The 100 6x13 Thoughts
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iariaThe Blood of Sanctum
Hmm. There were things I liked but tbh this was probably my least favourite finale. Possibly because it didn't entirely feel like a season finale? The three plotlines of the season aren't resolved which ends up making things feel unfinished.
+ The end leaves us with the set up of three plot threads for next season, all continuations of ones started this season, and honestly I'm only super interested in one of them.
1) Sheidheda escapes into the Eligius computer. I think. I don't care about Sheidheda so I'm only interested in this if he was forced to take all the other Commanders with him (as he tied them together) and they come into play.
2) The Primes are still a problem - the cult is alive, Jordan is a convert and has Priya's chip and Russell somehow survived. I'm not sure where they want to go with this. I really enjoyed the Prime storyline for most of the season but I'm ready for it to be over and, considering next season is the last, I would be up for this all being dealt with in the first couple episodes and then moved on from. In large part because I want something better for Jordan. I really want the show to integrate him better with the cast, give him bonds and relationships with these heroes he grew up hearing about.
3) The Anomaly mystery continues and I'm interested. I've read a lot of speculation about time travel but I don't know that it makes sense from what we saw. I liked the implications of the Hope/Octavia reunion. Octavia being stabbed and then disappearing in Anomaly light was intriguing. Not sure about the whole 'he' thing but yay for Diyoza, and yay for the 'stone' which is really cool and the maybe potential for non-human civilization?! I find it really intriguing.
+ I loved the Clarke/Bellamy reunion. The desperate hug, the way Clarke was clearly looking for him, the second hug.
"Tell me it was worth it?"
"We did do better. I have to believe that matters."
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I wish they'd had a longer conversation about everything that happened. Also I wish we'd gotten Bellamy actually saying "I'm sorry about you mom".
+ I liked the reunions we got - super loved the Raven/Murphy/Emori hug (more next season!), Jackson/Miller was nice, and I liked Clarke/Echo greeting each other. I loved Clarke/Madi walking into Sanctum hand-in-hand. Jackson and Echo's big hug was a bit weird but okay. I would have much rather have had the Raven/Echo hug reunion (you see her waiting to greet Echo behind Clarke.) It would have made more sense.
But what I was desperately missing were the Octavia reunions - Octavia/Niylah and Octavia/Indra! Indra hasn't seen her since they went into cryo and even though their relationship is a lot more complicated now there should have been something. And the last time Niylah saw Octavia she was a self-hating mess who was hurting herself, and Niylah is possibly the only person who never once stopped believing in Octavia, and we don't even get a background hug??! Unacceptable. >:( Especially considering how Octavia ends the season. There is a ton of unnecessary stuff that could have been cut to have these reunions.
+ God, poor Clarke. :( This was supposed to be a better season for her but it definitely ended up being one of her worst. She really got put through the ringer. The hope on her face that her mother might be alive even though she knew it couldn't be true was heartbreaking. Her having to push the person wearing her mother's body out the airlock and watch her die, her mother's voice screaming, the same way her father died - :( Her little breakdown in the mess when she realised that Russell had Madi was also heartbreaking. Oh, Clarke.
+ I loved that Clarke's desperate gambit worked and got through to Madi. I loved their hug so much. I liked the parallel/allusions in that the last time Clarke held a gun to her head she found Madi and it saved her and now this time Madi saves her again. I also like that it was Clarke's death that gave Sheidheda his chance to control Madi, and it was the potential of Clarke's death that allowed Madi to take back control of her body.
+ I love that Madi's first act upon gaining control again was all practical - to take Russell and his men prisoner - before giving in to her emotional needs. How very like her mother.
+ I liked the ways Clarke found to protect Madi while staying in character - knocking her out to save her from Simone, claiming her body as her new host to save her life. Clarke did amazingly as always at staying in Josie!character. I always appreciate how quick thinking Clarke is in tough situations.
+ Clarke automatically moving to cut the dead Flame from Madi was very Clarke and I really loved that when her hands were shaking too much Jackson was there to gentle take the blade from her and save her daughter for her.
+ I loved the Clarke/Raven hug. Clarke instigating it to tearfully thank Raven for saving her daughter and Raven returning it with her condolences over Abby and then actually getting a quick second of shared grief in each other's arms was excellent. It's not enough for me to make up for everything else with them this season but as an instigator for them to begin to heal/move forward I can absolutely buy it on both their parts. I really, really hope that this means good things for them moving forward next season.
+ "Side by side. Like it was meant to be." This was a wonderful Bellamy/Octavia moment and while I felt like Octavia's turn around needed a little more and their makeup was surprisingly fast I am so happy to see the two of them working together, on the same side and happy with each other that I really am simply ready to accept it. They were great this episode.
+ I actually loved that final Hope/Octavia scene because it retroactively makes Octavia's post-Anomaly post-toxin vision personality shift work for me a lot more than it previously did. I think in seeing Hope Octavia's memories of the Anomaly came back and there is a distinct change in Octavia's demeanour that makes it clear that the two of them know each other well and care about each other deeply. Octavia is so soft with Hope! It makes me think that Octavia's Pike vision/Blodreina realisation happened so quickly because it was something Octavia already went through. In the Anomaly with Diyoza Octavia changed, she healed from her traumas, she chose to move forward without violence, she basically did everything from her vision but perhaps over a greater length of time. Thus when she went through the toxin vision she was able to so quickly move on because she had already done all that work. So, yeah, Octavia's storyline this season now entirely works for me.
+ I'm worried about Diyoza and what a grown up Hope means for her. She's alive clearly but is she old? I guess I just don't want to deal with old age makeup Diyoza next season. Octavia came back the same even though time had passed so perhaps the Anomaly is like Narnia where you age in it but when you return to the real world you return to the age you were when you left?
+ I am very curious about Hope and Octavia's relationship. They care but how involved was Octavia in Hope's life? I would be down for Hope had two mommies and Octavia/Diyoza got together in the Anomaly.
+ I had an issue with everyone hesitating to help Gabriel save his people at first. Murphy thinking of himself and his people, sure, it's Murphy and makes sense (as does him stepping up in the end). But a whole theme of this season has been of doing better and then when they are faced with a very clear cut 'do better/be good' situation - they don't. They were going to be selfish not better. They all hesitated until Octavia took a stand. It was done to give us that Blake moment but ended up undercutting everyone else's season trajectory a bit?
+ "The truth according to who?" Priya. The truth that Priya told everyone about the Primes. That's what got her killed. That and Russell not caring enough about her to make the attempt to protect her.
+ "These people had peace before we got here." Ehhh, did they? They had infighting between the Primes (Kaylee murdering Josie) and Gabriel and his "children" that had managed to infiltrate Sanctum and less nightbloods being born. What they were was on the verge of civil war. Plus they started everything with Earthkru when they murdered Clarke and took over her body.
+ I love Bellamy but he gets such a failing grade on taking care of Jordan. During their final talk Jordan was sending up so many red flags that even though Bellamy was confused and busy him walking away has me judging him hard. Clarke at least has the excuse that she spent most of the season possessed, fighting possession, and dealing with her mom's death and daughter's possession. Monty and Harper would be so disappointed in them! They had one job - look after their son - and just look, now he's brainwashed and in a cult.
+ I loved the mention of Lexa and that Lexa told Shiedheda that Clarke was strong. I am really surprised that we got nothing from Clarke about Lexa over the whole Flame situation. She was brought up so it felt weird. I mean of course Clarke would choose Madi with no hesitation but I wish we'd seen some sadness/grief from Clarke over losing that final peace of Lexa.
+ I did feel bad for Russell when he learned that Josephine was dead. This entire thing began because of his decision to use Clarke to bring Josephine back, because he couldn't wait, because going all the way back to the beginning he loved her too much to let her go. The fact that his choice led to losing her permanently had to have been a hard blow but feels appropriate. Having said that I also felt some satisfaction considering that he killed Abby. Him cheerfully reassuring 'Jo' that he didn't make the same mistake twice and made sure Abby was dead made the immediate Clarke revelation all the sweeter.
+ Wow, Simone was cold! She barely reacted when Clarke revealed that Josephine was dead, we got none of the grief and rage that we saw from Russell. I would have liked to have seen something more. That said I loved her attempt to play Clarke and her immediately taking charge and planning to use Madi as leverage. Also her plan for the sleeping Wonkru was evil but brilliant and I liked it.
+ Raven asking Gaia what to do with the Flame makes me sigh. I understand why she would ask Gaia's input and I do like that she did. It was very considerate. But considering Raven's past it felt like more of Raven passing on the hard choice to someone else.
+ Gaia choosing Madi's life over the Flame is such a big moment for her and while I loved her choice and that little moment between her and Madi I did find myself wishing that they'd built Madi/Gaia more. I also really liked that they gave weight to Gaia's choice considering how important the Flame was to her. It makes me wish the show had did more with Gaia and the similarities between her Grounder religion and the Primes.
+ I liked that it was Niylah who grabbed Clarke when she started to collapse and who tried to comfort her.
+ "Believe it or not, I am sorry for your loss." Aw, that reminds me of Josie telling Bellamy that she and Clarke were friends. I believe both of them. I miss Josie. Also how amazing is Clarke that she can say this to the man who murdered her mother and the woman wearing her mother's corpse?
+ Clarke not killing Russell and Simone when she had them at gunpoint didn't make much sense. She could have been worried about the guards except none of them seemed to be around, nor did Simone call for anyone to stop/go after her which makes it seem like they really were alone. I guess it's all a part of Clarke's desire to 'do better' but that seems like a dumb reason to let them run around free to cause more damage. That did not feel like a Clarke move.
+ Simone revealing that they are able to track mind drives seems like it opens a huge issue of why didn't they use that to find Josephine after Bellamy took her, or use it to find Gabriel, so I'm going to just assume that the Anomaly prevented it (like radio signals) on Alpha but they kept the tech all these centuries for reasons.
+ I don't understand the lead Adjuster leaving after giving 'Daniel' and Gabriel the blood and immediately trying to set the building on fire. That's one of her gods in there! Did she not believe that he was really Daniel because a god's resurrection couldn't go wrong?
+ The Adjusters came out of no where and I wish they had been introduced more clearly earlier in the season. I feel like the show definitely should have explored the Nulls and followers of the Primes and how the society worked a lot more.
+ Why exactly are the Primes so set on leaving Alpha? They did the adjustment protocol but aren't even going to bother waiting to see if it works? It doesn't make sense to me. Plus why try and turn Earthkru into their new slaves/followers when there are a bunch in Sanctum who still believe in them? Even if they think Alpha is lost as a permanent home (whyyy??) I feel like it would be worth the effort to either kill all of awake Earthkru (or send them to Alpha if you're not a monster) and bring your still loyal followers onto the ship.
+ What the heck did Russell even tell Murphy about Daniel if it didn't include the fact that Kaylee was his sister or that he had an Adjuster who was his lover?
+ I'm not sure why Simone gathered all the other Prime's to help her track down Clarke, rather than just the guards, other than as a conveniently easy way to get rid of them all. It definitely felt like a waste of them. Certainly a waste of Jade. They shouldn't have made her a Prime.
+ It's a season finale and Clarke once again gets to pull a lever which I appreciate. But considering the theme of doing better and how hard she spends the whole season trying to do just that and how Mount Weather kept being brought up as this great shame and regret of hers, I really wish the show had managed to do the lever thing as Clarke getting a redo of that choice and making a different one. Here she pulls it to save all of Wonkru by killing a few, which is good and is I guess the opposite, but it's her saving 'her' people at the expense of others and I wish she'd somehow managed to save those Primes + guards.
+ I thought it was only the Skaikru portion of Wonkru that were defrosted so why would they attack on the Commander's orders? They were never under the command of a Commander.
+ This was never addressed so I hope it is at some point: how did Sheidheda even manage to gain control of the Flame? How did he overcome all the other Commanders, including it's creator Becca? Why was the Flame protecting him?
Hmm. There were things I liked but tbh this was probably my least favourite finale. Possibly because it didn't entirely feel like a season finale? The three plotlines of the season aren't resolved which ends up making things feel unfinished.
+ The end leaves us with the set up of three plot threads for next season, all continuations of ones started this season, and honestly I'm only super interested in one of them.
1) Sheidheda escapes into the Eligius computer. I think. I don't care about Sheidheda so I'm only interested in this if he was forced to take all the other Commanders with him (as he tied them together) and they come into play.
2) The Primes are still a problem - the cult is alive, Jordan is a convert and has Priya's chip and Russell somehow survived. I'm not sure where they want to go with this. I really enjoyed the Prime storyline for most of the season but I'm ready for it to be over and, considering next season is the last, I would be up for this all being dealt with in the first couple episodes and then moved on from. In large part because I want something better for Jordan. I really want the show to integrate him better with the cast, give him bonds and relationships with these heroes he grew up hearing about.
3) The Anomaly mystery continues and I'm interested. I've read a lot of speculation about time travel but I don't know that it makes sense from what we saw. I liked the implications of the Hope/Octavia reunion. Octavia being stabbed and then disappearing in Anomaly light was intriguing. Not sure about the whole 'he' thing but yay for Diyoza, and yay for the 'stone' which is really cool and the maybe potential for non-human civilization?! I find it really intriguing.
+ I loved the Clarke/Bellamy reunion. The desperate hug, the way Clarke was clearly looking for him, the second hug.
"Tell me it was worth it?"
"We did do better. I have to believe that matters."
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I wish they'd had a longer conversation about everything that happened. Also I wish we'd gotten Bellamy actually saying "I'm sorry about you mom".
+ I liked the reunions we got - super loved the Raven/Murphy/Emori hug (more next season!), Jackson/Miller was nice, and I liked Clarke/Echo greeting each other. I loved Clarke/Madi walking into Sanctum hand-in-hand. Jackson and Echo's big hug was a bit weird but okay. I would have much rather have had the Raven/Echo hug reunion (you see her waiting to greet Echo behind Clarke.) It would have made more sense.
But what I was desperately missing were the Octavia reunions - Octavia/Niylah and Octavia/Indra! Indra hasn't seen her since they went into cryo and even though their relationship is a lot more complicated now there should have been something. And the last time Niylah saw Octavia she was a self-hating mess who was hurting herself, and Niylah is possibly the only person who never once stopped believing in Octavia, and we don't even get a background hug??! Unacceptable. >:( Especially considering how Octavia ends the season. There is a ton of unnecessary stuff that could have been cut to have these reunions.
+ God, poor Clarke. :( This was supposed to be a better season for her but it definitely ended up being one of her worst. She really got put through the ringer. The hope on her face that her mother might be alive even though she knew it couldn't be true was heartbreaking. Her having to push the person wearing her mother's body out the airlock and watch her die, her mother's voice screaming, the same way her father died - :( Her little breakdown in the mess when she realised that Russell had Madi was also heartbreaking. Oh, Clarke.
+ I loved that Clarke's desperate gambit worked and got through to Madi. I loved their hug so much. I liked the parallel/allusions in that the last time Clarke held a gun to her head she found Madi and it saved her and now this time Madi saves her again. I also like that it was Clarke's death that gave Sheidheda his chance to control Madi, and it was the potential of Clarke's death that allowed Madi to take back control of her body.
+ I love that Madi's first act upon gaining control again was all practical - to take Russell and his men prisoner - before giving in to her emotional needs. How very like her mother.
+ I liked the ways Clarke found to protect Madi while staying in character - knocking her out to save her from Simone, claiming her body as her new host to save her life. Clarke did amazingly as always at staying in Josie!character. I always appreciate how quick thinking Clarke is in tough situations.
+ Clarke automatically moving to cut the dead Flame from Madi was very Clarke and I really loved that when her hands were shaking too much Jackson was there to gentle take the blade from her and save her daughter for her.
+ I loved the Clarke/Raven hug. Clarke instigating it to tearfully thank Raven for saving her daughter and Raven returning it with her condolences over Abby and then actually getting a quick second of shared grief in each other's arms was excellent. It's not enough for me to make up for everything else with them this season but as an instigator for them to begin to heal/move forward I can absolutely buy it on both their parts. I really, really hope that this means good things for them moving forward next season.
+ "Side by side. Like it was meant to be." This was a wonderful Bellamy/Octavia moment and while I felt like Octavia's turn around needed a little more and their makeup was surprisingly fast I am so happy to see the two of them working together, on the same side and happy with each other that I really am simply ready to accept it. They were great this episode.
+ I actually loved that final Hope/Octavia scene because it retroactively makes Octavia's post-Anomaly post-toxin vision personality shift work for me a lot more than it previously did. I think in seeing Hope Octavia's memories of the Anomaly came back and there is a distinct change in Octavia's demeanour that makes it clear that the two of them know each other well and care about each other deeply. Octavia is so soft with Hope! It makes me think that Octavia's Pike vision/Blodreina realisation happened so quickly because it was something Octavia already went through. In the Anomaly with Diyoza Octavia changed, she healed from her traumas, she chose to move forward without violence, she basically did everything from her vision but perhaps over a greater length of time. Thus when she went through the toxin vision she was able to so quickly move on because she had already done all that work. So, yeah, Octavia's storyline this season now entirely works for me.
+ I'm worried about Diyoza and what a grown up Hope means for her. She's alive clearly but is she old? I guess I just don't want to deal with old age makeup Diyoza next season. Octavia came back the same even though time had passed so perhaps the Anomaly is like Narnia where you age in it but when you return to the real world you return to the age you were when you left?
+ I am very curious about Hope and Octavia's relationship. They care but how involved was Octavia in Hope's life? I would be down for Hope had two mommies and Octavia/Diyoza got together in the Anomaly.
+ I had an issue with everyone hesitating to help Gabriel save his people at first. Murphy thinking of himself and his people, sure, it's Murphy and makes sense (as does him stepping up in the end). But a whole theme of this season has been of doing better and then when they are faced with a very clear cut 'do better/be good' situation - they don't. They were going to be selfish not better. They all hesitated until Octavia took a stand. It was done to give us that Blake moment but ended up undercutting everyone else's season trajectory a bit?
+ "The truth according to who?" Priya. The truth that Priya told everyone about the Primes. That's what got her killed. That and Russell not caring enough about her to make the attempt to protect her.
+ "These people had peace before we got here." Ehhh, did they? They had infighting between the Primes (Kaylee murdering Josie) and Gabriel and his "children" that had managed to infiltrate Sanctum and less nightbloods being born. What they were was on the verge of civil war. Plus they started everything with Earthkru when they murdered Clarke and took over her body.
+ I love Bellamy but he gets such a failing grade on taking care of Jordan. During their final talk Jordan was sending up so many red flags that even though Bellamy was confused and busy him walking away has me judging him hard. Clarke at least has the excuse that she spent most of the season possessed, fighting possession, and dealing with her mom's death and daughter's possession. Monty and Harper would be so disappointed in them! They had one job - look after their son - and just look, now he's brainwashed and in a cult.
+ I loved the mention of Lexa and that Lexa told Shiedheda that Clarke was strong. I am really surprised that we got nothing from Clarke about Lexa over the whole Flame situation. She was brought up so it felt weird. I mean of course Clarke would choose Madi with no hesitation but I wish we'd seen some sadness/grief from Clarke over losing that final peace of Lexa.
+ I did feel bad for Russell when he learned that Josephine was dead. This entire thing began because of his decision to use Clarke to bring Josephine back, because he couldn't wait, because going all the way back to the beginning he loved her too much to let her go. The fact that his choice led to losing her permanently had to have been a hard blow but feels appropriate. Having said that I also felt some satisfaction considering that he killed Abby. Him cheerfully reassuring 'Jo' that he didn't make the same mistake twice and made sure Abby was dead made the immediate Clarke revelation all the sweeter.
+ Wow, Simone was cold! She barely reacted when Clarke revealed that Josephine was dead, we got none of the grief and rage that we saw from Russell. I would have liked to have seen something more. That said I loved her attempt to play Clarke and her immediately taking charge and planning to use Madi as leverage. Also her plan for the sleeping Wonkru was evil but brilliant and I liked it.
+ Raven asking Gaia what to do with the Flame makes me sigh. I understand why she would ask Gaia's input and I do like that she did. It was very considerate. But considering Raven's past it felt like more of Raven passing on the hard choice to someone else.
+ Gaia choosing Madi's life over the Flame is such a big moment for her and while I loved her choice and that little moment between her and Madi I did find myself wishing that they'd built Madi/Gaia more. I also really liked that they gave weight to Gaia's choice considering how important the Flame was to her. It makes me wish the show had did more with Gaia and the similarities between her Grounder religion and the Primes.
+ I liked that it was Niylah who grabbed Clarke when she started to collapse and who tried to comfort her.
+ "Believe it or not, I am sorry for your loss." Aw, that reminds me of Josie telling Bellamy that she and Clarke were friends. I believe both of them. I miss Josie. Also how amazing is Clarke that she can say this to the man who murdered her mother and the woman wearing her mother's corpse?
+ Clarke not killing Russell and Simone when she had them at gunpoint didn't make much sense. She could have been worried about the guards except none of them seemed to be around, nor did Simone call for anyone to stop/go after her which makes it seem like they really were alone. I guess it's all a part of Clarke's desire to 'do better' but that seems like a dumb reason to let them run around free to cause more damage. That did not feel like a Clarke move.
+ Simone revealing that they are able to track mind drives seems like it opens a huge issue of why didn't they use that to find Josephine after Bellamy took her, or use it to find Gabriel, so I'm going to just assume that the Anomaly prevented it (like radio signals) on Alpha but they kept the tech all these centuries for reasons.
+ I don't understand the lead Adjuster leaving after giving 'Daniel' and Gabriel the blood and immediately trying to set the building on fire. That's one of her gods in there! Did she not believe that he was really Daniel because a god's resurrection couldn't go wrong?
+ The Adjusters came out of no where and I wish they had been introduced more clearly earlier in the season. I feel like the show definitely should have explored the Nulls and followers of the Primes and how the society worked a lot more.
+ Why exactly are the Primes so set on leaving Alpha? They did the adjustment protocol but aren't even going to bother waiting to see if it works? It doesn't make sense to me. Plus why try and turn Earthkru into their new slaves/followers when there are a bunch in Sanctum who still believe in them? Even if they think Alpha is lost as a permanent home (whyyy??) I feel like it would be worth the effort to either kill all of awake Earthkru (or send them to Alpha if you're not a monster) and bring your still loyal followers onto the ship.
+ What the heck did Russell even tell Murphy about Daniel if it didn't include the fact that Kaylee was his sister or that he had an Adjuster who was his lover?
+ I'm not sure why Simone gathered all the other Prime's to help her track down Clarke, rather than just the guards, other than as a conveniently easy way to get rid of them all. It definitely felt like a waste of them. Certainly a waste of Jade. They shouldn't have made her a Prime.
+ It's a season finale and Clarke once again gets to pull a lever which I appreciate. But considering the theme of doing better and how hard she spends the whole season trying to do just that and how Mount Weather kept being brought up as this great shame and regret of hers, I really wish the show had managed to do the lever thing as Clarke getting a redo of that choice and making a different one. Here she pulls it to save all of Wonkru by killing a few, which is good and is I guess the opposite, but it's her saving 'her' people at the expense of others and I wish she'd somehow managed to save those Primes + guards.
+ I thought it was only the Skaikru portion of Wonkru that were defrosted so why would they attack on the Commander's orders? They were never under the command of a Commander.
+ This was never addressed so I hope it is at some point: how did Sheidheda even manage to gain control of the Flame? How did he overcome all the other Commanders, including it's creator Becca? Why was the Flame protecting him?
