The 100 Season 7 Episode 7 Evaluation: The Queen’s Gambit

When is it too late to have particular conversations?

The 100 brings that query our approach whereas additionally making us surprise concerning the communication it’s making an attempt to have with its viewers. 

Throughout The 100 Season 7 Episode 7, Gabriel and the others permit themselves to affix the cult in Bardo. Gabriel will get to assist code-break whereas the others are presumably disciples now.

In the meantime, Emori was making an attempt to unite the individuals in Sanctum whereas Sheidheda had a plan to tear them aside. Murphy and Nelson had been the pawns caught in the midst of the Sanctum chessboard, and Emori’s life is now on the road.

Final however not least, Clarke and the others arrived in Bardo solely to search out out that Bellamy “died.” And someplace extra suspicious, Anders awakened The Shepherd, who turned out to be Cadogan.

“The Queen’s Gambit,” written by Miranda Kwok, pressured characters into inconceivable locations the place they ended up having to face each other in methods they by no means deliberate for earlier than.

There have been just a few dynamic pair-offs that basically paid off in shaking up yet one more filler episode, however on the similar time, there have been elements that had been simply wading in previous historical past.

This episode was additionally Lindsey Morgan’s directorial debut, which was a unprecedented take a look at the present by way of her eyes. The intimate close-up photographs added depth and emotion to even probably the most chilling duo.

It was probably the most refreshing and intimate solution to get to discover the present, and Lindsey achieved it in a approach the place it did not really feel like this was her first episode as a director.

The Echo Disgrace Circle

On what we are able to solely mockingly assume was the third anniversary of Clarke’s dying, Bellamy determined to honor her in probably the most memorable approach attainable.

He determined to be a ho. 

Technically you do not know the entire info, together with that I really like him and forgive him it doesn’t matter what.

Even when we do not touch upon how the present appears to be asking the followers which can be left to cease watching with the way in which that they unnecessarily are including scenes nobody requested for, there’s nonetheless a lot to breakdown concerning the route of the story. 

In an underwhelming flip of occasions, it is not that Octavia and Echo are grieving in several methods, the present actually has determined that solely Echo is allowed to grieve.

It felt like a weak option to make, contemplating how we have now explored Bellamy dropping his sister earlier than. Giving Octavia that very same arc would have been the right solution to maintain Bellamy’s reminiscence alive till he comes again.

There’s additionally no approach Marie Avgeropoulos could not deal with the problem contemplating the vary we have now been fortunate to expertise from her this season alone.

But, up to now few episodes, the present has finished the whole lot however centered on Octavia, from the second the Skyring trio arrived at Bardo, it was like she was on the backburner.

As an alternative, Tasya Teles had the problem of carrying the load of a grief plot centered round one of the vital characters on the present.

Sadly, it wasn’t at all times simple to put money into her portrayal of that journey. It was nonetheless troublesome to need to put money into Echo’s ache when a lot of it felt so excessive.

Once more, Echo should not be extra upset than Bellamy’s precise household, who’s in the identical cell as her. 

And it might be one factor if Octavia is grieving internally, however the place was that perception? The place was the Blake flashback? The place was Octavia allowed to mourn and to react and to have the eye of her brother’s loss?

As an alternative, that was given to Echo, and although she mentioned that her ache is now over, it seems like ours was simply starting as we adopted her on this self-harming journey. 

However between the present’s unusual try to upset its viewers with an pointless and largely ineffective flashback that does not matter two seasons later, it did give us a peek at one thing the narrative does not need to admit to creating.

Bellamy: Your weak spot is hard. You do not discuss your self a lot, and you are a shapeshifter. Loyalty. Loyalty is your weak spot.
Echo: Loyalty is not a weak spot.
Bellamy: It’s when it causes you to do one thing you realize you should not.

Let’s be very abundantly clear; when Bellamy and Echo received collectively, it made completely no sense.  

Bellamy may do higher than the one that killed so many individuals in his life. Echo may do higher than having the present attempt to make her a fan-favorite by connecting her to an current fan-favorite lead.

Regardless, there have been hints that as a lot as these two had been collectively, so had been the cracks.

The most important difficulty that was at all times going to exist between them is that their ethical ranges may by no means sync. Bellamy was at all times combating the alternatives he needed to make whereas Echo was at all times capable of motive it, so it did not have an effect on her as a lot.

However them getting collectively in area solely added to the understanding that this fashioned out of comfort.

Bellamy discovered himself having to cope with the truth that he misplaced his soulmate. It did not escape the viewers that once more, Bellamy discovered himself in a relationship when Clarke was nowhere to be discovered. How handy.

On the similar time, although, it felt Clarke was nonetheless very a lot within the air; or that’s what Bellamy was making an attempt to fend for himself.

As a result of once they got here again all the way down to Earth, Bellamy was making an attempt to motive how Echo was a modified girl with an ethical compass, and the narrative was positioning them as a staff.

Sound acquainted?

Bellamy was on the lookout for a alternative to his good associate, and whereas Raven match the function when it got here to management, one thing did not click on exterior of that. However on the similar time, Echo gave the impression to be changing into a special individual when Bellamy was on the lookout for somebody.  

The query although, is, did Echo truly develop and alter? The reply appears to be no. A lot of Bellamy and Echo’s relationship was constructed on and continued to be Bellamy wanting down at Echo whereas she appeared up at him.

In a approach, she idolized him as a result of she wished to be somebody who was deserving of Bellamy, along with his ethical code and his honor. However Echo’s ethical code was nonetheless rooted in Azgeda, which Bellamy at all times makes an attempt to attract her away from.

Even within the flashback, Bellamy is wanting down at Echo’s incapability to be loyal, however her energy to shift because the state of affairs calls for it.

What if the state of affairs for Bellamy’s coronary heart demanded for her to rework into somebody extra just like the individuals he misplaced?

Echo could have been up for the problem and did what Bellamy identified to her. She shapeshifted. 

All of a sudden Echo grew to become not solely an individual that Bellamy might be with, even when he needed to defend her at each flip, however she was additionally in all probability an individual that deep down inside she wished to be.

However in making an attempt to be what another person desires, it could solely be genuine for therefore lengthy. 

Each time Bellamy appeared away or wasn’t round, all of a sudden Echo was again to being the great Azgeda spy. Throughout The 100 Season 5, she needed to be strategic when it got here to interesting to Diyoza and promoting out Shaw.

Throughout The 100 Season 6, Echo once more discovered herself returning to her darker aspect when telling Ryker the reality about her previous solely to kill him. She did not need to, however she did.

This solely continued when throughout The 100 Season 7, Echo discovered herself with out Bellamy, and she or he needed to query who she was exterior of his girlfriend.

The reply? A ruthless spy who would cease at nothing and killing everybody who received in her approach till she made it to Bardo. Her discovering out that Bellamy “died” solely made it worse, as a result of all of a sudden questionable Echo actions grew to become a ruthless bloodbath disguised as a strategic strategy to assist them escape.

It took Bellamy being gone a day in our time for Echo to not stick with the picture that she had that made Bellamy at all times defend her.

And now truthfully nothing is stopping Echo anymore, along with her utilizing self-mutilation to return to who she was. Or perhaps she was simply shapeshifting again to who she at all times has been.

There isn’t a solution to miss Echo calling Azgeda “her individuals,” one thing we mentioned earlier than when it got here to how she considered the world.

She left Orlando behind as a result of, in her opinion, they weren’t his individuals, when the truth was that she did not see him as her individuals. The identical went for Gabriel and Hope as quickly as she discovered her plan to avoid wasting Bellamy failed. 

All of a sudden 5 years on Skyring meant nothing as a result of she wasn’t getting what she wished. Echo risked their likelihood to search out Diyoza and to flee as a result of they weren’t a precedence. They weren’t her individuals.

This solely spiraled additional and additional till now.

Now Echo is completely again to the model of herself earlier than the time-jump. She is the model that attempted to delete her previous earlier than Bellamy took on the burden of reasoning her improvement.

Whether or not that is the brand new Echo with out Bellamy stays to be seen.

However the flashback did handle to acknowledge that it doesn’t matter what, Echo will revert to her true self when she does not have to exist every other approach only for Bellamy’s sake.

No matter if the present realizes that is the purpose it retains making, there hasn’t been a pair this mismatched on The 100 earlier than.

Bellamy ended up in a relationship with somebody simply because they had been in a restricted area collectively. By means of that relationship, he has been consistently used as a solution to absolve Echo’s previous deeds as a result of The 100 determined it did not want her to be the villain anymore.

However due to that, Bellamy suffered as a result of he was simply there to learn Echo; and but he nonetheless did not appear to totally join along with her or to see the 2 of them on the identical degree.

In the meantime, Echo ended up in a relationship that was the one factor the narrative felt may maintain her. Echo wasn’t allowed to develop or show her improvement exterior of being a love curiosity for the lead.

However on the similar time, the present was additionally saying that Echo solely modified due to the connection she was in and she or he wasn’t allowed to exist exterior of it both.

Each are suffocating due to how the present forces them collectively, it doesn’t matter what, which is similar to the viewers’s state of affairs. 

However now Echo has gotten on the Bardo agenda and has conquered her lesser feelings so issues can solely get higher from right here, proper?

At this level, something is best than the battle that Octavia and the viewers needed to undergo watching Echo left to her personal gadgets. 

The extra time we spent grieving with Echo; the much less sympathy that existed for the state of affairs.

The Bellarke Sob Nook

Right here we’re. 

It is lastly right here, and I hate it.

I hate how a lot hope Clarke had when she arrived at Bardo seeking Bellamy.

Gabriel tells her that everybody is right here, and her coronary heart will get so pleased. Gabriel delivering the information was in all probability the best-case situation, even when he did not appear as upset about it.

Three months did go, so it’s in all probability not information anymore. Or perhaps he is aware of one thing we do not know … 

Anyway, Clarke Griffin rapidly takes on being the center of the present when she reacts to the “loss” of Bellamy. The directing within the episode is so pointed in the way in which it zeroes in on Clarke and the way the music all of a sudden zones the whole lot else out.

Everybody seems at Clarke, understanding that Bellamy is gone goes to destroy Clarke, contemplating the whole lot he means to her.

Eliza Taylor takes all of this to a different degree, delivering that heartbreaking realization and making it the one factor we are able to care about proper now.

It might not have been a protracted response, however Eliza made the viewers really feel like they had been reliving that Bellamy scene for the primary time. All that loss and that ache had been all of a sudden proper on the floor once more.

As a result of the reality is that you have not grieved for Bellamy till you went by way of it with Clarke.

So whereas the response wasn’t “loud,” the quantity was within the unstated. It was refreshing to have Clarke degree it out, particularly coming off of Echo’s excessive response.

Simply because Clarke did not present her emotion all episode lengthy does not imply she is not going by way of that ache.

However the viewers nonetheless deserves to see her grapple with the concept she misplaced Bellamy, exactly the way in which that Octavia ought to as nicely.

Octavia and Clarke have time and time once more been a very powerful individuals in Bellamy’s life; they deserve the time to really mourn him. Or no less than query his dying like anybody who noticed the reminiscence ought to.

Irrespective of how a lot Bardo loves Clarke, they took her soulmate, and so they need to know she will not precisely co-operate easily with that data.

Anders now has no less than Octavia and Gabriel’s view of how a lot Bellamy means to Clarke. If he may watch The 100 Season 6 Episode 10 and he does not know that the primary time he must introduce himself with is Bellamy’s precise whereabouts, then he is not a real fan.

Somebody ask Levitt to elucidate to him how it’s finished. 

However none of this can actually make any sense till Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake are actually on our screens again leading the show. 

For now, although all we have now is that parting shot of Clarke studying her soulmate is gone and everybody’s coronary heart ought to collectively break with hers.

Nelson’s Remaining Rose Ceremony (With Emori) in Sanctum

Earlier than Nelson was making an attempt to be delicate about the truth that he desires some mates, however this time round, he determined to make a whole competitors out of it.

However nothing may put together us for the result that now has his new greatest pal in actual hazard.

It was great to pair off Emori and Nelson as a result of, at first, you would not suppose they might work, however then all of it is sensible.

A lot of who Emori has been for us is that this beacon of survival and self-love even when outsiders won’t give you that very same vitality again. She has come a good distance from the scene-stealing character who we someway wished to verify match into the main group, even when they did not at all times make room for her.

It was inevitable that Emori would search to do the identical, together with these which were thus far faraway from Sanctum’s lifestyle.

Once more, the fixed divide in Sanctum could not stand out in any approach, however Emori making an attempt to carry the Youngsters of Gabriel again into the fold makes all of it that extra fascinating.

However it’s also intense as a result of, as anticipated, some cannot budge on their mind-set. Like Sheidheda making an attempt to insult her or like Nelson’s dad turning him away.

The difficulty is males.

Nonetheless, attending to discover Emori’s ache by way of an try to heal different individuals’s emotional wounds was a complete exploration of discovering your individuals. 

Luisa D’Oliveira and Lee Majdoub had been stellar in opposition to each other, stirring up emotions and anxiousness on the similar time. It was a rollercoaster value happening as a result of it enriched each of their tales by permitting them to narrate to 1 one other.

The 100 won’t at all times like to take a position an excessive amount of time in constructing connections, however Nelson and Emori show why that does not work.

A lot potential exists in friendships just like the one they began to type; it must be explored.

And it was explored, with Nelson taking from Emori a way of hope and love. 

Emori could not have been capable of confront her previous as she wished, however she discovered a future the place she does not battle with it as Nelson does. Emori discovered her model of peace on Sanctum.

Providing Nelson the closure she wasn’t afforded was a reminder of how caring Emori was and the way fortunate he was to have her as a pal choice.

However Nikki noticed that Nelson was going to present Emori that rose in his closing pal ceremony, and she or he could not have it. One way or the other she simply knew the right timing for when Nelson’s dad was going to disappoint him as many dads do, and she or he went for the kill.

Besides Nelson was on the lookout for peace, even when he did not realize it. So Nikki coming in, weapons scorching, on the lookout for revenge and energy, that was an unlucky friendship doomed from the beginning.

However Nelson is caught, so pushed by his feelings, that now the queen is at stake and it’s time to fear. Nelson having a gun to Emori’s head, cannot be factor, but perhaps there’s hope that he understands she is not guilty.

Nonetheless temporary, Nelson and Emori understood one another in a approach that not many may round then. Nelson calling Emori by her faux title felt like an indication that this wasn’t him blaming her for his father’s ignorance.

If Nelson is the tender Gabriel youngster that we love him for, perhaps he has found out a solution to management the state of affairs. The purpose is to trick Nikki, which begins by pretending he’s on her aspect.

However to be on her aspect, he must be motivated, and he did not have sufficient motive earlier than this. 

Nikki does not doubt that Nelson is on her aspect, which often means she completely ought to. She additionally does not perceive how very important Emori is and the way exhausting others will battle for her.

Murphy is on his approach, and Nelson must be placing on an act. Hope has to exist not solely on Bardo, and proper now, my hope is in that room the place Nelson is making an attempt to avoid wasting his new greatest pal.

Emori, you’re going to get that rose!

The Stranger Beside Me

Whereas Emori and Nelson had been changing into the Sanctum model of greatest mates, Bardo was doing issues otherwise.

Diyoza/Hope and Echo/Octavia felt like the identical story of stalling that was happening between Murphy and Sheidheda. However whereas there was progress between Murphy and Sheidheda, nevertheless threatening, what was there in Bardo?

Echo and Octavia did not mesh instantly, with Octavia giving her the whole lot and Echo not budging a lot to match the gap between them. 

Perhaps it was the truth that Echo could not let Octavia take pleasure in her e book, or maybe it was the narrative pretending that Octavia cared about Echo, it simply did not click on.

Again and again, we have now heard that Echo was the monster in Hope’s bedtime tales. 

Octavia instilled in her that Echo wasn’t somebody that her aunt noticed as an ally or a pal. The identical will need to have gone for Diyoza since Hope used coaching with Echo as a dig at her mom.

Echo even voiced that she knew how little Octavia and Diyoza considered her if Hope met her with such resistance and dislike.

However now all of a sudden Octavia is embracing Echo with open arms? Perhaps if the present let Octavia have an arc on this episode, it might make sense, nevertheless it simply seems like Octavia is the brand new Bellamy.

Bellamy is not round proper now to permit Echo to revolve round him and have him be on her aspect, so as an alternative, they received a brand new Blake to take that on.

The one difficulty is that they’re nonetheless strangers to 1 one other, and the one factor they might bond over is the one factor they do not have in frequent anymore. It was additionally ridiculous having Octavia take Echo into her household, was that talked about already?

There isn’t a groundwork for that relationship, and from the seems of it, Echo does not truly take into account Octavia, her individual.

This model of Echo is similar one which pushed Octavia off that cliff, so let’s hope that does not occur once more.

Talking of Hope, she is in a close-by cell, additionally combating a stranger. Diyoza is not the person who Hope remembers idolizing as a result of all of a sudden she is not a child with the wool pulled over her eyes.

In the meantime, Diyoza struggles to be taught this new model of her little lady, the one which went down the identical path that she by no means wished for her. And it was all due to Diyoza that Hope is now a proud killer.

In comparison with Echo and Octavia, this duo was extra partaking. A mom and daughter making an attempt to reconnect in any case this time aside for one among them is a sophisticated maze of feelings.

There was additionally an ironic parallel of Diyoza explaining that doing the flawed factor for the correct motive does not make it okay. One thing tells me that there’s a individual within the subsequent room that would profit from listening to that as a result of the rampage she is trying to trigger is a fear.

However Diyoza and Hope had been working by way of what’s the proper solution to strategy all of this. 

Diyoza is reacting in anger due to the ache she is experiencing from the years she misplaced, with out even understanding it.

Hope is reacting in desperation to get them out and to get issues again to what they had been earlier than.

Besides issues cannot simply return to them residing all collectively on Skyring as if nothing modified. They’ve to maneuver ahead as a household, even with the adjustments. However on the similar time, you need to work by way of the previous to get to the current.

Diyoza and Hope made progress there, figuring out the ache inflicted on each of them whereas not letting the love they nonetheless have for one another disappear.

It’s an adjustment, nevertheless it has to work for all of this to be value it.

Besides it nonetheless seems like Diyoza won’t make it out alive, and the stress is actual.

Gabriel’s Time To Shine feat. the Cadogan Unveiling 

First issues first, I want to thank Gabriel Santiago for persevering with to be a snacc. 

I’d additionally wish to thank him for proving me proper about how pure his intentions at all times had been and proceed to be. It’s simple to come back off of The 100 Season 7 Episode 6 and assume that Gabriel is the dangerous man within the state of affairs.

Echo was already on her hypocritical practice of thought when she accused Gabriel of not wanting them to depart Bardo.

However objectively, it made sense for him to not belief Levitt’s recommendation; this was a man that we frolicked with however that Gabriel knew nothing about then.

It was additionally clear that Hope and Echo did not fill him in, which means he was out of the loop and solely appearing on the info he heard when Anders mentioned it’s inconceivable to outlive exterior.

To be truthful, Levitt mentioned to do it, however we nonetheless do not know if he was giving them good recommendation.

Gabriel was at all times appearing on the understanding that he wished to maintain everybody secure and kill as few individuals as attainable. 

Not everybody had the identical priorities, however all of them nonetheless ended up in the identical place.

And from the second we examine again in on Gabriel, it’s apparent how nervous he’s concerning the state of affairs and his mates. His phrases, not mine.

He is not doing this for the good thing about Bardo; the whole lot he did got here from preserving everybody secure and never leaving our bodies trailing behind them.

Bardo remains to be not giving all of its secrets and techniques away, however there does appear to be a profit in becoming a member of the trigger, even when you do not know what you might be supporting.

Gabriel does simply that after he proves simply how a lot he cares concerning the others when he tries to search out them on the way in which to the Stone Room. Say what you need about him, however Gabriel’s coronary heart is on his sleeve, and he deserves approach higher mates.

As a result of as a lot as Gabriel advocates for them, they did not take into consideration him as soon as. Gabriel begins his whole arc on this episode making an attempt to verify Hope, Echo, Octavia, and Diyoza are okay.

The 4 of them, then again, are too invested in themselves and one another to even trouble to have a considered Gabriel’s security.

Regardless, he nonetheless thinks about them, and that’s the reason he’s after our hearts. His intentions are pure, and he deserves to be rewarded in data for that.

Besides apparently, code-breaking is subsequent degree boring, and Gabriel should be regretting what he wished for with that. The gown is cool although.

Do I get a gown?

Gabriel

As a result of the Anomaly Stone is not truly as fascinating because it appeared, particularly if most of what the individuals in white do is strive completely different mixtures till one thing new works. 

No surprise The Shephard went into cryo. Who has the time to attend for all of that?

However Gabriel is a trooper who spent three months serving to them and is now a Stage Two code-breaking disciple. He is not pleased about it, which could mockingly be primarily based on the way in which all of that is honoring a false god, however he’s making an attempt his greatest.

It additionally implies that Gabriel willingly shared his recollections and will need to have gotten info in return. Anders needed to have advised him why Clarke is the important thing.

He did not appear nervous for her when she arrived; he was in all probability thrilled she may lastly assist him cease guessing random codes. Does that imply that Bardo may be trusted? Partially perhaps?

It is not clear how a lot info may be shared with a degree two on Bardo, particularly since they can not go round trusting each newcomer that they recruit. However there’s a chance that Gabriel has extra info than the others may.

Not as a lot as Anders, although.  

He will get to have the fan-boy expertise of his life when he has the nice honor of waking up the Shepherd from his lengthy nap to fill him in on the important thing returning.

Elevate your hand when you noticed that Cadogan reveal coming from a mile away.

Anyway.

Cadogan is alive. Every part is now related, and they’re about to transcend within the battle that’s the closing evolution of species by way of the stone.

Now, the place is Bellamy Blake?!

Writing For Your Viewers

Talking of long-overdue solutions, as a lot as this episode lined some new floor, it had a obvious difficulty.

The 100 has taken this closing season to show that it has both forgotten who its viewers is or they’re doing their very best to make it clear that they do not need the viewers that they do have.

Time after time, the present retains creating storylines that make it appear to be this is not the season that’s trying to wrap up the sequence.

So we’re left with the query of honoring your viewers at a time when the present wants it probably the most. With the backdoor pilot for the prequel coming subsequent, why is the present struggling a lot relating to speaking with its viewers?  

The most important difficulty throughout “The Queen’s Gambit” was that they all of a sudden determined that now was the time to have The 100 Season 5 discourse.

Two seasons and three planets in the past was the time to carry up the underwhelming points, and so they introduced it up now and solely made issues that a lot worse.

It did not assist that what they did say was kind of ineffective.

Jackson rehashing Madi’s previous is one factor, nevertheless it was very pointed on the viewers that he solely ended up discussing Bellamy in a foul gentle.

There was nothing else they might communicate on besides to say that Bellamy asking Madi to take the flame was numerous stress, and he’s horrible for doing it?

I am sorry, however who cares?

The identical goes for the flashback that made it clear how aggressively the present appears to need to alienate its viewers.

The 100 spent all of Season 5 telling and never displaying us that Echo has modified. Bellamy was the writers’ room mouthpiece the way in which they pressured him to defend her all season lengthy.

And all followers requested is a flashback or two that would truly present the way in which Echo modified.

As an alternative, The 100 glossed over it with a easy, “She modified as a result of we mentioned so,” after which continued on their journey for her with none context.

Till now.

Apart from the flashback they did embrace was only a solution to take the whole lot the viewers requested and make it the precise reverse, utterly lacking the purpose within the course of.

As an alternative, they introduced again Bob Morley and shaved him (one other request followers voiced earlier than) simply so he may play a supporting function in another person’s storyline.

It felt ineffective, and it was a bit insulting that since they will ask Bob to movie once more, the one factor they might make the most of his abilities for is that. That is not to say Bob does not carry the complete scene like he at all times does, however why ought to he?

Why is Bob seemingly helpful to the present solely when it pertains to another person’s reminiscence of Bellamy? He’s the literal male lead, and he’s handled like a visitor star.

And for what?

It did not add any context for the way Echo modified, which this episode proved she by no means truly did.

Bellamy spent the complete time wanting down at Echo and barely insulting her incapability to be real as a result of she falls again to shifting primarily based on the group she is with on the time.

They threw in a kissing scene as a result of the remaining viewers that’s solely in it for Bellamy and Clarke desires nothing greater than to see that, proper? Stir the pot, however what does that say about how the present is valuing the followers

In brief, The 100 desires us to know that it does not discover any worth of their followers.

Decreasing Clarke and Bellamy, making a stagnant storyline for episodes to come back that does not concentrate on any preexisting essence of the present, and all the continual insults on the viewers within the dialogue, all of that reveals a disconnect.

However it’s now getting embarrassing that The 100 is so disinterested in its viewers and their opinions that they appear to be actively writing content material to work together with these opinions.

It’s two seasons too late to have a lot of the conversations this episode was making an attempt to carry up. However even worse, the context we did get additional proved that The 100 by no means understood the problems that existed throughout Season 5.

Or perhaps they simply do not care. 

It is chilling to really feel just like the present goes out of its approach to not honor those who have adopted its trajectory from Day 1, however right here we’re.

Perhaps the true acceptable loss on The 100 wasn’t any particular character; perhaps it was simply the viewers. 

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! “Wanting 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 concerning 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. We additionally spoke with Leah Gibson about #GinaWasReal and her expertise on the present. 

  Maintain checking TV Fanatic for extra upcoming interviews with shock solid members from seasons previous!

• Nelson’s actual title is Sachin, and that is all I’m going to say about that.

• Octavia lastly talked about her hurting Bellamy, and the way he let her when he should not have. That is the one discourse I’ll settle for into my residence, even whether it is about 4 seasons too late and with no Bellamy in sight to listen to her say that. 

  Nonetheless, it was vital to have her deal with it, and I recognize that even when the present is not investing in Octavia as a lot within the current time that they’re nonetheless displaying us her development. 

• In case you missed it, there’s a Memori Child Principle on the market, and now you can take into account me absolutely aboard that practice. 

• There are such a lot of questions on Murphy after this episode. The place did he be taught to play chess? Particularly since he known as one of many items a “fort,” he is not precisely nicely versed within the sport.

  After which there’s the way in which he taunted Sheidheda about Lexa and the historical past of the Commanders. It felt like opinions that Murphy could not have entry to until Ontari someway crammed him in with out the flame.

  It appears a bit unusual that Murphy would know all this info until it was a solution to point out Lexa in order that Sheidheda would get upset. 

• Lola Flanery is at all times such a delight, however I’m interested by her wardrobe as Madi. It may be a solution to age her down in comparison with each else, however that does not should be the case.

• Talking of Madi, can Jackson inform me the place he received his diploma to observe in each sort of medical subject? I am asking for a pal. 

• Are we nonetheless meant to imagine that Bob Morley requested for break day? In that case, why did he return for one scene throughout The 100 Season 7 Episode 5 after which solely appeared once more for a flashback episode to contribute to another person’s storyline?

  Sometime it will not at all times really feel like Bellamy exists only for those around him instead of himself. In the present day is just not that day.

• Anders mentions that he is aware of about Gabriel from Octavia’s recollections. However Octavia solely confirmed Levitt till a sure level on Earth, and she or he was following his directions about ensuring they do not get the rest from her.

  Was Octavia not capable of maintain them out of her thoughts, and so they received all of the recollections? Did Levitt lie? Or did the present neglect its personal mythology? Solely time will inform.

• Principle Time: What if Levitt was proper and other people can exist above this Bardo bunker? What if Levitt was sending Octavia up there as a result of that’s the place they’re hiding Bellamy? Only a thought. 

• We now have a “physique,” so I assume Orlando is lifeless. Perhaps.

  It was becoming to solely have Gabriel say goodbye to him, although. Out of all of them, he pushed again probably the most about leaving Orlando like that. Gabriel did not need to make that selection, and he was the one one who nonetheless appears to care concerning the ache they will need to have brought about him. 

  However you need to surprise if Orlando knew that they could not be trusted since he ignored a lot info when he taught them about Bardo.

• Echo’s new look is supposed to be the Azgeda warpaint, however then what about that white panda look from earlier than? Additionally, did anybody else get Lexa warpaint vibes? 

  The sentiment is sensible, however hopefully, Echo does not have to hurt herself subsequent time to arrange for battle.

• This must be mentioned greater than as soon as; The 100 actually missed the prospect to let Marie Avgeropoulos showcase her appearing and to discover Octavia’s love for her brother. It’s so unlucky as a result of even when she was merely there to help Echo she was blowing it out of the water, so why not permit her to have extra?

  It’s her brother that she misplaced. 

• Eliza Taylor deserves one other spherical of applause as a result of she does not have to have an abundance of fabric to make all of it leap off the display screen. However on the similar time, this higher kickstart the start of the screentime she deserves and has been missing. 

• That is additionally a reminder that Gabriel Santiago is simply too good for the Bardo world. For any world. 

• Sheidheda wished to be resurrected so badly, however that honor went to Invoice Cadogan. In a hilarious introduction, he has already carved out area for himself, and simply in time for the prequel.

  However I do need it on document that I feel Sheidheda and Cadogan have to face off quickly.

• Allow us to once more praise the easy approach during which JR Bourne retains killing it each week. Placing him in opposition to Richard Harmon was such an important concept as a result of each of those actors are so good that they bring about a brand new degree of epic to their scenes. 

  It is very nice to get to see actors of their factor, and the way in which a few of these pair-offs solely made the actors in them stronger. 

• Hope calling Dev her dad truly made me actually tender.

What did you consider this episode? What do you consider that Cadogan reveal? Have been you shocked?

How a lot did you take pleasure in Lindsey Morgan’s flip at directing? What was your favourite side of her model behind the display screen?

How a lot are you continue to lacking Bellamy Blake? How a lot do you would like Clarke Griffin mattered extra to her personal present?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how harm had been you seeing Clarke discover out about Bellamy? How a lot do you’re keen on and help Gabriel’s enterprise in Bardo? Have been you extra about Diyoza and Hope or Echo and Octavia? Do you belief Nelson or not?

Do we predict Anders was confused by Echo’s efficiency stunt or very confused? How massive of a fanboy do we predict Anders is relating to Invoice? Who else is loving all of the outfits Octavia has been in thus far?

Tell us what you suppose under!

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