[ Warning: The following contains spoilers for Wednesday’s episode of The 100. Read at your own risk!]
The 100 took a detour into the previous this week with a backdoor pilot for a possible prequel spin-off collection. Within the episode, we obtained a ton of solutions about how the Grounder civilization really started, however we additionally obtained some clues about the place the ultimate season of The 100 is headed.
Upon assembly Cadogan (John Pyper-Ferguson), aka The Shepherd, Clarke’s (Eliza Taylor) first query was clearly how within the hell he escaped earth and made it to a complete new galaxy a whole bunch of years later. The episode then flashed again to the evening the bombs went off, 97 years earlier than The 100 pilot episode.
The story centered on Calle (Iola Evans), Cadogan’s daughter and former Second Daybreak cult member. Although she, her mom, brother, and father made it into the Second Daybreak bunker, Callie was by no means content material to reside like that without end. With some assist from Becca (Erica Cerra), she turned a gaggle of defectors into Nightbloods and led them to floor. She even grew to become the primary Flamekeeper when Cadogan had Becca burned on the stake.
TV Information spoke to showrunner Jason Rothenberg about this sneak peek at his potential spin-off in addition to what he has deliberate ought to it get picked as much as collection by The CW.
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How a lot of this prequel did you have already got found out whenever you launched Becca and the Second Daybreak, and the way a lot of it got here collectively later whenever you have been tying it into this season?
Jason Rothenberg: This is what we had method again when; I knew that the forbearers of the Grounders got here from a Second Daybreak, for probably the most half, and in order that’s as a lot as we had. Why the bunker was empty when the door was first opened when our heroes based in Season 4, I imagine, was an unanswered query that I felt was the outlet actually that wanted answering and in order that form of mixed with this concept initially of the season that I needed to reply any form of unanswered questions that have been on the market nonetheless… This was a narrative, by the way in which, that we have been going to inform. Earlier than I made a decision to do the prequel, I had developed a distinct challenge as a prequel. We have been going to do that and inform the story this season regardless, and it simply so occurred to dovetail properly with a possible second a part of the franchise. We all know that a lot of issues are taking place presently in our mythology. Additionally, I’ve a plan, in principle, to get again to house the place Becca simply got here down after they blew up her house station on Unity Day. So we all know that the Ark is coming collectively in house, proper? So someplace in Season 1, probably the start of Season 2, of the brand new present, I might get us again to house the place we might meet nice, nice grandpappy — Blake and Clarke’s nice, nice grandparents. So that you’d nonetheless not have to know something in regards to the protagonists of our present to go for that experience once we do introduce these characters, however it will actually be enjoyable for followers of the unique… It is humorous Richard Harmon and Sachin [Sahel] each have pitched that they appear precisely like they’re nice, nice grandparents. So yeah, who is aware of? I really like them each.
Iola Evans, The 100
How a lot of The 100 do you really hope to include into the spin-off on condition that it is a prequel and our favourite characters cannot actually ever pop in? Wouldn’t it be primarily Easter eggs?
Rothenburg: I feel the Easter eggs are extra historic than the rest. To make use of a bizarre metaphor, we have tasted the fruit, and now we’re planting the seeds. The thought of the place the Grounder language got here from, the concept of Becca and the way Callie turns into the primary Flamekeeper – like all of those tales, the 100-years-later variations of those tales have been advised, and now we’re form of attending to the historical past. I feel [it’s] cool as a result of you do not have to know what occurred afterward to go for the experience this time. You do not have to be a fan of the unique to look at the present and go for this experience. I feel it’s going to convey, ideally, in fact, new followers to the unique as soon as they did begin to take this story in. That is if we get picked up…I really feel like we’d like assist, you already know. We’d like assist from you and we’d like assist from the followers and at this level I will not say it is a lengthy shot, however I positively really feel prefer it’ll need to take a groundswell from from you guys to get us orders at this level as a result of it is getting late.
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I additionally wish to discuss Callie and Reese’s (Adain Bradley) brother-sister dynamic as a result of it’s extremely completely different from say, Octavia and Bellamy’s relationship. The place does that form of very deep love, but in addition intense competitors come from for them?
Rothenberg: It is a story that we might inform within the collection as a result of I do plan on utilizing flashbacks to the pre-apocalypse time very often. And so, we are going to see the way in which [Cadogan] parented them, which was very, very, nearly militaristically, getting ready them for the tip of the world that he noticed coming, that he believed was coming, and in the end, clearly, was confirmed proper. He skilled them to be fighters. He skilled them to be survivors, and it left loads of wounds for certain. Callie was at all times his favourite. Callie was extra like him most likely than she would care to confess. She was superb with languages and codes and in the end, as soon as he discovered that house ball, that she calls it, most likely put her to work serving to him work out what it was. Reese was extra of the form of bodily kind, not fairly as inclined as his sister was within the areas that made their father proud. And so he was craving that approval at all times… It is referred to within the episode however what ended up taking place was Callie and Reese have been coaching, Reese was taking it simple on his sister, dad obtained in and stated, “Take me on, large man, powerful man.” And in the end in a form of jujitsu match along with his son, as a result of he refused to faucet out, in the end broke his son’s arm, which was the final straw for Mother. Mother left, Callie went with mother as a result of she had sufficient and needed an actual life and needed to form of expertise the world and take part within the protest actions on the street that have been constructing across the group known as the Trikru, by the way in which. And brother surprisingly stayed with father, regardless of that. So when our story begins, we see them now in these camps, proper? Clearly, as bombs fall, mother and sister are introduced again into the fold. I simply pitched a complete story that is not a part of the episode.
Are we going to seek out out what occurred to Reese and Callie’s mother ought to the collection get picked up?
Rothenberg: Completely. Crystal Balint, who performs Grace, is such a very good actress – amazingly pure, actually proficient. And we’ll positively be form of telling the story of “She’s on the market. She’s obtained a hazmat go well with on. She would not have Nightblood. She’s obtained a finite quantity of oxygen. She’s on the lookout for her daughter. Her daughter would not know she’s on the market. Her son is on the lookout for his sister so as to get that Flame again. Will they have the ability to get mother in time to offer her the Nightblood and save her or not?” That’ll positively be an early Season 1 story, for certain.
Iola Evans and Adain Bradley, The 100
Cadogan clearly thinks Clarke has the Flame, and he thinks that Callie is in there. Is that only a guess that he is made?
Rothenberg: We all know that from Octavia’s reminiscences in M-Cap, they noticed numerous this present. However clearly they didn’t see the a part of the present the place the Flame got here out of Clarke. They noticed when it went in, however not when it got here out. So that they imagine she nonetheless has it in her head. Clearly, we all know she would not. And if and after they discover out that she would not, then they will lose no matter leverage they’ve. However till then, they’ve some leverage, which hopefully, we’ll see if she will be able to use that to get her buddies rounded up and brought again residence to Sanctum. That is the plan anyway, however in fact, on The 100, plans do not often go the way in which that they are designed.
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Becca claims that she noticed Judgment Day when she activated that Anomaly Stone on Earth. So what, if something, are you able to say about what she skilled in that second?
Rothenberg: It is vital, I am going to put it that method. What she noticed is certainly what Cadogan has based mostly his entire form of post-that-moment theology round. This entire concept of a final warfare, which might be the factor that permits the human race to lastly transcend to regardless of the subsequent stage of humanity is. And that is what kind of pushed him, actually to nearly obsession, to uncover and uncover. He looks like as a result of he has the Flame, which he is aware of would include the thoughts of Becca, and Becca knew what the code was that she entered and turned that starlight on — if he can get that code, then he can begin that warfare. His objective is to avoid wasting the human race. I imply, it’s in the end altruistic. He does wish to do it for all of us. But it surely has, like I stated, develop into an obsession. And he is just about keen to do no matter it takes to get that achieved. I feel it is protected to say that we’re organising for that eventuality.
Clarke has actually been via the wringer, dropping her mother and Bellamy in a matter of days, so the place is she at mentally and emotionally proper now?
Rothenberg: She’s fairly damaged. I imply, her entire drive this season was to not lose anybody else. And right here she does discover out and on the finish of [Episode 7] she simply misplaced her finest pal, and it devastates her. We’ll positively see the toll that takes on on all of them. Clearly, we have seen already the way it’s destroying Echo (Tasya Teles). We’ll see it affecting Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos). Some folks have been shocked by [Octavia’s] response, however she’s now a lot completely different than the woman that we final noticed, keep in mind. She’s older, she’s spent 10 years being a mom to Hope… So she’s form of Zen Octavia now, however it’s clearly devastating for her as nicely as a result of Bellamy was her brother, who she liked greater than anybody. Anyway, we’ll see it have an effect on all of them going ahead.
The 100 Season 7 airs Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW.
Eliza Taylor and Lindsey Morgan, The 100