but disgust. Dante turns everything that has happened onto Cage, and Cage strikes back with the fact that the "savages" will destroy all the culture in addition to the people. I don't know if that is what turns Dante, or if it is the very real fact that there's only one avenue left for survival. Maybe both.

Dante's the one who's been thinking about Clarke as the threat, while Cage has continued to think of the Commander as the real threat. Who is the more dangerous? One without the other couldn't have gotten this far, and maybe that's what's running through Dante's head. That the only way to end this is to separate them. That's the crux of his plan after. He just continued to underestimate Clarke…

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I love Lexa's battle calm. Yes, it does take as long as it takes, and plans rarely go according to plan. Old battle truisms that are still true at the end of the world.

This moment between them, when Clarke doesn't know what she wants, and can't think past tomorrow - if you think about it, she hasn't had a break since they landed on the ground. After the battle with Anya's unit at the dropship she was captured, then all she could think about since is getting her people out of Mount Weather. Clarke barely sleeps, she has to stay strong all the time for everyone else. It's no wonder Clarke doesn't know what happens next. She hasn't had a moment to herself to think.

I love how Lexa offers her to come with her. How Clarke says Lexa's already changed the way she thinks about the grounders. It makes everything better and that much more heartbreaking later on.

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Raven and Wick, just keep backing up. I love that bit, where they know the explosion's coming.

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OH MY GOD STOP TALKING PUSH THE DAMN BUTTON! YOU'RE WASTING TIME!

How badass is Lincoln with his flaming shot to trigger the hydrazine!

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Oh sweet Monty - staying hidden to get the word out about the attempt on the harvest chamber. That has to be one of the hardest, bravest thing he's done. Because he knows without that info, they lose everyone. It doesn't help, of course, they're too late, but he tried.

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Oh Octavia bb! You finally found your people! You get to keep them for about ten minutes before blood ties kick in.

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Oh Clarke! Oh Lexa! Oh heartbreak on a hundred different levels. I don't think Lexa couldn have made any other choice. She was right to put her people first. Their lives she saved from keeping them from having to fight in the first place. But her face when she says goodbye. Clarke's face! *Crying*

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I'm telling you, of all the people on this show, Lincoln would be the vigilante superhero. He wants to stay and help Clarke, give her and her people a chance. Give him a city and wrongs to right with no thanks, and he'd be the one doing it simply because he's a good man with a good heart and a need to see things set right.

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The other one who breaks my heart is Raven, who after a whole mess of emotions with him, doesn't want him to leave her alone. And he wasn't going to anyway.

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That last scene of Clarke in front of the doors, refusing to leave is iconic. She's so small in comparison, so alone, and yet…she's larger than life.