The 100 6x05 Thoughts, Part 1
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iariaThe Gospel of Josephine
Josephine, Bellamy, Murphy
+ I was hoping for Raven or Murphy figuring it out first but I really love that it was Bellamy, and the slow journey he went on over the course of the episode in putting it all together.
- IMO, it was Clarke's lack of reaction to the potential threat to Madi, and her very casual "I'll go with you" to Gaia, that solidified for him that there was something very wrong. I think that was when he knew the truth, even if he didn't realise it himself. They share a bond of having raised a child and being willing to do anything to protect them. He knows how she should react to the video with regards to Madi. Perhaps this Clarke, six years on, has changed enough that she would condone what the Primes were doing, or at least not want to act against them in her own self-interest, but he knows how she is with Madi. The fact that she wasn't immediately out that door - nope. Everything else can be hand-waved but not that. Everything after that point is Bellamy knowing the truth and seeing confirmation, even when he doesn't want to, in Clarke's every action.
- "They pose a threat to you." ♥ Also I loved the way Bellamy says "How are we on different sides of this?"
- Bellamy had a bit of crazy-eyes happening there at the end and I can't wait for his complete freak out once he's un-paralysed.
- Bellamy is already in full on Heart mode by the end of the episode or he would have taken Murphy with him when he went to confront Clarke. He was already suspicious, in fact I'm pretty sure he already knew the truth but was stuck in the denial stage of grief, and yet he still ran in without back-up or even telling anyone else. It was rash and dumb, and I loved it.
- I keep thinking about how Bellamy watched poor Brooke die, the pain and how afraid she was, and him applying that to Clarke. Her dying alone and in pain, how his last sight of her had been her joyfully dancing. Six years ago he left her to her death and then he got her back, and now to lose her again, like this, oh the angst.
+ "I've seen the faces of the people I've killed when I dream, not in the mirror." Oh, Bellamy.
+ Murphy's reaction to Josephine was fucking perfect. The dawning horror on his face, him pushing away from the bar, how upset he was that Clarke was dead. Yessssss, give me more. It made me so happy.
+ This show has now given me 2 for 2 on perfect reactions to the Clarke/Josephine situation so here's hoping that they'll continue to hit it out of the park and we get some great reactions from Madi, Abby (oh god poor Abby) and Raven. So excited.
+ So Murphy's "I'm listening" to Josephine's proposal: honesty because of his current terror over going to hell, lying to get close to the person who killed his friend, or a combination of both? Nevermind, it's John Murphy, I'm pretty sure it's both. Fingers crossed that this tale of temptation ultimately ends in Murphy choosing his friends/family over his own fear and the chance of immortality.
I admit I'm a little worried that Murphy is going to be this season's 'character who has a characterisation breakdown' (Finn S2, Bellamy S3, Kane/Diyoza S5, etc) wherein the work to get to the character doing a certain action isn't given enough buildup leaving you going '???' and annoyed. Or at least that's how it is for me.
That said I'm going to stick to hopeful until further notice. Even if Murphy is genuinely tempted for a few episodes I don't think this is something he'd see through to the bitter end. He's the consummate survivor but he's more than that. He stuck with the girl he shot at the end of S1 because he didn't want to die alone, and from the very beginning Murphy has wanted to belong. These are his people, Clarke is his people, and I think he's going to come out of this as the hero he wants to be deep down. And hopefully not dead.
+ I'm really not a fan of the way they used a fisheye lens (?) during that so important Bellamy/Josephine reveal. It worked in 6x02 because the red sun was distorting everything for the characters, but here it felt distracting during an important and otherwise amazing scene. So I'm annoyed by that.
+ Bellamy/Murphy were great. I loved them cracking up together over Jordan's romantic woes. I loved their little exchange when they first entered the skeleton room. I loved them teaming up to hold Jordan back.
+ Bellamy's face-journey to Josephine's "It'll be awhile until he recovers" was hilarious. He had no idea how to react to that. What was up with the ear-pull? I also loved this moment because it was Bellamy being happy for Clarke's happiness and reaching out to her. But at the same time it felt like a little jealousy behind him bringing up her dancing with the doctor. Which - confirmation that he was in fact watching them, ha!
+ I can't blame people for not immediately jumping to 'that's not Clarke' because they have no reason to think it's even a possibility but I like the different ways the characters twig that there is something wrong, even as they brush them aside, because there are so many clues. I love that Gaia realises first because Clarke lets Madi go to school and then has a weird non-response when she starts speaking in Trigedasleng. I like it all adds up small ('chill out') and then starts to add up. One detail I loved was how different Josephine's voice was from Clarke's.
+ Just in general I'm really enjoying Josephine.
+ Josephine calling Clarke "this Ferrari I'm wearing" was A+.
+ I love that Josephine's over-confidence at playing Clarke got her almost immediately caught and it was only luck that saved her.
+ I loved that we got Josephine speaking Chinese and French in the first ten minutes before being confronted with Trigedasleng and her 'wtf' over it. The contrast between her confidence with language and the fact that she almost got caught by it. I liked how curious she was about Trigedasleng and her slowly teasing out how worked, enough so, that when Bellamy confronted her with it she was actually able to bullshit her way through it for a minute.
+ Josephine's a bit of a sociopath, huh. I had no issue with her killing her best friend considering the circumstances - Kaylee had killed her previous body literally the day before for her and I can see how them all essentially being immortal could lead to a certain level of callousness about their lives. For Jo killing Kaylee is a casual punishment, putting her on ice for a couple centuries. Death isn't permanent and so it loses it's weight among them.
How cold she was doing it on the other hand, and that little skip over the body, was a little yikes. Also how her parents are clearly appalled by it. The fact that she killed someone, Isaac, in her previous version. But most of all the way she doesn't seem to consider other humans as important at all. She has a clear disdain for her father's insistence that they have the consent of their 'hosts'. She was going to breed them like animals.
+ I got the sense that Kaylee's death was also strategic in that she knew something Jo didn't want to get out to her parents. Kaylee tell them that she killed Josephine to protect Sanctum and there is clearly something there that her parents don't know about and I want to know it. What was Jo up to? Jo's accusation that Kaylee and her family were running away definitely felt like her setting Kaylee up to protect her secrets.
+ I love how we went from everyone watching a video of Josephine's first return to seeing it from Jo's perspective in a flashback and then back to everyone watching the end of the video. That was really well done and I'd love if we could somehow have more flashbacks happen like that.
Josephine, Bellamy, Murphy
+ I was hoping for Raven or Murphy figuring it out first but I really love that it was Bellamy, and the slow journey he went on over the course of the episode in putting it all together.
- IMO, it was Clarke's lack of reaction to the potential threat to Madi, and her very casual "I'll go with you" to Gaia, that solidified for him that there was something very wrong. I think that was when he knew the truth, even if he didn't realise it himself. They share a bond of having raised a child and being willing to do anything to protect them. He knows how she should react to the video with regards to Madi. Perhaps this Clarke, six years on, has changed enough that she would condone what the Primes were doing, or at least not want to act against them in her own self-interest, but he knows how she is with Madi. The fact that she wasn't immediately out that door - nope. Everything else can be hand-waved but not that. Everything after that point is Bellamy knowing the truth and seeing confirmation, even when he doesn't want to, in Clarke's every action.
- "They pose a threat to you." ♥ Also I loved the way Bellamy says "How are we on different sides of this?"
- Bellamy had a bit of crazy-eyes happening there at the end and I can't wait for his complete freak out once he's un-paralysed.
- Bellamy is already in full on Heart mode by the end of the episode or he would have taken Murphy with him when he went to confront Clarke. He was already suspicious, in fact I'm pretty sure he already knew the truth but was stuck in the denial stage of grief, and yet he still ran in without back-up or even telling anyone else. It was rash and dumb, and I loved it.
- I keep thinking about how Bellamy watched poor Brooke die, the pain and how afraid she was, and him applying that to Clarke. Her dying alone and in pain, how his last sight of her had been her joyfully dancing. Six years ago he left her to her death and then he got her back, and now to lose her again, like this, oh the angst.
+ "I've seen the faces of the people I've killed when I dream, not in the mirror." Oh, Bellamy.
+ Murphy's reaction to Josephine was fucking perfect. The dawning horror on his face, him pushing away from the bar, how upset he was that Clarke was dead. Yessssss, give me more. It made me so happy.
+ This show has now given me 2 for 2 on perfect reactions to the Clarke/Josephine situation so here's hoping that they'll continue to hit it out of the park and we get some great reactions from Madi, Abby (oh god poor Abby) and Raven. So excited.
+ So Murphy's "I'm listening" to Josephine's proposal: honesty because of his current terror over going to hell, lying to get close to the person who killed his friend, or a combination of both? Nevermind, it's John Murphy, I'm pretty sure it's both. Fingers crossed that this tale of temptation ultimately ends in Murphy choosing his friends/family over his own fear and the chance of immortality.
I admit I'm a little worried that Murphy is going to be this season's 'character who has a characterisation breakdown' (Finn S2, Bellamy S3, Kane/Diyoza S5, etc) wherein the work to get to the character doing a certain action isn't given enough buildup leaving you going '???' and annoyed. Or at least that's how it is for me.
That said I'm going to stick to hopeful until further notice. Even if Murphy is genuinely tempted for a few episodes I don't think this is something he'd see through to the bitter end. He's the consummate survivor but he's more than that. He stuck with the girl he shot at the end of S1 because he didn't want to die alone, and from the very beginning Murphy has wanted to belong. These are his people, Clarke is his people, and I think he's going to come out of this as the hero he wants to be deep down. And hopefully not dead.
+ I'm really not a fan of the way they used a fisheye lens (?) during that so important Bellamy/Josephine reveal. It worked in 6x02 because the red sun was distorting everything for the characters, but here it felt distracting during an important and otherwise amazing scene. So I'm annoyed by that.
+ Bellamy/Murphy were great. I loved them cracking up together over Jordan's romantic woes. I loved their little exchange when they first entered the skeleton room. I loved them teaming up to hold Jordan back.
+ Bellamy's face-journey to Josephine's "It'll be awhile until he recovers" was hilarious. He had no idea how to react to that. What was up with the ear-pull? I also loved this moment because it was Bellamy being happy for Clarke's happiness and reaching out to her. But at the same time it felt like a little jealousy behind him bringing up her dancing with the doctor. Which - confirmation that he was in fact watching them, ha!
+ I can't blame people for not immediately jumping to 'that's not Clarke' because they have no reason to think it's even a possibility but I like the different ways the characters twig that there is something wrong, even as they brush them aside, because there are so many clues. I love that Gaia realises first because Clarke lets Madi go to school and then has a weird non-response when she starts speaking in Trigedasleng. I like it all adds up small ('chill out') and then starts to add up. One detail I loved was how different Josephine's voice was from Clarke's.
+ Just in general I'm really enjoying Josephine.
+ Josephine calling Clarke "this Ferrari I'm wearing" was A+.
+ I love that Josephine's over-confidence at playing Clarke got her almost immediately caught and it was only luck that saved her.
+ I loved that we got Josephine speaking Chinese and French in the first ten minutes before being confronted with Trigedasleng and her 'wtf' over it. The contrast between her confidence with language and the fact that she almost got caught by it. I liked how curious she was about Trigedasleng and her slowly teasing out how worked, enough so, that when Bellamy confronted her with it she was actually able to bullshit her way through it for a minute.
+ Josephine's a bit of a sociopath, huh. I had no issue with her killing her best friend considering the circumstances - Kaylee had killed her previous body literally the day before for her and I can see how them all essentially being immortal could lead to a certain level of callousness about their lives. For Jo killing Kaylee is a casual punishment, putting her on ice for a couple centuries. Death isn't permanent and so it loses it's weight among them.
How cold she was doing it on the other hand, and that little skip over the body, was a little yikes. Also how her parents are clearly appalled by it. The fact that she killed someone, Isaac, in her previous version. But most of all the way she doesn't seem to consider other humans as important at all. She has a clear disdain for her father's insistence that they have the consent of their 'hosts'. She was going to breed them like animals.
+ I got the sense that Kaylee's death was also strategic in that she knew something Jo didn't want to get out to her parents. Kaylee tell them that she killed Josephine to protect Sanctum and there is clearly something there that her parents don't know about and I want to know it. What was Jo up to? Jo's accusation that Kaylee and her family were running away definitely felt like her setting Kaylee up to protect her secrets.
+ I love how we went from everyone watching a video of Josephine's first return to seeing it from Jo's perspective in a flashback and then back to everyone watching the end of the video. That was really well done and I'd love if we could somehow have more flashbacks happen like that.
