Considered one of our largest burning questions on The 100 Season 7 was the place did Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) go when she went into the Anomaly in Season 6, and what precisely occurred to her there? We lastly received our solutions, and it confirmed us a completely new facet of Octavia.
After following Diyoza (Ivana Milicevic) into the Anomaly, Octavia discovered herself on a planet she’d ultimately name Skyring to search out Diyoza giving beginning. We even received a pleasant parallel of Octavia serving to to ship and soothe child Hope the identical means Bellamy (Bob Morley) did for her.
As for the time hole… there appears to be a fairly huge time differential between Sanctum and Skyring. In the course of the scant seconds between once they each entered the Anomaly, months had handed on Skyring, answering considered one of our large questions on how an grownup Hope might have appeared within the Season 6 finale. Time clearly strikes otherwise on this planet, accelerated by its proximity to a black gap, so the few seconds we thought Octavia had spent contained in the Anomaly final season was truly years for her.
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“The time dilation on Skyring is such you can spend years on Skrying and solely, you recognize, minutes or seconds or days are passing on each the following planet that we’ll go to, which is named Bardo, and Sanctum,” showrunner Jason Rothenberg defined to TV Information. “And that is why it capabilities so properly for the folks on Bardo as a jail as a result of they might ship folks to Skyring — that they name Penance, by the way in which. Skyring is a reputation, as we all know, that Hope made up and that caught for our heroes on Skyring, but it surely’s referred to as Penance by the individuals who based the type of penal planet. In a weekend of their lives, somebody can go and like, study their lesson fairly good in 10 years, after which come again and type of fall again proper in the place they left. So it is an fascinating idea for a jail.”
For these of you paying very shut consideration, Bardo is a planet that confirmed up within the new opening credit, and its ambiance is listed as “not breathable.” We’ll study extra concerning the mysterious civilization that lives there in subsequent week’s episode. We’ll additionally get some perception into Hope’s years after the troopers took Octavia and Diyoza away.
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As for her early years, it is now apparent why Hope appeared so acquainted with Octavia within the Season 6 finale. Octavia and Diyoza raised Hope collectively, and so they discovered peace, household, and a brand new life with one another. Although she nonetheless fought day in and day trip to return to Bellamy in these 10 misplaced years, Octavia ultimately made peace together with her destiny and located a technique to be really glad and fulfilled on Skyring — one thing she by no means had on the Ark, within the bunker, or on Sanctum.
“I like that story,” Rothenberg mentioned of Octavia’s journey on this episode. “I like seeing these misplaced years. I like seeing what occurred… when she went into the Anomaly after which got here again out. Years handed — what we now know to be roughly 10 years — and he or she had an entire life. She fought it for some time like Octavia would, however ultimately, she settled into it and he or she had a household and he or she turned, for all intents and functions, considered one of Hope’s two mothers and liked that youngster prefer it’s her personal youngster. And it actually does change her and deepen her and provides her priorities that did not exist earlier than.”
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We’ll little question see these priorities up shut and private later this season, since this week’s episode additionally revealed that she might nonetheless be alive.
Again on Skyring within the current (type of), Hope’s recollections of her life there returned, and he or she revealed that she stabbed Octavia with a non-lethal tracker that will transport her again to Bardo. Assuming the folks on Bardo patched her again up, Octavia might be alive and a prisoner, similar to Bellamy, and presumably Diyoza. As soon as our heroes discover their technique to that planet, which they inevitably will, they’re going to need to launch a full-scale rescue mission to get all three of them again.
The 100 airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on the CW.