The 100 Episode 5×11: The Dark Year

The Dark Year was definitely dark indeed. We knew it would be. But I won’t lie, the current time period isn’t exactly full of the warm fuzzies either, so maybe all the years are “Dark Years”? Hell, I think 2018 might be one, no? Anyway, this was a super emotionally powerful episode, so let’s get to it!

Just a reminder, spoilers galore!! Like ALL the spoilers- proceed with caution! 

You are Wonkru, or you are the Dinner of Wonkru. Choose.

It’s amazing, because even though we all basically knew that The Dark Year equaled cannibalism, the show somehow managed to make it even more thought-provoking and gritty that I imagined. Our old bud Kara (RIP) is the bearer of bad news: there is fungus among us. How much do I wish she’d said that in a super somber tone? Lots. Anyway. The fungus has decimated their protein source, so now they have a grand total of none. For at least a year. Abby helpfully points out that the human body will reject Kara’s timetable outright. But what to do, what to do, stuck down there in a bunker?

Everyone comes around to the idea of Wonkru Burgers pretty quickly, though no one is in love with the plan, as you can imagine. But Kane is undoubtedly the most appalled. Abby tells him, and everyone else, in no uncertain terms that they will die without the protein. It isn’t an option, they have to do this. So they have dinner. The people patties look like what would happen if you tried to make brownies into jello. I’m going to go ahead and assume they don’t taste like it, though.

This is not the face of a lady enjoying a bite of chocolatey goodness. 

Most of the dining hall grudgingly eats, but Niylah is having trouble, because she remembers the faces of the people who died in the arena. Which, fair. But Kane is the one who stands up and says “oh hell no, not eating Brian”, and others follow his lead. This leads to a conundrum for the Doc. See, Abby knows what will happen to the bodies of the people who don’t eat. If they don’t eat a protein source, they cannot be a protein source. So she tells O that if she doesn’t make the people eat, the plan won’t work. And they’ll all die.

So… she does. She threatens people at dinner who won’t eat. At the first table she comes upon, she finds a dude who has a pretty legit reason for not wanting to chow down: His brother died in the arena the day before. Well. Bad enough eating randos, but this takes it to a whole new level of awful. But he’s not backing down. And neither is she, and it’s going to come to blows.

“Shut up and eat your brother.” — O, probably

So he is shot by O. As are the next two people who refuse to eat. Kane jumps in, and says that he will eat if all the shooting would kindly stop. And he eats, and I assume that someone takes our three new meals to the freezer or something awful.

This absolutely exacerbates Abby’s drug problem, and it definitely accounts for why O is in this very, very dark place, and it really even is a reason why Kane was so willing to die in the arena- just to at least have a choice, to have a say over his life and his fate for once. Indra has even said that her actions (or rather, inaction) is why she’s fighting so hard against Blodreina (and for Octavia) now.  They all blame themselves. But it wasn’t anyone’s fault, not really. They managed to keep over 800 people alive, when by all accounts none of them should have made it out of there.

The Doctors

Raise your hand if you’re suprised that Clarke Griffin, MD made an appearance? Honestly, next to MacGyvering Octavia after her fatal stab wound/cliff fall last season, detoxing a drug addict seems like child’s play, no?

And Abby is not doing well, as you might have expected. But it isn’t just the drugs, it’s this guilt that has been eating her up inside. (Also, it probably doesn’t help that her boyfriend left her and started a new family.) It’s heartbreaking to watch Abby struggle with this- especially in front of Clarke.

Now, McCreary has some demands of his own- Clarke isn’t doing a rapid detox for funsies here. No, he needs Abby back in fighting form so she can cure him and his band of miscreants.  Madi thinks this is a terrible idea because apparently she, the twelve year old, is the only one with actual brains in her head. I get Clarke wanting to protect Madi, I really do. But I think there’s a point where it’s more important to show your kid the right thing to do instead of the safe thing to do- especially when your kid is the freaking Commander.

Everyone’s arguing about whether to save McCreary and company, but the one thing they do agree on? Fixing Abby up. Abby had apparently tried this before, in the bunker, so fingers crossed it takes this time. She knows that if she takes the pills again, she’ll die, so I really want this to stick. There’s a minor hiccup when Abby’s heart stops, but Clarke jams a needle in her chest, and after a quick cannibal dream, she’s back in the land of the living.

It’s an emotional storyline in general, as Madi meets a very different Abby than she expected, as Abby grapples with her guilt and shame (of both the drug abuse and  the Dark Year), as Clarke tries to hold it together for everyone (and fails, but that’s another issue). Even though Abby was in a withdrawal haze when she said that Clarke decides whether everyone lives or dies, I think she did strike a chord with Madi in that Clarke is trying to force all of Madi’s choices to be Clarke’s choices.

And frankly, I’m with Madi here, all the way. I know that Clarke is trying to protect her mom and Madi, the two people she loves the most. But is it still protecting them if they do end up on the “wrong side of the war”? Especially since this McCreary alliance is loose at best- he’d turn Clarke and Madi over to anyone, at anytime, for any reason. They’re not of any use to him anymore, now that Abby’s okay. I think Clarke needs to use her super smart Clarke Brain, and really think this out, a few more steps ahead.

The Defectors

Ah, here’s Cavekru! Just kidding, they are in no way a cohesive unit, though I think Shaw might have joined Spacekru.

“Hey guys, remember Monty’s algae!?” “Dude, you weren’t actually there….”

They’re basically holed up, trying to figure out their next move. When oopsie, they figure out that McCreary knows about the feed loop and that Wonkru is on their way. Of course they immediately figure out it’s Clarke, and Echo threatens to kill her which no one except the fandom seems to think odd. Hey Echo, remember that time Clarke sacrificed her actual life for you?

Echo does not recall.

Diyoza is having a chuckle after Echo explains what seems to be happening in the Valley, because wouldn’t you know, it’s Diyoza’s exact plan from her handy dandy Diary Of Killing (and Other Wartime Stuffs). So yay, she might be able to help them get some access to the Valley after all! Now it is time to scout some stuff, and I think this is mostly just an excuse for arming Murphy, which is fine, here for it. Spacekru doesn’t want Kane to come because they trust him zero percent, and Raven tells Shaw to stay behind because she’s afraid he’ll be captured. And she doesn’t want missiles launched but really she just wants to smooch him, but more on that later.

So they build a snowman or something, and spot some guns. Murphy’s happy, but everyone else is like “um, wasn’t this just supposed to be an intellegence mission?” to which Murphy had a pretty valid point:

I mean, he’s not wrong, even if his motives are probably selfish. 

I found myself thinking “hmmm I don’t know if this is a good idea…” just as some dude grabs Murphy and puts a gun to his head. Sigh. They should have known it looked a little too easy. At first, Echo thinks she has the upper hand but hah just kidding, there’s a guy with one of those Turn Your Friends to Goo guns. And they will, in fact, turn Spacekru to goo if need be. But wait! It’s Shaw, to save the day! This was a little easy, but I guess I can overlook it. Raven can’t though.She’s pissed because Shaw risked his life. But now THEY have the Goo Gun, so maybe she should calm down a tad?

Back in the cave, Kane and Diyoza discuss deep philosophical shit, as always. You know, who will win, who should win, Abby using herself as a baby shield. The usual.

I wonder which is which….?

Diyoza is having a chuckle after Echo explains what seems to be happening in the Valley, because wouldn’t you know, it’s Diyoza’s exact plan from her handy dandy Diary Of Killing (and Other Wartime Stuffs). So yay, she might be able to help them get some access to the Valley after all!  Raven kisses Shaw. Emori and Echo have a cute girl talk moment where Emori assures Echo that she’ll see Bellamy soon.

Ah, you want me to back up to the Pilot Mechanic kiss? Fine. I said it before, and I will say it again: I will die on the Cockroach/Raven hill, and there’s nothing that will change my mind. And while I absolutely love both Raven and Shaw, I feel nothing for them as a couple. I don’t know if it was too fast, or I am just not feeling it but…. eh.

Some other people aren’t feeling it either, like Kane and Diyoza who literally run to the enemy to get away from it. Just kidding, they run to defect to McCreary’s side so that Octavia doesn’t win the war. Kane is seriously #TeamSociopath if it means that Blodreina doesn’t get her hands on the Valley and…. that speaks more volumes than I ever could so let’s just leave it at that.

Oh okay, that answers who’s the devil and who’s the monster at least.

The Marchers

We get to see the present-day ramifications of all those in the bunker during The Dark Year. And obviously it’s…. well, dark. The person most obviously affected by their choices is Octavia. And I’ll be damned if it didn’t make me the tiniest bit more sympathetic. I mean, she’s still a mess of a person, don’t get me wrong. But I can’t imagine how anyone could bounce back from what she’s done.

But after Bellamy has a quick phone sex session radio chat with Echo, he knows he needs to get O to listen to him. So he and Indra saunter up to the tent to tell her that basically she’s going to get all of her people killed and that she’s a terrible leader okaybye. Have I mentioned that I love this blossoming friendship between Indra and Bellamy? Because oh, how I do.

Cackling. ?

After Echo gets word to Bellamy that Diyoza might have a way in, it’s time for Bellamy to go back to Octavia and hang the fact that he has a plan when hers failed over her head. I mean, do you blame him even? He has some demands, namely that she doesn’t kill every single man, woman, and child in the damn Valley just for shits and giggles. She is appalled that he could think this of her (really, O?) and tells him that’s what she wants too. And then she gets a case of the warm fuzzies when she realizes that she and her Big Brother get to kill all the foes, side by side, just like the good ol’ days.

That one physically stung, did it not?

I understand Bellamy here, but it was hard to watch. Because this whole episode, we have seen that glimmer of the girl that Octavia used to be, so it’s hard to reconcile these feelings of hate that Bellamy is (understandably) dealing with. I worry that this will break her, or him, or both, depending on how this all plays out. Even at the end of the episode, after they go over the battle plan, you can see the worry and desperation in Octavia’s face. This war has to go her way, or else… why did she do all the things she’s done?

Song of the Week:

This just has such a perfect tone for the episode. It’s called Stay Gold by First Aid Kit, and it’s just haunting. It inspires that feeling of just wanting to have a happy ending, but just not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Of just wanting, for once, to be happy. And with everything we saw with Wonkru this week, I think it certainly fits. 

Random Thoughts:

  • Brell is like, one comment away from being an Enemy of Wonkru™. Wonder if the worms are going to get her first….  Also guys why am I so obsessed with Brell?
  • Speaking of, the adorable little goodbye between Bellamy and Monty (and Smol Alge™)? This bodes horribly for everyone. Guys I am so scared for Monty, Bellamy, and Smol Algae™. At first I was sure that Monty was a goner. And look, I still am. I am not happy, I am the opposite. But I am also worried about Bellamy. Because they keep throwing out “heartbreaking” and “shocking” in regards to the ending, and I just can’t okay? I’m too scared. It also would play into the Echo/Emori scene that seemed ominous. There’s that evidence, plus the fact that it would be a huge wake up for Octavia, it would devastate Clarke, and would effectively break up Spacekru. The ramifications would be endless, and bad, and I am so, so terrified. Someone talk me down, yeah?
  • Why doesn’t someone just pretend to cure McCreary? I mean- get all the dudes in there, and then… I don’t know, where’s Vinson to help kill everyone? I am just saying, trick them, McCreary’s proven he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, so… 
  • Is Diyoza in actual labor? She didn’t look so healthy this week. Last time she was kicking all the ass, but in the cave she was struggling to get off a rock so… what changed? Too many badass beatdowns? 

 Episode 5×12: Damocles Part 1

How is it part one of the finale already? Didn’t the season just start? I sob. 

  • Is Clarke going to try to keep Madi in a cave? Tbh, I don’t see that ending well. I DO, however, see Madi running away and Clarke being pissed.
  • Kane is so over the “find our humanity” line, even though he started it. I kind of get it- at what point do you stop fighting? But honestly, the middle of an actual gunfight is not the time for philosophizing, Marcus. 
  • Spacekru has been left out to dry. And I am not happy with Power Couple Kioyza at the moment. I mean, at least give them a heads up! If anyone harms my precious nuggets… 
  • Speaking of, that explosion doesn’t look great. 
  • Also are the worms coming into play yet? Marper better get in a tent ASAP. They should have no trouble finding ways to kill the time, eh? 

Which of our babies are you most scared for? And the biggest question: What would you do? Be the diner, or be the dinner?

Posted July 27, 2018 by Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight in The 100 / 21 Comments

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21 responses to “The 100 Episode 5×11: The Dark Year

  1. Such… a crazy episode. Finally the cannibalism! And seriously, could you NOT dress that patty up a little more… IDK, camouflage it or something? I mean a big cube- alone on that plate? And I’m still confused- was ALL the food gone, or just the protein sources? Cause vegetarians get protein w/o meat, right? What exactly else did they have? I feel like they weren’t clear on that?

    “Shut up and eat your brother.”. Wow.

    Okay moving along…

    I’m so glad heart stoppages are so easily corrected.

    I think it’s a really interesting dynamic where Echo is sorta running Spacekru and tells Kane “trust has to be earned”- ouch- and also says she’ll “deal” with Clarke. Okay Echo’s badass but Clarke has been chewing through Grounders from day one, bitch. Just sayin. Still, I’m loving how Echo gives zero fucks- she’s still got that arrogance and confidence from before. She has SO grown on me…

    Splitting everyone up is a stroke of genius- I feel like we’re coming up on a shocker moment like when Lexa walked away from Mt Weather. I remember my jaw hitting the floor and I have a feeling that might happen again. And that preview makes me nervous- Murphy’s line “where the hell is everyone” looks like a betrayal in the offing?

    Bellamy and Indra are the best. And oh… Bellamy.will.be.fine. No need to worry. Nothing to see here… move along. all is well (And if they DO kill him I need to come back here and hastily delete this comment lol).

    Someone is gonna bring the worms back. Worms plus Vinson = fuckery of the highest order?

    • So I *think* that the problem was that their only protein source was some kind of beans? And it died? But there were some veggies left- but you raise a good point, why didn’t they eat veggies too? ACTUALLY- I bet the veggies were IN the Human Patty. Because you wouldn’t JUST grind up Fred, right? Fred, a little broccoli, a few beets, idk… Let me watch the scene again, please hold. Okay so soybeans were apparently the protein source. And the fungus infected them. And if Kara hadn’t gotten rid of them, I guess it would have spread to the other plants too? Also, was there no fruit? Maybe there are apples in the Fred….

      Well, at least this time Abby brought medicine. When they restarted Lincoln’s heart it was just dumb luck and a cattle prod, so…

      I am mostly salty that Echo is in charge because like… not because of Echo even, but because I wish that Raven had stepped up into a leadership role? Echo makes more sense than Emori or Murphy, but not Raven. It’s weird. But it’s also clear that Raven doesn’t WANT that role, so meh. And I was cool with the Kane line because actually, she’s right (and I guess she shouldn’t have trusted him at ALL at the end of the day) but the Clarke thing was just… sit down Echo, you might be in charge of Spacekru while Captain Daddy is out of town, but you aren’t in charge of Clarke Fucking Griffin.

      Oh there’s DEFINITELY a betrayal- I mean, it’s already happened, really. Diyoza took all of HER defectors and ran. So it really IS just Spacekru and that handful of Bunker refugees. The photos released from Damocles 2 show Madi and O talking so there’s a betrayal there for sure. But I REALLY want you to be right about a Lexa-type situation. Blood Must Have Blood is definitely one of the most epic finales ever. I am scared because I hear people talking about stuff being spoiled on Twitter so I am going to have to be veerrrryyy careful the next couple weeks!

      Bellandra is my favorite new BFFdom. I mean, if anyone could have gotten through to O it was those two- I mean, them working together should have been a huge wake up call for O!- but nah, they just have to make snarky comments instead, brilliant! HE. CANNOT. DIE. I don’t think I could handle it honestly. Like could I still watch? Idk, it would have really decimated so many of the things I love about the show. So let’s just hope it isn’t going to happen.

      See- I figure the worms might attack at the camp that Marper is staying at. Hence why I fear for Monty. Cause Clarke definitely left them in the desert, and since O is marching away from the desert and into the green…. doesn’t look great for Monty (green pun unintended but delightful nonetheless). Vinson though… he may prove VERY interesting in all of this! And I think I did see that he’s at least in Damocles 1?

      Have you any theories?

      • The protein was soybeans! I caught that part because I’m actually allergic to soy. ? And I was wondering WTF people with food allergies would do up in there.

  2. Okay, so these are in no way the characters I remember from season three! I don’t even know what to think right now… cannibalism, all the “good guys” appearing to be bad… it’s a lot to take in! I know I shouldn’t have read so much, but I love your cohesive recaps! It’s like I’m watching everything on fast forward. You include the best juicy bits, and make me kick myself for still not starting this back up. I’m on an anime kick, so I was trying to finish up Fairy Tail before diving back into The 100. I’m going to get there! <3

    ? Lindsi @ Do You Dog-ear?

    • Hahah you should NOT have read so much! ? But I get it, sometimes you just really want to know stuff! But that is SO sweet of you, I really appreciate the kind words! They mean a lot- especially because I spend wayyy too much time on these hahah!

      I think you will be… less horrified when you watch it all unfold. I mean- I think if I went from ALIE to this I’d be jaw on the floor too! And remember- “there are no good guys”, everything on this show is so, so morally complex! I am seriously excited for you to get back into it!

      • Yeah… going from ALIE to this is a little crazy. I think everyone is totally okay with killing now, but it seems like they’re all doing their own thing.

        • YES I think that sums it up very well- They ARE kind of at the point where killing is… “just another day on the ground”. I think that the finale is going to kind of bring everyone back together though- you know how it goes, they are separated for half the season, and then some big problem brings ’em all back around!

  3. Cannibalism definitely makes a lot of things make sense, however. Octavia seems so over living in the bunker and remaining in Polis, and that’s gotta be why. I wish Monty would have given Octavia Jasper’s letter, however. She needs something to bring her down from her power trip hard. But did you catch the hint that the delinquents’ ancestors had to adopt cannibalism, on the Ark? That, I think, appalled me the most—that this was what Abby thought up, like it was the obvious choice, because she’s got experience in it.

    Okay, but WHY is Echo in charge? Why is she commanding everyone? How in the world did she get to this relevant position when she’s been irrelevant AF most of the time? Like, let’s just go back to Diyoza. Raven and Shaw as a couple feels completely random and like poorly attempted fanservice that isn’t fanservice, but just something to rile shippers up. It came from literally nowhere, especially when Murphy’s been allll about saving Raven this whole time? I don’t buy it. Beyond their computer whiz ish, they have nothing in common.

    AH! I briefly had feels that Bellamy would die! Ah…I’m so horrible, because I would be all for that, simply for the sake of plot and character development. I mean…can you imagine?!

    RE: Marper: They feel out of place to me, like they’ve just been dropped into the plot and appear every now and then because the writers didn’t want to kill off the characters and weren’t finished with them yet.

    I did like how Diyoza took back control, however, and left Skaikru high and dry. It’d be a real karma moment for Echo—and we all know where Skaikru’s loyalties lie. I hope she also meets up with Clarke at some point, at least. I’ve come to respect Diyoza.

    Anyway, two episodes left!! Ugh. I surmise the finale will be a cliffhanger for season six, but…I’m curious about that! They do keep mentioning Eligius III, so I feel like that’s what’s gonna go down somehow.

    • You have a very good point about O *needing* to get out of there- and it does make sense! Monty’s super proud of his farm, but like, that’s where she harvested her people so… I can see why she doesn’t exactly want to stay there! I DID catch the bit about the Ark, yikes. I mean, it makes sense I suppose, but holy crap. I wonder if even Jasper would have had an effect on O at this point, you know? It would have made all of us sob though, and would have been a really powerful moment, I agree. Also- WHY has no one pulled the Lincoln card yet? If ANYTHING could talk her down… it’d be him. And yet no mentions at all this season!

      Okay YES to all of the second paragraph hahah. Echo… how!? I mean- I know Jason has said that Raven doesn’t WANT to lead, which is why she doesn’t but… shit Raven, suck it up and lead! Echo does a piss-poor job most of the time. But why is Diyoza even listening to her? (Well- I guess it was clear by the end that she straight up WASN’T, but still hah.) I DO NOT like Raven and Shaw. I mean, I like them as individual characters, like I said, but NOPE I feel nothing, like “why is Raven kissing her brother?”, because there is just not anything there for me to care about. You are so right- the Murphy thing was teased over and over and over, and now I am stuck with some rando Raven met a week ago!?! NOPE nope nope.

      See, that’s the thing- it would be HUGE for character and plot development. Like the ramifications… wow. But he is also my favorite and I seriously don’t think I could handle it? But NO ONE is connected to as many people as he is- and people who they showed talking about/saying goodbye to him! I am scared.

      OMG YES in regards to Marper! They DO look like extras who wandered into the wrong set ? I love them but they have done nothing this season. Just nothing. That is why I am starting to think Monty’s going to die. Like maybe they just have nothing left for him to do?

      I love Diyoza! I get why she did what she did for sure. I liked it on one hand, because it WAS the smart move. But I also didn’t like, from a Kane perspective, how he abandoned them. Like sure Diyoza doesn’t owe them a damn thing, but Kane… kind of did. I really want her to hang out with Clarke. They’d make amazing adversaries-turned-hesitant allies.

      Definitely some Eligius 3 business, no doubt. I think it’ll be like the other seasons- it’ll wrap up this storyline (ie, the battle for Eden, Blodreina) but then open up whatever the new thing will be for S6. I am so excited but also SAD.

      You’d let her shoot you? No way, I’m eating. I mean- to have lived in that god forsaken bunker for years, just to be shot… nah, I couldn’t. Maybe I am a coward but… I’d rather eat my friends I guess. Well that makes me sound like a monster, awesome ?

      • Raven and Shaw make as much sense as Raven and Bellamy sleeping together (they only knew each other a week at most).

        I think it should be Monty who lives, because he’s got his algae (but then, he could be that heartbreaking death of a character who has all these plans/goals/etc. and never gets to fulfill them; Jason’s a sadist like that), while Harper—who, like Jasper, was apparently supposed to have died multiple times but was kept around for WHY AGAIN?!—has never posed much relevancy. I just don’t understand why she’s around. The actress is gorgeous, but her character feels irrelevant aside from being someone solely for Monty’s heart. And the thing between his pants. And to deliver cheesy lines better suited for a Hallmark movie than a dystopian thriller drama.

        • HA good point about those two- but at least with Bellamy, it was clear that it was ONLY about sex. Which was still a little weird, but considering what Raven had been through, at least made some kind of sense. This…. this does not, and I don’t buy it- especially with someone like Raven, who it takes SUCH a long time for her to let people in.

          YES that is seriously what I am thinking about Monty- he has his algae, his pacifism, etc. So sure, kill him. I will SOB. I am so scared. I feel like with Harper, there could be more of a storyline without Monty? Though I do NOT want him to die, obviously. Bwhahah I am chuckling at your description of her because… pretty much! She used to be such a badass- one of Bellamy’s gunners! But now she’s like a 1950s housewife or something and I don’t love it. She’s the only one who didn’t get a cool Space Upgrade!

  4. So glad we finally got to The Dark Year, it’s weird to think cannibalism was used on the Ark. I was just thinking about how appropriate that song Friends For Dinner from Land Before Time 37 fits this perfectly.

    This season has been so out there none-stop, right? I haven’t been this gripped since season two. No worries, I have no concern about Bellamy surviving. He will. If only for the Bellarke shippers.
    My heart is so, so broken for Octavia. I do wish she’d try to listen to Bellamy but damn, it’s hard to not understand where she’s coming from
    She had to get hard to do what she had to. She couldn’t eat people if she was still able to love, so she turned almost all of her “soft emotions” and went completely hard. I don’t think k she or anyone could do what she had to without doing that. She’s been reminding me of Lexa with her actions sometimes.

    I understand 100% why she’s so messed up. I keep thinking about happy O, like when she discovered the radioactive butterflies. It’s interesting to think about how she didn’t have any human contact until she was about thirteen-fifteen thirteen, whenever he took her to that dance. So really she’s only been in contact for now, about 9 years? I always get confused on how long season’s 1-5 were. It was so sad seeing soft Octavia battling with what she wanted to do and not want to do. Like shooting people, she didn’t want to. ? The guy yelling “Stop shooting us” does make me kinda laugh because O would be like “Oh ok, sure. We’ll starve.”

    Clarke is bugging me a bit with her actions to Maddie. Yes,she’s a kid but even then, IS she? There have been no children on this show. There’s no childhood for them. Whether she likes it on, Maddie is right. She’s the commander and she’s probably the only one that can stop this whole thing.

    Though…it does make me reminisce of the time Lexa was going to fight against Mt Weather but then made a side plan and took off.

    It’s interesting to see how Maddie realizes that no one is how Clarke described them before. They can’t be. It’s kind of sad. I wish her and Bellamy would both stop that whole “my family” talk as if it’s okay for Bellamy to walk away from O (but not really) or Clarke be okay (but not really) with Bellamy, Indra and…Indra’s daughter dying in the arena.

    I’m so sad about Abby. Her storyline has been great. Addiction is so awful and like Octavia, I can understand why she’s where’s she’s at now. I get why she’s against healing McCreary and them too, she doesn’t want more blood on her hands.

    I’ve been shipping Raven and Shaw since they first interacted “online” (ha). I just love them so much.

    I think Octavia (??, with some not heartbreaking apology to Bellamy), Echo (for Bellarke, sigh), Emori, Shaw (he’s got too many enemies and there’s no happy couples on this show) andrphy (only because I’m thinking some major characters will) will die. Maybe even Indra since she’s cheated death thrice, when Bellamy and Pike attacked, the missles, and in the arena. I’d love for everyone to be okay though. I’ve been thinking lately how after characters are gone, it makes since for where the next season goes because I couldn’t picture them there. Like, imagine seeing Finn or Jasper being a cannibal or Wells being a captive in Mt Weather, or Lexa dealing with the end of the world. It’s hard to picture them.

    • The cannibalism on the Ark was definitely a surprise- especially to just… throw it in there so casually!

      HA I hope you are right about Bellamy! I did see that he is directing an episode next season, AND someone asked him about the beard, whether it was for S6, and he said “well, I don’t have it for fun”, so… sounds like you’re right! I don’t think I could handle it (though it would be a VERY interesting dynamic for the characters- I still don’t want it!) Octavia is definitely tough to watch- because like you said, it DOES make sense. The “love is weakness” thing is definitely a line from Lexa’s book. We need to see some Lincoln references though, it’s weird that there haven’t been any!

      So I think that from S1-the end of 4 was about 9 or 10 months. Which is kind of crazy when you think about how we missed an entire 6 YEARS of their lives. So O got sent to lockup when she was.. 16 apparently. And was 17 in S1. So yeah she really has NOT been with people for very long. You do have to wonder if that had something to do with it- especially since for 16 years it was JUST the people who loved her most in the world. THEN lockup, then the hellish ground, then less than a year later, BAM, she’s in charge of almost the entire human race. That… is a lot.

      Agree about Clarke. Because like- even when she first met Madi, Madi was VERY wise beyond her years- hell, she trapped Clarke in a bear trap! So you’re right, she’s not a typical 12 year old, not even close. Idk what Clarke is thinking- because of COURSE Madi is going to push her away and rebel and run to O. HA yeah I was so pissed when Lexa did that! Mostly because I don’t think it was a good strategic move, but also because of Skaikru!

      UGH seriously the family stuff is silly. Like I get that you’re more likely to save your “own people”- that’s just human nature. But even though so much time has passed, I really can’t see everyone just turning their backs on each other like this all the time. Like with Clarke saying “they made their choice” NO. No she would not, I refuse to believe it. Plus, what the heck are you teaching Madi!?!?

      Abby is definitely heartbreaking, and I am very curious to see where her character goes from here- or hell, if she even stays clean!

      I like Raven and Shaw just… not together?

      That is SO true about having a hard time picturing a character in those scenarios! I hadn’t thought of it like that, but YEP. I also think Indra is a real worry too- because like you said, she has cheated death a LOT. The only reason I think Shaw *might* be safe for a minute or two is, would they really kill ANOTHER one of Raven’s love interests this quickly? Unless they’re making way for Murven, in which case, sure do whatever you need hahah. SO scared for tomorrow!

      • It would be a big change if Bell did die, though I can’t picture O without him even though she’s been without him for five years. It’ll be interesting seeing his direction work. I want soft Octavia back, I can’t take everyone (MCs) hating her. It definitely has something to do with it, it’s probably easier for her to detach. It’s almost like she’s possessed by Alie. So weird, so she spent three year with people them three years eating people. She’s been dealt such a hand. We need some Lincoln references.

        I was thinking she was fifteen when that dance happened but I didn’t want to overshoot.The time is so weird, I try not to think about it. It could never get worse than Pretty Little Liars though, that’s just horrendous timing.

        Yeah, we still don’t even know much about Madi. I don’t believe we’ve been given much of her home background from before the “end of the world”.She’s so smart. Oh yeah, Lexa pissed me off so much with that.

        Not to mention they only recently met up again yet they’re so quick to turn against each other.I get that who they’ve been with (Clarke -Maddie, Bellamy -Raven, Murphy, Emori, Echo, Monty and O- Someone I’m sure….people in general) is who they’re going to care about most but…it just sucks.

        I think this sets up Abby for a good recovery storyline or a resuming addiction storyline for next season. If she doesn’t die.

        Gah, Raven and Shaw are great. ?I don’t even know if they’d not kill another of Raven’s love interested off. I do also ship Murven!

  5. Okay, you totally messed with me with the cannibalism thing. You are EVIL! (Okay, not as evil as O, but whatever.) When you made the point about Kara, I was thinking, “Oh, yeah that whole ‘all of me for all of us’ makes so much sense now. But then when you said they weren’t eating Kara, I was all happy I’d misinterpreted. But I didn’t!!!!! Ugh! And I was thinking the same thing Greg said. Couldn’t they have made the people patties just look like meat? I mean, really, why did they have to look like disgusting gelatin squares. Surely someone could have come up with a more palatable form of cannibalism, right? (And, yeah, I know, you’d still know you were eating your friends, but I still think if it just looked like chicken a lot more people could trick themselves into being okay with it.)

    Okay, so I don’t know if it’s just because you talked me down or what, but I was totally back on board this episode. Which isn’t to say that I actually liked anyone’s actions, but I was definitely enjoying the show. I’m not sure I think O quite earned her insanity, but I saw a flicker of the fact that she still thought she was doing everything for her people (her whole, “it will all be worth it, just wait” thing). And I agree that the cannibalism was kind of justified. I mean, if it was that or the whole human race starves — well, I guess there’s not much choice.

    Clarke made me want to smack her this episode, but I was totally cheering little Madi on! And then Kane’s betrayal … like basically these couple of episodes where everyone just switched sides randomly. But I can’t believe that there’s any sense of loyalty in any of this, so of course there’s nothing stopping anyone from switching randomly again in a minute or two.

    So, yeah, you’ll be happy to know I’m back to loving it, even if nothing actually got any better. Guess I just needed an episode to come to terms with the fact that it was going to get REALLY bleak. (Oh, and it helped that no one did anything just outright stupid — they all had reasons for their horrible actions, at least in their own minds.)

    • Hehehe I hoped you’d enjoy that! In fairness, I don’t think they DID eat Kara- or anyone, anymore, since they should have had the soy crop back up and running? But yes, I was giddy waiting for you to get there! And yes- I absolutely agree that there HAD to be a better way to eat Susan. I mean- okay so you have veggies, right? What about some veggie patties and also some mashed Susan? It seems like they could have, they just wanted to disgust us haha.

      YESSS I am so happy that my obsession rubbed off ? I always just felt like- O was at the oldest 17 when she became the leader of humanity, and then to have it go THAT badly… I can see why she lost her mind basically. And YEP, you have to do what you have to do. I think as long as it WAS an awful choice, at least they retained their humanity? Had everyone just been like “cool, let’s eat Bill” then… no. But the fact that they were still appalled was good.

      Oh I was SO SICK of Clarke’s nonsense by this point! Madi was so much more reasonable! And she continues to be, actually. Ugh right, Kane made me so mad. Like- I get it, because he was basically coerced into doing something he was against but… Idk, I cannot understand how he didn’t see that McCreary was the worse choice?

      And YAYY I am so happy! This episode was really powerful I think- and for the exact reason you said, they all had pretty legitimate reasons. Not that they were all good decisions, but at least they made sense for the characters!

  6. Beth W

    Just when I thought we couldn’t get darker…..people jelly! To be fair, if they had a halfway decent cook down there it wouldn’t be cold, congealed blood-and-bits Jello-O cubes but a grew stew (human meat tastes, and presumably cooks, like pork, and we’re talking starvation here, so I assume they’d want the marrow out of the bones, and all the edible offal, too). But congealed people Jell-O is sufficiently horrific.

    And YES the parallel there with forcing choices on you, for any reason….ah, it burns. Madi is so damned smart (and wise) right now. And the fact that Clarke doesn’t want to see the parallels between her not giving Madi a choice and O not giving Wonkru a choice, because Madi is “just a child” is right up on par with Clarke not seeing to ever say “gee, I’m acting like a Grounder, and don’t I wish I could make better decisions now that I have that perspective”. Some of these folks have been fighting so long, they’ve lost perspective entirely.

    I do wonder if Diyoza and Kane cooked up a good plan and this isn’t a defection so much as a double-cross. I really hope so. Although, Kane has a fair point- if they let the battle happen at all, it’s a good chance at least a few dozen acres of the only arable land on earth is going to be toast (and humanity’s chance at rebounding and surviving is going to be compromised). Save the Earth- yay! Monty and Kane need to start a commune.

    I’m pretty glad Murphy didn’t see the Shaven kiss, because I can’t take him looking heartbroken. I just can’t.

    Also, am I the only one who doesn’t trust O to keep her word to Bellamy? I mean….she couldn’t even let there be a freaking farm if it might cause her to have to stop, or delay, the war she’s begging for.

    I am so glad I’m not the only one concerned about Diyoza’s baby. She was pretty wan and curled on herself for most of the episode. I think there may have been damage done what with the struggle and all, and her taking hits to the midsection. And if she’s 5 months along and in labor…that does not bode well, either. 🙁

    • They need Greasy Sae from The Hunger Games. She cooked stew with dogs and shit! I mean just the look of that stuff made me gag, and then knowing your friends were in it… eep.

      Madi really did turn it around this season. Wonder if it is the flame or just… Clarke was being so stupid that someone had to step in? Clarke is REALLY blind in the back half of this season- most of it, anyway.

      I get that Kane had basically zero good choices here. It is such a mess. I also think he’s maybe underestimating how batshit McCreary is? Kind of the devil you know sort of thing, he thinks O is the worst but… mayyyybe not. I really do wish Kane and Monty hung out more hahaha.

      GAH I know, Murphy can NEVER know about those two, freaking Shaven. So gross.

      Oh I think no one trusts O at this point- I doubt O trusts O! Seriously, I don’t know why he trusts her- well, I suppose he doesn’t, he’s just hoping for the best because he’s out of options.

      YES I seriously was worried, Diyoza did NOT look okay. I hope the baby is okay- I will be interested to hear your thoughts about the baby AFTER the finale, because I feel like you will have some good insight!

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