The 100 7x06 Thoughts
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Good episode.
Sanctum
I think the most pleasant surprise of the season is how much I’m enjoying the Sanctum/Shiedheda storyline.
+ Indra continues her streak of amazingness. I loved her showdown with Wonkru and proclaiming herself leader of them. Her speech was great. I loved her easily handing Knight's ass to him. A+ choice of having her step out of role of soldier/warrior to become leader of Wonkru because who could be better?
+ Muphy and Emori essentially pep-talking Indra into making herself leader was a delight. "Besides who’s bossier than you?" Heh.
+ I loved this:
Murphy: Can we at least watch?
Indra: No.
Murphy: ...I’mma watch
Emori's smile! I loved the two of them watching as Indra took control of Wonkru like the badass she is, and clearly enjoying watching it as much as I was.
+ Jackson bringing Murphy and Emori with him as backup in his attempt to protect Madi was great. It felt like Jackson stepping up to take Abby’s place, protecting her grand-daughter, in part for her, which I liked.
+ I loved Murphy’s ”Cut me down, because that’s the only way I’m letting this kid go in there.” I loved him physically stopping Indra from following Madi. I've been enjoying Murphy being protective of kids these last two episodes. I hope this means we'll get a Madi/Murphy scene. (I also hope this maybe changes how Murphy sees Clarke's betrayal in season 5 and maybe they could even talk about it. Actually, does he (and the others) even know Clarke betrayed them to protect Madi?)
+ The Shiedheda/Nelson scene was great. Shiedheda taking Nelson out so easily, even with an immobilized arm, was kind of amazing. I'm so pleased they got JR Bourne to play him because he's doing a great job at making Shiedheda not only interesting but threatening.
+ "Take out the enemy’s queen." When he said that I thought he meant Indra but the immediate cut to Clarke plus him mentioning her early in the episode makes me rethink. If he does mean Clarke I’m pleased because a) Indra has enough of a target on her back (with him and everyone) as is and she’s very high up on my death watch list so him not actively sending his new minions to kill her specifically is a plus, and b) Clarke being looked at as a leader/important always makes me happy.
+ "Perhaps Clarke could lead. She did once bare the Flame after all. A claim only three of us can make." I think Sheidheda considers everyone who once had the Flame a threat and I’m interested if there’s a reason more than just them being a potential threat to his claim as Leader/Commander. Is there something in the Flame that perhaps got left behind in their heads that is a specific threat against him?
+ Also: Did Indra even know that Clarke had held the Flame? She wasn't in the room when Clarke did it and I feel like that's something that would have been kept on the down-low.
+ I’m pleased that Madi’s story isn’t her playing Commander to keep control of Wonkru. Her drawings are definitely a more intriguing direction to go. Her drawing an Anomaly Stone indicates that one of the Commanders had seen it before – was it Becca? Is that why Cadogan had her burned?
+ Indra going to Madi was very desperate. Gaia told Wonku the Flame, which is what makes the Commander, was destroyed, so would they even follow Madi without it?
+ I loved Murphy’s little 'eh what can you do' shrug when Nikki walked away and how unamused Indra was.
+ I found the Sanctum kid asking a Null and an Earthling to come play with them really hopeful. The new generation shedding the cycle of hate/disdain of their parents to reach out is a little detail but I hope it's a glimpse of the endgame.
+ I still have no real feelings about Nikki but she isn't in the wrong for being pissed off.
+ We got two Wonkru interactions between characters we haven’t really seen interact much – Miller/Niylah and Indra/Jackson – that were super small but made me wish we’d seen more of them over the last three seasons, and that we'll get more this season. They were all together for six years!
Nakara
+ I was surprised that based on the title more of the episode wasn't set on Nakara instead of being pretty evenly divided between the three plots. I feel like this is a instance where the episode title was actually a bad choice.
+ I loved the Raven/Clarke scenes. I loved Clarke's vocal concern for Raven multiple times. I liked them back to working together. I loved the hug.
When Raven said "Stay so damn strong. Whatever happens, Clarke Griffin doesn’t break. I was really expecting Clarke to tell her about the gun in the desert. It's clear that Clarke was thinking of that, or any one of the many times she's felt broken or has almost broke. I was disappointed that we didn't get to have Clarke opening up. Raven has often judged Clarke her choices, especially last season, without Clarke really getting to express her side of things. This felt like an opening for Clarke to share some of that, for Raven to see what it's cost Clarke.
It's interesting because it's clear that Raven has this view of Clarke as someone strong and untouchable - "You just hum along like a finally tuned engine." - but she's also been there many times when Clarke was breaking. I mean, a couple days ago she watched a crying Clarke put a gun to her head and threaten to kill herself to save her daughter! The cognitive dissonance there is a lot. Or... I guess it's that Raven has seen her emotionally destroyed but then Clarke keeps moving forward and doing what needs to be done anyway, and now Raven is in that same emotionally destroyed place and doesn't know if or how she can do the same?
I love Clarke being there for Raven and comforting her, that she isn't holding a grudge (duh, it's Clarke), that Raven got to express some of that guilt and shame she feels, that their relationship is being repaired. But I really need this not to be the end of this discussion. I desperately want Clarke to be able to have that moment of release too, for them to talk about their past, for them to confront how Raven's been treating Clarke.
+ Raven's greatest shame/guilt being over the fact that she could have gone in and did the welding herself but didn't because she was afraid surprised me. That wasn't what I had gotten from that scene.
+ "Bummer. Seeing an alien would be awesome." Jordan is not wrong. I rather love that later Miller sarcasticlly asks if it's still awesome and Jordan gets this little grin like 'yup'.
+ I love that the cave ended up being a living organism that was digesting them.
+ "I think it’s pretty cool. Cool. Get it?" - Niylah. That was adorable.
+ So where the heck is Gaia and her Disciple kidnapper? I thought they were following Clarke et al to Nakara since the Disciples' orders were to bring Clarke back, unharmed, but they didn’t show up there. Nor did they show up on Bardo. So ? I just had a thought – what if the suited figure was Bellamy? With the time differential it could be!
Bardo
+ I really, really loved the moment between Sky Ring family #1 – Hope pulling Octavia to her side, Diyoza cradling Octavia's face in her hand and Octavia holding it in turn, Diyoza holding Hope, them cuddled together as a group sharing Octavia’s grief and offering comfort. It was beautiful.
+ Octavia/Levitt continue to be a delight. "It was worth it. To see another way to live, to feel what you made me feel." Aw, his crush on her is adorable, and I love how amused she is by it. Her almost smile and stroking his face (and the way he reacts to that!) before punching him, his almost enthusiasm at getting punched by her - I love it all. I hope he is what he seems.
+ I loved the opening sequence of Diyoza remaining unbowed through the Disciples torture (using pain to block her memories!) and her eventual escape. It was great. I love her.
+ I realise that things were moving really fast but I was surprised that we didn't get any grief on Diyoza's part to Hope being a grown-up now. I assume that's coming. I did love that their reunion was preceded by Diyoza throwing a knife into Hope's helmet.
+ Gabriel deciding the chance for survival on the surface was too low and stunning the others was kind of infuriating. DUDE! All of them wanted to go to the surface and that was their choice to make. He could have stayed behind.
+ I wonder if the surface of Bardo is survivable by nightbloods?
+ I love that Diyoza immediately knew exactly why Echo killed the old man (poor guy!) She was probably thinking the same thing. Now I want more Echo/Diyoza. Maybe Diyoza can take her under her wing like she did with Octavia. Actually I really liked that Echo, Diyoza and Octavia were on the same wavelength and Gabriel wasn't. He's the oldest of them by far (like 200 years older) but he's a scientist not a warrior or soldier.
+ I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't Hope killing him. She's been just as murder happy as Echo since arriving on Bardo, I like the idea of Hope making that choice and Diyoza knowing why and them being on the same wavelength, but also this is her baby who she wanted to protect from becoming like her. It would have immediately forced them both to confront the changes in Hope.
+ I loved Octavia’s regretful closed eyes/headshake. I liked that she made that mistake because she’s just coming off having her brain messed with so it makes sense that she’d be shakey and make simple errors like that.
+ The Disciples continue to get their asses kicked really easily for supposedly amazing warriors and also continue to die in big numbers.
+ I am shocked that Levitt was only demoted to janitor instead of being sent to Penance.
Good episode.
Sanctum
I think the most pleasant surprise of the season is how much I’m enjoying the Sanctum/Shiedheda storyline.
+ Indra continues her streak of amazingness. I loved her showdown with Wonkru and proclaiming herself leader of them. Her speech was great. I loved her easily handing Knight's ass to him. A+ choice of having her step out of role of soldier/warrior to become leader of Wonkru because who could be better?
+ Muphy and Emori essentially pep-talking Indra into making herself leader was a delight. "Besides who’s bossier than you?" Heh.
+ I loved this:
Murphy: Can we at least watch?
Indra: No.
Murphy: ...I’mma watch
Emori's smile! I loved the two of them watching as Indra took control of Wonkru like the badass she is, and clearly enjoying watching it as much as I was.
+ Jackson bringing Murphy and Emori with him as backup in his attempt to protect Madi was great. It felt like Jackson stepping up to take Abby’s place, protecting her grand-daughter, in part for her, which I liked.
+ I loved Murphy’s ”Cut me down, because that’s the only way I’m letting this kid go in there.” I loved him physically stopping Indra from following Madi. I've been enjoying Murphy being protective of kids these last two episodes. I hope this means we'll get a Madi/Murphy scene. (I also hope this maybe changes how Murphy sees Clarke's betrayal in season 5 and maybe they could even talk about it. Actually, does he (and the others) even know Clarke betrayed them to protect Madi?)
+ The Shiedheda/Nelson scene was great. Shiedheda taking Nelson out so easily, even with an immobilized arm, was kind of amazing. I'm so pleased they got JR Bourne to play him because he's doing a great job at making Shiedheda not only interesting but threatening.
+ "Take out the enemy’s queen." When he said that I thought he meant Indra but the immediate cut to Clarke plus him mentioning her early in the episode makes me rethink. If he does mean Clarke I’m pleased because a) Indra has enough of a target on her back (with him and everyone) as is and she’s very high up on my death watch list so him not actively sending his new minions to kill her specifically is a plus, and b) Clarke being looked at as a leader/important always makes me happy.
+ "Perhaps Clarke could lead. She did once bare the Flame after all. A claim only three of us can make." I think Sheidheda considers everyone who once had the Flame a threat and I’m interested if there’s a reason more than just them being a potential threat to his claim as Leader/Commander. Is there something in the Flame that perhaps got left behind in their heads that is a specific threat against him?
+ Also: Did Indra even know that Clarke had held the Flame? She wasn't in the room when Clarke did it and I feel like that's something that would have been kept on the down-low.
+ I’m pleased that Madi’s story isn’t her playing Commander to keep control of Wonkru. Her drawings are definitely a more intriguing direction to go. Her drawing an Anomaly Stone indicates that one of the Commanders had seen it before – was it Becca? Is that why Cadogan had her burned?
+ Indra going to Madi was very desperate. Gaia told Wonku the Flame, which is what makes the Commander, was destroyed, so would they even follow Madi without it?
+ I loved Murphy’s little 'eh what can you do' shrug when Nikki walked away and how unamused Indra was.
+ I found the Sanctum kid asking a Null and an Earthling to come play with them really hopeful. The new generation shedding the cycle of hate/disdain of their parents to reach out is a little detail but I hope it's a glimpse of the endgame.
+ I still have no real feelings about Nikki but she isn't in the wrong for being pissed off.
+ We got two Wonkru interactions between characters we haven’t really seen interact much – Miller/Niylah and Indra/Jackson – that were super small but made me wish we’d seen more of them over the last three seasons, and that we'll get more this season. They were all together for six years!
Nakara
+ I was surprised that based on the title more of the episode wasn't set on Nakara instead of being pretty evenly divided between the three plots. I feel like this is a instance where the episode title was actually a bad choice.
+ I loved the Raven/Clarke scenes. I loved Clarke's vocal concern for Raven multiple times. I liked them back to working together. I loved the hug.
When Raven said "Stay so damn strong. Whatever happens, Clarke Griffin doesn’t break. I was really expecting Clarke to tell her about the gun in the desert. It's clear that Clarke was thinking of that, or any one of the many times she's felt broken or has almost broke. I was disappointed that we didn't get to have Clarke opening up. Raven has often judged Clarke her choices, especially last season, without Clarke really getting to express her side of things. This felt like an opening for Clarke to share some of that, for Raven to see what it's cost Clarke.
It's interesting because it's clear that Raven has this view of Clarke as someone strong and untouchable - "You just hum along like a finally tuned engine." - but she's also been there many times when Clarke was breaking. I mean, a couple days ago she watched a crying Clarke put a gun to her head and threaten to kill herself to save her daughter! The cognitive dissonance there is a lot. Or... I guess it's that Raven has seen her emotionally destroyed but then Clarke keeps moving forward and doing what needs to be done anyway, and now Raven is in that same emotionally destroyed place and doesn't know if or how she can do the same?
I love Clarke being there for Raven and comforting her, that she isn't holding a grudge (duh, it's Clarke), that Raven got to express some of that guilt and shame she feels, that their relationship is being repaired. But I really need this not to be the end of this discussion. I desperately want Clarke to be able to have that moment of release too, for them to talk about their past, for them to confront how Raven's been treating Clarke.
+ Raven's greatest shame/guilt being over the fact that she could have gone in and did the welding herself but didn't because she was afraid surprised me. That wasn't what I had gotten from that scene.
+ "Bummer. Seeing an alien would be awesome." Jordan is not wrong. I rather love that later Miller sarcasticlly asks if it's still awesome and Jordan gets this little grin like 'yup'.
+ I love that the cave ended up being a living organism that was digesting them.
+ "I think it’s pretty cool. Cool. Get it?" - Niylah. That was adorable.
+ So where the heck is Gaia and her Disciple kidnapper? I thought they were following Clarke et al to Nakara since the Disciples' orders were to bring Clarke back, unharmed, but they didn’t show up there. Nor did they show up on Bardo. So ? I just had a thought – what if the suited figure was Bellamy? With the time differential it could be!
Bardo
+ I really, really loved the moment between Sky Ring family #1 – Hope pulling Octavia to her side, Diyoza cradling Octavia's face in her hand and Octavia holding it in turn, Diyoza holding Hope, them cuddled together as a group sharing Octavia’s grief and offering comfort. It was beautiful.
+ Octavia/Levitt continue to be a delight. "It was worth it. To see another way to live, to feel what you made me feel." Aw, his crush on her is adorable, and I love how amused she is by it. Her almost smile and stroking his face (and the way he reacts to that!) before punching him, his almost enthusiasm at getting punched by her - I love it all. I hope he is what he seems.
+ I loved the opening sequence of Diyoza remaining unbowed through the Disciples torture (using pain to block her memories!) and her eventual escape. It was great. I love her.
+ I realise that things were moving really fast but I was surprised that we didn't get any grief on Diyoza's part to Hope being a grown-up now. I assume that's coming. I did love that their reunion was preceded by Diyoza throwing a knife into Hope's helmet.
+ Gabriel deciding the chance for survival on the surface was too low and stunning the others was kind of infuriating. DUDE! All of them wanted to go to the surface and that was their choice to make. He could have stayed behind.
+ I wonder if the surface of Bardo is survivable by nightbloods?
+ I love that Diyoza immediately knew exactly why Echo killed the old man (poor guy!) She was probably thinking the same thing. Now I want more Echo/Diyoza. Maybe Diyoza can take her under her wing like she did with Octavia. Actually I really liked that Echo, Diyoza and Octavia were on the same wavelength and Gabriel wasn't. He's the oldest of them by far (like 200 years older) but he's a scientist not a warrior or soldier.
+ I'm a little disappointed that it wasn't Hope killing him. She's been just as murder happy as Echo since arriving on Bardo, I like the idea of Hope making that choice and Diyoza knowing why and them being on the same wavelength, but also this is her baby who she wanted to protect from becoming like her. It would have immediately forced them both to confront the changes in Hope.
+ I loved Octavia’s regretful closed eyes/headshake. I liked that she made that mistake because she’s just coming off having her brain messed with so it makes sense that she’d be shakey and make simple errors like that.
+ The Disciples continue to get their asses kicked really easily for supposedly amazing warriors and also continue to die in big numbers.
+ I am shocked that Levitt was only demoted to janitor instead of being sent to Penance.
