[Warning: This put up incorporates spoilers for The 100 sequence finale! Learn at your personal danger.]
Have you ever stopped sobbing over the sequence finale of The 100 but? With shock appearances from long-dead characters, heartwrenching goodbyes, and even a significant demise or two, we completely do not blame you!
The ultimate episode of The 100 — which additionally occurred to be the 100th episode of the sequence – noticed Clarke (Eliza Taylor) take the ultimate check with a mysterious alien race that both annihilate species or permit them to transcend. The decide of this check simply so occurs to be the individual you like most, which is why Clarke’s decide took the type of Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey). Speak about a completely epic return!
In the long run, Clarke failed the check, however humanity as an entire handed, permitting everybody however her to transcend. Clarke’s buddies weren’t about to depart her behind although, which is why they refused transcendence in favor of residing out their days again on Earth with Clarke.
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TV Information spoke to sequence creator and showrunner Jason Rothenberg about Lexa’s shock cameo, scenes that did not make the finale minimize, and an alternate ending the place Bellamy (Bob Morley) survived.
Eliza Taylor, The 100
How does it really feel to be ending this journey after seven years of scripting this present?
Rothenberg: I believe probably the most acceptable phrase is bittersweet. Seven years — eight actually, if you happen to rely from the time I began engaged on the pilot — is a very long time to do something. I met so many wonderful individuals alongside the way in which and was in a position to be taught my craft in a method that I hadn’t earlier than. It did a lot for me, professionally and creatively. However then there have been additionally a lot of issues that I needed to sacrifice due to how exhausting it’s to run a present and what number of plates are spinning on a regular basis and the way a lot time it takes. I used to be not with my household sufficient, and I might get emotional speaking about what number of issues I’ve missed within the lives of my two children due to it. On the finish of the day, hopefully, it is price it they usually perceive. It is a very long time, and it is positively time to maneuver on. For all of us.
Whenever you first began breaking this finale, do you know straight away that Lexa was going to be Clarke’s decide within the closing check?
Rothenberg: I knew once I broke the story — after we broke the story within the room that I wished it to be Lexa. I wished the decide to take the form of Lexa for Clarke due to how a lot Lexa meant to Clarke. And I assumed it could be a pleasant second clearly for the followers as effectively. And I hoped that Alycia could be on the lookout for some closure in her personal proper, and, in truth, she was. So it was sort of a gathering of the minds.
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Eliza and Alycia have at all times had this wonderful chemistry on-screen, so what was it like taking pictures attending to see them play off with each other once more, however with this completely new dynamic?
Rothenberg: Initially, I’ve to say Eliza Taylor has chemistry with all people. And sure, her chemistry with Alycia clearly is off the charts. It was nice. It was wonderful to be there, to witness it. I used to be the director of the episode so there was that type of added bonus for me to be like on the island with the 2 of them, creating these few scenes that we had collectively. So it was nice, and I’ve nothing however gratitude for the truth that we bought to carry these two individuals collectively once more. By individuals I am speaking about, clearly, Eliza and Alycia, not as a lot Clarke and Lexa, since clearly it isn’t Lexa. But it surely was nice throughout.
I additionally liked the second Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) and Levitt (Jason Diaz) notice they’ve despatched Wanheda to take the check on behalf of humanity.
Rothenberg: You recognize, there is a line in a scene that sadly needed to be omitted. When Clarke goes in… Octavia places her arm round Clarke and is like, “Who’s going to go in?” Is it Octavia or Clarke? And he or she says, “It is Wanheda or Blodreina.”
Eilza Taylor and Marie Avgeropoulos, The 100
Contemplating what an enormous journey she’s been on throughout this sequence, why was it necessary to have Octavia be the one to encourage everybody to cease combating and make peace?
Rothenberg: Her journey as a personality might be the, I believe, the largest arc of anyone. And Marie is wonderful and type of like rode that line superbly, all the way in which from the start to the tip. I really feel prefer it made probably the most sense for her, in honor of her brother, and in honor of every part she’s discovered… [to say], ‘We’re all on this collectively, we’re all Wonkru.” She means the disciples too. She discovered the lesson first, and she or he teaches the others on the battlefield, they usually hear her. That was necessary, simply typically, as being the message of the sequence and of the present. Till we notice that we’re all on this collectively, that we’re all human beings, that there aren’t any nations or events, we’re doomed to maintain perpetuating the cycle of violence that we stay in. Have a look at the information, we’re sort of screwed proper now. And till we get to that place, we do not need to transcend.
Whenever you first began writing the present method again when, did you will have the broad strokes of the way you wished the sequence to finish? Or within the closing season did you say, “OK, that is the place we’re, let’s work out the ending.”
Rothenberg: Are you asking me if I knew the way it was going to finish again in Season 1? [Laughs] No, I didn’t. To start with, you are simply making an attempt to get your present ordered to sequence, and you then’re making an attempt to determine what your present is. And you then’re sort of dancing to your life hoping that they decide it up for an additional season.. I really feel like I sort of knew how I wished it to really feel on the finish. And if we have been fortunate sufficient to get to put in writing our personal ending and type of decide our personal ending, which we have been, then I knew how I wished to really feel. And as soon as the community and studio agreed to that, which was in all probability I believe someplace across the starting of Season 6…we started to sort of flesh out what the specifics of that [ending] have been going to be.
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Did you ever contemplate having Bellamy return for that seaside scene? Or did you not wish to invalidate his demise?
Rothenberg: To start with of the season, earlier than we needed to make the adjustments that we made to accommodate Bob this yr, he was purported to be there. However, you realize, in the end, the way in which it broke down the place we got here up with the foundations of transcendence, and that if you’re not alive — I believe it is what Levitt says to Octavia, when she ask is Bellamy’s going to transcend, and he says no… solely the residing shall transcend — as soon as the foundations have been established, then it was pretty clear that solely the residing may very well be there.
Do you contemplate this to be a contented ending for these characters, having them select to be with each other over the transcendence that they have been supplied?
Rothenberg: I am hoping that the viewers feels good on the finish of this episode. We frequently didn’t purpose for that. More often than not, I used to be not making an attempt to put in writing a present that made individuals really feel good. We have been making an attempt to make you emotional, make you’re feeling one thing, however typically it was both anger or disappointment. That is what the present was. And so I positively wished individuals to stroll away feeling good. I really feel prefer it’s an ironic ending. It is not totally completely satisfied. But it surely’s exhausting to disclaim the type of pleasure of the found-family coming collectively on the finish, sort of giving up transcendence to stick with Clarke and be collectively.
The primary 5 seasons of The 100 are at the moment streaming on Netflix.
Eliza Taylor and Lindsey Morgan, The 100