When do you start questioning what you are being informed?
The 100 by no means offers all their solutions away.
As a substitute, they’re making us query every little thing we thought we knew.
Throughout The 100 Season 7 Episode 5, Octavia’s time in Bardo is explored. From her first time there to the second when Hope tags her, all questions on what occurred in-between are answered.
In the meantime, Indra is left to take care of the trustworthy Russell followers in Sanctum. Besides issues do not go her method once they threaten to kill Murphy, which results in “Russell” saving the day and exposing his true identification.
Additionally, the Skyring trio make their strategy to Bardo, however their egocentric natures create a divide between them. This causes Gabriel, Octavia, Hope, and Echo to be in a distinct state of affairs than they deliberate for.
“Welcome To Bardo,” written by the distinctive Drew Lindo and directed by Ian Samoil was an intricate strategy to storytelling; each previously and the current. This was an improbable expertise, utilizing a brand new place to create a brand new strategy to discover their world and the recollections that include them.
It additionally had exceptional pacing; lastly letting the story go the place it was desperately attempting to get to all this time.
This was an episode that actually set itself aside by permitting the surprises and the secrets and techniques to kind across the story. The characters had been pushed to their limits and so they delivered above and past. It was an emotionally charged journey that gave a lot well-awaited data and delivered the very best return of all time.
Bellamy Is Again And All the things Makes Sense Once more. Possibly.
RIP Bellamy.
Besides, not likely.
Bellamy Blake would not be the lead we all know and love if he did not make an entrance. Though now it appears like that was solely a glimpse of what’s to come back, and for now the viewers is supposed to imagine that Bellamy did not make it.
The power in that scene got here from Bellamy’s presence and the way the second he got here again onscreen it was like every little thing was proper with The 100.
The 100 was actually missing with out Bob Morley’s existence, and it by no means felt extra true than when he returned. Even for one single scene.
However but one thing felt off. From the second Octavia entered that room it was like there have been two completely different conversations occurring, with Bellamy serving because the confused outsider attempting to maintain up.
Octavia: Open the bridge and ship him again to Sanctum. I am going to inform you what you wish to know; even about Clarke.
Bellamy: What are you speaking about?
Octavia: Bounce by way of, I will be okay.
The stylistic selections created by the director fixated on the faces of the folks within the room, however on the similar time, it would not enable for the entire room to be seen typically. The dynamics as an entire had been laborious to get a learn on and it wasn’t clear what truly occurred till it was too late.
The Bellamy scene in Bardo must be watched not less than 3 times as a result of each time there’s something new that you just did not discover earlier than.
Octavia is motivated to maintain Bellamy secure, so she decides to cut price with Anders whereas alerting Bellamy to what’s going on. She asks for them to ship Bellamy to Sanctum, but on the similar time, she title drops Clarke in order that Bellamy understands that she picked up on their attachment to her.
However a lot is in regards to the phrases that are not stated. And someplace alongside the best way, it’s important to query how actual this reminiscence is and who’s the proprietor of it.
As a result of as Octavia is attempting to control Anders to let Bellamy go, he’s forming a plan in his thoughts as effectively. As quickly as Octavia says to open the bridge he’s 5 steps forward of her.
But one way or the other it would not really feel like he’s setting the Anomaly Stone to Sanctum. As a substitute, there are hints that Anders is perhaps attempting to have the higher hand by taking part in them each.
Anders would not appear to be the man to imagine he has the solutions when he might discover out extra, so sending Bellamy again would not assist him. They wished to take everybody to Bardo, even when Clarke is who they’re most after, that means they need everybody’s recollections and even the our bodies to construct a Shepherd supportive military.
So Anders is setting the Anomaly Stone, however then The Conductor interrupts the method as a result of he appears involved. He is not a part of the plan, however he begs the query of whether it is doable to ship Bellamy again at this level.
Regardless, Octavia thinks that her promising to surrender her recollections means Bellamy goes house secure. Anders appears to suppose that he’s taking the deal, however he might have one thing extra sinister deliberate.
And Bellamy simply needs solutions as a result of he’s a pure soul who was gone for too lengthy.
Then the disciple ruins every little thing … or does he?
The idea is clearly that the bomb explodes and kills Bellamy.
But it surely would not and if there isn’t a physique then it did not. Anders has such a smug look on his face after the very fact, which once more has to make you surprise the place the Anomaly Stone was even set to.
It turned off after the explosion, however the blow from the bomb needed to have thrown Bellamy again into that Anomaly.
If we assume he is not in Sanctum, then the place might he have been despatched? The reply might be proper in entrance of us, which Heather Mason mentions in her review, that means Bellamy is simply despatched to a different a part of Bardo.
Anders has the codes to every little thing so he might have been trying to trick Octavia into pondering she acquired her method. Then she would inform him every little thing and he would even have Bellamy’s recollections to take from in one other room elsewhere.
The idea is that Octavia needed to have failed to avoid wasting Bellamy due to that bomb, however what if it performed into precisely what Anders wished to occur anyway?
On the similar time, it’s important to surprise how dependable the knowledge is to start with.
This episode labored so effectively as a result of there was a distinct strategy taken to telling the story. It additionally left house to surprise how dependable a narrator might be; simply because we had been proven a reminiscence does not imply there is not extra context for it.
For people who could have seen, there have been two moments within the episode that had glitches. It was a transition that moved from one level within the story to the following, nevertheless it solely existed twice and it appears like an indication.
May that glitch have been a sign that there’s some manipulation happening by the hands of the storyteller?
The primary time that glitch occurred was when Echo stops Hope from killing Anders. There’s a glitch that takes the story to Hope in Bardo per week earlier than. The idea is that she was caught by Anders looking for her mom and it’s confirmed that she was seemingly alone for 27 days (not counting M-Cap with Levitt).
The idea turns into that Hope was then informed to seek out Octavia and she or he left. However is that it?
Extra to that time later, there was one other glitch that the episode might have used as a code to point a scene that is not really what it seems to be.
Octavia is taken to seek out Bellamy after which that glitch transition focuses on the Skyring trio coming to her rescue per week later. There was a story resolution to not simply have Octavia go to seek out Bellamy after which we see her on the bridge with him.
As a substitute, there may be this intentional try and mix it with Hope and the others discovering Octavia. Not solely is Hope concerned within the glitch once more, however the reminiscence itself comes out of nowhere.
Octavia is so out of it as a result of she took Levitt’s recommendation to win towards the machine, so her recollections don’t get captured. She knew that data earlier than Bellamy arrived at Bardo; which means that it’s important to query how the disciple one way or the other was capable of simply pull it as much as present everybody.
She would not have a lot of a voice proper now. The management within the room belongs to different folks, and that reminiscence is sort of too good. It’s there for Echo to observe at a time when Octavia is not an lively participant and it “solves” the disappearance of Bellamy.
However Octavia would not have management in that room and it raises questions on if that’s even her reminiscence.
M-Cap can see your recollections, however the true energy is supposed to assist others help the Shepherd. So it feels very off seeing that reminiscence as an open and shut case.
As a substitute, the glitch and the discrepancy in how that reminiscence is showcased might be a touch at one thing greater. It’s doable that the reminiscence is implanted both in Octavia’s thoughts or within the system on Bardo as an entire.
The best way that Echo reacts might additionally trace at that; she questions whether or not the reminiscence is actual and the silence would not must imply it’s. It makes you surprise how far Bardo might go to create the narrative it needs.
Trusting the narrator is a difficult hill to die on, particularly when you do not know who the narrator is.
Octavia’s reminiscence is claimed to be hers, nevertheless it might simply as simply have been fabricated and even edited for the folks Bardo was anticipating.
Anders knew that the trio was on Skyring, so he will need to have identified that they’d be heading again for Bardo. He is not silly and he nonetheless has those that Hope cares about. Even when it simply involves her he appeared able to see her once more in Bardo.
So for now it’s meant to appear like Bellamy “died”, despite the fact that it screams fake-out from a mile away.
This might additionally imply that Bellamy will not be again simply but, as an alternative, he’s going to turn into a thriller that not everybody is aware of needs to be solved. Taking it one step additional, what if Bellamy was there all alongside?
He could not have gone to Sanctum and possibly he was thrown elsewhere, however the one precise choice is Bardo. Anders would not simply set Bellamy free, however he might have Bellamy round with out anybody realizing.
There may be speak of M-Cap getting used towards Bellamy in order that he turns into one of many disciples, and that’s doable if he’s transported to a different space till he offers in.
One factor is obvious although, Bellamy is alive and his soul set a literal hearth in Bardo. Now there may be nothing left for us to do however look ahead to him to come back again for actual.
The 100 Principle Nook From All Over
Throughout The 100 Season 7 Episode 4, there was a glimpse of Bardo and what the Shepherd may need deliberate.
This time round it turned much more clear that the intentions for this nice battle are all about Clarke. Or are they?
Throughout Anders’s commencement speech he talked about the historical past of Bardo and the important thing that they’ve managed to lastly discover after lots of of years. That’s all nice and good till you contemplate that they could not have been ready for Clarke all this time.
Anders: You every demonstrated a powerful devotion to the Shepherd. Our predecessors on this planet didn’t share that religion. Like our ancestors on Earth, they destroyed their world. Even earlier than they had been worn out by Gen 9 and changed into crystal giants; their environment was so polluted they had been compelled to construct forests underground with the intention to breathe. Even the rain that ought to fall from the sky; it falls as an alternative by their know-how. For that we thank them. And the place are they now? We all know that by the point the Shepherd delivered us together with his stone, the Bardonians had been gone. Extinct. Why is that?
A Disciple: They did not have the Shepherd.
Anders: No, they did not. They did not have religion so that they misplaced their final nice battle. The identical enemy is coming after us. However within the gentle of the Shepherd we is not going to lose. We’re shut now. We’ve situated the important thing. After lots of of years it has returned. Ours is the technology that can win the final battle.
Initially they would not have even identified that she existed, not to mention for lots of of years.
However what might Octavia have given Levitt that may make them deal with Clarke?
Levitt could have been on a binge, however he did not end the ultimate episode of The 100 Season 3. He noticed Octavia kill Pike after which he acquired distracted, so he did not discover out if Clarke acquired out of The Metropolis of Gentle.
The idea is that they need Clarke as a result of she had all of Becca’s know-how in her at one time limit, besides nobody in Bardo might know that as a result of they weren’t uncovered to these recollections.
As a substitute, they’re centered on the truth that she did have the flame and the chip in her as she headed into The Metropolis of Gentle. If the important thing they had been ready for took lots of of years, then possibly the main target is not on Clarke, however on what they assume she nonetheless has in her physique.
There have been additionally extra hints given about the truth that this group of individuals did not come as Eligius. This needs to be Cadogan’s cult that hid within the bunker after the bombs. They survived the tip of the world after which had been capable of go to Bardo by way of Cadogan discovering the Anomaly Stone.
Since Becca’s lab appeared within the title sequence then that actually have to be the place the stone was situated on Earth. It additionally may imply that the planet Raven stated is offline simply so occurs to be Earth.
It is not clear what battle Cadogan is making ready everybody for, particularly because the assumption is it will be towards Becca’s know-how but on the similar time they had been ready for it this complete time.
Then there may be the query of Diyoza, a personality we’ve not been allowed to see within the current time in any respect. Echo and Octavia informed Hope that her mother could be so happy with her, which is a chilling try at doable foreshadowing.
Octavia’s expertise with M-Cap was simpler due to Levitt. However he did point out that anybody else would not have the sympathy that he had; that signifies that Diyoza might be combating a battle she will’t win.
It can also’t escape us that the present fixated on what occurs when you resist M-Cap. The lasers making a lobotomy is not simply one thing you possibly can throw into the narrative.
If it was stated then likelihood is we’ll see somebody undergo from the M-Cap in a method that Octavia did not must.
Having Hope go all this fashion just for Diyoza to be lifeless or for her mind to be messed with? That could be a horrible chance that’s feeling an increasing number of actual.
Welcome To Bardo, Please Go away Your Recollections At The Bridge
What’s about smart ladies that make them prepared to die for Bellamy Blake? What’s it about random captors that make them fall in love with Octavia?
Octavia had fairly an expertise in Bardo, however not less than she acquired a fan out of it.
This episode completely mastered the introduction to this planet that we’ve got heard a lot about. Cloaked in confusion, it now exists as a strategy to view the bigger villain at play this season.
A Mount Climate however on one other planet, Bardo is the cult group your dad and mom warned you about.
From the matching outfits to the psych evaluations to the coaching for a battle which will by no means come.
All of this exists based mostly on the religion of a false god, and it would not appear like that can change anytime quickly. With entry to know-how that may entry all of your recollections, it would not be stunning if it was used to control or discard or take away some within the course of.
Octavia may be very fortunate that Levitt was the one which she was assigned to as a result of at this level he’s simply the proper illustration of a The 100 fanboy.
After binge-watching three seasons of The 100, Levitt is able to create his Twitter account to stan Octavia and he’s seconds away from ordering merchandise with catchphrases like “Might We Meet Once more”.
He’s residing out his largest dream by truly assembly the hero who he related to most, which is sensible since it’s her model of the present that he noticed, and he’s in all probability crushing laborious.
Levitt was handy, too handy in all probability. He had all of the solutions that Octavia and Hope had been on the lookout for and he simply helped them with out a second thought.
Even his speech to her after he noticed her recollections felt corny and misplaced, however all could be forgiven since he was only a fan attempting to assist. It wasn’t straightforward to maneuver previous the truth that this present wrote within the fanbase they wish to have into the present, nevertheless it is only one of many examples of The 100 being each self-aware and in no way.
He was nonetheless an asset that gave us a lot of the data we wanted, and he was concerned with each query we wished a solution to.
Now although he’s out of the image and issues are about to get actual.
Octavia not giving him her recollections was one factor, however now she won’t have something left. She listened to his recommendation about not letting the machine win, but it appears just like the machine may need received simply by the ache it introduced her.
Hopefully, Levitt nonetheless is round to assist them; he did have all of the solutions the primary time round. It’s also doable that he is aware of greater than he’s main on, particularly with that face that he gave Octavia when she was attempting to avoid wasting Bellamy.
Regardless, it was good to fulfill a fellow fan of the present and good luck to him together with his Octavia crush.
The Make It Or Break It Trio
All good issues should come to an finish.
For Hope, Echo, and Gabriel it was solely a matter of time earlier than their connection on Skyring ended up not lasting on Bardo. With Hope killing for the primary time it was like she opened a door that ought to have stayed closed.
Then there may be Echo who selected to kill everybody and go away Orlando behind throughout The 100 Season 7 Episode 4. This wasn’t as stunning, apart from the best way it added to the menace she was turning into to herself and people round her.
Gabriel is the true outsider due to his personal views on killing and on pointless dangers. He was solely in it for the data, till he needed to watch Echo and Hope kill folks they need not repeatedly.
With the time that Gabriel (and the viewers) spent with Hope the idea is that she would not wish to kill. She could speak about it on a regular basis, but it takes her 20+ years to make it doable.
However as soon as Hope kills it is sort of a flood begins; there may be abruptly thirst for extra even when it would not make sense. It is not clear if Hope is livid with Anders as a result of she is aware of he has her mom, or if there may be extra that the viewers hasn’t been granted entry to.
Regardless, Hope was about to homicide Anders in the course of a Bardo commencement. If she killed him then she would have gotten everybody caught and would have by no means discovered Diyoza.
Hope: With out Orlando we need not take pointless dangers.
Orlando: Leaving Orlando was an pointless danger!
But she nonetheless tried to stab him, and that proved that Hope wasn’t pondering clearly. Her precedence to avoid wasting her family members took a backseat so she might attempt to take down her enemy that we do not know a lot about.
The glitch transition was necessary for the Bellamy reveal, nevertheless it additionally issues after we come to study extra about Hope.
It first appeared between Hope being livid with Anders in current time after which it skipped the complete time she was in Bardo. She may need extra historical past with Anders than she is letting on.
Hope has been trusted by Echo and Gabriel, however she might be conserving data from them.
Very like Orlando did not inform them every little thing in regards to the origin of the Shepard and the folks on Bardo.
Very like Echo realizing about Levitt from Hope however Gabriel being saved out of the loop.
These three now not know one another like they did once they had the identical plan. This could not have come at a worse time, with Hope nonetheless looking for her mom and stopping at nothing to make that occur.
Hope might very effectively be a model of an unreliable narrator, which Amanda Reimer mentioned before relating to trusting Hope.
She is taking up the story this season, however that does not imply that we noticed every little thing she went by way of. She might be selecting what data she shares and what she retains hidden away.
These days between Anders discovering her and her being despatched to Sanctum will stay a complicated thriller.
To not point out the best way that Hope is thought on Bardo, each by outsiders and by Anders himself. He appears fixated on her which is attention-grabbing since we by no means noticed them initially work together.
For now, although it is not Hope that presents the largest danger. Pointless danger when you ask me.
However Echo proved everybody proper that she will’t exist with out Bellamy. Though her response was a bit a lot, it was what lastly drove her the place she has been heading this entire time.
There is not a lot sympathy available for Echo contemplating she struggles to be her personal particular person, and that often means the story will drive you to attempt to exist by yourself both method.
Echo did not must kill folks the best way that she does. She did not want to chop folks’s throats when they’re unconscious like she did once they acquired to Bardo. She was slowly turning into the one who did not really feel dangerous leaving Orlando behind, so by the point she made it to Bardo she was already there.
Now she poses a menace to the others as a result of there isn’t a telling what she’s going to do subsequent.
She killed the particular person they wanted to assist Hope (and Octavia) discover Diyoza.
It’s one factor to have plans change, it’s one other to not comply with protocol in any respect. Echo could have trapped them in Bardo and the cracks of their relationship have turn into a wedge.
Then there may be Gabriel simply attempting to study extra about what occurred. He needs to seek out out what occurred in historical past, and as an alternative, he’s now watching Echo and Hope slowly lose who they had been earlier than.
What else might go flawed?
The Trustworthy and The Livid
Simply when it felt like Sanctum had no momentum left, Indra appeared to avoid wasting the day.
The Grounder historical past is perhaps lengthy overused, however there’s something about having Indra clarify it to us that makes it really feel new and attention-grabbing once more. Not a lot is thought about Indra’s journey and but now there are such a lot of choices for her.
There may be additionally nothing higher than J.R Bourne and Adina Porter taking part in off of one another; the facility that they’re able to create with each other on-screen is out of this world.
Adina Porter is a robust presence that takes management of any scene that she is in. Sanctum won’t be going wherever, but I’m prepared to observe a number of seasons of Indra simply present the best way that she does.
J.R Bourne delivers Sheidheda in a method that manages to seize the thriller and the darkness suddenly. It nonetheless would not actually make sense why this Darkish Commander even issues, however not less than there may be an unbelievable portrayal as The 100 tries to determine it out.
For all we all know the Darkish Commander is supposed to attach with Cadogan. Each of them love hearth and each of them are delusional cult leaders at this level. They see their followers as sheep or lambs to manage, and Sheidheda provides Cadogan what Clarke truly will not have.
If we assume that they actually need Clarke for the flame then they’ll discover out actually shortly that the flame is lifeless. They might take it out of its grave however at this level it’s ineffective.
What is not ineffective is Sheidheda and his expertise within the flame. He won’t be a part of the know-how anymore however he was. He existed there for sufficient time that he has the recollections that Cadogan may have.
However what’s worse than one cult chief attempting to create a battle? Two cult leaders working collectively to create a battle.
In Sanctum although, it was solely restricted to the Russell persona and the varied teams of followers.
It is not clear what level The 100 is attempting to make about religion, however thus far they’re instilling the truth that many blind followers wreck every little thing round them of their try and comply with false gods.
However Bardo is constructed off blind followers and Sanctum has just a few teams on the prepared in the event that they want extra.
The Bellarke Nook of Misery
Does Bellamy listening to Clarke’s title rely as a Bellarke second?
I’m going to rely it.
Possibly he went again to Sanctum and is on the lookout for her, despite the fact that he should not have the reminiscence of Octavia bringing her up.
Or possibly Bellamy went to Nakara and met up with Clarke.
At this level, I’ll accept Bellamy and Clarke to only seem in the identical episode, even when they are not in the identical place.
Stray Ideas
For any The 100 followers on the lookout for some nostalgia because the sequence concludes, TV Fanatic has a shock interview sequence for you! “Trying Again On The 100” facilities on monumental solid members and characters from the present that left their mark.
We spoke with Eli Goree about his time on the present, as well as Michael Beach in regards to the journey he had, and we even took a stroll down reminiscence lane with Christopher Larkin and Aaron Ginsburg. We even checked in with Zach McGowan about that shock return to the present.
Preserve checking TV Fanatic for extra upcoming interviews with shock solid members from seasons previous!
The directing of this episode was phenomenal in all the correct methods. There was a particular fashion that the episode was capable of have due to how the story was launched. It was distinctive and it was completely different from what The 100 often creates.
Bardo continues to be a planet that has a lot thriller round it, and the best way this episode was structured allowed for there to be extra room to query every little thing.
Did Gabriel spend his time educating his college students about the way to be heroes whereas carrying cardigans? Nelson working to avoid wasting that burning lady and getting burnt within the course of was one other reminder of how healthful that group was. Any man who’s carrying a cardigan and saving others is value supporting.
Welcome, Nelson.
Talking of, it’s attention-grabbing that Nelson rushed to avoid wasting one of many trustworthy even when they weren’t on the identical facet. His definition of “his folks” is a direct extension of the best way Gabriel taught the Kids of Gabriel to take a look at Sanctum.
It’s also ironic that Gabriel taught his folks to take care of their very own, even when they may have opposing views. But now he was compelled to go away Orlando as a result of in Echo’s phrases, “we aren’t his folks”.
The idea of how every particular person views their folks and who that safety extends too may be very fascinating.
It is sensible that the present has a lot happening that not every little thing suits into every episode. However Clarke, Bellamy, and Octavia are the leads which have all the time pushed every episode.
We’re reaching a degree the place Clarke is on the sidelines of her personal present. Octavia exists nevertheless it would not really feel like it’s her personal story when she is on display. And Bellamy returned however that is all a strategy to presumably nonetheless sideline him as effectively. This does not work typically and it would not work in a last season.
Octavia could have burned down a farm in a single bunker however this time round she was attempting to flee from one other bunker with their model of a farm.
The farmers actually did save the world.
Murphy was prepared to let Charlotte die and now he’s all about saving children? This was possibly the one side of the episode that was laborious to imagine at face worth, however possibly Murphy deserves the good thing about the doubt.
He spent sufficient time hiding behind different folks when it got here to saving the day, he deserves this win.
Can somebody ask Jackson if he forgot what Do No Hurt means?
A health care provider actually should not be trying to trigger ache to others. Jordan was proper when he questioned Jackson’s medical opinion.
Give me a spin-off present the place it’s simply Chuku Modu as Gabriel educating his kids issues. Then it might morph right into a Gabriel and Nelson tag-team present the place they only do issues. Something.
Chuku Modu typically deserves a spherical of applause for the work that he’s bringing to the display. Gabriel is such a beautiful breath of contemporary air this season, and a lot of it comes from the vitality that Chuku shares.
Bardo exists as yet one more underground bunker for Cadogan to manage. How lengthy earlier than the danger of going exterior comes up?
Captain Meredith (who first felt like Anders) has to nonetheless be round. He performed too huge a job on this episode to not be the one who took Gaia on an journey across the Anomaly stone.
Routine psych exams on Bardo sound like brainwashing periods to me. Scientology auditing anybody?
Is M-Cap their model of the e-meter?
In case anybody missed it, there are new posters that have been released for this season of the show. There are symbols on each character’s face, which after this episode we will assume is their particular code. There’s a longer model of that code that may determine them personally, however that one image is perhaps a part of that identification.
Now we’ve got to determine what they imply although.
That is probably the most ineffective opinion of all time however I want that The 100 let Jason Diaz keep the beard as Levitt.
Talking of, there are all these look adjustments however nobody has talked about whether it is intentional.
Hope and Echo modified their hair to point out that 5 years handed on Skyring however what about everybody else? Is there a rule that everybody needs to be shaved in Bardo?
What did you consider Bardo? On a scale of in no way to by no means in 1,000,000 years, how lifeless do you suppose Bellamy truly is?
The place do we expect Echo goes from right here after she took that darkish flip? Is there an opportunity for Hope, Echo, and Gabriel to work collectively like they did earlier than?
Who else feels dangerous that Gabriel retains having to observe folks get killed when he simply needs to borrow a e book from the Bardo library and go?
Do we expect Hope is hiding recollections from us? Do we expect Bardo is messing with recollections as effectively?
What do we expect all of this implies? And is there an opportunity that this is not all in regards to the flame as soon as extra?
Tell us what you suppose beneath!
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