Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20171110205409/@comment-92.112.1.250-20171113091945

So, possible variations for Blake plot (death flags everywhere):

a) both Ghira and Kali die;

b) Ghira dies, Kali lives;

c) Kali dies, Ghira lives;

d) both Ghira and Kali live;

e) ...and/or Sun dies;

f) ...and/or Ilia lives$

g) ...and/or Blake is captured by WF and taken to Mistral - to Adam directly.

I bet on either A or B. No E, F or G.

From the plot perspective, smth has to force Blake to leave Menagerie. I'm sure that Ilia will start her mission on distracting Blake. Though she may actually regret about it and even try to warn Blake - but it will be too late. An intro hints us the Blake vs Ilia fight - in this case maybe Blake will have to fight her way to her parents' house. She may get there in time, or she may not.

It's sad to say, but Blake's parents have no place in the plot in future. OK, let's assume they manage to survive the attack... What's then? Running from Menagerie to escape the WF assassins? Unlikely. Where should they go, what support can they get? Staying in Menagerie? It's full of WF agents, Ghira's envoy has already been killed. The first attempted murder may be failed - but there will be more of them, I'm sure. And Adam looked fucking serious about slaughtering her family, one fail will not stop it. The more I think about it, the more certain I grow about Belladonna family is doomed.

Here is the reason we had so much of Belladonnas in V4: killing the characters you don't know (like Sienna) does not shock the audience (and touches there's feels) as much as killing someone we used to know. It also is "the point of no return" for Blake's character: I'm sure, Ghira will live long enough to tell her that she's not guilty for what happened, that she is doing the right thong, and that she has to go on. Some kind of absolution, you know? It's a common psychological method, by the way. Used for people who survived some kind of stress, whose guilt doesn't let them to move forward.

I also think that Ghira may ask Sun to take care of Blake. About Ilia... Well, "I don't know and I don't care". She's too young and she've seen not that much crap in her life to justify sacrifices. I don't like her. I don't want a redemption arc for her. I'm not interested in her character and I don't want to see her development instead of Blake's one. I still don't understand why the fuck she was a main character in Blake's Character Short - her "tragic backstory" was revealed in actual V5, by Blake - too much of Ilia in Blake's arc, IMHO.