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iariaA Little Sacrifice
Really great episode.
Bardo
+ I'm very sad about Diyoza's death but I've also been waiting for it since the beginning of the season. There was no other reason I could think of for that clip of Hope screaming in the trailer. So her death didn't hit as hard as it might have otherwise simply because I'd kind of already accepted it would happen and made my peace with it. I'm going to miss her and I am sad to lose her because she's awesome but it didn't emotionally hit unfortunately.
I did really love how she died. That was an awesome death for her honestly and was one of my favourite deaths on the show. Her dying not only saving hundreds of lives but choosing death in order to save her daughter from the horror of becoming a mass murderer too was such an appropriate last act for her. "Be better than me." - perfect. Octavia wasn't the only one who changed and found peace on Skyring. I really loved it as the culmination of her story.
+ I loved how calm Diyoza was at the end and her playing peacemaker with Anders.
+ The Clarke/Octavia reunion was everything I could have hoped for. I love so much that upon seeing each other they immediately walked into each others arms and held each other tight. It brought to mind their reunion in season 5 where they very noticeably did not hug. I love that we got this exchange of shared grief even if it was very short and that Clarke's first words to her were to tell her how sorry she was about Bellamy.
(Also it's been a couple days at most since Clarke and the others have seen Octavia but it's been over ten years since she's seen them!)
+ "Just hug me back, Miller." Loved the small Octavia/Miller reunion. I loved Octavia walking over and just hugging him and the fact that he did hug her back.
+ (I hope the show gives us an Octavia/Niylah reunion too.)
+ "In other words get the flock out of here." LOLOL! Oh, Miller. I love him as Clarke’s second a lot.
+ It was just really enjoyable to have Clarke back to giving orders and taking control of things, you know? Like everything is coming back into alignment.
+ I really like that it was Raven who got through to Echo. I also liked that she was the one to question Hope about where she was. I like in turn that it was Raven putting her life on the line that convinced her not to do it.
+ God, poor Hope. I feel for her. She was wrong and was going to do a horrible thing but then she got punished for it in the worst way possible immediately. This is going to be such a hard recovery for her. I'm not sure where she's going to go from here. I hope that it will send her on the right path. I'd love to see her interacting with some new characters. I'm also really curious about how this is going to affect Hope and Echo's relationship. Is Hope going to blame Echo?
+ Echo was going to do exactly what Hope almost succeeded at, and for much less understandable reasons. Hope was swiftly punished for it. Will Echo face some consequences/punishment for it too? (Or Levitt's torture?)
+ When Octavia took a crying Echo into her arms I was struck anew with how darn weird it is that the show has prioritized Echo's grief and anger on Bellamy's death over Octavia's own feelings. It bothered me the first time but this time I've found myself coming back to it again and again. After mulling it over I find myself thinking that in a way it's not actually about Bellamy. I'm kind of feeling my way through this but...
Octavia's whole life until she was 16 centred around Bellamy (as his did around her) and her entire journey has been been a) finding herself and discovering who she is, and b) breaking that co-dependence and creating a healthier relationship between them. The Octavia who lost Bellamy was a vastly different person then s1 Octavia and those 10 years on Skyring allowed her to find peace within herself. She knows who she is and has accepted her past. Her being able to deal with Bellamy's death without the wild grief of it controlling her makes sense in that context. She's moved past the point when the death of a loved one would lead her to destroy herself (and those around her in anger.)
Echo is still in the middle of that journey. She still hasn't 'found herself' so to speak. Her past still controls her actions. She found a peace and acceptance with Bellamy on the Arc but in doing so stalled her own self-journey. She fell back on attaching herself to a leader. Without that she's been lost and lashing out all season. Her time on Skyring didn't bring her the peace it brought Octavia because she was still refusing to let go. She's hasn't accepted her past and dealt with it, plus she's still clinging to her relationship to Bellamy as her lodestone and thus she still doesn't know who she is.
Or something like that? Hmm. IDK, I find it a really interesting comparison now. I'm curious to see where it's going.
+ "If they killed me, or you, or you Octavia. He'd be standing right where I am." Okay, first I rather love Echo putting Clarke on the same level as her and Octavia to Bellamy. Second, Bellamy absolutely wouldn't because he didn't. Echo was there when Bellamy, faced with Clarke's murder by Russell, chose to accept peace for the sake of their people and because that's what Clarke would want. She knows what she's saying is false. Just like she knows what she's doing, despite her protestations especially the vehement one that Clarke 'doesn't know what Bellamy would want', that what she's doing isn't for Bellamy. It's for herself. She says so:
"This is nothing like the choices you make Clarke. You take lives to save the people you love, this is vengeance." See? I like the self-awareness. She's lashing out because of her pain and she knows it, but doesn't know what else to do. Also, on a separate note: I love this, uh, support of Clarke. So much time has been spent shitting on the choices Clarke has made over the years that it's always so nice to hear a more positive take on it/her.
+ I enjoyed the Gabriel/Cadogan interactions. It is really neat to see these two men from the same time together.
+ I liked Clarke nodding the others out of Levitt's room and leaving the decision of how to deal with him up to Octavia. I love that Octavia chose the safety of her people first. Poor Levitt. Hopefully they can get past this.
+ So going through the Anomaly Stone with the Key takes you to judgment? Does that mean Becca failed? I'm very curious about who is going to go through. Jordan? It would give him some purpose and with his innocence and placement as Monty's replacement moral centre it'd make sense. Clarke? As the lead that makes sense and she is usually the one to make the big final choices. I think it could be a good booked for her story. (And I'd love it best cause she's my fav.) Murphy, perhaps? It would also be a great bookend for his storyline and they've been going hard with his heroics this season. Madi? Bellamy?
+ It feels appropriate that it's Jordan that deciphered the true meaning that it wasn't about war/killing. Perhaps like his father he'll show/lead them to a different, peaceful direction to go instead (that hopefully won't be burned down)?
+ Both Echo and Hope repeating several times that there were "no innocent people here" made me shake my head. I wonder what exactly they think those eight year olds are then? I feel like Anders probably should have gone with Levitt's idea of integrating them into the general populace.
+ Cadogan just noping out of being a prisoner and going to lunch made me laugh.
+ I can’t believe that I didn’t realise 'the Key' was the key to opening/using the anomaly stone after the flashback. Considering Cadogan’s reaction at the time it seems so obvious in retrospect. I feel very dumb.
+ Niylah calling Callie 'Pram Fleimkepa' 100% let Cadogan know that Clarke isn't the Key after all, yes?
+ I... can't really blame Anders for his disgust/disdain for Earthkru. I don't think the Disciples have killed even one of their people and meanwhile Earthkru been mowing down Disciples like they're red shirts.
Sanctum
+ The Murphy/Madi scene was wonderful. I loved his genuine panicked fear for her and relief when he found her. I loved her "Murphy, thank god" and running into his arms and his expression as he held her. How far things have come since season 5! I loved him helping her to calm down through breathing.
+ Actually it was great to see how protective and worried they all were of Madi. It really did feel like they are all family. (It made me think of s5. How far things have come. It also weirdly feels kind of validating of Clarke in retrospect. She made some wrong/harsh choices in S5 but she did it in the name of protecting Madi, and that part of it has been completely ignored even as people take swipes at her. Having them all now taking her place kinda worked really well for me.) Also it was a little weird that Jackson was MIA all episode.
+ Madi coming in to save Indra was wonderful. I loved that she managed to take out one of Sheidheda's eyes. I thought it great that she managed to sneak away unseen while everyone was distracted. I love that she can back from her panic attack and terror of Sheidheda to attack him to save Indra. I liked the little moment of her taking her grieving friend's hand to comfort him. She was great all around.
+ Indra choosing to kneel to save Madi’s life was excellent. She'd never do it for herself but her lying down her honour and bending her knees to her hated enemy to save Madi was a great character moment. She was ashamed by her mother kneeling (to Sheidheda!) and it really impacted how she lived her life and raised her daughter, so for her to do the same thing for a child she loves, just... ! So great. I'm sad Gaia missed seeing that.
+ One great thing about Sheidheda is that he brings some really great tension to the show. I never know what he's going to do. I was so worried for Madi, I was super worried about Picasso and I was deeply worried about Indra. That fight was a nail-biter. I'm also actually enjoying his turn to OTT theatrics and ridiculous villainy. He swings between genuinely scary/threatening (Madi scene) to silly fun (the makeover) and I like it.
+ Sheidheda's "my Indra problem" made me LOL.
+ So relieved that Sheidheda didn't kill Picasso just to prove how evil he is.
+ "Don’t look now John but I think you just might be someone worth believing in." This gives me some hope that perhaps Murphy's storyline is going in the direction of leadership instead of heroic sacrifice. I will take any crumb against the latter! On the other hand, they are now trapped in the reactor... where Hatch heroically died to save them all, and was kind of compared to Murphy... I don't like where this could be potentially going.
+ I love that Indra’s Trikru didn’t kneel until she nodded for them to do so and that they ran to her side when she fell unconscious. She deserves that loyalty.
+ I wasn’t a fan of the directing during the Indra/Shiedheda fight. It was distracting and took me completely out of the scene.
+ Knight is very clearly having second thoughts now that he's experiencing who Shiedheda actually is. I kind of want him to be the one to help/save Indra.
Really great episode.
Bardo
+ I'm very sad about Diyoza's death but I've also been waiting for it since the beginning of the season. There was no other reason I could think of for that clip of Hope screaming in the trailer. So her death didn't hit as hard as it might have otherwise simply because I'd kind of already accepted it would happen and made my peace with it. I'm going to miss her and I am sad to lose her because she's awesome but it didn't emotionally hit unfortunately.
I did really love how she died. That was an awesome death for her honestly and was one of my favourite deaths on the show. Her dying not only saving hundreds of lives but choosing death in order to save her daughter from the horror of becoming a mass murderer too was such an appropriate last act for her. "Be better than me." - perfect. Octavia wasn't the only one who changed and found peace on Skyring. I really loved it as the culmination of her story.
+ I loved how calm Diyoza was at the end and her playing peacemaker with Anders.
+ The Clarke/Octavia reunion was everything I could have hoped for. I love so much that upon seeing each other they immediately walked into each others arms and held each other tight. It brought to mind their reunion in season 5 where they very noticeably did not hug. I love that we got this exchange of shared grief even if it was very short and that Clarke's first words to her were to tell her how sorry she was about Bellamy.
(Also it's been a couple days at most since Clarke and the others have seen Octavia but it's been over ten years since she's seen them!)
+ "Just hug me back, Miller." Loved the small Octavia/Miller reunion. I loved Octavia walking over and just hugging him and the fact that he did hug her back.
+ (I hope the show gives us an Octavia/Niylah reunion too.)
+ "In other words get the flock out of here." LOLOL! Oh, Miller. I love him as Clarke’s second a lot.
+ It was just really enjoyable to have Clarke back to giving orders and taking control of things, you know? Like everything is coming back into alignment.
+ I really like that it was Raven who got through to Echo. I also liked that she was the one to question Hope about where she was. I like in turn that it was Raven putting her life on the line that convinced her not to do it.
+ God, poor Hope. I feel for her. She was wrong and was going to do a horrible thing but then she got punished for it in the worst way possible immediately. This is going to be such a hard recovery for her. I'm not sure where she's going to go from here. I hope that it will send her on the right path. I'd love to see her interacting with some new characters. I'm also really curious about how this is going to affect Hope and Echo's relationship. Is Hope going to blame Echo?
+ Echo was going to do exactly what Hope almost succeeded at, and for much less understandable reasons. Hope was swiftly punished for it. Will Echo face some consequences/punishment for it too? (Or Levitt's torture?)
+ When Octavia took a crying Echo into her arms I was struck anew with how darn weird it is that the show has prioritized Echo's grief and anger on Bellamy's death over Octavia's own feelings. It bothered me the first time but this time I've found myself coming back to it again and again. After mulling it over I find myself thinking that in a way it's not actually about Bellamy. I'm kind of feeling my way through this but...
Octavia's whole life until she was 16 centred around Bellamy (as his did around her) and her entire journey has been been a) finding herself and discovering who she is, and b) breaking that co-dependence and creating a healthier relationship between them. The Octavia who lost Bellamy was a vastly different person then s1 Octavia and those 10 years on Skyring allowed her to find peace within herself. She knows who she is and has accepted her past. Her being able to deal with Bellamy's death without the wild grief of it controlling her makes sense in that context. She's moved past the point when the death of a loved one would lead her to destroy herself (and those around her in anger.)
Echo is still in the middle of that journey. She still hasn't 'found herself' so to speak. Her past still controls her actions. She found a peace and acceptance with Bellamy on the Arc but in doing so stalled her own self-journey. She fell back on attaching herself to a leader. Without that she's been lost and lashing out all season. Her time on Skyring didn't bring her the peace it brought Octavia because she was still refusing to let go. She's hasn't accepted her past and dealt with it, plus she's still clinging to her relationship to Bellamy as her lodestone and thus she still doesn't know who she is.
Or something like that? Hmm. IDK, I find it a really interesting comparison now. I'm curious to see where it's going.
+ "If they killed me, or you, or you Octavia. He'd be standing right where I am." Okay, first I rather love Echo putting Clarke on the same level as her and Octavia to Bellamy. Second, Bellamy absolutely wouldn't because he didn't. Echo was there when Bellamy, faced with Clarke's murder by Russell, chose to accept peace for the sake of their people and because that's what Clarke would want. She knows what she's saying is false. Just like she knows what she's doing, despite her protestations especially the vehement one that Clarke 'doesn't know what Bellamy would want', that what she's doing isn't for Bellamy. It's for herself. She says so:
"This is nothing like the choices you make Clarke. You take lives to save the people you love, this is vengeance." See? I like the self-awareness. She's lashing out because of her pain and she knows it, but doesn't know what else to do. Also, on a separate note: I love this, uh, support of Clarke. So much time has been spent shitting on the choices Clarke has made over the years that it's always so nice to hear a more positive take on it/her.
+ I enjoyed the Gabriel/Cadogan interactions. It is really neat to see these two men from the same time together.
+ I liked Clarke nodding the others out of Levitt's room and leaving the decision of how to deal with him up to Octavia. I love that Octavia chose the safety of her people first. Poor Levitt. Hopefully they can get past this.
+ So going through the Anomaly Stone with the Key takes you to judgment? Does that mean Becca failed? I'm very curious about who is going to go through. Jordan? It would give him some purpose and with his innocence and placement as Monty's replacement moral centre it'd make sense. Clarke? As the lead that makes sense and she is usually the one to make the big final choices. I think it could be a good booked for her story. (And I'd love it best cause she's my fav.) Murphy, perhaps? It would also be a great bookend for his storyline and they've been going hard with his heroics this season. Madi? Bellamy?
+ It feels appropriate that it's Jordan that deciphered the true meaning that it wasn't about war/killing. Perhaps like his father he'll show/lead them to a different, peaceful direction to go instead (that hopefully won't be burned down)?
+ Both Echo and Hope repeating several times that there were "no innocent people here" made me shake my head. I wonder what exactly they think those eight year olds are then? I feel like Anders probably should have gone with Levitt's idea of integrating them into the general populace.
+ Cadogan just noping out of being a prisoner and going to lunch made me laugh.
+ I can’t believe that I didn’t realise 'the Key' was the key to opening/using the anomaly stone after the flashback. Considering Cadogan’s reaction at the time it seems so obvious in retrospect. I feel very dumb.
+ Niylah calling Callie 'Pram Fleimkepa' 100% let Cadogan know that Clarke isn't the Key after all, yes?
+ I... can't really blame Anders for his disgust/disdain for Earthkru. I don't think the Disciples have killed even one of their people and meanwhile Earthkru been mowing down Disciples like they're red shirts.
Sanctum
+ The Murphy/Madi scene was wonderful. I loved his genuine panicked fear for her and relief when he found her. I loved her "Murphy, thank god" and running into his arms and his expression as he held her. How far things have come since season 5! I loved him helping her to calm down through breathing.
+ Actually it was great to see how protective and worried they all were of Madi. It really did feel like they are all family. (It made me think of s5. How far things have come. It also weirdly feels kind of validating of Clarke in retrospect. She made some wrong/harsh choices in S5 but she did it in the name of protecting Madi, and that part of it has been completely ignored even as people take swipes at her. Having them all now taking her place kinda worked really well for me.) Also it was a little weird that Jackson was MIA all episode.
+ Madi coming in to save Indra was wonderful. I loved that she managed to take out one of Sheidheda's eyes. I thought it great that she managed to sneak away unseen while everyone was distracted. I love that she can back from her panic attack and terror of Sheidheda to attack him to save Indra. I liked the little moment of her taking her grieving friend's hand to comfort him. She was great all around.
+ Indra choosing to kneel to save Madi’s life was excellent. She'd never do it for herself but her lying down her honour and bending her knees to her hated enemy to save Madi was a great character moment. She was ashamed by her mother kneeling (to Sheidheda!) and it really impacted how she lived her life and raised her daughter, so for her to do the same thing for a child she loves, just... ! So great. I'm sad Gaia missed seeing that.
+ One great thing about Sheidheda is that he brings some really great tension to the show. I never know what he's going to do. I was so worried for Madi, I was super worried about Picasso and I was deeply worried about Indra. That fight was a nail-biter. I'm also actually enjoying his turn to OTT theatrics and ridiculous villainy. He swings between genuinely scary/threatening (Madi scene) to silly fun (the makeover) and I like it.
+ Sheidheda's "my Indra problem" made me LOL.
+ So relieved that Sheidheda didn't kill Picasso just to prove how evil he is.
+ "Don’t look now John but I think you just might be someone worth believing in." This gives me some hope that perhaps Murphy's storyline is going in the direction of leadership instead of heroic sacrifice. I will take any crumb against the latter! On the other hand, they are now trapped in the reactor... where Hatch heroically died to save them all, and was kind of compared to Murphy... I don't like where this could be potentially going.
+ I love that Indra’s Trikru didn’t kneel until she nodded for them to do so and that they ran to her side when she fell unconscious. She deserves that loyalty.
+ I wasn’t a fan of the directing during the Indra/Shiedheda fight. It was distracting and took me completely out of the scene.
+ Knight is very clearly having second thoughts now that he's experiencing who Shiedheda actually is. I kind of want him to be the one to help/save Indra.
