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whatsonmedia · 2 years

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7 Best New Music inclusive Megan Stallion and more

Check out this week's top new music, which includes works by NIKI, PinkPantheress, Megan Thee Stallion, and more. Include these new songs in your playlist for the weekend. 1.Megan Thee Stallion, Traumazine Her most recent album, Traumazine, updates us on her life since yelling out Houston and the Hotties at the Grammys while revisiting the themes and content of her first. We nevertheless view the release of her second full-length album as a blessing. Some of the early favorites on Traumazine are "Her," a club-ready anthem with a sticky minimalist beat, and "Anxiety," a clear-eyed assessment of feelings and being alive with Meg's trademark swagger and honesty. Similar to Eminem and Ye, who wrote ruder, sadder, and funnier songs about their relationships with the public in their early albums, Megan is currently writing songs about her interactions with the public that are more frank, sad, and humorous. The album features an all-star roster of interesting collaborators, including Lucky Daye, Rico Nasty, and Latto. https://youtu.be/Z3qfL3bktl0 2. PinkPantheress, Sam Gellaitry, “Picture in my mind” One of the most anticipated musicians of 2021, PinkPantheress, has spent the past several months working with artists like WILLOW and Mura Masa. She has also remixed a Drake song with GoldLink. We have already played this PinkPantheress collaboration repeatedly. The duo's infectious duet, with its ideal late-summer atmosphere, is accompanied by a dancey little electronic beat. No lies were found when Gellaitry referred to PinkPantheress as "a visionary" in a news release on a squiggly track called “Picture In My Mind”. https://youtu.be/SIHS1lLzqOo 3. NIKI, “Nicole" Our new favorite tracks are all on NIKI's sophomore album Nicole, which was just published. NIKI is one of the most exciting pop performers of recent years. Nicole includes compelling, intriguing tracks like the frantic love mayhem of "Keeping Tabs" and the lovely longing in "Backburner," in addition to fantastic singles like "High School in Jakarta." "High School in Jakarta," NIKI's most recent release, has received over 4 million streams so far. Since its debut last Friday, the song's music video has received over 3 million views, making it NIKI's fastest video to ever reach this milestone. https://youtu.be/d4CF4km1rUQ 4.Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Burning” The new single from the New York City indie legends Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Burning," the latest taste of their upcoming album Cool It Down, is a welcome aftershock to the band's recent comeback. The polished new track features the group's distinctive noir disco style. Karen O claimed that the incendiary composition, which was created by Andrew Wyatt and included lyrics and inspiration from The Four Seasons' song "Beggin," was also influenced by an actual inferno. https://youtu.be/vSffKUyr0lk 5. Chappell Roan, “Femininomenon” One of the pop stars who is currently rising the fastest is Chappell Roan. She has been on a big roll ever since her song "Pink Pony Club" gained cult-like notoriety in 2020, and she shows no signs of slowing down. The production of her new song, "Femininomenon," which has a long name, is chaotic. The song begins with the noise of a dirt bike in the distance, and yet manages to move in a million different directions while still fitting together so nicely. The chorus turns everything up to 100 and rhymes "Get it hot like Papa John" with "It's a femininomenon," as the lyrics and pre-chorus lament online love and cheating guys. The tiny voice that sings "Can someone give me a fucking beat" by Chappell before the chorus begins. It's all so exciting and loud, but also so complex. https://youtu.be/ouyqexyf5eU 6. Danger Mouse & Black Thought feat. A$AP Rocky and Run the Jewels: “Strangers“ This Friday, August 12, sees the official release of Danger Mouse and Black Thought's joint album. A$AP Rocky and Run the Jewels are featured on one of the more intriguing collaborations on the tracklist, which was revealed on August 9. Underneath Black Thought's incisive and boastful verse, Danger Mouse's looping fuzzy drums and clacks tickle the ears and the intellect. https://youtu.be/yPdHD1neCV8 7. Alvvays: “Easy on Your Own?” One of this summer's most welcome shocks has continued to be the long-awaited appearance of Alvvays. Our second preview of Blue Rev, the band's first new album in five years (Oct. 7, Polyvinyl), features their most recent hit "Easy on Your Own?” When Blue Rev was first announced last month, Alvvays delivered the album's opening single, "Pharmacist," and now the follow-up track, "Easy on Your Own?" It's a quick burst of the band's recognizable dream-pop sound with intricate soundscapes that haven't been included before in their repertoire. https://youtu.be/tWfG7F-TAWY Read the full article

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Hood River Rat - Book Review

Title: Hood River Rat

Creator: K Webster

Online Rating: 4.13/5

Personal Rating: 5/5

Warning(s): Sexual content, M/M, Enemies-to-Lovers, Attempt at Rape, (Mild) Discrimination towards the LGBTQ+ community, Violence, Physical abuse, Bullying, and Figuring out sexuality.

Standalone, or Series: Series - 4 Books - Completed, but I heard there is going to be side character books.

Pages: 295

Summary: Hood River was supposed to be the change I needed.A fresh start. An escape from my painful past. Better in every way. I’m a popular guy. Approachable. I make friends easily. Cool car. Nice clothes. Good attitude. Everything will be fine. School is school. I’ll keep my head down until graduation and try not to stick out. College will be here before I know it. Yet my first day proves to be anything but easy. The Hood River Hoodlums—our school’s most notorious group of bad boys—have put a target on my back. Their leader, Roan, hates me. He calls me Rat. To him and his friends, I’m a loser who doesn’t belong at their school. I could pretend I don’t care about their hate. If only Roan wasn’t so hot. He’s mean, cruel, and sexy as hell. My nemesis is impossible to ignore…and a secret part of me doesn’t want to. Here I thought being gay was the worst of my problems. Turns out, being gay and crushing on your enemy takes the cake. This is a full-length high school enemies-to-lovers and new adult romance with high angst, suspense, and gutting emotion. It's book one in the Hood River Hoodlum series that will have interlinking storylines. Hood River Rat can be read as a standalone and starts off a four-book planned series that gives each Hoodlum a book. This is the only MM story. The others are MF.

!Spoilers!

Review: This was an amazing enemies-to-lovers pairing. I always loved how Webster uses her characters thought processes, and this book is just a perfect example with how amazing she writes. Always perfect amount of detail. I’m feeling so much love for theses two characters especially Roan. He’s going though a lot, and is going to go through so much hard ships with his family especially his little sister Roux.

I’m already majorly loving and shipping Jordy and Roux in this book (they have their own book too).

This couple is not done growing and I loved reading their story throughout the series. 5 stars.

Negatives: The social worker part really made me upset. In total reality with social workers if there are reports or even incidents where a child under 18 is going to be in a not safe home, then the social worker would put the child in a group home or foster care especially If another relative over 18 - that's eligible to take care of the minor - is not around. Even if her mom was still alive at the time, that social worker wouldn’t of left the child stay there since it was mentioned that she has multiple witnesses to being a terrible mother. Thank you for listening to my rant!

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Thinking about how good s5 would have been if Bellamy had succeeded in choking E/cho to death in 4x10, Luna had won the conclave, and Roan had gone to space with Bellamy and co...

#1. no blecho #2. luna would have accepted the terms for peace #3. madi wouldn't have to ascend #4. no ooc blarke falling out #5. roan being alive #6. no octagon or e/cho #WASTED POTENTIAL #luna kom floukru #roan kom azgeda #antiecho #octagon #the 100

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travllingbunny · 4 years

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Having spent a couple of years in The 100 fandom, one of the things that always strikes me is the gap between the canon characters and their fanon versions. Almost every character has at least one, sometimes two doppelgangers in fanon. These fanon versions often contradict each other, since the fandom has apparently been sharply divided for years. In other cases, there is one definite fanon creation that’s widely popular and mostly uncontested.

Which of these fanon creations do you find most boring, and which ones may be actually kind of fun?

Fanon!Clarke 1: The show’s main villain. This character is completely selfish, spoiled, tyrannical, absolutely loves murdering people and committing genocide, and spends all her time scheming and manipulating people so she could achieve her evil goals (which are to keep her friends and family alive). Likes to risk her life and “sacrifice” herself just because she always wants to be the center of attention. Has always been abusive to Bellamy by.. telling him nice and supportive things about himself, but not nice and supportive enough, and cruelly allowing him to go on a mission that was his own idea and his plan (an example of how unequal their relationship is and that she always orders him around). Doesn’t care about anyone, except maybe her adoptive daughter Madi, which makes her annoying and a traitor for not prioritizing her friends’ safety over her daughter’s, except for the times when she’s prioritizing her friends’s safety over her daughter, which makes her a bad mother.

Fanon!Clarke 2: Minor character, notable for being Lexa’s love interest. (See below.) This young, occasionally confused lesbian was a damsel constantly in need of saving by the show’s hero, Lexa, and didn’t do anything important until meeting Lexa, and learning from her how to be a leader. Still not too good at it, probably due to the bad influence of the show’s villain, Bellamy (see below), with whom she has an unhealthy, toxic platonic relationship but for whom she doesn’t really care, at the same time. Had a bunch of things happen to her, such as losing both her parents and a bunch of other important people in her life, having to mercy kill her first love minor crush (at the time when she still thought she was into men), constantly fighting for survival, being left almost alone on a deserted planet for 6 years, having her body stolen - but none of this ever traumatized her, the only thing she’s ever been affected was Lexa’s death, which she spends all her time talking about, 24/7, even 6.5 years later.

Fanon!Bellamy 1: The show’s main villain. Evil, violent white man (as a consequence of having a younger, white sister, which makes him white because biracial people don’t exist), constantly angry, goes around killing people in bouts of rage. Racist and hates Grounders (who, naturally, are a race - as descendants of a group of people from a cult that used to live in a bunker). Super into killing civilians and committing genocide. Probably stupid and uneducated. Killed his sister’s boyfriend and somehow indirectly killed the show’s hero, Lexa. Is indirectly to blame for anything wrong that ever happened in the show. Also likes to abuse Clarke (see Fanon!Clarke 2).

Fanon!Bellamy 2: A very unusual character that consists of two different people: in seasons 1-4: the sweetest, most sensitive and softest clean shaven boy in the world, who wore his heart on his sleeve and spent all his time telling Clarke how much he loves her (even without ever actually having told her anything like that, or asked her out on a date, and even while sleeping with other women, but that’s this character’s special power). Never killed people, except when he did, but that only happened because the writers hated him and he was OOC. As of the start of season 5, turned into a cold, unemotional bearded man who is totally in love with evil Echo (see below) and doesn’t care about Clarke at all (which makes his actions in a lot of season 5 and all of season 6 a complete mystery).

Fanon!Octavia 1: The most perfect human being in the history of the human race. Has never done anything wrong in her entire life. When she beat up her brother savagely, it’s because he deserved it, everyone she’s murdered deserved it, and she was never a tyrant - people just didn’t realize that, as the perfect leader, she needed to have absolute power. She was also a victim of manipulation by evil Abby (see below), who made her decide to force her people to become cannibals. But forcing people to become cannibals was also the right thing to do. Was betrayed by everyone, including her treacherous brother and all the other traitors who didn’t appreciate her leadership.

Fanon!Octavia 2: A monstrous epitome of white supremacy, this character enjoys going around beating up various people of color just for kicks, enjoys cultural appropriation, and even decided to be born because she knew this would be an act of aggression against her MOC half-brother, whom she emotionally abused by her very existence.

Fanon!Abby: One of the show’s main villains, this character is incompetent and clueless but at the same time a vicious schemer, manipulating and exploiting the younger women in the show. (See above.) Can’t take responsibility, as seen by the fact that she didn’t blame herself for everything Octavia ever did. Messes things up because she still wants to mother her 18-year old daughter, which makes her annoying. At other times, pays more attention to trying to save her dying boyfriend than to trying to mother her 24 year old daughter who seems fine and able to take care of herself, which makes her a terrible mother.

Fanon!Lexa: The show’s main character and hero. Even though she was in just 16 episodes, didn’t join the show until halfway through season 2 and died 4 seasons ago, the show is still all about her. A pure cinnamon roll who never did anything wrong, the greatest leader and strongest fighter, able to single-handedly defeat all the bad guys, but also a visionary peacemaker who did the unprecedented action of doing what Clarke advised her to do. Actions like betraying her allies, throwing people off the top of a tower, letting her own people die, were all wise leadership choices and therefore morally right. (Anyone who feels differently is probably homophobic.) Possibly a woman of color (because of a mismatched foundation and/or because you can’t be a part of a technologically underdeveloped society and be white). Will come back in the series finale to save the day, in spite of having been dead and cremated 131+ years ago.

Fanon!Echo 1: The show’s central character since the start of season 5. An epitome of pure, 100% unadulterated evil, this character has no appealing, redeeming or just human qualities, but nevertheless, possesses an incredible screen presence that makes the fandom obsess over any second of her screentime and talk about every single thing she does or says (or even about her hairstyle) more than about anything else in the show.

Fanon!Echo 2: The strongest and most badass of strong female characters, as seen in the fact that she is good at fighting and killing people and at carrying out other people’s orders (including that of her boyfriend’s). Has never been portrayed as a villain or done anything wrong that could possibly make any of the viewers dislike her - the only possible reason for anyone to dislike her is jealousy over her great, epic romance with Bellamy.

Fanon!Pike: Worst person ever, this villain was just racist towards Grounders (who are a race, see above) with no reason whatsoever and never had a sympathetic or tragic backstory to explain his views and decisions. He imagined that his people were in danger when in fact, everyone else was peaceful and tolerant and it was just him ruining everything. Invented a story about Azgeda being genocidal against his people and murdering the majority of them, including 15 children, right after they fell on Earth - which never happened because we didn’t see it. Somehow he manipulated everyone else into remembering that, too. Probably a cannibal and definitely a Nazi and Donald Trump 2.0, comparisons which are perfect because Pike is the epitome of racism because he not only killed Grounders, he executed a black guy by shooting him in the head. Strangely, Pike also looks like a black guy, but he can’t be one or this is unimportant, because using guns makes you white and only Grounders can be POC because they use medieval weapons.

Fanon!Roan: Clarke and Bellamy’s best friend. Spends all his time hanging out with them just because he likes them and really wants to see them get together. May be an Azgeda king or something, but that’s not important, because it’s not like he has political motivations for his actions. Super loyal to Clarke and never did anything like break alliances or kill his allies or march on Arkadia to attack her people or do any political scheming. Probably has a secret “Bellarke Forever!” tattoo.

#the 100 #the 100 fandom #canon vs fanon #clake griffin #bellamy blake #octavia blake #abby griffin #roan kom azgeda #charles pike

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Why we had to see that Becho Flashback and the Bellarke of it all

Alright, this is going to be a long one.

That flashback, and the way it is presented to the audience, exists for two reasons.

1. To enhance Echos’s storyline and struggles

2. Frankly? Because Jason was answering the criticism that we never saw Becho get together. Whether we like the Flashback or not, he doesn’t give a crap.

Basically, two birds. One giant stone, lol

Bellamy approaches Echo, they immediately start to joke around, indicating that while Bellamy hasn’t necessarily had a close relationship with her, he also hasn’t been openly antagonistic either. However Bellamy is still Bellamy, so they gave him 3 years, lol. Bellamy makes an effort to connect with Echo and the way to do that is to talk about the things that have made Bellamy dislike and distrust her in the past. It is afterall what binds them, their (shared) experiences. Echo’s actions that caused Bellamy pain. Octavia, Gina/MW. Echo has since season 2 looked up to Bellamy and we can see in this scene that she does feel some sort of way about her actions (her reluctance to look Bellamy in the eye). But Echo actually opens up the POSSIBILITY of working through those experiences when she starts to talk about them.

Bellamy shuts her down though. Bellamy’s intention here is to reach out to Echo, to be the leader he needs to be to keep them alive, to be the head and the heart the way Clarke asked him to be, to make sure that Clarke’s death was not in vain. That means Bellamy needs to grow and he needs to forgive. He cannot live with anger and resentment. It won’t keep them alive and it won’t help them work together to achieve Bellamy’s greatest goal between season 4 and season 5; TO GET BACK TO EARTH. That’s why Bellamy is all ”family this, together that, unit here” bla bla, lol.

Next up. Their strengths and weaknesses. Bellamy believes Octavia is his weakness because of the lengths he is willing to go for her and everything he’d do for her (Bellamy has since learned that Octavia is not his responsibility and love does not bring you down). Echo says Octavia is his strength. However they are coming at it from two different perspectives. Echo looks at Bellamy’s LOYALTY and dedication to Octavia as his strength. Someone to fight for, to commit to. It’s not that Echo is thinking ”Bellamy’s LOVE for his sister is the strength”. It’s what Bellamy does with it and how he shows that love that Echo draws from. Meanwhile from Bellamy’s point of view, it’s his unwavering love for his sister that motivates him. LOVE. Not a sense of loyalty for the sake of loyalty. It’s not that Echo can’t see love as motivation, it’s that Echo has no control of her feelings and how to express them or separate them. To Echo loyalty is love, dedication and commitment. And they are, depending on how you use them a way to express that love. So Bellamy being loyal to Octavia and going above and beyond for her, is his way of showing love, in Echo’s eyes. Even if Bellamy has to do horrible things for Octavia. Bellamy however does not see it that way. Perspective, people.

Which Bellamy points out to Echo. Her weakness is her loyalty. She will do things she knows is wrong for the people she is loyal to. That’s not right. You also have to do the right thing for the right reasons. Blindly following someone and not question them or yourself is how you end up with.. well, Echo. Or how Bellamy could have ended up had he stayed with Pike. Echo is taken aback by Bellamy’s comment here. ”How can loyalty be a bad thing”. ”it is when you do the wrong things because of it”. Bellamy has already learned this lesson. We’ve seen how loyalty is all Echo knows. She has done horrible things for other people because that is how Echo functions and how she shows love and dedication. But love does not destroy you. Love lifts you up. For Echo right now in season 7? We are seeing how losing Bellamy, her king, is detroying her because her overwhelming grief right now is the chaos that are ALL her feelings ALL AT ONCE and she does not control them or understand them and she does not know how to seperate them. Bellamy learned to separate his love for Octavia and feeling responsible for her. Echo has not. Who the fuck is Echo and what does she feel?

Which is why Bellamy ASKS Echo to be loyal to him and spacekru. Bellamy believes that Spaeckru are a family and will do things for the right reasons because he/they have learned after their experiences on the ground to do better (in season 5). Bellamy will go back down to the ground, be the leader Clarke wanted him to be and they will do things differently and better than before. If Bellamy and spacekru can show Echo a different way, then Echo will learn and do differently too. Right?

Shape-shifter Bellamy calls it like it is. Echo is a shape-shifter. She will become who she needs to become for other people. That’s dangerous if you do not have a sense of self. And we have seen Echo become who she needs to become because of the people she follows. She was who she was for Nia, for Roan, for Bellamy and for Spacekru. When she follows them, she is what they need from her. Which is why Bellamy belives that Echo has changed when we get back on the ground in season 5. Bellamy is running around all like ”Echo has changed. She proved herself on the ring”. And everyone was like ???? The irony that Bellamy called her out on being a shape-shifter and then he couldn’t see that Echo has become one for him as well. (Which is why Bellamy yells at Echo in 6x04 because she isn’t acting the way Bellamy needs her to act meanwhile Echo doesn’t know how Bellamy needs her to act because she can’t separate those feelings and because she doesn’t know that Bellamy actually wants her to act like Clarke). So why can’t Bellamy see that or understand Echo?

The Bellamy part of the flashback Like I said, he is trying to be the man and the leader he needs to be in order to make sure Clarke’s death was not in vain. He carries Clarke with him and he can’t bear the thought of letting Clarke down. So The Head we must become.

Notice how Bellamy barely lets Echo speak. Notice how Bellamy interrupts her and is all ”Echo, Echo…” when she is trying to actually say something. Every time Echo brings up the past, Bellamy is there to push her to the future. Basically ”lets not look back, we’ve all done bad things, we need to be a team, we need to move forward” etc. Bellamy cannot stay in the past. That’s where all his pain is. That’s where he had to do horrible things. That’s where he left his sister alone. That’s where Clarke is dead. Bellamy is so traumatized by what happened that he is desperately pushing for the future. By the grace of God herself, Bellamy will bring them home and he will not allow Clarke’s death to be in vain. Has Bellamy admitted to himself why he is runing towards the future so hard? On the Surface, sure. But I Think any deeper would have been too painful for him. Logically he knows they need to move on and survive. But admitting to himself that Clarke’s death broke him and that’s why he is so adamant to push everything aside probably would have made it worse for him (see how he lashed out at Murphy for mentioning Clarke’s name in season 5).

The kiss Well… Why did we need to see them kiss? First of all, straight up because of the backlash from fans that we never got to see Becho get together. Here we kill two birds with one stone. They were gonna do a flashback either way, might as well answer that question too. Bellamy and Echo could have had that conversation without kissing and nothing would have changed, we would have understood the message. But you don’t spend time and money in Hollywood for nothing. You got the actors, you got the set, you got the time and you got the (new) chance to explain an undeveloped story? You kill two birds with one stone. But I believe there is a third stone in this equation.

”How do we show Echo becoming a shape-shifter right in front of us while also showing the audience where her complex relationship to Bellamy came from?”

You make Bellamy make the move on Echo. Bellamy shows her kindness, willingness to give her a new home and a new leader. Echo is willing to become loyal to Bellamy (shape-shifting moment from Echo kom Azgeda happens right in front of us, she becomes Echo kom spacekru) BUT how do we also make Echo confused about her feelings for Bellamy as we have seen her question in 7x01? They kiss and turns their spy/king dynamic on its ass. But also, most importantly, it keeps Bellarke from becoming canon. Echo pulls back because she did not expect that kiss from Bellamy. Bellamy is literally pleading with her, look at his damn face, he needs this, he needs to move on, he needs to work towards something or the past will swallow him whole. He literally kissed her so she’d stop talking about what is ”real”. Echo questioning what is real on the ring, means quesationing Bellamy’s belief that Clarke’s death will not have been in vain, they will do better, they must do better so they have to believe in it too. And thus begins Echo’s very complicated relationship with Bellamy. She gives him her loyalty and he becomes her leader. But they are human, alone and both attractive and she likes the kiss, so they both give in to that attraction. And it keeps Bellamy motivated on the future he so desperately thinks they can have; by moving on, by surving, by going back to the ground, by showing Clarke’s ”spirit” that he did it. Her Death was not in vain. Bellamy’ s intentions are good but oh boy did they come from his Clarke trauma. And that’s not fair on Echo. But she also needed him to follow and it worked on the ring, where nothing could touch them and there were no risks. Doesn’t work with Clarke back in Bellamy’s Life. Bellamy came alive when he got Clarke back. Echo lost her mind when she lost Bellamy because she lost her identity. Which Octavia talks to her about too, since Octavia lost her identity when Lincoln died.

In that one flashback we get to see how Becho got together (problem fixed), where Echo’s ACTIVE identity struggles started, where the lines between her king/her boyfriend are blurried, where Bellamy is desperately trying to be the man and leader Clarke asked him to be and ultimately the very real reasons Bellamy and Echo do not work. Bellamy told her that her loyalty is her weakness and still she has not worked through that, which we now get to see and it is not pretty. That’s not to say that they didn’t grow to love each other and become a family too (”We’re family and nothing will change that - 5x01). They did, they had to. Spacekru shared 6 years. But Jason wanted to tell us where Becho came from and why they came to be. Rooted in trauma. And instead of helping each other grow the way Bellarke do, they instead hold each other back. Echo needs to break free for herself and Bellamy needs his person, Clarke.

#becho #bellarke #the 100 #the 100 season 7

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the last one

Ambiguity.

Following the rules.

These are two things that do not really work together.

If you've followed the rules, you could still have ambiguity, but this is less likely. If you want to be ambiguous, following the rules might not work, unless you can twist it into a subversive act. For The 100 the rules only ever applied to Lexa.

Did they apply to anyone else who was beaten, shot or injured worse than she was? No.

Did they apply to physics? Nope.

Did they apply to continuity? No way.

But they applied to Lexa.

Only they made a mistake that had to be "corrected" at the last minute.

By the unfair rules of the unfair beings we never got to know or question the validity of, only those living could transcend, or, if they chose not to, return to their bodies on Earth.

This rule applied even to Emori and John, who both "died" physically, but remained "alive" in her mind drive.

Just so, Lexa and the other Commanders were "alive" within the Flame, they too could have "transcended" or chosen to return to Earth.

But a terrible, ugly trick was played on them and us.

This trick involved first allowing us to understand that Lexa lived within this digital museum, unable to escape, then they (briefly) allowed Clarke to have it, by a total blood transfusion supplied by Ontari (Perverse Instantiation 2, season 3).

This blood transfusion did not "take." For some reason, Clarke's blood reverted back to its "normal" state instead of making her a Nightblood. The Flame had to be immediately removed so she wouldn't die.

A year later she would receive a much smaller transfusion via Luna that would work. If the season 3 example was the rule, that a transfusion would not work, this is where they broke it.

So that once again we are teased with the idea of Clarke receiving the Flame, which, unlike the mind drives that do not allow more than one mind to co-exist with one body (that's the rule), so Clarke could have been connected to Lexa and her own consciousness uploaded to the Flame at the time of her death.

But no: suddenly there are Rules.

Suddenly Roan cares about them and Clarke is denied the Flame.

And the Flame goes into storage for some six years.

In season 5 Clarke's adopted Nightblood daughter, Madi, who, unlike Clarke, is considered a "natural" Nightblood (even though Nightblood is not naturally occurring, something Roan knew as did Octavia), is given the Flame, making her the next Commander.

Via Madi we learn that Lexa's consciousness does indeed exist within the Flame, not just a memory of her, but her actual self, or soul, if you like. Trapped there, with only Madi as a conduit by which to communicate, Lexa finally realized as a literal plot device. While Clarke has at least two opportunities to remove it (and DOES at one point), she never takes the Flame for herself, until finally, Madi locks her out of it by changing the passphrase. Convenient.

So close and yet so far.

We know Lexa no longer has a body; the only chance of her reuniting with Clarke is via the Flame or if the Flame could be downloaded to something akin to ALIE's City of Light program (aka Discount San Junipero). Fortunately, events are set in motion that lead them to a world, or a series of them, where that could be a possibility.

On Sanctum, we learn there is an earlier form of the Flame, called a mind drive; they were designed as "back-ups" for the colonists in case of death/accidents, so their knowledge would not be lost. Following the experiences of Red Sun Toxin where Russell Prime murdered a lot of people, including his daughter, he and Gabriel Santiago worked to re-engineer his daughter Josephine's mind drive so it could be used in another person's body. We are not shown the technology by which the embryos this team traveled with were gestated, but saw the "test tube" process on Bardo, so assume it must have been similar: Nightblood embryos grown to help populate the Alpha colony.

Thanks to Santiago's convenient genius, he successfully modifies the mind drive so it can be placed in another person, allowing Josephine's consciousness to "take over" the other, something akin to body snatching. This is, without a doubt, an unethical and straight-up evil process that Gabriel will come to regret.

With Clarke and her people's arrival on Sanctum, the tease of the Flame, so similar to the mind drives, both created by Becca, and such a burden to Madi, will find a new home, possibly within one of the Sanctum Nightbloods. But not so fast. This is an evil process and no one is likely to accept Lexa in any body but her own (especially Lexa). Not to mention the Flame does not function like a mind drive, allowing for a "take over" of its host.

But wait.

It seems there *is* an exception: the Dark Commander, aka Voldemort aka Carl the Asshole, has taken over Madi's mind and conveniently locked out all the other Commanders. Lexa is no longer allowed to communicate, but we are still reminded, via Clarke's mindspace, that her death is a deep trauma Clarke has never healed from, nor seems to want to be healed from. We don't know. Clarke is never allowed to talk about her.

On Sanctum we are introduced to the Anomaly, another piece of technology that has a distant connection to Becca, but this one causes hallucinations when you get near it, hallucinations on a theme that will find fulfillment in season 7: you will see something you desire or fear. On three different occasions, Clarke is close to the anomaly, or on her way in that direction...but then turns away from it. By the time she does go through it, the idea of "hallucinations" (only applied to Gabriel, Diyoza, Octavia and Echo) is conveniently forgotten.

Red Sun Toxin, just to be confusing, is a "natural" phenomenon that affects Sanctum, also causing hallucinations. The only hallucination Clarke experienced was the voice of her mother telling her to kill herself. At least three times during the course of the show it was implied Clarke would or should do this. If she had, would Cadogan have been the one to take the test? Or someone else? Clarke as the Real Problem is implied a lot throughout the series (even if these implications are incidental: like Bellamy, Clarke too, has had a few devils on her shoulder).

In any event, Clarke never experienced hallucinations from the Anomaly, though she went through it several times.

She did, however, experience the trauma of being trapped in her own mind, unable to escape. A very slight parallel to those existing on the Flame (though we never get to experience their reality, convenient), Clarke finds herself in a swirl of memory and imagination, a place where she "meets" her father and Monty again, but not the one person who personifies her trauma: Lexa. Josephine, sharing Clarke's mind space, taunts her over this. Prior in the season, Murphy taunted Clarke as well. In season 3, ALIE, via Raven, taunted Clarke. Lexa is a punch line to a joke that is neither funny nor finished: Clarke is never allowed to discuss her, much less mourn her. She is never allowed to move on or find fulfillment.

This is the rule above all other rules.

While Josephine personifies Gabriel's trauma, she is not hidden away anywhere. She is restored to life more than once, with his help, and she exists as a hallucination and ultimately trapped in her digital prison, never to escape.

Parallel for Clarke and Lexa? Yes and no. We're reminded that Josephine was evil and body snatching is bad and hallucinations are not the same as reality and sharing a mind space with someone isn't pleasant (and can lead to death).

Josephine the villain in contrast with Clarke the implied villain: funny how they did wind up sharing similar fates.

So, once again, any hope for Lexa to be seen or return, is dashed.

And Sanctum is filled with imagery to remind us of Polis, maybe how Polis might have looked if Lexa had lived and brought peace to her people. Sanctum is a Polis re-imagined, if grounders and skaikru had worked together to upgrade and rebuild.

Only Sanctum isn't Polis, it is the home of monsters and their cult, making it more like Mt. Weather, part 2.

We are reminded of Lexa constantly in season 6: from the use of her bed in Josephine's room, the architectural designs, the use of familiar props and, most of all, Lexa's face painted all over Clarke's mind space. In any other story, we could easily infer that we are being primed (no pun) to see her again. That she (and the other Commanders) will be set free from their digital prison).

Partly right.

One Commander is set free: the Dark One, aka Carl the Asshole. He fulfills the tease of a technological rebirth from the Flame by jumping his code into Russell Prime's mind drive and, soon after, taking over.

Meanwhile, the Flame, forcibly removed from Madi, is seemingly destroyed. But there is no comment on whether or not other Commanders survived. At the end of season 6, hope is still kept alive that, like Carl, Lexa's code might have moved somewhere else.

At the beginning of season 7, both Clarke and Gaia assume the Flame and all that lived on it are lost and bury the object, along with Abby's wedding ring on Sanctum. One final "May we meet again" seems to resonate as a promise, but the Commanders are never discussed again. Not even Lexa.

Sanctum, incidentally, has a nuclear power station (how did they build THAT) and, most oddly, Martha Stewart's house, in pristine condition with beautiful wood floors, modern kitchen and appliances. This house seems completely out of place on this world. But rules do not apply here, anymore than they did for Becca's mansion or lab, still magically powered and pristine after 97 years of abandonment.

And they certainly do not apply to the Anomaly that may or may not temporarily erase your memories if you go through it and may or may not age you or de-age you based on your relation to it, may or may not be sentient and give you strange tattoos for no discernible reasons and may or may not have been built by aliens we will never meet, or a race of higher beings we never really meet either.

Through the anomaly we go on to visit different planets that are meant to embody Samsara or some other vaguely Buddhist concepts (rebirth, reincarnation being the most obvious, themes that have recurred since season 2 and yet another tease connected to Lexa, who first brought up the idea to Clarke).

The most significant of these planets is Bardo, which used to be home to the Bardoans (go figure), and is currently the home of the descendants of the Second Dawn cult that started on Earth about 250 years prior.

On Bardo, we are given more technology that would make a return possible: they use a CoL-type of simulation system; they can even clone people without need for a human incubator. They have technology that allows them to look into your memories. In fact, we get the briefest of flashes of Lexa from Octavia's m-cap procedure and later, from Madi's, but, conveniently, we are never shown Clarke's. We only see Echo, Octavia, Diyoza and Hope connected to the simulation program. Anomaly-induced hallucinations are conveniently forgotten (the next time Gabriel hallucinates Josephine, its due to red sun toxin).

And what can be said about Bellamy's experiences on Etherea? We're not supposed to believe it. We're supposed to believe he's being brainwashed. We had no reason to believe otherwise. But JR's middle finger was already in motion.

Before the end, we are given hope for the Flame again, with Gabriel repairing it via Sanctums' memory reader technology and it is well on the way to working when Gabriel, conveniently hallucinating Josephine, decides Cadogan is not worthy of taking the "test" and shoots the Flame before it can complete its repair.

Is hope lost?

The Flame is never brought up again. The lives that were likely lost on it are not mourned. It is simply abandoned with no moment suggesting anyone's code survived. It is, we can only assume, completely dead, as well as those who existed on it. A moment of revival that would have allowed Lexa to transcend, or choose to stay behind, is denied. At the last minute.

Hope kept alive, teased, again and again, and, without knowing the ultimate consequences, we believe the Flame might have been partially restored and uploaded, leaving open the possibility that Lexa's code might be out there somewhere, maybe having jumped to another system or mind drive.

The repair of the Flame, just like the retrieval of Madi's memory book, as it all turns out, was for nothing. Bellamy dies for nothing and Lexa, once again, dies for nothing.

Cadogan violently extracts the information he needs from Madi, without any concern for her and she is left abandoned, unable to escape her mental imprisonment. Her last moments were a horror show. The last Commander left trapped in her own mind, like the Commanders before her, like Clarke, briefly.

"Commanders die Madi, badly. I won't let that happen to you." The cruelty really does seem to be the point. And Clarke is further screwed when, in anger, she shoots Cadogan dead before he can complete the test.

Hope is now well and truly lost.

Clarke has lost all of her loved ones and she is about to be judged, by a being wearing the face of the one she loved most, of the one who never judged her or would have allowed her to be judged by others.

The rest is just a scramble for a last-minute reprieve for whatever remains of the human race, without any questioning of logic or the rules that govern this logic.

By the rules, Lexa could have transcended or joined Clarke on Earth (remember Rothenberg’s rule how no one dead comes back on this show? He kept Lexa alive to make that rule seem like it wouldn’t apply to her. Funny.)

But thanks to Gabriel's needless act (one that condemned Madi's last moments to pain and horror), she is denied. So close, so far. Always.

** The story of star-crossed lovers (a rose by any other name?) is never played out by Clarke and Lexa.

The Clexa love story passed to Bellamy and Echo, now to Murphy and Emori. The ground met the sky. Emori "died" but Murphy got to do what Clarke was never allowed with Lexa: to join her, sharing the Flame her mind drive. In their "death" they are allowed to transcend, then choose to return to Earth.

When Clarke is told of her fate, to live out her life without ever being able to transcend (the rules must apply), she never asks the Judge about Lexa. Did she transcend or is she lost? Like Clarke, we are allowed to *see* Lexa again, knowing it isn't her, but we are never allowed to talk about her. Clarke never mourned her. Even in burying the Flame, she said nothing. Lexa was allowed no memory, no word, no moment of resolution. She was snuffed out like a candle with the final implication that, in Clarke's universe, she is simply gone, to be soon forgotten as if she never existed.

In Rothenberg's script, he had indicated the intention to imply a budding relationship for Clarke with Gaia; the actress was not available however, so nothing was done with it. But that was his intention. Give another character Lexa's face then watch Clarke go off into the last sunset with someone else.

I'm glad Tati Gabrielle's availability denied him that. It was probably the kindest thing, considering how cruel he was to Lexa (and even Madi), and by extension, her fans.

Rothenberg made sure that Lexa did not matter. She made no difference. She was lost and never spoken of again. Clarke, it is implied by the finale, will go on with her "friends.” She did not ask after Lexa or hope for a reunion with her. The show made it clear whatever rules it respected would only apply to Lexa. There is no ambiguity in that.

Just as he left Bellamy's death completely unambiguous, he made a false equivalence with Lexa: both shot dead (others survive shots to the chest, falling off cliffs, shock collars, etc, but not those two), both denied transcendence, both killed by someone close to them. Both dead for nothing. Both were right about what they believed.

Only one was spoken of and openly mourned: Bellamy.

For Lexa: nothing.

Rothenberg said he was honoring Clexa in this story. I fail to see how. Their "love story" was co-opted and given to a straight couple (two of them, actually). Lexa was continually denied the opportunity to return. Clarke was continually denied the chance to mourn. Lexa's image was used to judge Clarke, something she would never have done. It mocked Clarke and her pain and thus, ours.

The Judge!Lexa was not her and while it might be fun for some to fantasize about the possibilities (and knock yourselves out, we need all the re-writing we can get), that's not what Rothenberg was doing. He wanted, as he always wanted, maximum pain. Delicious pain.

There was nothing kind about this finale and very little of it made sense. It didn't follow from where the show had been and simply pretended as if we had been on this path all along.

Anyone could have played Clarke's judge. Abby. Jake. Using Lexa's face was meant to inflict pain. I can find no other way to interpret it. Rothenberg says they were acknowledging that Lexa was the love of Clarke's life. We know that. If they really wanted to acknowledge it, honor it, why not have the Judge on the beach be Abby? Why not have her tell Clarke that she isn't alone, that someone came back for her? And why couldn't that person have been Lexa?

Just a few moments of screen time that would have thrilled, brought good will and given the same Black Mirror-y resolution as he got with bringing that crowd of people back. People who spent a long time not really liking or appreciating Clarke. Why did Hope return? Why did Jordan? They don't really know her. Why did Jackson and Miller? What do they owe her? Indra? Why?

The only person, who made sense for Clarke to see, in those last moments on that beach, was Lexa.

But Rothenberg made sure to end her chances again, this time with a not-so-random bullet. Titus might have been written to kill Lexa on accident, but Gabriel wasn't.

So I don't buy Rothenberg's post-show explanations. What he put on screen was cruel and mocking and whatever he says about it now reveals he is either completely without self-awareness or he is absolutely full of it.

Personally, I don’t think there is any ambiguity here. Good riddance to him.

Long live Lexa. Long live the fans.

Boom. Out.

#the 100 #the last one #jason rothenberg #lexa #clexa #season 7 #the 100 finale #the last of the long ones

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first line - tag game

Rules: List the first line of your last 20 stories (if you have less, list them all.) See if you can find any patterns and choose your favorite opening line. Tag your favorite authors!

Tagged by @slyth-princess and @sparklyfairymira! Thanks, lovelies!

Cross my head | bellarke | gallagher girls au (wip)

Normal girls graduate high school, and then they go off to college with their friends.

Twice in a lifetime | linctavia | s7 fix-it

One moment, Octavia is huddled over Levitt’s blood-stained body, and the next, she’s opening her eyes to bright light.

Something’s gotta give | linctavia | modern au smut

Growing up, Octavia never imagined herself as a mom.

I’m gonna get myself back home to you | bellarke | s4/5 canon divergent (wip)

No regrets.

Intertwining your soul (with somebody else) | bellarke | canonverse au (wip)

Inhale. Exhale. Release.

More than you bargained for | bellarke + roan | arranged marriage smut

Clarke loves mornings, that world between the nightmares that come with sleep and the wars that come with being awake.

Peace on Earth (let it begin with us) | bellarke | cannonverse au

When Clarke had wished for peace during the winter solstice festival the night before, this is not what she had meant.

If you’ve got it, haunt it | bellarke | halloween modern au

There are two things you need to know about Clarke Griffin.

But if this man came up to me | bellarke | TikTok au

Octavia had finally convinced Clarke to download TikTok, and Clarke had quickly become obsessed with the app.

Whatever may come, you heart I will choose | bellarke | s7 fix-it

There was no test, no final war.

Finding reasons not to leave | bellarke | small town au

When Clarke moved back to Arkadia, Texas, she had little expectations for how she would fit back into her hometown.

Darling you and me, we can take the world | bellarke | s7 spec smut lol the hope I had

You're in an endless desert with a vast purple sky.

Amor vincit omnia | bellarke | s7 rewrite (wip)

Today is a good day.

Exhale | bellarke | s7 spec

Clarke didn't know what to expect when the anomaly opened up.

She called you for 2,199 days | bellarke | s4/5 canon divergent

For years, Madi made fun of Clarke for the radio calls.

May We Meet Again | bellarke | historic spies au

“I should have said no to this assignment.”

The Day He Shut That Rocket Door | bellarke | just pure angst

Bellamy’s breath caught when he first entered the room.

More Wolf Than Woman | bellarke | clarke character study

Bellamy once told me, "who we are and who we have to be to survive are two very different things."

The Other Side - Ruelle | bellarke | s1 canonverse au

“Clarke! They’re taking down the gate,” Miller stumbles into the dropship, where Clarke is leaned over an unconscious Raven.

The Choices We Make | bellarke | greys anatomy au (wip)

Clarke wakes up to the sun streaming in from the blinds, her mouth dry and head pounding.

*******

As wordy as I am, I have a lot of short statement opening lines. lol

I don’t really have a favorite because I lowkey hate every fic opener I’ve ever written. lol But I will share one of my favorite last lines, from Whatever may come, your heart I will choose (aka: my “fuck you, Jason, this is canon now” fic lol):

He was alive, and he was whole, and he was hers.

*******

tagging/saying hi: @burninghoneyatdusk @kancjs @bookwormforalways @andromedabennet @writetheniteaway @eyessharpweaponshot @virgohotspot @valkyrhys

#tag games #madison writes things #bellarke fanfiction

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(Lots of) Thoughts on 7x10

I finally watched 7x10 and OMG THIS WAS MY FAVORITE EPISODE YET. All my favorite characters in one place. No more flashbacks. Emotional interactions included. Fast Paced and dramatic. I felt like I could root for my characters. Scenes I have wanted for ages. *chef’s kiss* Perfection.

The Madi-Sheidheda scene was intense and dramatic and I loved it. Happy to see sheidhead drop the Russel ruse it was getting old.

I will NEVER get over Murphy and Kru’s absolute love and protection of Madi this season. They are all her parents and I’m here for it. And Murphy calming her down scene was so cute. I have to say Murphy and Emori have been my favorite characters this season.

The Indra-Sheidheda fight scene was intense and BADASS. It gave me huge Roan-Lexa fight vibes. And I seriously can’t take Sheidheda serious in his new outfit, he just looks like a punk teenager, like where the fuck did he get a vest with spikes on it? . And Madi finally fighting back and stabbing him was cool. And Indra kneeling to protect Madi was cute, although frustrating to see him win.

the CLARKTAVIA HUG!!!! It was sooo sweet. I swear that 10 seconds of them hugging is all I’ve wanted for YEARS. I know a relationship will never happen between them so I’m long past hoping for that, but just seeing them openly care about eachother again was so cute and satisfying. Ngl that’s what made the episode for me.

Echo dropping the act was satisfying, although sad to see her torn apart to the point of wanting to kill everyone.

Honestly I’ve enjoyed the bits and pieces we’ve seen of Niylah this season. She’s kinda dorky and teasing and adorable? She seems like somone I could totally meet in real life and be friends with. Her character reminds me that they are still just normal people and barley adults.

I really like Jordan this season, much more than I did last season. He was really nerdy and dorky in this episode and it was cute. And Gabriel is chill as fuck. And I like the Niylah and Jordan team, they act kinda like siblings.

Seeing Octavia choose her people over Levitt so easily was really satisfying. Like I’m glad she was happy with him for a while but he certainly isn’t my favorite character. I’m glad they didn’t make that a whole thing.

Okay but apart from the claktavia hug, the Highlight of this episode was the Echo-Raven interaction. Is was so sweet and satisfying to see the writers finally acknowledge that they spent 6 years together in space. That they are SISTERS. I’m glad it was Raven that talked her out of instead of Clarke or kru, that scene and the acting in it really brought the episodes to another level. Also Tasya is an amazing actor.

HAPPY TO SEE ANDERS DIE. I was so sick of him. On the other hand I already knew Diyoza wasn’t gonna make it but I was much sadder about her death then I thought I would be. Octavia dragging Hope out of the room was heartbreaking. Especially knowing Hope is never gonna forgive herself.

In conclusion, what I think made this episode so good was the heartfelt and emotional interactions between characters, especially ones we haven’t seen interact in a long time. The acting/writing/filming was very good, the episode was faster paced and more intese, the stakes were higher, and the characters acted very in-character. It was complicated but not over complicated. This episode has me excited for the rest of the season, and reminded me a lot of earlier seasons which I miss.

Also I saw that Bellamy is alive? Can’t say anybody is surprised. If you’ve read my other posts about the 100 then you’ll probably know that I haven’t been a big fan of Bellamy or his acting after season 5, but honestly I’m really curious what he (and Gaia?) have been up to on that planet. And a little excited to see the others reactions when they figure out he’s alive. However him being alive makes me sad because I doubt he’s gonna die agian this season, which means it’s likely Clarke or Octavia will die in the finale which I really don’t want.

Anyways, good episode, lots of positive feedback from me. I haven’t enjoyed spending time on tumblr recently cause all the negative posts about this seasons make me sad and frustrated, so if y’all have anything positive to say about episodes then please share it, lots of us need and are happy to read it.

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Just Some Observations on Lokies Journey Into Mystery.

I feel like if they bring Kid Loki out of the void to be apart of the Young Avengers line up that he would definitely bring Gator Loki with him.

I love how the other Loki’s are kind of intimidated by Slyvie to the point they quickly abandoned Loki’s plan.

Since Sylivie Asgard was deleted from existence then that means Her Asgard and her People would have been sent to the Void to die/be imprisoned if they do survived. Wonder if any Asgardians survived Althioth?

So yeah I’m disappointed that we didn’t get to see any ruins of Asgard while we were in the Void. In Less the ruins of Asgard have been taken over by Loki’s? It would be kind of cool not gonna lie.

Sometimes a family isn’t just a mom, dad and a couple of kids. Sometimes a family is a Loki, A Slyvie, a Grandpa/Classic Loki, a kid Loki and his pet Gator Loki and their Mobius.

Soooo….some one just happen to leave the keys in the pizza car??? Or that it actually still runs after being stuck in the void for how long now?

Also…how is Frog Thor still alive? He’s stuck in a jar buried in the dirt? He should have either suffocated or starved by now? Also I’m pretty sure Kid Loki found him and buried him.

Yellow giant went big instead of small so got sent to the void to be eaten!

If Thanos copter is there that means there’s a good chance Thanos got eaten.

Also what is that Gizmo Kid Loki is carrying? Did he invent it? Did he find it? Do you think he watch Classic Loki sacrifice himself for the other two? Or do you think he turn to look for him and saw he was gone and assumed Classic Loki abandoned him?

Now that Grandpa Loki is gone who’s gonna take care of Kid Loki and his Gator? Do you think he misses his mother?

Not gonna lie Classic Loki re-edition of Asagard is cooler looking the actual Asgard.

So…if the Dagger basically is a crutch that with holds Loki from realizing their full magical potential…does that mean Odin realized immediately that Loki would grow to be even more powerful then him or Thor so basically forced them to use the Dagger and basically make them think the dagger is their most valuable tool to insure that they never reach their full magical potential?

Does that mean it’s possible we have a Loki Variant that said screw the dagger I’m gonna focus on my magic?

Also Loki is channeling his James Conrad.

So the TVA basically insures the “Good Guys” always win? Which means any conflict we see in past Marvel movies where a bad guy may win is void of true suspense because even if they do win the TVA will just come in arrest the bad guy and reset the time line to insure the good guy wins - even if it means they have to reset the time line over and over again?

How many bad guys from the same time line got arrested because the hero was bad at winning? How many times do you think Roan got pruned before he “fell” for Quills dancing trick?

So in the Void…do you not age while living within the Void? Or do Asgardians age that slowly that one could be stuck as a kid for for 100 or so years before actually aging up?

Imagine being stuck as a 5 year old for 100-1000 before hitting 6 and going through another long ass years before hitting seven. Would imagine that would make celebrating birthdays a bit tricky.

I wonder if any TVA agents are Asgardians?

#Loki #loki tva #Loki observations #mcu loki #marvel studios loki #marvel studios #mcu tva #variant loki #disney+#marvel

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The 100 Rewatch - All Seasons Ranked

*spoiler alert*

1️⃣ Season 5: 9.5/10

▪️What was good:

Everything BLODREINA

The conflicts between characters were intriguing and well developed

How cool were new characters??? (by that I mean Diyoza and Madi, obviously)

It was refreshing to see new bonds/alliances: Spacekru fam (Raven/Murphy/Emori or Bellamy/Echo), Wonkru stans (Octavia/Miller/Nylah), Clarke/Madi, etc.

How did they manage to pull off decent plot twists in almost every episode?

▪️What was bad:

Let's rush Raven into a relationship because why not

Why didn't we get an episode of Spacekru flashbacks like we did of Clarke/Madi and Wonkru?

Blowing up Earth once again is starting to get old...

▪️MVPs:🥇Octavia🥈Echo🥉Murphy

▪️Favorite episodes:🥇Damocles Part I (5x12)🥈The Red Queen (5x02)🥉Exit wounds (5x06)

▪️Favorite line: <<You are Wonkru or you are the enemy of Wonkru. Choose.>> Octavia

2️⃣ Season 2: 9/10

▪️What was good:

The mystery behind Mount Weather kept me 100% invested

Introducing grounder culture, definitely a highlight of the show

The beginning of morally-questionable decisions and trust issues

The developement of Kane & Abby's relationship was sweet

Finn & Anya's deaths as a ´no one's safe on this show' reminder

▪️What was bad:

Really? Another underdeveloped love interest for Raven?

Not enough scenes of Mount Weather kru (Jasper+Monty+Harper+Miller+Fox+etc)

Jaha, Murphy & Co's journey to the CoL was dragged across too many episodes

THAT JAHA & BABY EPISODE, WHAT WAS THAT?

▪️MVPs:🥇Bellamy🥈Lexa🥉Maya

▪️Favorite episodes:🥇 Blood must have blood Part II (2x16)🥈Coup de grace (2x11)🥉The 48 (2x01)

▪️Favorite line: <<Maybe life should be about more than just surviving.>> Clarke

3️⃣ Season 4: 8.5/10

▪️What was good:

Simple easy-to-understand plot (basically finding a solution to a big problem) that allowed more time for character development & interactions

More screentime for the grounders, which is always a good idea - Echo&Emori&Indra&Roan&Luna thank you for existing!

They did a great job at showing that the concept of 'antagonist' is very relative as the protagonists are forced into an alliance with Azgeda

The season finale was epically epic

▪️What was bad:

Octavia and Illian WHY COULDN'T THEY JUST BE BUDDIES

Luna going psycho in the Conclave without a heads up - it would have been nice to have a hint or something in a previous episode...

Raven spending more than half of the season in the lab was not so fun (don't get me wrong, her storyline was great BUT they dragged it across too many episodes)

▪️MVPs:🥇Octavia🥈Clarke🥉Raven

▪️ Favorite episodes:🥇 Die all, die merrily (4x11)🥈The tinder box (4x05)🥉Praimfaia Part II (4x13)

▪️Favorite line: <There's nothing like a little pain to remind you you're alive.> Raven

4️⃣ Season 7: 7.5/10 (until 7x07)

▪️What is good:

Time dialation in the different planets is such a cool concept! (>>time travel)

Indra being THE BOSS

So far they have been successful at making us care about most of the new characters (Hope & Nikki Bang Bang are so cool!)

▪️What is bad:

What is this Raven redemption storyline? Completely unnecessary at this point...

No main character has died YET - it's the final season & we're ready for some shocking/emotional deaths!

Yet another love interest for Octavia?? SINGLE & HAPPY AREN'T INCOMPATIBLE, PEOPLE! *let's pretend we didn't see Jordan flirting with Raven*

▪️MVPs:🥇Indra🥈Echo🥉Murphy

▪️Favorite episodes:🥇 Hesperides (7x04)🥈The garden (7x02)🥉The queen's gambit (7x07)

▪️Favorite line: <Faith may be blind but loyalty isn't.> Indra

5️⃣ Season 3: 6.5/10

▪️What was good:

Smart writing overall

They had us REALLY stanning the team plotting against Pike (Kane, Miller, Harper, Octavia, Abby)

ALLIE's recruitment process was terrifyingly amazing

▪️What was bad:

They did a poor job of connecting and transitioning between the Pike plot and the ALLIE plot, they simply took turns dedicating an episode to one or the other towards the middle of the season EVEN THOUGH everything was happening in Arkadia

Too much blood/graphic violence, even for this show

Things happened too quickly, characters were 'transformed' with no/very little build-up

While the rest of the deaths had a significant impact (whether you liked them or not), Sinclair's was a filler as it did not seem to affect the plot

▪️MVPs:🥇Kane🥈Lincoln🥉Octavia

▪️Favorite episodes:🥇 Stealing fire (3x09)🥈Ye who enter here (3x03)🥉Perverse instantiation Part II (3x16)

▪️Favorite line: <<Get knocked down, get back up again.>> Lincoln

6️⃣ Season 6: 5.5/10

▪️What was good:

The first couple of episodes with team explorers & team spaceship (I was all in for the Raven-Diyoza-Madi trio) were SO promising

The Clarke/Josephine scenes were GOLD - were we supposed to like Josephine that much?

Raven, Murphy & Co giving Clarke shit for her actions in S5 was satisfying

▪️What was bad:

Raven & Echo didn't even get a storyline and Indra was gone pretty much all season

Kane & Abby's deaths weren't as meaningful/emotional as they could have been - after S5 their deaths made a lot of people happy

The Octavia & Diyoza arc was dragged across too many episodes

Body-snatching isn't very original & the Primes plot wasn't really trascendent since they almost all died by the end of the season

The finale was dissapointing, there was no tension whatsoever

▪️MVPs:🥇Josephine🥈Diyoza🥉Emori

▪️Favorite episodes:🥇 The old man and the anomaly (6x08)🥈The red sun (6x02)🥉 Sanctum (6x01)

▪️Favorite line: <<[enters #102 into the lock to open the chest] You forgot Bellamy and Raven.>> Clarke

7️⃣ Season 1: 5.5/10

▪️What was good:

Original plot

The establishment of Clarke & Bellamy as co-leaders was beautifully written

Raven IT WON'T SURVIVE ME Reyes

▪️What was bad:

Is it a scifi show or a teenage drama with love triangles & cheesy lines?

The special effects & spooky transitions were not very impressive

Most characters felt very one-dimensional

They never explained why Lincoln sided with the delinquents? All we got was: well he drew Octavia in his notebook so he's good!

▪️MVPs:🥇Raven🥈Jasper🥉Clarke

▪️Favorite episodes:🥇 We are grounders Part II (1x13) Murphy's law🥈(1x04)🥉Unity Day (1x09)

▪️Favorite line: <<We're back, bitches!>> Octavia

✨May we meet again✨

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My thoughts on The 100 7x05

Hey, guys,

Sorry for not doing any comments on the last two episodes. I’ve been a little busy and I struggled to connect to the show, so it hindered my enjoyment, but it’s all better now. Liked episode 4 and 5 was even better, jampacked with info and it answered a lot of questions.

Welcome to Bardo

Badass Octavia is da bomb (people don��t say that anymore, right?). When she was captured in episode two, I thought she had lost her fighting spirit, but it’s back, bitches. Well, until she runs into an invisible wall trying to escape. She’s captured and transported to M-cap (whatever that means). Then we get a welcome little flashback to Lincoln but it’s obvious that Bellamy would be the hand reaching out. He’s her rock, like she’s expressed many times.

Unlike John Murphy who is not quite a friend, or family and definitely not a lover. Introducing so many new characters in the final season of a show is never a good idea, because this is the time to wrap up all the stories of the existing ones, but come on, who cannot love Levitt. Even when he first meets Octavia, he doesn’t want to hurt her. Jason, you better not harm one hair on this precious little puppy’s head!

As he binges The 100 through Octavia’s eyes, he starts rooting for her, and he actually gives a damn, unlike most people on this show. He understands her strengths and weaknesses and he makes her see it too. “You’re a warrior to be sure, but your heart is pure.” Wow, what an honest and beautiful line. (Scroll down for my shipping comments.)

So is O and Hope’s fleeting little reunion. It’s amazing to experience this deep loving side of Octavia after her darkness. She’s truly one of the most diverse and developed characters on the series. Now Hope and her resilience is quickly making it to the top as well.

While Hope is trying to send her back home, we learn that memory loss is due to the time dilation. One quick note on this, it’s not linear, there’s no easy equation to calculate it unless you’re Stephen Hawking or Einstein. I don’t think it’s constant either. 10 years on Skyring = 11 days on Bardo = a few minutes on Sanctum. In the current time, 5 years on Skyring = 1 day on Sanctum = 7 days on Bardo. So, it’s clear that the planets are moving, and other factors are playing into the phenomenon. It’s more important to understand the time relative to each planet.

Levitt was the one who tattooed Hope’s code onto O’s back, also the one who planted the note into Hope’s arm. Indeed the kind of man you want on the inside, he even accepts a blow to the face as thank you.

Sheep-ish?

Thirty minutes on the clock and the trio gets led to a congregation to praise the shepherd. I never thought it was Anders, I do, however think it might be Cadogan. The Bordoan’s built the underground forest because they destroyed their planet. Ugh, what’s new? The shepherd herded his sheep from earth to Bardo via the stone. Cadogan and his second dawn cult?

Back to Clarke. So, after last episode I thought ‘the key to winning the last war’ line was an artifice for luring Clarke to disciples, but now it’s clearly true. They’ve located the key and they will win the last war. Levitt was interested in Clarke surviving the City of Light with the flame in her head, they probably assume she still has it. Cadogan burned Becca alive. Could it be because of the flame? Is this all because of that damn little chip that can’t seem to die?

Bellamy is not dead, I repeat, Bellamy is not dead! I believe that memory could be staged or implanted for a reason. Also, there’s no body, he jumped through the bridge. In the promo photos, he wears a ring but his actions towards Octavia seem a little cold and generic. On first watch, I thought it was bad acting but if he was programmed to do this, it makes sense.

Note the sequence of events. Octavia returned 7 days ago and was asked to talk her brother down, but we don’t see the actual scene. Instead we’re shown a memory. They could have implanted it to make her vulnerable and perhaps more susceptible to the procedure. I don’t know, but this theory could lead to Robot-sheep!Bellamy on Nakara, where he’ll encounter Clarke and the gang.

I have to be honest, I really don’t like this character arc for Bellamy. It’s unoriginal and a mime of Peeta’s storyline in Mockingjay. Sorry, but so far it feels like the writers were so over the show, they just wanted to get it done. And that attitude really bleeds into one’s creative concepts. I could be completely wrong, in fact, I hope I am.

Echo spins a Finn

My word, I lost the love of my life once, but I sure didn’t kill anyone. When Echo received that vision of Roan, I was hoping for some progression on her individual arc, they’ve made me care about her, and now we get the opposite. Why? One thing I have to admit, a killer performance from Tasya Teles! No pun intended.

Look, this show hasn’t explored Bellamy and Echo’s relationship enough to make her murder believable. It was the exact same thing with Finn. I wasn’t invested in Finn and Clarke’s connection, so his actions of killing a grounder tribe was more repulsive than understandable. Sure, Echo loves Bellamy and her sole purpose is to save him, but I’ve never truly witnessed their love for each other. They had one or two intimate scenes which cannot compel a deed like this. And in the process, she screwed Hope and Diyoza.

Anyway, I don’t think there’s any coming back from it. She murdered an innocent person in cold blood. That’s sure to open a door to the dark side. Just look at Octavia after killing Pike and her actions were justified by jus drein jus daun.

Say Sanctum three times slowly and it sounds like… Sanctum

Blind faith

Look, I’m just gonna come out and say this song is getting old. Every episode featuring Sanctum is the exact same thing with different lines. Can we please move on from it, already? Yes, we know the COG want Russel dead, and the adjusters will go to extreme lengths to free Russel and the prisoners are background noise.

I did appreciate Nelson stepping in to try and save the girl, though. Still doesn’t save the fact that it’s repetitive. The Sanctum plotline is really struggling to take shape and I hope it happens soon. Dramatic eyeroll.

At least in the drought of a desert, you can always count on Murphy. “…I say we live and let die.” Typical cockroach line, right, but it’s ironic when he’s the one to step up, even if it is for Emori. Under the magnifying glass it’s the exact same plot as episode 1 and 3. He hesitates to take action, and eventually becomes the hero.

I mean, he saved that poor kid from being burned alive. Can you imagine sacrificing your own child in such a horrific away? Cults are beyond whacked, and, unfortunately, it’s reality that cult members are so blinded by their faith that they do not see rhyme or reason.

How did Murphy fail that test? I didn’t. When Trey named the four pillars, I thought, isn’t rejoice one of them? Surely, a cockroach would have smelled that trap a mile away.

Indra the great

Can we just give a massive round of applause to Adina Porter!!! That powerhouse walk vibrates strength and majesty, damn, she should be a false god, I wouldn’t dare threaten her with or without an army.

Three little words was all it took for her to recognize evil. “There’s a spider on your shoulder.” Smooth. Too bad she can’t kill him. Why not, how many of the faithful are left to cause an uproar? Wonkru doesn’t know it’s Sheidheda, they won’t care, the COG will fall in line and the prisoners will be happy as long as they get their compound. Sorry, I don’t get it and I don’t understand why she doesn’t tell anyone. Someone please explain?

Granted, JR Bourne as Russel is way better, but I still don’t understand his actions. I hope they explore and explain him more, because he still feels flat unless he knows something of this final war. I’m hoping these two storylines align soon since it’s really driving a wedge between me and my love for the show.

Shipwreck

I’ll start with the easy stuff, Murphy, Emori and the perfect dress gets a heart eye emoji from me. They are so damn cute this season, can they please live happily ever after in the palace?

Octabriel vs Levittavia

Now, I enjoy Levitt fangirling over Octavia. I feel like he has a deep sense of her through her memories. If I have to root for an underdeveloped relationship, it will have to be one where the characters share thoughts and experiences even if it is through a sick, sci-fi procedure.

On the other hand, Gabriel and Octavia have immense chemistry, two seconds of them together bends my mouth into an “Aah, cute” pout. This will also add some approval and representation for mixed racial relationships.

I really don’t mind either way as long as they make me care through showing and not telling.

Bellarke

So, if my theory is correct, and Bellamy does end up on Nakara, Bellarke will encounter each other quite soon. Bellamy won’t be himself though, but he might pretend to be Bellamy to win Clarke’s co-operation. Is there hope for Bellarke yet?

Echo is now trotting a dangerous path and Bellamy might be pledged to a cause, so I doubt there will be a happy ending for Becho. Since 7x01 I’ve been thinking that the writers might want to develop something between Clarke and Gaia but if they are separated, is there enough time? Guess we’ll see.

This monster of a review is finally done… If you read through everything, you deserve a gold star! Let me know what you think, till we meet again…

#The 100 #the100 7x05 #the100 season 7 #octavia blake #levitt the 100 #hope diyoza #bellamy blake #echo #john murphy #indra kom trikru #gabriel #bellarke #sheidheda

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Okay as frustrated as I am to not see Bellamy Blake on my TV (for a few more weeks as rumored) after waiting over a YEAR for my favorite show to return, I’m excited that he’s part of the bigger anomaly story. Also being that I work in PR, I TOTALLY felt the whole #WhereIsBellamy in the promotional materials is intentional because it aligns with the main plot this season. We’re doing EXACTLY what they are wanting us to do by tweeting and questioning where Bellamy is because it’s giving the show more attention. I do see the negative impact and how it’s frustrating many fans but to be honest, when they say “all press is good press” they aren’t necessarily lying... just saying that the buzz it is generating could all be part of their master marketing campaign to go out with a bang.

I also feel like the premise of Bellamy missing and having our favs (obvi led by Clarke once she finds out he’s gone) go after him somewhat parallels season 6A of Teen Wolf when Stiles was taken by the Ghostriders. We SAW how determined Lydia was to get him back and how she fought against all odds to remember him even when the people closest to him couldn’t (Scott and his dad) and I predict it will be pretty much the same once Clarke realizes what happened. AND it’s notable that we’re in the last season for both series when Bellamy/Stiles went missing when the season prior it was Clarke/Lydia in trouble then saved by Bellamy/Stiles almost singlehandedly. (And low key brought back to life by their SOULMATE/ANCHOR). So even despite the negativity and pessimistic attitude in fandom currently, I just can’t shake the similarity and am optimistic that we will see a somewhat similar ending: with Bellamy being saved by Clarke and for them to finally acknowledge their feelings after all this time.

I mean The 100 has different plot lines and a new villain every season, but one constant (other than Bellarke separation and reunion) is Bellarke protecting/saving each other: ie. season 1 when Bellamy saved Clarke from Dax, season 2 when Clarke escaped Mt Weather to find out if Bellamy (and Finn) were alive/Bellamy and Finn going out to search for Clarke and the others, season 3 when Bellamy crosses the Azgeda army to get to Clarke who was being held by Roan + saving her from the “attack” on Polis (which ended up being on Mt Weather) and then later on going back to protect her in the tower at Polis when she was being held by her chipped mom, season 4 when Clarke made a deal with Roan (sacrificing 50 people) to save Bellamy + sacrificed herself to save her friends from Primfaya, season 5 when Bellamy poisoned his sister to save Clarke + Clarke risking Madi’s safety to let her go with Echo to save Bellamy (and Wonkru), and most recently season 6 when Bellamy LITERALLY BROUGHT CLARKE BACK FROM DEATH. Now Clarke has to save him (at any cost I predict) from whatever enemy is controlling the anomaly by traveling across the UNIVERSE. I mean how epic?!?

The one thing I can’t decide is whether we will tackle the anomaly plot line first or the Sheidheda/Sanctum civil war plot line first. Personally, I feel like we may have to deal with Sanctum first while understanding the anomaly and then later in the season finally save the Blake’s from wherever they are. Because I can’t see them offering Bellarke the time to reunite and admit their feelings if the threat of Sheidheda is still looming but I’m not sure. Idk I’m just excited for what’s ahead!

#the 100 #bellarke #bellamy blake #clarke griffin #the 100 season 7 #the 100 speculation #small rant #parallels #teen wolf #stydia #teen wolf season 6

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The 100: 7x01 From the Ashes

Disclaimer: This post is about the episode of the show The 100, From the Ashes, the season 7 premiere, and only about it. In this post, I will NOT be discussing any original scripts, unused takes, bloopers, behind the scene photos or videos, scribbled notes exchanged between the writers, or any tweets, Instagram posts, SMS or e-mails by any of the cast or crew members, considering the fact that none of those things constitute the show’s canon, which consists of the actual episodes.

I will also not be discussing anything about the future episodes posted by any ‘spoiler accounts’, and, in fact, I am unaware of most of these things, since I’m trying not to read any spoilers. Please do not tell me any spoilers for future episodes or ask me about them.

I really enjoyed this episode, in spite of the unfortunate lack of Bellamy (which I was already expecting since what happens to him here was already spoiled by the trailer. Of course, I’m looking forward to see Bellamy again, and, before that, to everyone finding out about disappearance and it becoming the focus of the season. But until then, the show has quite a few other storylines to deal with, from setting up and delving more into the Anomaly mystery, to dealing with the fall-out of season 6 in Sanctum, and both of these were handled well, for the most part.

This episode in particular had really good characterizations all around - for Murphy, Echo, Indra, Madi, Raven, Emori, Gaia, even Jackson - and, of course, Clarke, who had an arc that took her tendency to try to repress her feelings to an extreme, until they exploded in a most memorable way. It will cause her trouble, no doubt, but it was great to watch, and something I had been wishing for for quite some time.

There is just one character whose storyline I’m still not sure how I feel about, because I’m not sure what the show is doing with him.

After the last season’s cliffhanger, there was some concern in the fandom that Bellamy would regress to being all about protecting his sister, after their relationship had been redefined with “You’re my sister, but you’re not my responsibility”. Some of that was really exaggerated: there’s absolutely nothing odd or surprising about Bellamy crying over his sister disappearing in his arms. Of course he loves her and wants her safe. But I was concerned they may regress his development if they make him forget about everyone and everything else in his life in order to impulsively jump after her into the Anomaly. However, that did not happen - Bellamy didn’t decide to go on his own, rather than tell others and make a plan. He was taken.

The mysterious people from the Anomaly seem to be able to control the Anomaly, and have some sort of a cloaking device, presumably connected to their suits and helmets, that makes them invisible to others. They also have some sort of a screen inside their helmets, with facial recognition of targets and commands. It’s all a bit creepy - these seem to be humans, but they are receiving orders the way a robot would. (It’s all very Terminator-like!) Maybe because they also have lost their memories while going through the Anomaly? Where did they get the info about who Bellamy, Gabriel and Echo are - was it from Octavia’s memories?

Memories and memory loss are obviously going to play a huge role this season. People who come from the Anomaly to Sanctum seem to lose their memories, except when the Anomaly is still there. Does this happen only on Sanctum, or at the other side(s) as well? How does the fact that the Anomaly sucks in radio signals fit into that? Hope had to use a message she put into her own arm to remind herself to “TRUST BELLAMY”. (Interstellar is mentioned a lot as an inspiration for this season, but this reminds me of another Nolan film, Memento.)

We also see Clarke spout knowledge about how the big mansion was built (by Russell for Simone, to remind her of her house on Earth), which she would know due to still having some of Josephine’s memories. And I’m sure that the fact Madi still has the memories of past Commanders will play a big role - specifically, the fact she has Becca’s memories, which could be the way to tie the present day story to the prequel/story about what happened during and right after the apocalypse. (She also probably knows about Sheidheda more than anyone else alive, which may play into the Sanctum story.)

It’s too early to judge Hope as a character, but the mystery surrounding her is certainly super interesting. Why do the mysterious people from the Anomaly have orders to kill her on sight (as opposed to capturing, which they were supposed to do with Bellamy, Echo and Gabriel)? Is it because of who she is, or what she is - is it about her actions, does she know too much, or is her existence itself that’s the problem?

I loved the Octavia cameo in Hope’s hallucination, with the confirmation that she was an “aunt” figure to her, a part of a found family with Diyoza and Hope. The Anomaly makes you see your biggest desire or biggest fear - and Hope’s biggest desire seems to be to be reunited with her family

Echo’s hallucination, on the other hand, is obviously about her biggest fear - so it makes perfect sense that it’s Roan who appears to her, as he exiled her from Azgeda. Of course biggest fear would be losing her kru and her king/queen and being left alone and adrift. I’m as surprised as anyone that I found Echo's scene to be maybe the best in the episode. But she did have some really good character moments in seasons 6, and this is IMO her best character moment so far, picking up from her red sun hallucination in 6x02, and flashback from 6x11. which revealed that even her identity as “Echo” is fake. It seems the show is finally doing the character development it neglected to give her in season 5, and addressing all the obvious issues with Echo’s development and her relationship with Bellamy. I think this confirms that it was indeed Echo talking to herself while hallucinating Emori in 6x02, since her hallucination of Roan tells her the same thing, that she is still just a killer following another master’s orders. We finally see Echo feeling guilt over the things she did in the past, including her betrayal of Bellamy in season 3. When she imagines him calling her out on betraying “the man she now claims to love”, is it just about her thinking the others would doubt her love, or is she herself questioning whether her feelings for Bellamy are really romantic love, or just loyalty to her current leader? Their relationship, especially in S6, often came off more as the latter.

(It was also really cool to see Zach McGowan again)

The timeline of 7x01 seems to have confused some fans, but I think it’s pretty obvious that, at the beginning of the Sanctum story, no more than a day (probably less than that) has passed since 6x13 - going by the facts that 1) the Anomaly storyline picked up minutes after the end of 6x13, and the Sanctum story was presumably happening at the same time, and 2) Indra had to explain the situation in Sanctum to everyone. The only thing that seems to go against that is that Russell is said to “not have slept” since what happened on the ship, which makes it seem like it’s been longer. Or maybe Russell was just being extra dramatic. “Oh, I have no slept for a whole day!” He certainly spent a lot of this (his last) episode feeling sorry for himself. At least he seemed to have finally realized he wasn’t the superior good guy in all of it (”Tell them I’m treated better than I deserve” - yes, indeed.)

Indra was great, even though poor Adina was forced to be an exposition machine for a part of the episode.

A common complaint I’ve seen among fans is that it’s weird that Clarke and others in Sanctum aren’t worried about Bellamy and co. I don’t understand this complaint, as it’s clear that very little time has passed and that Bellamy, Octavia, Echo and Gabriel must have told everyone they were leaving and why (though I don’t know how many details they told them about the Anomaly Stone). People have been gone for a whole day in season 6 when they just went to the Offering Grove (Echo in 6x06) or the radioactive shield (Raven, Emori and Echo in 6x05), which are within the confines of Sanctum and much nearer than the camp by the Anomaly. What are they supposed to do but wait for a couple of days for them to come back? It’s not like they can call them, when radios and other means of communication usually don’t work on Alpha because of the Anomaly sucking the signals.

In fact, their absence was mentioned in the picnic scene, when Raven toasted to “absent friends” and we got a reaction shot of Clarke (I know, Clarke, I'd be annoyed too if I was you, but Bellamy had to be all "I'm gonna go now and explore the Anomaly Stone while Sanctum is in chaos and you're in mourning for your mom" because the plot needed him to..., before Niylah toasted to the “departed ones” (which would include Kane and Abby) and we got a close-up reaction shot of Clarke trying to keep it all inside, as she did every time in this episode someone mentioned Abby.

The idyllic picnic by the mansion - everyone’s attempt to get some rest and nice time after everything they had been through - was such a contrast to the “powder keg” of Sanctum and the end of this episode. But it also felt fake - just as fake as the deception and lies that Murphy and Emori are Daniel and Kaylee Prime, or that Madi still has the Flame in her head - to keep the devout and Wonkru under control, respectively - and just as fake as Clarke’s attempts to convince everyone she’s “fine”. As usual, the song playing in the background (”Darkness” by Pinegrove) was very fitting:

Suddenly I find I've got darkness on my mind It's a question mark that keeps me looking And it's never satisfied And it's never what I thought Saying I'm happy when I'm not No, I got darkness on my mind Leaning out the frame When it's particulate and gray I'm perpendicular to my whole being When I lean a certain way Saying I'm happy when I'm not Finding roaches in the pot Oh, I got darkness on my mind Some people spend their whole lives looking For someone who could understand While meanwhile a lilac blooming Sometimes on the driest land And I know it's been a long time coming I'm angry and I know that's weak And I'm longing out that open window For whatever it is I seek [musical breakdown] Some people spend their whole lives looking For someone who could understand And while meanwhile a lilac blooming Sometimes on the driest land And I know it's been a long time coming I'm angry and I know that's weak So I'm trying not to be so bitter I'm just looking at it honestly Well, I know it's been a long time coming I'm angry and I know that's weak And I'm longing out that open window For whatever it is I seek Some people spend their whole lives looking For someone who could understand While meanwhile a lilac blooming Sometimes on the driest land, yeah

I like that there was anger, blame and conflict between our kru and that everyone didn’t just forget what happened last season (and for once, Clarke is not the one getting the blame!) It would've made no sense if no one was blaming Murphy, and it makes sense it would be Jackson, who was so close to Abby and who’s not particularly close to Murphy. It also makes sense there was disagreement about the method of keeping peace in Sanctum, and that not everyone would be happy with Memori cosplaying the Primes.

Murphy himself had a really good characterization in this episode - we saw his grief and his feelings of guilt. While he tried to defend himself when blamed that he didn’t know what Russell would do, when left alone, he blamed himself for various actions that led to it, which is something Murphy from a couple of seasons ago wouldn’t do.

It’s great to see Raven looking more like her old, pre-season 6 self, and even better to see that her self-righteousness has gone. She’s more like the old Raven but without the snarky b1tchiness. I’m glad that she got called out by Murphy on her “Miss Morality” role from last season (which never really made sense, pre-time jump Raven was never a moral compass of the group, she was smart, pragmatic and could be as ruthless as anyone).

Another major theme of the Sanctum plot were the new beginnings. Clarke pointing out season 3 feels like another world seems almost like the show going meta and pointing out to the audience how much Clarke and all these people have lived through and been since.What is Sanctum now after the Primes have been defeated, with Children of Gabriel coming back home and clashing with the Devout - brainwashed and loyal followers of the Primes, with the rest of the Sanctumites in between? How are Wonkru and the 36 Eligius prisoners going to start again on a new planet moon? (36?! Wow, so they really suffered heavy losses in that gorge, too, when there are so few left?) Can Grounders be without a Commander? Gaia without her religion? Can Madi be a normal kid, without the Flame - or is that even possible while she has to pretend to still be Heda? The title From the ashes seems to refer to that - and maybe the end of the episode means that you have to burn down the old beliefs and old idols to build something new?

Mothers and daughters were another theme. I liked that Madi mentioned her biological parents (well, mother) on-screen for the first time, since the fandom tends to forget about them and ignore them too often. Madi was unsuccessful in her attempt to make Clarke share her feelings with her - maybe because this conversation showed a big difference in how they see each other? Clarke thinks of Madi as her child, but Clarke has never had a child before, while Madi had parents and suffered their loss; Clarke assumed Madi was talking about her and what happened in S6, but Madi always calls Clarke “Clarke” rather than “Mom”, and tried to connect to her on the equal level, as another daughter who’s lost a mother. Maybe it’s exactly because Clarke sees Madi only as her child that she feels she must be “strong” for her all the time and not show grief.

There was an unexpected parallel between Indra and Clarke in how Indra also tried to suppress outward expressions of grief when her partner - Gaia’s father died, which clearly wasn’t healthy and caused a rift between mother and daughter. (I’m not sure about when that happened, i.e. when Gaia first decided to become a Flamekeeper. I guess it must have been before the timeline of seasons 1-3. So Gaia’s dad is probably not the man that Indra recognized in 2x15 as one of the Reapers? I’m still angry that we never got any resolution to that storyline and that the Reapers were forgotten after season 2.)

The one thing I’m not sure about is Jordan’s characterization and arc. I’m not sure what the show is doing with his exactly, and I’m afraid that they’ll try to leave it ambiguous just how much he is or isn’t brainwashed. 6x13 made it very clear that he has been “adjusted”, which Russell confirmed here, and Jordan’s “adjustor”, who was creeping behind him in the season 6 finale, was very present and active in this episode, and clearly still had a big influence on him. At the same time, we learn that Jordan does not believe in the divinity of the Primes - instead of that, his hallucinations made him see something connected to the mystery of the Anomaly, which Russell describes as something “greater” (almost like he has finally found God, of sorts, after all, which he talked about 236 years before when he first landed on Alpha)? The good news is that it means Jordan will have a role in the Anomaly story, rather than being the advocate for the Devout. What I’m afraid of is that the show will gloss over the fact that Jordan was brainwashed - whether or not he came to believe that Primes were gods, he certainly did a 180 from despising Primes as murderers, being outraged by their actions and knowing very well that Priya was not Delilah but someone who took over her body; to (just a few days later, after “adjustment”) spouting Prime propaganda about the “peaceful” society they had before the Bad People from Earth came (that’s the peace they had when they regularly murdered their people to steal their bodies, left babies to die, and made them go crazy and kill each other from time to time) and having some kind of attachment to Priya herself and her mind drive.

At least, I hope that Russell unceremoniously smashing the mind drive means we’re done with that storyline. I loved it, it was my favorite storyline of the show, but it’s time for it to be over. It makes no sense that anyone is still letting Russell keep his mind drive, for starters. When will they realize they need to destroy these things?

- Clarke’s way of dealing with grief over her mom’s death was certainly unhealthy - repressing her feelings even more than usual, trying to be calm, composed, logical, to do the things needed to keep peace. In her last scene in 6x13, Clarke was open about her grief with Bellamy, looking to him for comfort, finding comfort in his arms and his words. But now he’s absent, there’s no one else she can be that open and vulnerable with. (The only other person Clarke looked for comfort to was Abby.) It’s nice to see that she and Raven have mended their friendship with Raven, she is starting to develop a new one with Gaia over their mutual care for Madi, she has mutual respect with Indra, she’s known others - like Murphy or Miller = for years, since the Delinquent days... and they all want to help her, but she’s not opening up to anyone, not even Madi. She thinks she must be “strong” for all of them, and her Head and Heart are unbalanced - she’s repressing the latter, until she finally explodes.

I love the scene of Clarke finally losing it and beating up Russell (I had already seen it in the trailer, and it was my favorite moment) and then crying while holding Abby's clothes. I don’t know about anyone else, but I love seeing an angry, emotional Clarke, letting it all out, especially when it's anger at people she has every right to be furious at. We haven’t seen that from her since early season 3 (when she yelled and spat in Lexa’s face over her betrayal). It had bothered me for a few seasons that Clarke - who used to be vibrant and could be impulsive, angry, hold grudges, yell at people in seasons 1-2, had become so repressed and muted due to her constant self-blame. I’ve had enough watching Clarke look sad while other people keep yelling at her and blaming her. (The only other instance of Clarke being furious was her hurt and rage at Bellamy and the slap in 5x09, but that was more of a silent, “internally screaming” rage/hurt, which turned into Clarke being emotionally frozen for the next couple of episodes, until learning he was alive. When Clarke is keeping everything inside and not yelling, that’s when she’s in the worst emotional state.)

It is, however, so sad that she still blames herself, too, for her mother’s death, whispering “I’m sorry”, the same way she whispered after seeing her father floated.

My only problem with the scene of that stupid palace burning down is that "mistakes" is a serious real understatement for what Russell has done. I know, I know, this will cause a lot of trouble in Sanctum and Clarke will probably have to go back on some of these decisions to keep peace. But there’s really nothing morally wrong with deciding to execute Russell - not only does he deserve it, but he’s arguably even an exception from the general objection to death penalty, since he’s lived several times the normal human lifespan, by stealing other people’s bodies. And the palace burning down is a symbolic way to send the message that the old power structures are gone - which Clarke pointed out when she said there will be no kings or queens anymore.

Sheiheda taking over Russell’s, or rather his latest host’s body, wasn’t surprising, as that was the most popular theory. But it was cool to see Sheidheda’s creepy mindspace again and Sean Maguire as the original Russell. The bodysnatcher got bodysnatched. That’s something like poetic justice.

I just have to post this because it’s such a beautiful shot!

Rating: 8/10

#the 100 #the 100 season 7 #the 100 7x01 #from the ashes #clarke griffin #john murphy #jordan green #bellamy blake #echo kom azgeda #madi griffin #the anomaly

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So I've been reading your fics for a while and it recently occurred to me, how would the painful death crew handle the events of break? Would it pan out the same way or do you think it would go down slightly different?

How would the PD Crew handle Break? As in one of them is Break!Virgil or as in being around when shit goes down?

I’ve got Ram (PD!Remus but make it a fictive) here with me so...

Ram: 1,Dante is a chill bro, and I stan them. We have the same music tastes and Dante is kind of amazing, anyway. I would die for polterdante/j 2, I would have ab-fucking-ducted Break!Virgil and/or PD!Virgil from that situation if I was around it if I didn’t fucking snap and try to kill Zillah for doing it. Like how does anyone not have the biggest fucking mental breakdown of their lives when they find that shit out? Rem says ‘same’.

The thing about Vesper(PD!Virgil) is that if he was in Dante’s(Break!Virgil) situation, he might also put up with it until he found a safe way out. I mean I’ve met Zillah and the dude is kind of sneaky. He’s really nice with the kids and acts really normal other than murdering Dante on main on a fucking regular basis, giving me weird second-hand trauma? Dae says he regrets not going more into how Zillah acts in public vs. private? “At the beginning of the story they were at point of their relationship Zillah was isolating Virgil, so there wasn’t much opportunity to do so, but it would have enhanced the dismal atmosphere and shown more ways abusers isolate their victims.”

Anyway, Ves in particular would have run off, eventually. He’s not great at finding red flags but he believes takes his friend’s word for it and would be more likely to listen to Logan when he notices things weren’t right. He’d run off without asking for help and just meet up his friends later like “my name’s jared i’m 19 and i’m now fucking homeless”. Rem would have thrown a bitch fit and started a fight. He would have gotten out of it bruised but got out nonetheless. He only tolerates that shit from his dad because minors don’t have many rights (Also just Rem’s ex-dad’s job). I think I’d be the most at-risk in that situation because stress obviously fucks up my mental state and I won’t make great judgment calls. Dante only hallucinates in the sensory dep thing. I, on the other hand, hallucinate all the fucking time and trust me that it’s really easy to let the delusions suck you up if you don’t have someone who can ground you. The delusions might of left me stuck in that situation for life. Oof. Vesper could have gotten me out, though, but I’m not allowed to go into why. Damien would have called the police on Zillah or fucking leave before he got in too deep. He’s just smart and capable like that. Dorjan (Break!Janus) was only in it for a few months before he fucked right out of that abusive relationship. I don’t think Damien would let a single thing pass, he’s got a serious amount of self-respect. Also, D’s parents are very nice. Part of Dante’s shit is his upbringing with his parents giving them a bad impression of how people should treat each other. And that’s not spoilers, it touches on it in the video call chapter.

My brother is a fucking flake but it is 5 in the morning so maybe he gets a free pass for not answering on his half of the cast. Something-something crying, I guess. Roan(Ro) might also be kind of at-risk since he really needs people to like him on a kind of dangerous level sometimes. I think Kal(Pat) and Liam(Logan) wouldn’t tolerate being in that situation as long as Dante did. Kal’s parents are actually decent and he knows red flags, and Liam is basically always looking for red flags. Paranoid little dude sometimes. They’re pretty ride-or-die for each other so they’d probably fight to get each other free, too.

I agree with Break!Logan in that the only proper response to that situation is to get a spiked baseball bat and go ham. Though the security system on that house is extra and the narrative game for break kind of goes through why most of those options are a bad fucking plan. Poor Dante’s got it bad, even now.

If we were backing up Dante we’d be rolling up with fucking swords and sweet, sweet dragon magic to take Zillah’s ass down. And Maybe also take Dante down to check them into residential. Imagine that conversation, though, right? “Hey dude we’re from another universe and this guy’s been abused and tortured for two years, please assist” and then we just fuck off back to our own dimension. Wild. Dae says he refuses to write crossovers, so my answers are technically “noncanon”, but I have a pretty good fucking idea, okay? Okay. He’s letting me answer because I’m answering “as an alter”, blah blah blah. IDK like I know Ruy and Ras aren’t old enough to read Break but I’d be interested in an adult Dreaming!Roman in that situation? I mean he’s tolerated some shit but those little fucks are creative and will likely do something completely over the top to get roman out because you know Ras would be like “are you serious with me get the hell out of there”. Maybe they’d somehow get the fucking plea vampires up in there??? You know Tempest and D aren’t letting Zillah get out of that alive.

I’ve read Break and like what the fuck Dae but honestly we been knew that he’s a sick son of a bitch so that’s not news. Rebuild is wild as shit, too, have fun with that, guys. Daeram says it’s “difficult to edit because of the nuance of Dante’s situation”, but there’s a lot of chapters already.

Anyway, rephrase the question if I didn’t answer it right and maybe I can try again. Or whoever, I’m just the PD fuck that fronts the most lately because I’m supporting my bro Steve’s gay shenanigans.

Vesper wants everyone to know he will ascend to a new dimension when the Among Us update comes out and wants to play it with everyone ever. Also if anyone is willing to play the Arsonist mod with us until then, we’d love that. Hit us up on the server.

Ayri again and oh rain two ADHDers confronted and ascended to a place where time doesn’t matter but now the sun is going to fucking rise. I put in the fictive’s sources because Ram always calls them by their new names and pronouns. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh just adding that yes Daeram doesn’t believe in doing crossovers for our AU’s but the fictives interact from time to time and they certainly don’t mind answering questions about that stuff. Dae’ll stop them if spoilers. Fictives don’t front super often but like most of my asks sit in the box for months anyway because tumblr keeps not alerting me they exist. I’ll get to the other asks I found tomorrow if I remember. I think Ram kind of went overboard but he stands by what he said so whatever have fun with it?

#painful death #break #asks #anon #abuse tw #Anonymous

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