Let me get this straight. "People" have rated this as a 1 star because they're little sados who can't take watching a couple characters die? Are you kidding me? While watching this episode I was thinking to myself "damn. This is a pretty good episode". Then I come here and contract aids from seeing it rated 3.8. Grow the hell up!!! It was powerful and to me is showing the development of the characters and the atmosphere.
Moreover, why are people crying like little pathetic babies like "omg! Ontari killed kids! omg! that's disgusting! omg!". Shut it. She's mean't to be brutal, cruel and horrible. Go watch teletubbies if you can't hack it. In addition it seems everyone is playing the race card or sexual orientation card... "omg! killed of a lesbian! This is sooooo bad!" Oh OK. See, I was under the impression that Lexa was 1000x more of a person and character then just being a bloody lesbian.... But no. tragic people nowadays don't see her as a critical character and that her death is very important both in general and for the development of the story. No. All they see is "omg. they killed a lesbian. omg. this is the worst ever. omg. omg." Christ save us..... Same thing with Lincoln too. "omg. they killed that coloured guy. omg. 1000000% racist. omg. this is horrible. omg. 1 star. omg." That all that goes on in their heads instead of seeing the importance of it both symbolically and for how the story will develop and how it's going to affect the other characters etc. Just pure ignorance.
A lot of things were laid out in this one and a lot of interesting things happened and it deserves a solid 8.7 in my opinion.