The 100 6x02 Thoughts
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Great episode.
+ The whole Murphy/Clarke vs Bellamy sequence was amazing. Murphy trusting affected Clarke to help him take down Bellamy, the Murphy/Bellamy fight, the tension from Clarke's hallucination returning and her eventually overcoming it, Clarke so meeting Bellamy's first attack by rather casually stabbing him in the leg, Clarke pulling Murphy from the water, Bellamy strangling Clarke and Murphy jumping him to save her, and then them falling together. Loved it all.
+ Oh, Clarke. Her hallucinating her mom's voice and almost killing herself was really hard to watch. Her being her own worst enemy was not surprising.
+ I loved how much focus Clarke/Murphy got. I'm so happy about this and hope it continues through the season. They saved each other! Murphy is two up on her - protected her from Bellamy by shooting to separate them, stopped her from killing herself and then saved her from Bellamy choking her. Meanwhile Clarke saved Murphy from drowning. Them working together was great.
I really loved that it was Murphy who found Clarke about to kill herself - Murphy who once tried to kill himself and who I think could understand Clarke's issues rather well. I hope they talk about it at some point. Especially if Clarke says something off hand that indicates that it wasn't the first time. I don't think Spacekru had had time to give much thought to what it was like for Clarke during those six years and her opening up to Murphy of all people would be delightful.
Murphy clearly does care about Clarke. I loved the switch in his tone when he first finds Clarke with the knife to her throat - casual, kind of irreverent - and then the urgency of his 'Clarke, Clarke' when she makes the move to cut herself or his "stop it, you're killing her" to Bellamy.
+ Except for the initial bitchiness at Clarke Murphy was great. I love that he stole the scalpel. He also dealt really well with being the last sane man standing. Hopefully his immunity to the Red Sun and whatever infection he has now leads to a meaty storyline for him.
+ "Fine, I'll be the bad guy." I love the way she says this.
+ Honestly when anyone is in charge on this show people die. Eventually. Well, Luna did pretty well in her isolationist enclave.
+ Murphy's assholeness towards Clarke does make sense (it is Murphy, though I think he could have gone the Bellamy route) especially considering he's still dealing with the bullet wounds from last season. But I'm super over the Clarke hate. Just in general. Clarke has made mistakes, yes, but she tries damn it. In this case his grievances against Clarke were all over the place.
- She did tie him and Emori up and was going to experiment on Emori, yes. But in the end she didn't and experimented on herself instead. Plus she was not the only one in that lab, Raven for example was also there, and they all were making that choice.
- She also did leave Bellamy in Polis to Octavia's mercies. But she was saving her daughter after Bellamy's betrayal. Murphy should know something about that considering he helped Clarke keep Bellamy prisoner after she stole the bunker, would have attacked Echo for her helmet to save Emori and frankly he wasn't all that upset when he realised Emori doomed an innocent man to protect herself. Morally he is not that different from Clarke.
- He was completely right about her siding with McCreary being terrible. That was terrible. Though that was another case of her trying to protect Madi. I get why Murphy would think that Clarke should think of them as her people but it's six years later and she had a whole life without them where her entire world was her daughter.
- As Bellamy states, it was him not Clarke who tried to hang Murphy. Clarke tried to stop them and in no way forced Bellamy's hand, the hell? Plus if Clarke had named anyone else Murphy would have been right there clamouring to hang them and he knows it.
- Bringing up Lexa was a low blow. Murphy getting tied up wasn't Clarke's fault, nor was Lexa's death and the subtle blame in that jab pisses me off.
Shut it, Murphy.
All that said his very calm "It's a start" after Clarke says "when I'm in charge people die" makes me wonder what his goal is here? It made his sniping feel like there was more to it than just him letting out his bitterness at her.
+ I love that Bellamy gave Clarke his key. I loved them tackling the Miller/Jackson situation together. These little moments of partnership, calling back to them as co-leaders, are wonderful. I also loved their expressions after they woke up. Ouch.
+ "Maybe you haven't noticed Clarke but I don't need you anymore." - Bellamy. Bellamy got hit with the murderous version of the sun sickness so him letting out his anger at Clarke makes sense. He very clearly chose to forgive her for leaving him to die and betraying them to McCreary but that doesn't mean the anger isn't still there. And it's not just that moment but also back to her leaving him at the end of season 2 and perhaps even her dying at the end of season 4 only to reappear after six years with a new life and new priorities that she then placed over him. It's a lot to forgive and it could actually be good for him to actually deal with this.
+ I love that out of all people it was Murphy who was complete unaffected, and I love that Clarke was able to work through her own sun psychosis to help him. I'm very interested to learn more about this eclipse and why it affects people so differently. What does it mean that some turn murderous and others turn suicidal.
+ "Everything I did would have made sense. Now nothing does." Oh, Octavia. I really doubt it would have. There wouldn't have been salvation if she'd succeeded in getting the valley. I'm feeling so bad for her. It's not even everyone else hating on her that's doing it, it's her own self-loathing and despair and loneliness. She was a tyrant and did horrible things to make sure people survived in the bunker, and then she screwed up royally when she burned the farm to force them to follow her and I was not on her side last season. But now all I want is for people to back off. She is clearly very disturbed and she needs help. [Maybe she and Clarke can get some therapy together before everything goes to crap!] I get why the people on the ship (excepting Niylah, maybe Indra) can't do that but in that case - just leave her alone.
+ Abby's attitude towards Octavia bothered me. I liked her moment of softening and perhaps an attempt at compassion though it was rejected before it could really begin. But regretting does not make her that much better than Octavia. Plus she should have broken up the Octavia fight a lot sooner than she did.
+ Poor Jordan. It's one thing to hear stories but another to see violence up close. But in the positive column he got to step on a planet for the first time ever. I liked the quick shot of his face when the doors opened but I wish they had focused a little more on him and his initial reactions.
+ Diyoza is amazing. Her so effectively dealing with the two hijackers was a great moment. I loved her bluff plan with the bodies and her appreciating the woman when she turned it around on them. I was very impressed and loved all her scenes.
+ At the same time the bloodshed made me sigh a little because maybe not killing everyone, especially when they haven't hurt anyone yet, would be the better option? Granted Diyoza wasn't read into the whole 'do better' wish and I can't blame her for how she reacted to protect herself and the others. Also to be fair the hijackers did take guns and if they hadn't more of them may have survived.
+ The Raven and Diyoza's team-up was great.
+ I love that Echo tranq'd herself. I feel like she was more on the suicidal end of the scale with Clarke (and Miller?).
+ I love that Octavia snuck aboard the transport to protect Bellamy and the call back to the pilot and Bellamy doing the same for her.
+ Madi dropping out of the vent was excellent. I should have seen that coming but I didn't. I love that her first question is "where's Clarke", and the implication that they just woke her and told her they needed her to climb through the vents to deal with hijackers and she didn't bother to question it and just did it.
+ I loved Madi's snarkiness towards Diyoza and Gaia. She managed a lot of attitude in a very short amount of screen time. It was great. A little surprised that she accepted being forced to stay with the transport so easily.
+ Poor Raven. I really hope (but doubt) that this is her lowest point of the season.
+ Clarke completely ignoring Raven's question about Shaw annoyed me. I get that she probably doesn't want to deliver the bad news but Raven already knows he's dead and not answering is worse. All she had to say was 'he got caught in the radiation shield', done. I mean, not even an "I'm sorry Raven"? Is the show going to completely ignore their relationship this season? :(
+ Please let the Alpha people's preoccupation with bodies mean zombies. That would be fun.
+ I liked Josephine a lot. Smart, clever and I loved that she used the kids to test the cotton candy berries and her amusement over it. She would have fit in well with the delinquents in season one.
+ It's a little strange that Gaia's there considering how bad her injury was in the last episode we saw her.
Great episode.
+ The whole Murphy/Clarke vs Bellamy sequence was amazing. Murphy trusting affected Clarke to help him take down Bellamy, the Murphy/Bellamy fight, the tension from Clarke's hallucination returning and her eventually overcoming it, Clarke so meeting Bellamy's first attack by rather casually stabbing him in the leg, Clarke pulling Murphy from the water, Bellamy strangling Clarke and Murphy jumping him to save her, and then them falling together. Loved it all.
+ Oh, Clarke. Her hallucinating her mom's voice and almost killing herself was really hard to watch. Her being her own worst enemy was not surprising.
+ I loved how much focus Clarke/Murphy got. I'm so happy about this and hope it continues through the season. They saved each other! Murphy is two up on her - protected her from Bellamy by shooting to separate them, stopped her from killing herself and then saved her from Bellamy choking her. Meanwhile Clarke saved Murphy from drowning. Them working together was great.
I really loved that it was Murphy who found Clarke about to kill herself - Murphy who once tried to kill himself and who I think could understand Clarke's issues rather well. I hope they talk about it at some point. Especially if Clarke says something off hand that indicates that it wasn't the first time. I don't think Spacekru had had time to give much thought to what it was like for Clarke during those six years and her opening up to Murphy of all people would be delightful.
Murphy clearly does care about Clarke. I loved the switch in his tone when he first finds Clarke with the knife to her throat - casual, kind of irreverent - and then the urgency of his 'Clarke, Clarke' when she makes the move to cut herself or his "stop it, you're killing her" to Bellamy.
+ Except for the initial bitchiness at Clarke Murphy was great. I love that he stole the scalpel. He also dealt really well with being the last sane man standing. Hopefully his immunity to the Red Sun and whatever infection he has now leads to a meaty storyline for him.
+ "Fine, I'll be the bad guy." I love the way she says this.
+ Honestly when anyone is in charge on this show people die. Eventually. Well, Luna did pretty well in her isolationist enclave.
+ Murphy's assholeness towards Clarke does make sense (it is Murphy, though I think he could have gone the Bellamy route) especially considering he's still dealing with the bullet wounds from last season. But I'm super over the Clarke hate. Just in general. Clarke has made mistakes, yes, but she tries damn it. In this case his grievances against Clarke were all over the place.
- She did tie him and Emori up and was going to experiment on Emori, yes. But in the end she didn't and experimented on herself instead. Plus she was not the only one in that lab, Raven for example was also there, and they all were making that choice.
- She also did leave Bellamy in Polis to Octavia's mercies. But she was saving her daughter after Bellamy's betrayal. Murphy should know something about that considering he helped Clarke keep Bellamy prisoner after she stole the bunker, would have attacked Echo for her helmet to save Emori and frankly he wasn't all that upset when he realised Emori doomed an innocent man to protect herself. Morally he is not that different from Clarke.
- He was completely right about her siding with McCreary being terrible. That was terrible. Though that was another case of her trying to protect Madi. I get why Murphy would think that Clarke should think of them as her people but it's six years later and she had a whole life without them where her entire world was her daughter.
- As Bellamy states, it was him not Clarke who tried to hang Murphy. Clarke tried to stop them and in no way forced Bellamy's hand, the hell? Plus if Clarke had named anyone else Murphy would have been right there clamouring to hang them and he knows it.
- Bringing up Lexa was a low blow. Murphy getting tied up wasn't Clarke's fault, nor was Lexa's death and the subtle blame in that jab pisses me off.
Shut it, Murphy.
All that said his very calm "It's a start" after Clarke says "when I'm in charge people die" makes me wonder what his goal is here? It made his sniping feel like there was more to it than just him letting out his bitterness at her.
+ I love that Bellamy gave Clarke his key. I loved them tackling the Miller/Jackson situation together. These little moments of partnership, calling back to them as co-leaders, are wonderful. I also loved their expressions after they woke up. Ouch.
+ "Maybe you haven't noticed Clarke but I don't need you anymore." - Bellamy. Bellamy got hit with the murderous version of the sun sickness so him letting out his anger at Clarke makes sense. He very clearly chose to forgive her for leaving him to die and betraying them to McCreary but that doesn't mean the anger isn't still there. And it's not just that moment but also back to her leaving him at the end of season 2 and perhaps even her dying at the end of season 4 only to reappear after six years with a new life and new priorities that she then placed over him. It's a lot to forgive and it could actually be good for him to actually deal with this.
+ I love that out of all people it was Murphy who was complete unaffected, and I love that Clarke was able to work through her own sun psychosis to help him. I'm very interested to learn more about this eclipse and why it affects people so differently. What does it mean that some turn murderous and others turn suicidal.
+ "Everything I did would have made sense. Now nothing does." Oh, Octavia. I really doubt it would have. There wouldn't have been salvation if she'd succeeded in getting the valley. I'm feeling so bad for her. It's not even everyone else hating on her that's doing it, it's her own self-loathing and despair and loneliness. She was a tyrant and did horrible things to make sure people survived in the bunker, and then she screwed up royally when she burned the farm to force them to follow her and I was not on her side last season. But now all I want is for people to back off. She is clearly very disturbed and she needs help. [Maybe she and Clarke can get some therapy together before everything goes to crap!] I get why the people on the ship (excepting Niylah, maybe Indra) can't do that but in that case - just leave her alone.
+ Abby's attitude towards Octavia bothered me. I liked her moment of softening and perhaps an attempt at compassion though it was rejected before it could really begin. But regretting does not make her that much better than Octavia. Plus she should have broken up the Octavia fight a lot sooner than she did.
+ Poor Jordan. It's one thing to hear stories but another to see violence up close. But in the positive column he got to step on a planet for the first time ever. I liked the quick shot of his face when the doors opened but I wish they had focused a little more on him and his initial reactions.
+ Diyoza is amazing. Her so effectively dealing with the two hijackers was a great moment. I loved her bluff plan with the bodies and her appreciating the woman when she turned it around on them. I was very impressed and loved all her scenes.
+ At the same time the bloodshed made me sigh a little because maybe not killing everyone, especially when they haven't hurt anyone yet, would be the better option? Granted Diyoza wasn't read into the whole 'do better' wish and I can't blame her for how she reacted to protect herself and the others. Also to be fair the hijackers did take guns and if they hadn't more of them may have survived.
+ The Raven and Diyoza's team-up was great.
+ I love that Echo tranq'd herself. I feel like she was more on the suicidal end of the scale with Clarke (and Miller?).
+ I love that Octavia snuck aboard the transport to protect Bellamy and the call back to the pilot and Bellamy doing the same for her.
+ Madi dropping out of the vent was excellent. I should have seen that coming but I didn't. I love that her first question is "where's Clarke", and the implication that they just woke her and told her they needed her to climb through the vents to deal with hijackers and she didn't bother to question it and just did it.
+ I loved Madi's snarkiness towards Diyoza and Gaia. She managed a lot of attitude in a very short amount of screen time. It was great. A little surprised that she accepted being forced to stay with the transport so easily.
+ Poor Raven. I really hope (but doubt) that this is her lowest point of the season.
+ Clarke completely ignoring Raven's question about Shaw annoyed me. I get that she probably doesn't want to deliver the bad news but Raven already knows he's dead and not answering is worse. All she had to say was 'he got caught in the radiation shield', done. I mean, not even an "I'm sorry Raven"? Is the show going to completely ignore their relationship this season? :(
+ Please let the Alpha people's preoccupation with bodies mean zombies. That would be fun.
+ I liked Josephine a lot. Smart, clever and I loved that she used the kids to test the cotton candy berries and her amusement over it. She would have fit in well with the delinquents in season one.
+ It's a little strange that Gaia's there considering how bad her injury was in the last episode we saw her.
