Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3006074-20180119014410/@comment-27082610-20180526061728

Literally nothing about her character arc was handled well in V5, she went from being totally cool with assisting in murdering the parents of the woman she "loved", to crying and sorry inside of an hour, conveniently when the whole murder thing clearly wasn't paying off. Add to this that she faced literally no consequences for felony assault, conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, terrorism, accessory to murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, felony arson, espionage, and stalking, and you have an outright infuriating mess of writing.

This is made even worse by the fact that Ilia is put in the place where she can do the most harm, being sent alone to stop one of the key parts of the plan of a man she was literally willing to kill for less than a month beforehand.

And actually, the inclusion of Ilia's crush on Blake also irreparably damages the scene where she talks to Blake about why she's working with the WF, because it turns her into a female Adam. Seriously, Ilia did not attempt to do anything Adam didn't do, but if they'd swapped places the fanbase would've crucified M&K because he's not a cutesy anime girl in a shitty tactical romper.