Narratively speaking, if they include the photos, they need a happy looking Stella and Stolas in the pictures, otherwise, what is Octavia even looking back on fondly? If it’s Mean Stella and Miserable Stolas and has been the case for all her life, the fights should be nothing new. The falling apart Family should have been baked into the cake, and Octavia should have seen this coming.
However, these writers/animators are not the smartest, so there is a chance they alter the photos, and in doing so make Octavia seem fucking stupid, thus allowing the wolves outside who are already foaming at the mouth to tear into her, to harp on even more shit when she inevitably leaves Stolas and tells him to have a great fucking life with his imp Boy Toy.
The real question is, does the confrontation happen at the start or end of the episode? I hope it’s the end, cause then we all can cut our losses. Via is free from Stolas, and Stolas gets everything he wanted in the worse way possible.