The 100 6x05 Thoughts, Part 2
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+ Jordan was amazing. I'm so glad the show added him to the cast because he offers a different perspective. For everyone else death and disaster and loss are old hat, and they react to it was a sort of resigned acceptance. Meanwhile this is all new to Jordan and his curiosity and horror and anger was a great contrast. I loved him refusing to give up on his suspicions after everyone laughed away his worry. I loved his little flower trick to confirm Priya wasn't Delilah with a new name. It was really clever and both confirmed what he suspected and didn't let Priya know what she'd given away. I loved that he went all intrepid investigator. I loved that he managed to break the lock to get into the inner sanctum and found the hidden lab and is good with computers too, just like his dad. Everything with him was great.
+ Diyoza and Octavia were as great as I was hoping for. This is an A+ teamup. I actually forgot that Diyoza had tried to kill herself which makes her even more qualified to help Octavia right now. As someone who never knew the old Octavia and who isn't intimately involved in most of what Octavia has done she's actually the perfect person to help her. I liked Diyoza's patience with Octavia and loved her version of a pep talk. Octavia's snarkiness was great. I love the contrast between them - Diyoza so cool and calculating, while Octavia can't help but struggle even as it hurts her.
+ Octavia choosing life by submerging herself in the crucible and her symbolic re-birth afterwards was great. I loved the visual of the green light shining down on her. I really hope this rebirth leads Octavia on a new path, somewhere we haven't seen her go before.
+ I loved Octavia telling Diyoza to run and Diyoza telling her that she'll be back for her. I loved how Octavia choosing life was tied up in her also choosing to believe in and trust Diyoza, and that Diyoza did come back and did save her. Hopefully this is an amazing start to an amazing relationship.
+ I really loved "As long as you draw breath, you can turn it around." It made me immediately think of Jasper. It's such a great and important sentiment.
+ I love that when Xavier tries to position his people as good guys Diyoza immediately shoots back with how his people kidnap kids.
+ I'm very pleased that Madi/Gaia and Abby were a part of the episode because I figured that they would be segregated into off-screen land for this episode. I'm also pleased how the show kept both of them from realising the inconsistency in Clarke's behaviour and thus they weren't in a place where they could realise the truth.
Madi was so happy her gambit to ask to go to school was granted, that even though she thought it was weird Clarke agreed, there was no way she was going to question it, and so she went off to school to hang out with kids her own age for the first time in six years. Believable.
Abby noticed the note-taking but was so wrapped up in her grief over Kane and her overwhelming desire to find a way to save him, as well as the weight of her trauma from the last six years and dealing with withdrawal that she is in no place to see Clarke, let alone follow-up on any slight strangeness with her. Abby is drowning right now so her not seeing the falseness in Clarke was believable.
+ I love Clarke and Madi so much. Best thing to come out of season 5. It was interesting how affectionate Madi was - that hug when she'd seen Clarke only the day before and 'I love you Clarke" as she heads to school.
+ I wish that instead of Madi sitting alone on the swing our last shot of her had been her talking with one of the other kids, which is really what she was missing from those six years. It would have been a small background touch with a lot of character meaning.
+ I'm pleased with what the show is doing with Abby. I was a little annoyed with her judgyness towards Octavia and how she seemed to be placing herself above her when she has almost as much blame for what happened as Octavia. Seeing her struggle and her self-loathing drained away that annoyance. I also like that she is a complete mess, as she should be after everything, and her submerging herself so completely in trying to save Kane makes a lot of sense to me. Although I feel like a good step into healing would be her having to acknowledge that Kane is in fact not the good/pure person she's clinging too. He's made his shares of mistakes, caused harm, hell it was literally like a week ago that he joined McCreary and had a hand in Wonkru getting slaughtered. So I feel like she really needs someone to point out that he isn't perfect.
+ Abby calling Jackson a war-criminal was totally her trying to push away her most steady and consistent support in a burst of self-harm, yes? She isn't necessarily wrong, "doing my job" isn't a good defense, and I get why she's torn up about what happened but at the same time reverting to cannibalism was necessary for their survival even if Octavia went too far (fighting pits???). If Kane had gotten his way who knows how many of them would have even survived?
+ I like that Clarke and Gaia had talked over Madi's situation. I wonder if they were in agreement that she should be kept separate or if Gaia had convinced her of it?
+ I like how the show is approaching the whole Flame religion. First Diyoza called Gaia out on how Madi is a kid and should be allowed to be one. Then in this episode Murphy does it twice - first in bringing up how the Grounder clans had children fight to the death to pick their next Commander (just as fucked up as anything on Sanctum) and then second in pointing out that Becca was only a scientist who made herself a nightblood not a god. I hope this leads to a good b or c storyline for Gaia.
+ I'm disappointed that it wasn't Clarke dancing in that artist studio, enjoying life. She needs that, damn it.
+ It was nice to have Bellamy mentioning the 400 on Eligius and plans for the future. I'm going to assume this was something discussed off-screen post-ep 3 between him and Clarke (and everyone else?)
+ I wanted to see some of Emori, Echo and Raven's trip. I did love that it was Raven and Emori who were learning how to create the radiation shield.
+ This episode turned me around on Russell a bit. I find I'm buying his sincerity more, retroactively even, perhaps because of the comparison to Josephine's not caring. Him wanting to make up for killing everyone, especially his family, is understandable even if his methods definitely aren't. He was upset at Brooke's pain, he genuinely wanted Delilah's last day to be happy. And yet he still did that to Brooke knowing what would happen (he'd done it many times before) with the best end result of killing her, and Delilah's fate was sealed when she was born. He's still a monster but more of a delusional monster then someone actively calculating and manipulative. I think he's managed to convince himself that his people are giving true consent in sacrificing their lives and that it's the best way to do this for everyone involved. Not sure about Simone.
+ I liked Josephine giving her dad some hard truths. She's not wrong about what she said about his version of consent. She wasn't wrong about him having already "lowered himself to their level".
+ Something that hadn't occurred to me before but - do none of the Primes ever have families in their 'current' lives? I mean there's no reason Russell and Simone couldn't have other children is there? And yet that doesn't seem to be something that's ever happened. Why? I find it rather dumb just for the fact that they've been taking over the bodies of every nightblood that's born, then don't have any children... would that not eventually weed out the nightblood trait from the population?
+ Jordan was amazing. I'm so glad the show added him to the cast because he offers a different perspective. For everyone else death and disaster and loss are old hat, and they react to it was a sort of resigned acceptance. Meanwhile this is all new to Jordan and his curiosity and horror and anger was a great contrast. I loved him refusing to give up on his suspicions after everyone laughed away his worry. I loved his little flower trick to confirm Priya wasn't Delilah with a new name. It was really clever and both confirmed what he suspected and didn't let Priya know what she'd given away. I loved that he went all intrepid investigator. I loved that he managed to break the lock to get into the inner sanctum and found the hidden lab and is good with computers too, just like his dad. Everything with him was great.
+ Diyoza and Octavia were as great as I was hoping for. This is an A+ teamup. I actually forgot that Diyoza had tried to kill herself which makes her even more qualified to help Octavia right now. As someone who never knew the old Octavia and who isn't intimately involved in most of what Octavia has done she's actually the perfect person to help her. I liked Diyoza's patience with Octavia and loved her version of a pep talk. Octavia's snarkiness was great. I love the contrast between them - Diyoza so cool and calculating, while Octavia can't help but struggle even as it hurts her.
+ Octavia choosing life by submerging herself in the crucible and her symbolic re-birth afterwards was great. I loved the visual of the green light shining down on her. I really hope this rebirth leads Octavia on a new path, somewhere we haven't seen her go before.
+ I loved Octavia telling Diyoza to run and Diyoza telling her that she'll be back for her. I loved how Octavia choosing life was tied up in her also choosing to believe in and trust Diyoza, and that Diyoza did come back and did save her. Hopefully this is an amazing start to an amazing relationship.
+ I really loved "As long as you draw breath, you can turn it around." It made me immediately think of Jasper. It's such a great and important sentiment.
+ I love that when Xavier tries to position his people as good guys Diyoza immediately shoots back with how his people kidnap kids.
+ I'm very pleased that Madi/Gaia and Abby were a part of the episode because I figured that they would be segregated into off-screen land for this episode. I'm also pleased how the show kept both of them from realising the inconsistency in Clarke's behaviour and thus they weren't in a place where they could realise the truth.
Madi was so happy her gambit to ask to go to school was granted, that even though she thought it was weird Clarke agreed, there was no way she was going to question it, and so she went off to school to hang out with kids her own age for the first time in six years. Believable.
Abby noticed the note-taking but was so wrapped up in her grief over Kane and her overwhelming desire to find a way to save him, as well as the weight of her trauma from the last six years and dealing with withdrawal that she is in no place to see Clarke, let alone follow-up on any slight strangeness with her. Abby is drowning right now so her not seeing the falseness in Clarke was believable.
+ I love Clarke and Madi so much. Best thing to come out of season 5. It was interesting how affectionate Madi was - that hug when she'd seen Clarke only the day before and 'I love you Clarke" as she heads to school.
+ I wish that instead of Madi sitting alone on the swing our last shot of her had been her talking with one of the other kids, which is really what she was missing from those six years. It would have been a small background touch with a lot of character meaning.
+ I'm pleased with what the show is doing with Abby. I was a little annoyed with her judgyness towards Octavia and how she seemed to be placing herself above her when she has almost as much blame for what happened as Octavia. Seeing her struggle and her self-loathing drained away that annoyance. I also like that she is a complete mess, as she should be after everything, and her submerging herself so completely in trying to save Kane makes a lot of sense to me. Although I feel like a good step into healing would be her having to acknowledge that Kane is in fact not the good/pure person she's clinging too. He's made his shares of mistakes, caused harm, hell it was literally like a week ago that he joined McCreary and had a hand in Wonkru getting slaughtered. So I feel like she really needs someone to point out that he isn't perfect.
+ Abby calling Jackson a war-criminal was totally her trying to push away her most steady and consistent support in a burst of self-harm, yes? She isn't necessarily wrong, "doing my job" isn't a good defense, and I get why she's torn up about what happened but at the same time reverting to cannibalism was necessary for their survival even if Octavia went too far (fighting pits???). If Kane had gotten his way who knows how many of them would have even survived?
+ I like that Clarke and Gaia had talked over Madi's situation. I wonder if they were in agreement that she should be kept separate or if Gaia had convinced her of it?
+ I like how the show is approaching the whole Flame religion. First Diyoza called Gaia out on how Madi is a kid and should be allowed to be one. Then in this episode Murphy does it twice - first in bringing up how the Grounder clans had children fight to the death to pick their next Commander (just as fucked up as anything on Sanctum) and then second in pointing out that Becca was only a scientist who made herself a nightblood not a god. I hope this leads to a good b or c storyline for Gaia.
+ I'm disappointed that it wasn't Clarke dancing in that artist studio, enjoying life. She needs that, damn it.
+ It was nice to have Bellamy mentioning the 400 on Eligius and plans for the future. I'm going to assume this was something discussed off-screen post-ep 3 between him and Clarke (and everyone else?)
+ I wanted to see some of Emori, Echo and Raven's trip. I did love that it was Raven and Emori who were learning how to create the radiation shield.
+ This episode turned me around on Russell a bit. I find I'm buying his sincerity more, retroactively even, perhaps because of the comparison to Josephine's not caring. Him wanting to make up for killing everyone, especially his family, is understandable even if his methods definitely aren't. He was upset at Brooke's pain, he genuinely wanted Delilah's last day to be happy. And yet he still did that to Brooke knowing what would happen (he'd done it many times before) with the best end result of killing her, and Delilah's fate was sealed when she was born. He's still a monster but more of a delusional monster then someone actively calculating and manipulative. I think he's managed to convince himself that his people are giving true consent in sacrificing their lives and that it's the best way to do this for everyone involved. Not sure about Simone.
+ I liked Josephine giving her dad some hard truths. She's not wrong about what she said about his version of consent. She wasn't wrong about him having already "lowered himself to their level".
+ Something that hadn't occurred to me before but - do none of the Primes ever have families in their 'current' lives? I mean there's no reason Russell and Simone couldn't have other children is there? And yet that doesn't seem to be something that's ever happened. Why? I find it rather dumb just for the fact that they've been taking over the bodies of every nightblood that's born, then don't have any children... would that not eventually weed out the nightblood trait from the population?
