The 100 7x09 Thoughts
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iariaThe Flock
It was an okay episode.
But I found it to be one of the weakest episodes of the season. I think because it didn't feel really necessary - like everything could have either been added to a previous episode or didn't really need to be shown - and because this is the last season that bugged me more than it might otherwise have. It's the eighth last episode of the show EVER! At this point I really wanted/needed something more.
Bardo
+ I don't buy for a second that Echo's bought into what Ander's is selling and is returning to her follower roots. At her heart she's a spy - it's how she was raised and how she lived so much of her life and if she's falling back on anything it's that. She knows how to play the long game. She knows what Anders wants and expects, and so she’s giving it to him. She's protecting her people the best way she knows how. She is in fact the perfect person to be in this position. I thought it was great and that she played it really well.
+ The show tried very hard to instill some doubt about the potential allegiances of the three, especially Echo, but I don't believe it. Especially Echo. I think all of their reactions to the situation made complete sense to who they are. Octavia and Diyoza are leaders and warriors who have fought wars and gone up against powerful enemies. They know how to play the game and succeed fairly well here if not perfectly. Echo was trained as a spy, to infiltrate and gain peoples trust, so of course she did the best. And then there's poor Hope who grew up relatively peacefully for most her life while only knowing 3 other people. She's never had to learn how to control her emotions or how to interact or deceive other people. Of course she'd fail hard.
+ Hope deciding to back her mom destroying Bardo was a bit yikes. Not only was it where Dev and Orlando were from (two people she cared about), indicating that there are probably more good people there, it's also full of kids. Which she knows about.
+ Echo shooting the others to win was hilarious. And of course she hit the target the first time. Spy!Echo is fun.
+ I wonder what the 'tell' was for Echo to realise that she was in a simulation. The look she gave Hope when she said "they bought in" makes me think it was that. Or just the fact that Hope was willing to leave Diyoza/Octavia when the two of them spent five years thinking of nothing but getting their people back. I have the same curiosity about Diyoza and Octavia easily passing the test too.
+ Octavia/Levitt continue to be cute. Them finally giving into their attraction/feelings was great. I loved that after Octavia was shot he went to her side all worried and checking that she was okay as he helped her up. I liked that Octavia so easily believed his explanation.
+ I am worried about Levitt's future because Anders definitely clocked his super subtle attachment to Octavia and I don't think that's going to go well for him. They wouldn't kill Octavia's last love interest, right?
+ I loved the little fist bumps between Octavia and Echo/Diyoza after she kicked the Bardoan’s ass. I also liked Diyoza’s 'eh whatever' expression after seeing Octavia and Echo closing their eyes before doing the same
+ Ah, bio-weapon Gem9 – we’ll be seeing you in the future! Random thought: I wonder if there could be some closed loop time travel happening where the 'native (alien) Bardoans' are actually humans who had Gem9 used on them and it distorted their bodies to look alien? Or the same idea but the Gem9 predecessor was used by someone on some of Cadogan's initial followers?
+ It occurs to me that Bardo is very similar to Mount Weather and I wonder if we could get Clarke redoing that choice? Let's say it comes down to a hard choice with Clarke's hand on the trigger, or hopefully lever, for the Gem9 only this time she chooses not to pull it. It would tie together the Monty refrain of doing better, it would finally allow her redress that wrong which has haunted her ever since and it would go with her questioning if they could be better. Now that I've thought of this I really love the idea.
Plus if we don't get Clarke facing pulling a lever at the end of this season it would just feel wrong. It's tradition!
+ I wonder what the odds are on the war against whoever killed the Bardoan's being true vs being complete bullshit Cadogan made up to control his followers? I'm giving it even odds right now.
Sanctum
+ Indra leaving Sheidheda to be killed by the Faithful was so deeply stupid wtf. No. Just - no. I flat out do not buy that Indra would make that choice. Indra’s hatred for and worry about Sheidheda has basically been her major driving motivation since she learned the truth. She would never underestimate him like that. I don't care if he was chained, I very much doubt that she'd believe the Faithful would be able to kill him. There is no way! She is too practical a person and has too much personal rage against him not to just shoot him herself. I can't believe Indra was the one to get the seasonal weird/terrible character choice!
I'm sure the reasoning behind this is going to be the worry over Wonkru/Sangedakru's loyalty to Sheidheda and that she thought killing him herself would cause her to lose them if/when the truth came out about who he was. But locking him in a room to be murdered by other people is not actually that far off from shooting him herself that it wouldn't make that much of a difference to Sangedakru's choice, imo. They'd be equally as angry and she would know that. It felt contrived and obviously done just so Shiedheda could live to cause chaos another day.
+ I also sighed at Murphy slipping and calling Shiedheda by his name. It didn't work for me that he would and honestly it wasn't needed to make the scene work.
+ "But they can take care of themselves; obviously you can’t." - Indra. LOL. Harsh... but not entirely wrong. I loved her exasperation when she walked in that she'd only been gone half a day and came back to a hostage situation. Being a leader is hard.
+ Murphy and Emori and the love they have for each other continues to be the best. I loved Emori warning Murphy not to come even though she had a gun to her head. I loved Murphy immediately being willing to do so because “I won’t let her die”. I really loved Murphy taking the blame for Hatch’s death and drawing Nikki’s attention to him in order to save Emori. I loved him covering Emori with his body when the shooting started.
It was an okay episode.
But I found it to be one of the weakest episodes of the season. I think because it didn't feel really necessary - like everything could have either been added to a previous episode or didn't really need to be shown - and because this is the last season that bugged me more than it might otherwise have. It's the eighth last episode of the show EVER! At this point I really wanted/needed something more.
Bardo
+ I don't buy for a second that Echo's bought into what Ander's is selling and is returning to her follower roots. At her heart she's a spy - it's how she was raised and how she lived so much of her life and if she's falling back on anything it's that. She knows how to play the long game. She knows what Anders wants and expects, and so she’s giving it to him. She's protecting her people the best way she knows how. She is in fact the perfect person to be in this position. I thought it was great and that she played it really well.
+ The show tried very hard to instill some doubt about the potential allegiances of the three, especially Echo, but I don't believe it. Especially Echo. I think all of their reactions to the situation made complete sense to who they are. Octavia and Diyoza are leaders and warriors who have fought wars and gone up against powerful enemies. They know how to play the game and succeed fairly well here if not perfectly. Echo was trained as a spy, to infiltrate and gain peoples trust, so of course she did the best. And then there's poor Hope who grew up relatively peacefully for most her life while only knowing 3 other people. She's never had to learn how to control her emotions or how to interact or deceive other people. Of course she'd fail hard.
+ Hope deciding to back her mom destroying Bardo was a bit yikes. Not only was it where Dev and Orlando were from (two people she cared about), indicating that there are probably more good people there, it's also full of kids. Which she knows about.
+ Echo shooting the others to win was hilarious. And of course she hit the target the first time. Spy!Echo is fun.
+ I wonder what the 'tell' was for Echo to realise that she was in a simulation. The look she gave Hope when she said "they bought in" makes me think it was that. Or just the fact that Hope was willing to leave Diyoza/Octavia when the two of them spent five years thinking of nothing but getting their people back. I have the same curiosity about Diyoza and Octavia easily passing the test too.
+ Octavia/Levitt continue to be cute. Them finally giving into their attraction/feelings was great. I loved that after Octavia was shot he went to her side all worried and checking that she was okay as he helped her up. I liked that Octavia so easily believed his explanation.
+ I am worried about Levitt's future because Anders definitely clocked his super subtle attachment to Octavia and I don't think that's going to go well for him. They wouldn't kill Octavia's last love interest, right?
+ I loved the little fist bumps between Octavia and Echo/Diyoza after she kicked the Bardoan’s ass. I also liked Diyoza’s 'eh whatever' expression after seeing Octavia and Echo closing their eyes before doing the same
+ Ah, bio-weapon Gem9 – we’ll be seeing you in the future! Random thought: I wonder if there could be some closed loop time travel happening where the 'native (alien) Bardoans' are actually humans who had Gem9 used on them and it distorted their bodies to look alien? Or the same idea but the Gem9 predecessor was used by someone on some of Cadogan's initial followers?
+ It occurs to me that Bardo is very similar to Mount Weather and I wonder if we could get Clarke redoing that choice? Let's say it comes down to a hard choice with Clarke's hand on the trigger, or hopefully lever, for the Gem9 only this time she chooses not to pull it. It would tie together the Monty refrain of doing better, it would finally allow her redress that wrong which has haunted her ever since and it would go with her questioning if they could be better. Now that I've thought of this I really love the idea.
Plus if we don't get Clarke facing pulling a lever at the end of this season it would just feel wrong. It's tradition!
+ I wonder what the odds are on the war against whoever killed the Bardoan's being true vs being complete bullshit Cadogan made up to control his followers? I'm giving it even odds right now.
Sanctum
+ Indra leaving Sheidheda to be killed by the Faithful was so deeply stupid wtf. No. Just - no. I flat out do not buy that Indra would make that choice. Indra’s hatred for and worry about Sheidheda has basically been her major driving motivation since she learned the truth. She would never underestimate him like that. I don't care if he was chained, I very much doubt that she'd believe the Faithful would be able to kill him. There is no way! She is too practical a person and has too much personal rage against him not to just shoot him herself. I can't believe Indra was the one to get the seasonal weird/terrible character choice!
I'm sure the reasoning behind this is going to be the worry over Wonkru/Sangedakru's loyalty to Sheidheda and that she thought killing him herself would cause her to lose them if/when the truth came out about who he was. But locking him in a room to be murdered by other people is not actually that far off from shooting him herself that it wouldn't make that much of a difference to Sangedakru's choice, imo. They'd be equally as angry and she would know that. It felt contrived and obviously done just so Shiedheda could live to cause chaos another day.
+ I also sighed at Murphy slipping and calling Shiedheda by his name. It didn't work for me that he would and honestly it wasn't needed to make the scene work.
+ "But they can take care of themselves; obviously you can’t." - Indra. LOL. Harsh... but not entirely wrong. I loved her exasperation when she walked in that she'd only been gone half a day and came back to a hostage situation. Being a leader is hard.
+ Murphy and Emori and the love they have for each other continues to be the best. I loved Emori warning Murphy not to come even though she had a gun to her head. I loved Murphy immediately being willing to do so because “I won’t let her die”. I really loved Murphy taking the blame for Hatch’s death and drawing Nikki’s attention to him in order to save Emori. I loved him covering Emori with his body when the shooting started.
