Exactly, there is something to be said for predictability. It is called character consistency. Like i thought Clarke would take the nightblood because she wouldn’t want to harm the others and that is what she did. It makes perfect sense to me that she would do that. And yet, they still did a great job showing her make that choice. I thought it was really well done as well.
Her mother is slightly ridiculous to me because wasn’t she part of the whole throwing people out of airlocks, killing a whole section of people on the arc thing? It has been a long time sense i saw those episodes, so maybe she was against it. I don’t really remember. Those moments are sort of why the parents don’t really work for me as characters. Jaha being the best of them, but still just eh for me.
I think Jasper’s characterization makes sense. I just think it is boring. I think Bellamy is pretty much all over the place now. He has been for a while now. Like you said, he has no center and so his motivation is just really random. They almost need to send him off to find something to center around.