Nice try show! But I'm not buying what you're selling. Murphy's come such a long way. He's moved way past being a selfish, self serving asshole. He cares too much about his friends to betray them like that. Plus, the writers of this show are too good to give him such a lazy regression. Murphy is too smart for you Josephine! He's just buying time.
Every second of this episode was magnificent. I was worried they were gonna drag out the whole not Clarke thing. But I should've known better. This show doesn't let you catch your breath before throwing you into the next thing. And I loved it so much that it was Bellamy who figured it out. They're each other's person, how could he not? #bellarkeforever
Also Jordan being the most sensible made my heart happy. He's the new moral compass. He definitely takes after his dad! It's not okay that the primes are brainwashing people into thinking it's cool to kill someone to hijack their body. Besides, this boy, who grew up really isolated, was the first one to realize something smelled fishy. And everyone else, who should know better than to take things at face value, were super dismissive about his concerns. I love Jordan.
And how amazing was that Octavia/Diyoza heart to heart? Diyoza certainly knows a thing or two about being a violently ruthless leader. And it seems she has struggled with the guilt and consequences of her actions (much as Octavia is doing right now) and come out the other side. It's also pretty clear she sees herslef in Octavia. Maybe she'll turn into a mentor of sorts (kinda like Indra was in previous seasons), and teach her how to accept and move on, so Octavia doesn't self-destruct and can learn to live with herself and the terrible things she's done, just like all the other characters of the show. Plus there was that weird event with the green light and now her hand is all messed up!
I can't wait for next week!
– I'll be hurt either way. Isn't it better to be who I am?
I'm soooo glad Eric managed to turn things around and realise he should be proud of who he is and just enjoy it. He just needed a role model (with fancy nails) to kick-start his self-esteem back in place. And then the reunion with Otis... Oh boy! I'm not gonna lie, I shed a tear when I saw Eric smiling after Otis apologised to him, I was so happy to see those two make amends and strengthen the solid friendship they always had. I know it's only been a couple of episodes, but I already missed the two best buds hanging out, together.
And Maeve... Wow! She looked stunning! I literally froze when Jackson first saw Maeve ready for the ball AND HE DIDN'T COMPLIMENT HER LOOKS!! D: Luckily for him, that didn't pan out. I guess Maeve isn't the kind of girl to be hung up on such trivial girlie things, anyway.
Did they really get Ezra Furman to perform at the ball? How cool! Too bad he didn't actually play the Macarena, though.
Otis' first big public speech was very touching and an emotional highlight of the show, because he was talking to that guy high up on the moon (did you catch this double meaning? teehee!), but we all know he was taking about himself and Maeve. He was so close to getting Maeve in his arms (or the equivalent romantic expression in Otis' peculiar terms)... But then drunk Action Man cockblocked the whole thing! Damn! That was hard to watch... Because now Otis and Maeve are the farthest apart they've ever been, right after being the closest to each other. And only one episode left! How will they fix things between the two in just one episode?!
You did it "The 100", you did it.
You left us last week with a bait-and-switch bisexuality storyline that possibly and probably hinted towards actual dynamical characterization, only to have those hopes dashed and smashed and scattered to the winds, and then you pulled an almost complete 180 to make everything meaningful and interesting again.
How many times will I continue to fall for this?
Infinitely, if not 100, at least, I'd pre-suppose.
So, last week was basically the worst possible episode imaginable. Everything that was built-up and worked towards was all but obliterated with random acts of blindness as each and every character seemed to forget all notions of sanity and reason, leaving everything at face value.
We even learn that allllllll the bone marrow transplant army mountain dudes, except the crazy Son King under the Mountain and his right-hand generic brutish white-dude-stooge were killed in Clarke's Gambit... which honestly just made it more incoherent as to why Lexa surrendered.
Personally, I'm starting to question the saliency of the feminism in this racistly-depicted matriarchal warrior society, and perhaps Lexa's appointment is a post-apocalyptical role of blame funneling.
In a society of warriors, you can have a small, fancy lady queen, so long as we can all blame her for all our problems.
Point-in-fact, the PCP super-heroin drugging that generates the "Reapers". It's a persistence of the "Mountain Men" society of war-ready American (or, AMERICAN) descendents objectifying the external, the others in society, to be their blood property, while also building a subset of warrior-warring people-pets who maintain the "order" and delineation.
Perhaps -- as is most explicable and rational in the face of the irrationality of events -- Lexa's surrender was an ingrained notion of inferiority to the "Mountain Men", which Clarke entirely failed to recognize.
This, I could understand. It'd be deeply horrifying, but it'd be far more understandable.
And as this episode showed in a near-completely brutalistic manner, Clarke jumps to action out of worry, even without rationale or reason. Not only did she save (some of) her people, but she ended-up doing exactly what she wanted to prevent ... she painfully and horrifically obliterated the "Mountain Men", women, and children. She even all-but-line-of-sight-directly killed Jasper's girlfriend, who spent the last 12 episodes consistently saving and supporting every single one of Clarke's people ... even sacrificing her own friends and family for the righteousness of the cause of anti-blood-slavery.
Yet, what is just soooooo infuriating, but weirdly so exemplified, is this persistent delusion of exclusion that Clarke has for her nearest and dearest.
Finn objectively went entirely insane. He had a Nazi-ish massacre of a couple dozen of people under his belt, all based on noticing Clarke's dad's watch. A flimsier rationale could not be designed. Especially not for everything that happened, with Finn's twelve dozen "oops! my finger slipped" insane and persistent reactions as he kept gunning-down person after person, for absolutely and entirely no reason. And then it took three episodes for Clarke to finally mercy-kill him to spare him from a public flaying (a.k.a., a fully conscious separation of his body from his skin).
The frustration is consistently in the pacing and tone. There is absolutely no distinction between the rampaging idiotic murder of dozens of "Grounders", and the absolutely, entirely boring courtship of emotional reticence between Raven and Engineer McGentleman Scruff, Esq..
Clarke will kill a dad to revenge against -- not even coerce, just fully and irrationally and irreconcilably pre-revenge -- a son, then subject dozens of ostensibly innocent men, women, and children to excruciating and inescapable radiation poisoning, and then apparently reconnect with the mother who sent her to prison and orchestrated her own husband's murder for political maintenance, in the span of all but 20 seconds.
I mean ... hormones and the moon are real things, but like, come on, you guys. Seriously, I mean, come on. Is anyone really this entirely cynical and callous and unstable?!
I mean, even I am entirely subservient to blessed Selenic Sovereign ... but come on ... take a beat. Have a thought. Think about what you're doing, for like, I dunno, 3 seconds, instead of 1. Let's start there at least and see how it feels.
You are literally living in a post-nuclear society ... let's not consistently revert to the nuclear option ... no matter how much we miss our mum.
I, too, would enjoy a hug now and then, particularly in the most trying of times ... but you get a pillow or two, you squeeze 'em and put one between your legs, and you go to sleep and see how you feel in the morning.
Doesn't that sound far more manageable and tolerable than the latest mass-murder of the moment?
Cra'y cra'y, for days.
Anyways, of course Jaha then like tosses dudes to the "Tremors"/"Dune" lake leeches so he and Murphy can follow the drone to the island of lost dreams, where it turns out that there is a playboy bachelor billionaire lighthouse ... fuck you, "The 100", for exploiting my weakness!!!
Ugh, ok, I guess now I have to tolerate this story, though of course I can help but be bored with the stupidity that is a semi-sentient fancy-lady-hologram AI who speaks in abstract illuminati riddles and wants to continue to build this story as a pre-cursor to "The Matrix".
I mean ... sure, technically there's nothing else like this on TV, but also, novelty is not intellect nor entertainment, inherently.
I do like to contend though that Jaha suffered massive oxygen deprivation in his last few hours on the space station, and that explains why he's behaving like he is, because he is quite literally -- and non-mockingly -- brain-damaged. That would just be so wonderful, and would really clear a lot of things up, in terms of characterization.
And that's the thing, "The 100", you got me, I'll watch you next season, I will, and I would even, with much trepidation, recommend you to others to watch. You are definitely no "Hawaii Five-0", but you are assuredly some kind of deformed subversion.
Your pacing is horrific, your tone is consistently insane, and your narrative is like "What if only cynical, idiotic assholes survived the nuclear annihilation of humanity ... what would they do if we stick them all in the same room?".
Not to smash a tofu (vegan for "beat a dead horse"), but It's the nuclear fallout and only 2/3rds of the characters in your show are familiar with CPR and basic First Aid. Reflect on "Donnie Darko" for a hot second and revel in the insanity of "The Knick", antiseptics revolutionized modern society. The 1899 may have well been the middle ages, if not Ancient Egypt (-2999) compared to 1999, because of the societal and technological and medical advances. Never have we ever experienced such revolution to the fabric of our basic cultural and societal reality besides the notions of portable food storage (anti-spoilage) and persistent anti-bacterials.
Focus on that you sexy teen adults. I mean, come on. Have a conversation ... once. Just once. Please.
I love that the dude from "Lost"/"Scandal" is the very first person in the very last possible moment to suggest bone marrow donations. Like, you just went through some insane wars and murders and crazy power struggles, and no one ever thought to just have a fucking blood drive, instead of some kind of ghettoized Reganomic CIA insane doping regimen of creating cannabilistic soldier pets to harvest and dispose of these sanguine people-shaped sacks clambering all around the place.
Insane.
But I'll keeping watching.
So insane.
Wow. This just took a sharp turn into wtf land. Damn! Poor Clarke got mind and body hijacked. I wonder how that will play out with the rest of the team. Especially Abby and Bellamy.
After all, we got that super adorable Bellarke moment this episode. And I ship their friendship so hard. They're the bestest of BFFs, are perfect as a team and I love them.
Octavia teamed up with Diyoza (to absolutely no one's surprise) and set out to kill Lincoln 2.0. I hope he lives cause I liked him. I also really liked seeing her softer side as she was protecting the little girl. She has some of her heart left after all! There may be hope for her yet! Or maybe not, who knows.
Another lady who found herself a potential new beau was Raven. And I liked his rebel attitude and lack of interest in all things Prime (understandable, though, since he now has a 20 something year old as his mom).
What's still giving me pause about this season is the dichotomy between how they dress, act and live and then the fact that there's smoke machines, lasers and speakers. And electricity. I just don't get how this new world works!
Simply amazing. This is what the show really needs. I lost it at so many moments that's actually difficult to point out just one. After this messed up season, it seems like Lucifer's back on track and I couldn't be more glad.
If there's one thing this show's been lacking this season is more moments to remind us that Lucifer is not a mere human, but the Devil himself. The scene in the karaoke was the perfect example. That scene had me in stitches. Not only did he entered the karaoke saying "Drug dealers" in Korean but the background music in that fight scene is actually "Lucifer" by SHINee. I couldn't. I had to watch it again because I couldn't get over it.
Having Lucifer imitating Linda (glasses included) and trying therapy with Cain was gold. The whole undercover scene was just the cherry on the top, and Lucifer being a horrible neighbour was just perfect.
"Everybody has a kryptonite", I lost it. That Smallville reference.
Getting serious now, this episode has touched harsh topics such as suicide and loneliness in such a lighthearted way that they didn't seem that hard. I love when this show does that. They talked about suicide as if it were something trivial and we even got a "jump into a volcano". This show keeps on surprising me with its way of dealing with difficult and emotional topics that way.
I keep wondering what happened to this show.
It's been among my favourites for the first two seasons, the third season was already questionable but it kept moving the plot forward in a way no other show does or dares, even though I stopped rooting for anyone in the process.
While season 4 was downright odd and senseless for the most part. Killing off so many characters or destroying them this season...
Also the introduction of really, really unpredictable characters to stir everything up more was a weird decision. Like Roan, Luna, that guy Octavia fell for, Harper, Riley. Seriously, the Harper and Riley things piss me off so much. For no apparent reason than feeling guilty for this random dude makes Harper willingly stay behind to die, while Riley was obviously not fit to be where he was. The whole story brings enough drama with it, we don't need this senseless drama in the mix. Monty lost his best friend already, why make him lose his girlfriend or his live as well? Just so we could repeat the mountainmen storyline?
Jasper needs to die, Jaha should have been killed seasons ago/never be in a position where he has authority again (yet it always happens somehow) and I really can't believe they make Clarke go to such lengths.
I am curious how many of our extended "main" cast they gonna kill off at the end of this season.
First things first. I'll take a flawed show like this one over reality TV or summer reruns of the 183rd season of NCIS. So props to CBS for that. Still, the flaws. Those horrible, horrible flaws. Those avoidable flaws. Those unnecessary flaws. Here are the most glaring ones this week.
First, a repeat offender. It takes more than 30 minutes for light from Jupiter to reach Earth, but we once again have magic video that can cover that distance instantaneously. Inexcusable and avoidable. I have to believe that the science advisors for this show would know all of this, which means that they must have been ignored. So why have science advisors if you're going to ignore them? Maybe the advisors just don't care as long as the checks clear, but I do!
And then there's a bunch of air gap-related stuff. For starters, if Darius was in that air-gapped facility that blocked cellphone signals, then his RFID implant would have been blocked, as well. It would not have been able to report his location at that time. Furthermore, and for the same reason, Darius would not have been able to send texts from his phone while he was in the air-gapped facility. So either he wasn't there or someone else sent that famous text. And finally on that point, I guess Darius hasn't heard of multi-factor authentication when it comes to accessing his various batcaves, as in RFID chip and retina scan and 3D facial mapping verification for access to the places that we saw. Instead, someone gets his chip and it's full access to everything! Yay! Again, why bother to have science advisors?
And finally, a couple of liberal arts flaws. First, Harris says at one point, "He's guilty, Grace. The evidence is not circumstantial." Um, no. You have a vague and noncommittal text message and a location where multiple people would have been working. That's pretty much the epitome of "circumstantial." And second...well, pretty much Jillian's entire speech at the end, which clearly represented the show's writers projecting BIG TIME. But I'll focus on the "It is hope and only hope that will save us." Um, no. Again. Hope can motivate. Hope can inspire. Hope can get you through dark times. But hope without scientists and engineers to do the heavy lifting is just false hope. In the current context, hope will not stop an asteroid.
Competent writers could have avoided all of these issues (and others) without taking anything away from the drama. The fact that they didn't do so is disappointing. But, again, not as disappointing as being stuck with reality TV or NCIS reruns. I guess I'm just saying that my gratitude has limits. :)
It's high time Chloe knows that Lucifer is still the Devil. It's getting ridiculous. It's been pointed before in the comments but Lucifer's constant "She's a demon" and "getting her home" should be more than enough to make Chloe think and not brand then as "name calling".
I think after that Maze teenage angst I needed this episode to sort of redeem her character. And it sort of did. Not full redemption, but getting there. I get that she felt betrayed and all but man, I get her teenage angst so much up to the point where I previous episodes I couldn't even stand her. And that's saying too much of a character that I loved.
The Charlotte stuff is absolutely amazing. Poor girl. She's been through enough but at least she now knows the truth. Her acting in that final scene was great. For a moment I did think they broke her, but at least she knows the truth now.
The whole Pierce-Chloe stuff was getting in my nerves. We all know what will eventually happen so please, make things go forward. I get the feeling that Chloe has been with everyone on the show except Lucifer.
There are and there have been a lot of detective shows out there and Lucifer seems to be trying to hard to make a good detective show. But that's not what this show is all about. It's more about the Supernatural stuff of it all. Give us more of that. After all, with Cain coming to the show, it seems that not only has he taken away his Devil face, but also Chloe, and more importantly, his own show. Here's to hoping this improves for the remaining season. That new Maze-Cain alliance seems a bit promising, though.
An almost self contained episode which did not seem to be the format up till now.
First time that Eun-Yoo doesn't act like a bitch. Well, she still does, but with good motives, weird.
A lot more action on this one, and it is extremely good. That's the obvious development for the genre, after a while, when people learn to deal with monsters, they need to learn to deal with bad people. So much happens.
So great action. Even if they're not seen for long, it feels great when the baddies are killed. Still time for very strong and emotional scenes. And for big revelations.
The ending cut is classic, but perfect.
The slow pace of episodes was totally ok, but wow, when they speed things up a little, that's just a whole other level.
I loved it. It was so satisfying to see all the couples finally together and happy.
It was nice to see Team finally open up to Win. I loved that Win was patient with Team, he didn't push when Team said he'll tell him about it one day. He supported Team as best as he could and he just wanted to see Team happy. It was nice to see Team finally get the closure that he needed so bad.
Prince and Bee were so cute this episode. I'm happy that Prince found someone who cares for him and is patient about coming out as a couple.
Manaow and Phruek. I'm honestly not a big fan of this couple, or rather Manaow. She's just kinda too much for me. I don't know if it's the actress or the character but it's all just too much. I am happy for her because she got an acting gig. Phruek is really nice tho.
Pharm and Dean. They were the ones who introduced Between Us to me so I have only good things to say about them. Love them. Very cute as always. It's so fun to see Dean plan so far ahead as to already planing their wedding. Soooooo cute.
Tul and Waan. It all felt kinda rushed to me. Maybe it was because I watched the free version on youtube. I was really excited for their story after I saw the first couple of scenes with them.
In conclusion, I think this was a good ending for the series. All the couples were together and happy, which makes me happy. It was a very satisfying ending.
I don't think I'll ever be able to forget the sight of Clarke eating giant, squashed bugs off the grill of the rover. So gross.
And it looks like the Seelie Queen is her new adopted little sister/daughter (I'm still not sure what the dynamic of their relationship is). Was it the same girl from the season 4 finale? I'm not 100% sure and am too lazy to look it up LOL
Also, isn't it amazing how there have been no pregnancies aboard The Ark? Like, a bunch of teenagers have been confined on a spaceship for six years with absolutely nothing to do but wait for time to pass. It's a wonder a few babies haven't been born. Either they have a BUNCH of contraceptives on that ship, they're all remaining somewhat celibate (pfff, yeah right), or they're simply all sterile because of all the radiation they've been exposed to over the years. I'm leaning towards the last option, it seems the most likely.
And was anyone else disappointed that Bellamy ALREADY has a new lady love? We're barely one episode in! I'm not the biggest Bellarke shipper by any means, but I was kinda hoping this would be their season.
