The 100 7x11 Thoughts
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My favourite part of the episode was definitely the final minutes with the reunion. The rest of the episode I liked okay, but also ugh there are now only five episodes left! It being the last season is making me a lot more critical. If Bellamy hadn't been missing all season and if it wasn't the last season I would have enjoyed it more I think.
+ It was really great to have Bellamy back on the show. I don't think I realised just how much I was missing him.
+ I love how light Clark seemed when she pulled away from Bellamy. As if a massive weight had been lifted from her. In fact this was the most at peace we've seen her all season.
+ I love that Clarke ignored the guns pointed at her and hugged Bellamy anyway.
+ "Everyone I love - Octavia, Echo, Clarke... He didn't have to name them because frankly it's a longer list and we now it but he did and Clarke's on it, he's said straight out that he loves Clarke and it makes me happy. I'm so easy to please, lol.
+ So now that Clarke and Bellamy are reunited I have to say I'm disappointed with how Clarke dealing with his death played out. I mean I liked everything we got - Clarke's initial reaction was great and her shutting it down to focus on the present issues 100% made sense - but then I really wanted more to follow. I wanted to see Clarke breakdown or for her to demand to see what happened to Bellamy, decide he wasn't dead and go on a quest to find him (as a bookend to Bellamy in S6). But literally hours, maybe a day, has passed since Clarke learned he 'died' and now he's back and we don't actually get any epic reaction (to compare to Bell in S6) and I'm really disappointed about that!
+ I'd like to think that Bellamy is playing Cadogan somehow but nah, I don't think so. I'm not sure that I entirely bought his conversion but it does make sense that isolation + trapped with someone in harrowing circumstances for three months + their constant talk of their faith (and nothing else to do) + Bellamy hitting a low/weak point would lead to him choosing to believe. (We have precedent even.) Plus whatever he saw when he touched the glowing figures clearly profoundly affected him. (Does it connect to what Becca saw?) I think the issue I'm having is not so much him joining the flock but him being so absolutely sold on Bill as a Prophet. I can buy from his experiences him deciding to believe in the mission/last war but to become a true believer of Bill Cadogan himself that he'd kneel to him and call him 'My Shepard', eh, I'm having a hard time with that.
+ So who or what are those 'beings of light' in the cave? A manifestation of the anomaly or otherwise connected to the anomaly stones? When they first saw them, immediately after touching Bill's family photo, there were three beings (Callie, Reese, Grace?) but when Bellamy went back in his vision there was only one being (his mom?) I have no idea what that means but there's something there. They also reminded me of the crystal giants - could they instead be related somehow to the original Bardoan's and what happened to them?
Relatedly, it's when Bellamy gives in and prays with Doucette that he's given a vision of Bill and his mother, and that leads to him finally touching one of the light beings. ... what? Just everything there. Doucette didn't appear to have a vision so why only Bellamy? What was it about the praying - him opening his mind allowing him to be communicated with? Did the light being send the vision? I have a lot of questions.
+ Bellamy brought up Pike - who just happens to be the last person he followed, and who led him into a massacre of allies (and in a way the death of Lincoln) which has haunted him since. That can't be a coincidence. Bellamy knows the pitfalls of blind faith.
+ Aww, Bellamy made a Bardoan friend! Who then inducted him into his sucky cult but I mean you have to take the good with the bad, you know? I liked their slow growing friendship. I loved Bellamy refusing to let him drop, Doucette begging him to and Bellamy pulling him up by shear will. I loved their smiling hug when they returned to Bardo, it was super sweet.
+ There wasn't a lot of time giving during that final scene but it still felt a little off/weird emotionally. It had to have been only hours since Diyoza died and yet Octavia seems kind of okay? Instead of emotionally devastated by the death of the woman she lived and raised a kid with for ten years? Who she credits with helping to save her? I mean Octavia's felt weirdly emotionally distant post-Bellamy's death but it bothers me. They had such an amazing relationship and we deserve to see Octavia dealing with that grief. Also Echo casually chatting, if restlessly, after trying to genocide everyone and needing to be talked down... okay then! I guess we're going to be skipping all the emotional fallout from the last episode then? (Excepting Hope I'm sure.) Also instead of Gabriel it should have been Raven in that room too. Her and Bellamy's relationship deserved it!
+ I thought there was a good possibility that Bellamy was the one who kidnapped Gaia but nope, which of course begs the question: where the hell is Gaia?! What the hell? (Also I did like Bellamy's new Bardoan friendship but I feel like I would have loved Bellamy/Gaia a lot more, alas.)
+ I liked the mention of Pike and his Earth Skills lessons once again proving to be super helpful.
+ "He can always eat." - Echo re: Gabriel. I loved that little joke coming back.
My favourite part of the episode was definitely the final minutes with the reunion. The rest of the episode I liked okay, but also ugh there are now only five episodes left! It being the last season is making me a lot more critical. If Bellamy hadn't been missing all season and if it wasn't the last season I would have enjoyed it more I think.
+ It was really great to have Bellamy back on the show. I don't think I realised just how much I was missing him.
+ I love how light Clark seemed when she pulled away from Bellamy. As if a massive weight had been lifted from her. In fact this was the most at peace we've seen her all season.
+ I love that Clarke ignored the guns pointed at her and hugged Bellamy anyway.
+ "Everyone I love - Octavia, Echo, Clarke... He didn't have to name them because frankly it's a longer list and we now it but he did and Clarke's on it, he's said straight out that he loves Clarke and it makes me happy. I'm so easy to please, lol.
+ So now that Clarke and Bellamy are reunited I have to say I'm disappointed with how Clarke dealing with his death played out. I mean I liked everything we got - Clarke's initial reaction was great and her shutting it down to focus on the present issues 100% made sense - but then I really wanted more to follow. I wanted to see Clarke breakdown or for her to demand to see what happened to Bellamy, decide he wasn't dead and go on a quest to find him (as a bookend to Bellamy in S6). But literally hours, maybe a day, has passed since Clarke learned he 'died' and now he's back and we don't actually get any epic reaction (to compare to Bell in S6) and I'm really disappointed about that!
+ I'd like to think that Bellamy is playing Cadogan somehow but nah, I don't think so. I'm not sure that I entirely bought his conversion but it does make sense that isolation + trapped with someone in harrowing circumstances for three months + their constant talk of their faith (and nothing else to do) + Bellamy hitting a low/weak point would lead to him choosing to believe. (We have precedent even.) Plus whatever he saw when he touched the glowing figures clearly profoundly affected him. (Does it connect to what Becca saw?) I think the issue I'm having is not so much him joining the flock but him being so absolutely sold on Bill as a Prophet. I can buy from his experiences him deciding to believe in the mission/last war but to become a true believer of Bill Cadogan himself that he'd kneel to him and call him 'My Shepard', eh, I'm having a hard time with that.
+ So who or what are those 'beings of light' in the cave? A manifestation of the anomaly or otherwise connected to the anomaly stones? When they first saw them, immediately after touching Bill's family photo, there were three beings (Callie, Reese, Grace?) but when Bellamy went back in his vision there was only one being (his mom?) I have no idea what that means but there's something there. They also reminded me of the crystal giants - could they instead be related somehow to the original Bardoan's and what happened to them?
Relatedly, it's when Bellamy gives in and prays with Doucette that he's given a vision of Bill and his mother, and that leads to him finally touching one of the light beings. ... what? Just everything there. Doucette didn't appear to have a vision so why only Bellamy? What was it about the praying - him opening his mind allowing him to be communicated with? Did the light being send the vision? I have a lot of questions.
+ Bellamy brought up Pike - who just happens to be the last person he followed, and who led him into a massacre of allies (and in a way the death of Lincoln) which has haunted him since. That can't be a coincidence. Bellamy knows the pitfalls of blind faith.
+ Aww, Bellamy made a Bardoan friend! Who then inducted him into his sucky cult but I mean you have to take the good with the bad, you know? I liked their slow growing friendship. I loved Bellamy refusing to let him drop, Doucette begging him to and Bellamy pulling him up by shear will. I loved their smiling hug when they returned to Bardo, it was super sweet.
+ There wasn't a lot of time giving during that final scene but it still felt a little off/weird emotionally. It had to have been only hours since Diyoza died and yet Octavia seems kind of okay? Instead of emotionally devastated by the death of the woman she lived and raised a kid with for ten years? Who she credits with helping to save her? I mean Octavia's felt weirdly emotionally distant post-Bellamy's death but it bothers me. They had such an amazing relationship and we deserve to see Octavia dealing with that grief. Also Echo casually chatting, if restlessly, after trying to genocide everyone and needing to be talked down... okay then! I guess we're going to be skipping all the emotional fallout from the last episode then? (Excepting Hope I'm sure.) Also instead of Gabriel it should have been Raven in that room too. Her and Bellamy's relationship deserved it!
+ I thought there was a good possibility that Bellamy was the one who kidnapped Gaia but nope, which of course begs the question: where the hell is Gaia?! What the hell? (Also I did like Bellamy's new Bardoan friendship but I feel like I would have loved Bellamy/Gaia a lot more, alas.)
+ I liked the mention of Pike and his Earth Skills lessons once again proving to be super helpful.
+ "He can always eat." - Echo re: Gabriel. I loved that little joke coming back.
