The 100 6x06 Thoughts
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Bellamy, Murphy, Josephine
+ Oh, Bellamy. He is hurting so much and I'm honestly loving it. Everything we got with him and his grief over Clarke's death was perfect. It played out even better than I was hoping for. I love how much time the show gave to him dealing with the loss and working through his emotions. His defeat and desolation, sitting there when Murphy was thrown in. His rage, in his declaration that they would take Sanctum and the fury of his attack on Russell. The fact that we end the episode with him grieving alone. I loved it all so much! I loved his "She would never let us die here." and telling Murphy that Clarke cared about him. His broken "Not Clarke" was so good.
+ I loved the way Bellamy just went for Russell. I was a little disappointed he didn't kill him and yet also rather proud of him that he didn't. Bellamy pushing back his rage and despair to chose the deal in order to give their people their best chance at a new life was great. I love him putting the greater good above his own need for vengeance. I love him to choosing to be good (Monty) and survive (Clarke).
+ Excellent Bellamy/Murphy episode. A+ all around. I loved everything with them. I loved Murphy's reaction to Josephine potentially hurting Bellamy and how intense it was. I love that while Murphy's supposed mission was to get Bellamy on board with Jo so he could get his immortality it became much more about saving Bellamy from himself. I loved Murphy's power move at the end of bringing Russell into the situation as a great attempt at keeping her from killing Bellamy.
+ I'm pleased with Murphy's bigger role this season and I thought he was great this episode. I still think he's going to do the right thing in the end, if not that he has his own hidden agenda already.
+ I really loved that while Murphy was being manipulative for his own end goal his attempts to convince Bellamy were all based on truth. Bringing up Clarke wanting to do things better, true. Focusing on making sure they all survive, on not destroying another world, good reasons.
+ I love that Bellamy figured out that Murphy was lying so quickly.
+ I continue to love Josephine's sincere appreciation of Clarke. After all the crap that's been thrown at Clarke it's like a breath of fresh air. She is badass and awesome! So thanks for recognising that, crazypants.
"She was fairly awesome by the way." - Josephine
"Yeah, unless you got in her way." - Murphy
I mean he's not wrong? But I really want to get into Murphy's head or at least have him fight it out with Clarke because he is really holding this grudge. What part of what happened last season can't he forgive? I mean she's dead! You'd think that would be enough.
+ Murphy and Josephine are a really fun team-up. I enjoyed them a lot as co-conspirators. I loved that last exchange between them about big swings. I liked that little moment when Murphy stopped Josephine playing with her hair. Honestly this is another reason I'm a little disappointed by the show pushing Murphy and Emori back together so quickly/mostly off-screen because I think Murphy/Josephine would be interesting to explore.
+ When Jospehine kicked Murphy awake he mumbled "it wasn't me" and I'm very curious about what he was dreaming about.
+ I loved Murphy being so sure that Bellamy knowing Clarke was dead meant none of it would matter. Because he knows how much Bellamy cares for Clarke and how devastated Bellamy was after her first death.
+ I liked that Monty got brought up and I think they were both right. Monty would have wanted them to try for peace. He spent decades finding them a new planet and to immediately devolve into war and chance destroying it too would have been a terrible memorial for him. But he also would have been disappointed in Murphy's reasoning being so wholly selfish.
+ I love that little detail that Bellamy tore up Josephine's painting of herself.
+ I love that it was Bellamy who told Madi about Clarke and the hug.
+ While I loved Bellamy grieving alone for Bellamy/Clarke shippiness a part of me wishes that the others of Spacekru had come out to be there for him, or we'd seen them sitting out there offering silent comfort.
+ "That seems a tad impulsive." - Josephine LOL. Says possibly the most impulsive person on this show.
+ I loved Murphy calling Madi "your kid" to Jo. I always love anyone acknowledging Clarke as her mother.
+ Clarke's alive, unsurprisingly, but it was so great to see her again. I loved her waking up back in the cell she started the show in but decorated this time with her memories. I need to look up some screenshots because there were so many things happening on those walls but some of my favourites - Roan (!), Abby, Madi and Raven, and several of Lexa and Bellamy. It made me happy, especially to see Roan. I hope Wells, Finn and Jasper and her dad and Monty are all on there too. Also I have to say the cutting from Lexa to Bellamy's drawing in that way screamed past love/future love.
Other
+ I was very anxious for Gaia, wow. That was a tense scene and I'm really happy Madi didn't kill her. I felt bad for her being banished (though I think it's clear Madi did it to protect her) but mostly I'm just relieved she survived.
+ I am really disappointed with how Gaia has been used in the last couple episodes. She was the one who first interacted with Josephine and she immediately clocked that something was off with her. She was there when they saw the video. Then that scene in Madi's room and her seeing that Clark/Murphy exchange on the stairs? She should have known. She's just as smart as Echo and Bellamy, she had more pieces. It would have been easy to take a couple minutes from somewhere else and follow up that Madi scene with one of Gaia tracking down Miller/Jackson (who she should know well from six years the bunker not that we ever get to see it) and telling them, and at the end having them burst in only to be shot down by Bellamy. It also would have solved the disappearing Jackson/Miller situation. This show has a lot of characters to juggle and some of them always get left behind but this could have been so easily fixed. Meh.
+ I loved Madi telling Sheidheda to shut up and refusing to let him control her choices. Her attempting to use him and his knowledge to get revenge is great even if I doubt that it's going to go as she wants.
+ I am so pleased that Madi's response is a resolute 'fine if no one else is going to get the necessary revenge for my mother I'm going to do it myself and kill everyone'. I have no idea what Sheidheda is going to lead her to do but I'm rather excited to see. Also I love the contrast to Bellamy. They both have a similar initial reaction but Bellamy's older and his been around this merry-go-round before and you see how much he's grown in him choosing peace.
+ I love that Madi's happy memory is meeting Clarke. Aww. Honestly I have my fingers crossed that we'll get Madi calling Clarke mom when she returns to her body.
+ I like how quickly Echo figured out that Clarke had been taken. I also liked her fighting to mercy kill that guard because she couldn't stand to see him suffering that way.
+ I love how Echo was immediately in 'who do we fight' mode upon learning of Clarke's death. That said, while it's been clear this season that Echo has embraced a forgiving attitude and is firmly on Team Second Chances I wish that we had gotten anything between her and Clarke this season that developed their relationship. Echo was pissed last season but Clarke doing to right thing in the end, and I think Echo getting to see the Clarke/Madi relationship/love up close, obviously did a lot to quell that anger. But I feel like the show has really missed an opportunity by not developing the Clarke/Echo relationship at all. I wish we'd gotten a scene where they talked. It could have easily fit in at the beginning of Red Sun Rises and perhaps expanded on their short moment at the end of S4 about doing what's needed for your people and how 'your people' can change. Or something along those lines. Just give them a relationship to build more of a base for this moment where loyal Echo is ready to throw down in reaction to Clarke's death. As with Gaia the lack is down to time and a large cast but that doesn't make it any less disappointing.
+ I wish they'd had Jade put up more of a fight during her face off with Echo. It was inevitable she'd lose but she could have been shown to be a little better.
+ One of my favourite dark horse relationships has been Abby/Murphy and they had some lovely scenes this season, which makes the lack of any noticeable regret or hesitance on Murphy's part with regards to helping Jo manipulate her with all her worst regrets really sad.
+ I actually loved the Josephine/Abby scene and how it played out. Once again Josephine switching tracks immediately when one thing doesn't work or Abby starts to get suspicious, drowning Abby in all of Murphy's points in a very effective way, and ending on the perfect note of how much Clarke needs her mom.
+ Oh, Abby. I have my fingers crossed that she realised that there was something very off and that she isn't so broken that she bought Josephine's spiel. A couple times she did seem pretty taken aback, she questioned what she was saying and I did get the impression at one point that she wasn't buying what Jo was selling. I mean stealing a body is never going to fly with Kane and she knows it. It shouldn't even be an option for Abby!
+ What I am really hoping for next episode is for the Raven/Abby team-up to lead to them discovering the truth. Raven knows they steal nightblood bodies, Abby has all the pieces of Clarke being off to know something is wrong, and together they can have that horrifying realisation about what happened. I really want this. I'd also love if this became the inciting incident to begin the healing process in both the Raven/Abby relationship and that Raven/Clarke one. Plus if Abby/Raven decide to go off script with this new information that adds a fun tangle of cross-purposes to the situation which I always love.
+ Oh, Raven. This episode rather emphasised one of her greatest flaws - self-righteousness - in ways that both annoyed the crap out of me (her scene with the rest of Earthkru) and had me nodding my head along with her (her cold takedown of Ryker).
See the thing is, Raven is in fact morally a couple steps ahead of most of Earthkru and I have often been on her side. However at this point her uncompromising black/white attitude with Clarke is annoying me so much. Raven never personally committed any atrocity (that I remember) but she has had her own terrible choices (she was all for torturing Lincoln, she took the chip), and bad ideas (kill Lexa for Finn), she has helped the others do terrible things (end of s1), has benefited again and again from the others making those terrible choices (Mount Weather) while also refusing to step up and make those hard choices herself (the List in season 4), and added all together it leaves her in a rather unsympathetic place for me right now even if I can understand where she's coming from (ie it's literally been like a week). Does she really have no past regrets?
+ Simone agreeing to erase the Kim family from existence was dumb. There is no quicker way to get the other Primes to turn against you. The Lightbourne's have just shown that they can't be trusted and I won't buy it if the others don't turn on them immediately after learning the truth. I'm also not even sure why it was even necessary at this point and felt like jumping the gun. There's no way for Murphy to know if they've been wiped or not, right? So just say they wiped them until they get the nightblood method, and then turn on Murphy. This whole thing just made me more sure that Kaylee knew something terrible about Josephine that she didn't want getting out and this was her covering her tracks that one step further.
+ I am so interested in Jordan's reaction to the Josephine news because despite his age he is very naive and sheltered. First love Delilah was killed and now Clarke, the hero from his childhood stories? It's one thing to be a pacifist when you've never known war and another when faced with the murders of people you care about.
+ I'm disappointed that we didn't see Emori learn the truth but even more so if we don't get Raven's reaction in the next episode. I don't want the after effect I want to see the exact moment she realises and see how that affects her step by step. I hope we get to see Miller and Jackson and Niylah's reactions too. That's on thing the this episode lacked in concentrating so much on Bellamy's grief, though I loved it, and I hope the next episode gives us more of.
+ I like the Diyoza/Octavia storyline and am interested in where it's going. I love how much Diyoza has taken Octavia under her wing and wants to help her. I liked Octavia demanding Xavier cut off her arm - that's very her.
Bellamy, Murphy, Josephine
+ Oh, Bellamy. He is hurting so much and I'm honestly loving it. Everything we got with him and his grief over Clarke's death was perfect. It played out even better than I was hoping for. I love how much time the show gave to him dealing with the loss and working through his emotions. His defeat and desolation, sitting there when Murphy was thrown in. His rage, in his declaration that they would take Sanctum and the fury of his attack on Russell. The fact that we end the episode with him grieving alone. I loved it all so much! I loved his "She would never let us die here." and telling Murphy that Clarke cared about him. His broken "Not Clarke" was so good.
+ I loved the way Bellamy just went for Russell. I was a little disappointed he didn't kill him and yet also rather proud of him that he didn't. Bellamy pushing back his rage and despair to chose the deal in order to give their people their best chance at a new life was great. I love him putting the greater good above his own need for vengeance. I love him to choosing to be good (Monty) and survive (Clarke).
+ Excellent Bellamy/Murphy episode. A+ all around. I loved everything with them. I loved Murphy's reaction to Josephine potentially hurting Bellamy and how intense it was. I love that while Murphy's supposed mission was to get Bellamy on board with Jo so he could get his immortality it became much more about saving Bellamy from himself. I loved Murphy's power move at the end of bringing Russell into the situation as a great attempt at keeping her from killing Bellamy.
+ I'm pleased with Murphy's bigger role this season and I thought he was great this episode. I still think he's going to do the right thing in the end, if not that he has his own hidden agenda already.
+ I really loved that while Murphy was being manipulative for his own end goal his attempts to convince Bellamy were all based on truth. Bringing up Clarke wanting to do things better, true. Focusing on making sure they all survive, on not destroying another world, good reasons.
+ I love that Bellamy figured out that Murphy was lying so quickly.
+ I continue to love Josephine's sincere appreciation of Clarke. After all the crap that's been thrown at Clarke it's like a breath of fresh air. She is badass and awesome! So thanks for recognising that, crazypants.
"She was fairly awesome by the way." - Josephine
"Yeah, unless you got in her way." - Murphy
I mean he's not wrong? But I really want to get into Murphy's head or at least have him fight it out with Clarke because he is really holding this grudge. What part of what happened last season can't he forgive? I mean she's dead! You'd think that would be enough.
+ Murphy and Josephine are a really fun team-up. I enjoyed them a lot as co-conspirators. I loved that last exchange between them about big swings. I liked that little moment when Murphy stopped Josephine playing with her hair. Honestly this is another reason I'm a little disappointed by the show pushing Murphy and Emori back together so quickly/mostly off-screen because I think Murphy/Josephine would be interesting to explore.
+ When Jospehine kicked Murphy awake he mumbled "it wasn't me" and I'm very curious about what he was dreaming about.
+ I loved Murphy being so sure that Bellamy knowing Clarke was dead meant none of it would matter. Because he knows how much Bellamy cares for Clarke and how devastated Bellamy was after her first death.
+ I liked that Monty got brought up and I think they were both right. Monty would have wanted them to try for peace. He spent decades finding them a new planet and to immediately devolve into war and chance destroying it too would have been a terrible memorial for him. But he also would have been disappointed in Murphy's reasoning being so wholly selfish.
+ I love that little detail that Bellamy tore up Josephine's painting of herself.
+ I love that it was Bellamy who told Madi about Clarke and the hug.
+ While I loved Bellamy grieving alone for Bellamy/Clarke shippiness a part of me wishes that the others of Spacekru had come out to be there for him, or we'd seen them sitting out there offering silent comfort.
+ "That seems a tad impulsive." - Josephine LOL. Says possibly the most impulsive person on this show.
+ I loved Murphy calling Madi "your kid" to Jo. I always love anyone acknowledging Clarke as her mother.
+ Clarke's alive, unsurprisingly, but it was so great to see her again. I loved her waking up back in the cell she started the show in but decorated this time with her memories. I need to look up some screenshots because there were so many things happening on those walls but some of my favourites - Roan (!), Abby, Madi and Raven, and several of Lexa and Bellamy. It made me happy, especially to see Roan. I hope Wells, Finn and Jasper and her dad and Monty are all on there too. Also I have to say the cutting from Lexa to Bellamy's drawing in that way screamed past love/future love.
Other
+ I was very anxious for Gaia, wow. That was a tense scene and I'm really happy Madi didn't kill her. I felt bad for her being banished (though I think it's clear Madi did it to protect her) but mostly I'm just relieved she survived.
+ I am really disappointed with how Gaia has been used in the last couple episodes. She was the one who first interacted with Josephine and she immediately clocked that something was off with her. She was there when they saw the video. Then that scene in Madi's room and her seeing that Clark/Murphy exchange on the stairs? She should have known. She's just as smart as Echo and Bellamy, she had more pieces. It would have been easy to take a couple minutes from somewhere else and follow up that Madi scene with one of Gaia tracking down Miller/Jackson (who she should know well from six years the bunker not that we ever get to see it) and telling them, and at the end having them burst in only to be shot down by Bellamy. It also would have solved the disappearing Jackson/Miller situation. This show has a lot of characters to juggle and some of them always get left behind but this could have been so easily fixed. Meh.
+ I loved Madi telling Sheidheda to shut up and refusing to let him control her choices. Her attempting to use him and his knowledge to get revenge is great even if I doubt that it's going to go as she wants.
+ I am so pleased that Madi's response is a resolute 'fine if no one else is going to get the necessary revenge for my mother I'm going to do it myself and kill everyone'. I have no idea what Sheidheda is going to lead her to do but I'm rather excited to see. Also I love the contrast to Bellamy. They both have a similar initial reaction but Bellamy's older and his been around this merry-go-round before and you see how much he's grown in him choosing peace.
+ I love that Madi's happy memory is meeting Clarke. Aww. Honestly I have my fingers crossed that we'll get Madi calling Clarke mom when she returns to her body.
+ I like how quickly Echo figured out that Clarke had been taken. I also liked her fighting to mercy kill that guard because she couldn't stand to see him suffering that way.
+ I love how Echo was immediately in 'who do we fight' mode upon learning of Clarke's death. That said, while it's been clear this season that Echo has embraced a forgiving attitude and is firmly on Team Second Chances I wish that we had gotten anything between her and Clarke this season that developed their relationship. Echo was pissed last season but Clarke doing to right thing in the end, and I think Echo getting to see the Clarke/Madi relationship/love up close, obviously did a lot to quell that anger. But I feel like the show has really missed an opportunity by not developing the Clarke/Echo relationship at all. I wish we'd gotten a scene where they talked. It could have easily fit in at the beginning of Red Sun Rises and perhaps expanded on their short moment at the end of S4 about doing what's needed for your people and how 'your people' can change. Or something along those lines. Just give them a relationship to build more of a base for this moment where loyal Echo is ready to throw down in reaction to Clarke's death. As with Gaia the lack is down to time and a large cast but that doesn't make it any less disappointing.
+ I wish they'd had Jade put up more of a fight during her face off with Echo. It was inevitable she'd lose but she could have been shown to be a little better.
+ One of my favourite dark horse relationships has been Abby/Murphy and they had some lovely scenes this season, which makes the lack of any noticeable regret or hesitance on Murphy's part with regards to helping Jo manipulate her with all her worst regrets really sad.
+ I actually loved the Josephine/Abby scene and how it played out. Once again Josephine switching tracks immediately when one thing doesn't work or Abby starts to get suspicious, drowning Abby in all of Murphy's points in a very effective way, and ending on the perfect note of how much Clarke needs her mom.
+ Oh, Abby. I have my fingers crossed that she realised that there was something very off and that she isn't so broken that she bought Josephine's spiel. A couple times she did seem pretty taken aback, she questioned what she was saying and I did get the impression at one point that she wasn't buying what Jo was selling. I mean stealing a body is never going to fly with Kane and she knows it. It shouldn't even be an option for Abby!
+ What I am really hoping for next episode is for the Raven/Abby team-up to lead to them discovering the truth. Raven knows they steal nightblood bodies, Abby has all the pieces of Clarke being off to know something is wrong, and together they can have that horrifying realisation about what happened. I really want this. I'd also love if this became the inciting incident to begin the healing process in both the Raven/Abby relationship and that Raven/Clarke one. Plus if Abby/Raven decide to go off script with this new information that adds a fun tangle of cross-purposes to the situation which I always love.
+ Oh, Raven. This episode rather emphasised one of her greatest flaws - self-righteousness - in ways that both annoyed the crap out of me (her scene with the rest of Earthkru) and had me nodding my head along with her (her cold takedown of Ryker).
See the thing is, Raven is in fact morally a couple steps ahead of most of Earthkru and I have often been on her side. However at this point her uncompromising black/white attitude with Clarke is annoying me so much. Raven never personally committed any atrocity (that I remember) but she has had her own terrible choices (she was all for torturing Lincoln, she took the chip), and bad ideas (kill Lexa for Finn), she has helped the others do terrible things (end of s1), has benefited again and again from the others making those terrible choices (Mount Weather) while also refusing to step up and make those hard choices herself (the List in season 4), and added all together it leaves her in a rather unsympathetic place for me right now even if I can understand where she's coming from (ie it's literally been like a week). Does she really have no past regrets?
+ Simone agreeing to erase the Kim family from existence was dumb. There is no quicker way to get the other Primes to turn against you. The Lightbourne's have just shown that they can't be trusted and I won't buy it if the others don't turn on them immediately after learning the truth. I'm also not even sure why it was even necessary at this point and felt like jumping the gun. There's no way for Murphy to know if they've been wiped or not, right? So just say they wiped them until they get the nightblood method, and then turn on Murphy. This whole thing just made me more sure that Kaylee knew something terrible about Josephine that she didn't want getting out and this was her covering her tracks that one step further.
+ I am so interested in Jordan's reaction to the Josephine news because despite his age he is very naive and sheltered. First love Delilah was killed and now Clarke, the hero from his childhood stories? It's one thing to be a pacifist when you've never known war and another when faced with the murders of people you care about.
+ I'm disappointed that we didn't see Emori learn the truth but even more so if we don't get Raven's reaction in the next episode. I don't want the after effect I want to see the exact moment she realises and see how that affects her step by step. I hope we get to see Miller and Jackson and Niylah's reactions too. That's on thing the this episode lacked in concentrating so much on Bellamy's grief, though I loved it, and I hope the next episode gives us more of.
+ I like the Diyoza/Octavia storyline and am interested in where it's going. I love how much Diyoza has taken Octavia under her wing and wants to help her. I liked Octavia demanding Xavier cut off her arm - that's very her.
