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The 100 rewatch: 2x05 Human Trials

This episode is the highlight of the first half of the season. I felt that way the first time, when I was relieved that out main characters weren’t all roaming around separately, but finally found themselves in one place, and I still feel that way. This was the episode of many reunions – some heartfelt, some rather awful and chilling. It also introduced one of the season’s main villains (the closest thing to the main villain, in fact, and the episode ends with what’s arguably the big shocking moment of the first half of season 2.

This write-up is a bit longer because I also talk openly about how I saw Clarke’s love life and romantic feelings at this point in the show (both on my first watch, and now – I haven’t changed my opinion, just become more sure of it), which people may or may not disagree with, but I haven’t so far seen any good arguments against my opinion.

Rating: 9/10

The first big reunion in the episode was the long-awaited one between Clarke and her mom. The two had spoken on the radio in season 1, but they hadn’t seen each other in person since the Pilot, and since 1x09, Clarke thought Abby was dead, while Abby hasn’t been sure if Clarke was alive.

Clarke again did that same thing she did in the season premiere, when she asked, twice, “Where are Finn and Bellamy?” – constantly mentioning those two together and putting them on the same level of personal importance to her, as opposed to the rest of the season 1 finale, and that will get explicitly confirmed in 2x09 when Clarke, after Finn’s death, objects to Bellamy’s plan of infiltrating Mount Weather, telling him “I can’t lose you, too”. It’s no surprise that people at the time, like the author of the “Toni watches” funny photo recap (ETA: link edited - thanks, @freakles-you-twit for the new link to the new site where these photo recaps have moved) thought Clarke had two love interests at the time. Because those hints are pretty easy to notice, ya all. Though they’re maybe even more obvious when you’re binging the show as I did.

And in the same vein, Clarke’s reunions with her other friends: a normal hug and greeting with Raven, and then the famous huge, emotional hug with Bellamy, where Clarke literally runs and jumps into his arms, set to a musical score showing what a big moment that is. Followed by a normal, understated hug with Octavia. Clarke would later become more emotionally closed off – after mercy-killing Finn, being told that “Love is weakness” and half-believing it, after Mount Weather – but at this point, she was still spontaneous and direct and showing her feelings freely most of the time. Much more so than Bellamy was at this point or in season 1. (It always confuses me when people claim they saw more evidence of Bellamy’s feelings for Clarke than vice versa during seasons 1-4. Especially since Clarke was the one to initiate most of the developments between them early on, made all the first steps towards partnership, trust, support, friendship in season 1, and initiated most of their hugs and other physically intimate touches in the first 2 seasons.) Bellamy was obviously surprised by the hug more than anyone, and just stood there for a second, before hugging her back strongly. The staging and the musical score is showing it in no uncertain terms that this relationship is special and important, and Raven and Octavia both seem to be aware of it – going by the way that Raven tells Clarke it’s OK to go and meet Bellamy, and the way Octavia says “I thought I’d never see this”.

The impression I got from watching seasons 1-2 even the first time was that Clarke had romantic feelings for both Finn and Bellamy in the second half of season 1 and first half of season 2. But Finn was her past – he was (probably) her first love, she had been very much in love with him in 1x05 and was ready for and expecting a committed relationship in the way that she hasn’t been since with anyone – even though I don’t think that was a very deep love (as Clarke herself pointed out, “I hardly know him”) – but the kind of intense infatuation you feel when you’re 17 and in love for the first time (and had spent a year before locked up and with no human contact, before meeting someone who was giving all of their attention to you and you went through a few intense things together). But then she suffered a massive emotional blow, she learned about his girlfriend and his lies, she got really hurt, withdrew, and wasn’t able to trust him in the same way or see him the same way. The feelings were still there, but she kept rejecting him, and I don’t think she was going to give him another chance (maybe she thought she would be able eventually, just not any time soon) even if he hadn’t turned murderous and deranged in season 2. But it was also noticeable that her pining for him was pretty intense in episodes 1x05-1x07, and then subsided as soon as she and Bellamy got closer. She wasn’t ready to get into another relationship (and maybe even less so with a guy who had slept with a bunch of other girls in the camp, and wasn’t explicitly showing any romantic interest for her?), and she wasn’t ready to yet deal with what her feelings for Bellamy were or what their relationship could be (and neither was he – he was still not ready to be fully emotionally open to anyone other than his sister), but I thought that, where Finn was her past, Bellamy was her future, and those feelings were clearly developing slowly. (Or not so slowly – it’s only been about a month since the Pilot, at this point. But slowly compared to the majority of relationships on this show, which tend to follow the TV rule of people being “in love forever” after knowing each other anything from a few hours to a few days.) I was sure about that at the time, and everything on the show since has only confirmed those opinions.

I’m ready for a bunch of people to tell me I’m wrong; but seriously, if I’m to believe that the writers, directors, actors etc. meant for Finn to be Clarke’s only love interest at this point and for Bellamy to be her platonic friend or whatever (which I don’t believe, but let’s pretend for a second), they sure were going about it in a very weird way, with these constant comparisons and parallels and the way they portray Bellamy/Clarke. And if she was supposed to love Finn more than Bellamy, they sure did not get that across – she constantly showed the same amount of care and concern for both, and she obviously trusted Bellamy more (which Finn noticed and was jealous of) and seemed to enjoy his company better most of the time, ever since they got closer in 1x08. For instance, if they had meant to show that Finn was much more important to her than Bellamy, they could have had her ask about Finn immediately, not only after hugging Bellamy and Octavia.

Then there’s the scene by the fire later on in the episode. Bellamy basically tells Clarke that he has no hard feelings about Clarke closing the dropship door and leaving him and Finn to probably die, in order to save the other Delinquents, because he understands it was a tough but necessary decision (“Had to be done”) and then talks to her about Finn, telling her about his change, his PTSD (well, not in those words, people on this show don’t seem to know what PTSD is) and his concern about what could happen. (These couple of times in season 2 when Bellamy starts talking to Clarke about Finn’s mental state and problems, are, I believe, the only times in all of 5 seasons that the two of them discussed one of their love interests. They usually avoid these conversations altogether. Which would be pretty weird if they were actually “platonic BFFs”. I talk to my BFFs about our love lives, confide in them – doesn’t everyone? And even here, it’s Bellamy initiating the conversation and talking to Clarke about Finn, rather than vice versa.) Bellamy is clearly feeling guilty for anything that might happen to Finn, because he left him with a gun and just Murphy to accompany him, in spite of realizing how concerning Finn’s state of mind was – which does a lot to explain Bellamy’s later actions regarding Finn in 2x08. Clarke’s response is to try to calm Bellamy’s mind, reassuring him that he had no other choice (“I’m sure that had to be done, too.”)

Moving on to other subjects:

This is, unfortunately, the episode where Abby starts getting a bit hypocritical and where she started sliding down my list of favorite characters, after being really high on it in season 1 and the first 4 episodes. (But I never stopped liking her. Don’t expect me to hop on the Abby-hate wagon.) Her protectiveness of Clarke and determination to save her had been motivating her, and I was rooting for her when she was breaking rules to try to save her daughter and the other kids, but here she starts showing annoying double standards when she decides not to do the same for Finn and Murphy. Being more concerned about your child than other people’s kids is human and understandable, but still annoying.

And she gets worse when she slaps Raven for allowing Clarke, Bellamy and Octavia to secretly take weapons and get away to go on a mission to save Finn and Murphy – i.e. the exact same thing that Abby did a few days earlier when she helped Bellamy, Finn, Murphy, Monroe and Sterling go on a mission to find Clarke and the other 47 Delinquents (for which she got physically punished herself). It’s almost like Abby, her daughter Clarke and her pseudo-daughter (and Clarke’s friend) Raven have this weird triangle where Clarke is, at this point, still holding grudges against her mother, Abby treats Raven badly as a proxy for Clarke and is unfair to her, and Raven often is unfair to Clarke and blames her for a bunch of things throughout the show. Abby also starts showing the tendency to treat Clarke as a child, which is something she does a few more times in season 2, and I get that it’s protectiveness of one’s child and all, but is also kind of hypocritical after sending her to the ground with a bunch of other teenagers (and at least one preteen) to survive on their own. It’s a part of the overall annoying tendency of the Ark adults in season 2 to ignore the fact that the Delinquents had far more experience with the Grounders and everything going on the ground than they did after just landing there. Raven has a great line as a response to Abby calling Clarke “just a kid” – “She stopped being a kid the moment you sent her to the ground to die”. (Which is a bit unfair to Abby, as she did it to save Clarke from getting executed on her 18th birthday, but still, good point.)

Meanwhile, Bellamy shows again that he’s no longer unhealthily over-protective of Octavia the way he was in early season 1, and that he instead treats her as someone capable and equal, more than Octavia was expecting. She started giving a full speech about how she was capable of going with him and Clarke on the mission (mostly to save Lincoln), before realizing he was letting her come with them anyway.

There are many points during season 2 where I couldn’t decide if Kane was the most reasonable person around, or incredibly naïve, because he kept expecting everybody else to be as reasonable and just expect the solutions he offered because they made sense under the assumption *everyone* would act reasonable, ignoring everyone’s mistrust of each other, the hatred, prejudice and all. This is one of these episodes. Going to see the Grounder Commander uninvited, for a peace talk, seems really naïve, but then, he was aware that the Grounder prisoner taking him may turn him over instead to be killed, but was willing to take that risk, because it would get him to his destination either way, and he dismissed his guards in order to take the risk alone. So, it was more of his courage and willingness to be self-sacrificial, which he shows in 2x06, too. However, some things he goes on to do in season 3 make me lean towards “really naïve”.

One of the big notable things in this episode is the introduction of Cage Wallace, or, I used to call him, “Creepiest Creep Who Ever Creeped”. I have to give kudos to the actor, Johnny Whitworth, and to the makeup department, for making this character such a perfect embodiment of every possible creepy aristocrat/slaver/evil privileged white dude stereotype. Sometimes a character or a culture/group of people based on stereotypes/archetypes works – the Mountain Men were very effective villains for that reason. (Other times, they don’t. Like the ridiculous portrayal of Grounders, but that’s a rant for some other time. Probably in one of my next write-ups.) Also, he and Dante really do look like father and son. They really do look like each other. And Dante is also creepy, but in a more subtle, grandfatherly way.

The fact that Reapers are created by Mountain Men was already strongly indicated in 2x03, but here we got to see the whole terrible process, and happening to a character we know and care about, Lincoln, which makes it all the more effective, with Cage hooking Lincoln on the drug ‘red’, using Pavlov’s dog-type conditioning, and finally arranging a to-the-death fight between Lincoln and another Reaper-in-making, over the drug, to check the success of the experiment.

Cage’s line “The first dose is the worst” is going to get a great follow-up in the season 2 finale (the most satisfying death scene on the show, IMO).

And this episode completes the evil trio of Mount Weather, as he see Dante, Cage and Dr. Tsing together for the first time, find out that Cage is the Chief of Security and Dante’s son, and see all the 3 of them talking about their plans for the 47. Tsing, the typical Evil Scientist character, had conducted “the first successful human trial” by using Jasper’s blood to save Maya (after using some really effective emotional manipulation to make him agree), with Dante’s blessing, after Maya got ill due to an “accidental” breach, obviously engineered by Cage. Cage’s line “Our people come first” touches on one of the main themes of the show, since it’s how so many people justify their actions, though no one else’s actions were as messed up as the Mountain Men’s. I’ll say it again and again: no one else on The 100 was anywhere near the level of evil of Mount Weather as a society. The whole, keeping people in cages and draining them would have been enough to make it so, but the Reaper thing is a whole new level of horrific and awful.

Monty actually says the line: “What would Clarke do?” in this episode. I just wanted to mention that.

And the episode ends with what’s arguably the most shocking moment of the first half of season 2, Finn’s mass murder in the Grounder village. I guess you could argue that Finn’s death at Clarke’s hands was the biggest moment of the first half of the season, but his death was hardly a surprise at that point. His fate was pretty much sealed with his actions in this episode. I think that the next few episodes did a terrible job of following it up, for the most part, and the way the show dealt with Finn’s storyline is by far my least favorite thing about season 2. But it was very well done and effective in this episode. You always could see something horrible coming up, with the rising tension, Finn’s increasingly deranged behavior, Murphy unsuccessfully trying to be the voice of reason (who would have expected that?), and you were terrified and just hoping it wouldn’t be too bad, or that Clarke, Bellamy and Octavia would get there before it got too bad. And then it went as badly, or worse, than you could imagine – and Clarke, Bellamy and Octavia only arrived after the fact to see the aftermath of the massacre.

What a difference between Clarke’s reunion with Bellamy earlier, and her reunion with Finn in the worst possible circumstances. The fact that Finn walks towards her and greets her with “I found you!” (rather than the opposite), as if he has just performed a heroic act and saved her, while she’s stepping away from him, horrified at what he has done, shows just how out of it Finn is at this point. I might have felt really bad for him (which I think the show was trying to do), rather than just for the people he killed, if the show had followed this up in the next 3 episodes by consistently showing that Finn had PTSD, rather than… whatever the heck the show was doing. But more about that when I do my write-ups of 2x06 and 2x08 (I’ve already rewatched up to 2x10).

Timeline: I don’t know for sure, but with the rapid turn of events, the first 5 episodes seem to have taken up just a few days – at most, a week.

Body count:

18 unarmed people at the ‘daycare’ Grounder village, including Artigas, a guy Octavia kind of knew from her interactions with Indra’s group, who was a teenage warrior in training, others were civilians, mostly elderly people, children;

a Grounder/potential Reaper who lost the fight with Lincoln.

#the 100 #the 100 rewatch #the 100 season 2 #the 100 2x05 #human trials #clarke griffin #bellamy blake #abby griffin #finn collins #raven reyes #octavia blake #cage wallace #dante wallace #lincoln kom trikru #bellamy x clarke

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The 100 rewatch: 2x06 Fog of War

This episode has one major character introduction (and one minor one), which might have been a cool reveal the first time I saw it, if I hadn't been always spoiled on it; some really tense moments involving major revelations for the characters themselves, which made me think for a moment I'd give this episode a higher rating; and a very questionable follow-up to the major storyline from the previous episode, which made me rate it lower than the previous few episodes, but nowhere near as low as an upcoming episode all focused on that storyline, and that's just because it's still a minor part of this episode.

Rating: 7.5/10

You've probably guessed what I meant already: the way the show deals with the aftermath of Finn's mass murder in the Grounder village is full of problems and annoying character behavior. Which gets even worse in episode 2x08, but it starts here, when we learn that Finn was questioned by the Council*in Camp Jaha and fully cleared, because, according to Abby: "He thought he was rescuing his friends". Sorry, what? Usually it's the Grounders that get on my nerves with their dumb decisions and attitudes, but this time, this storyline always made me extremely irritated with the Arkers. WTF is wrong with their judicial system and their moral views? They used to give death sentences on the Ark for any damn thing, from smoking weed to stealing medicine for your kids to giving birth to a second child to getting born as a second child; they announced they aren't doing it on the ground, but then were insisting on maintaining law and order by locking people up for hitting someone, or shock-lashing them for letting some of them go on an authorised mission; but killing 18 unarmed civilians who weren't posing a threat, all on your own - that's what they're OK with?

*Speaking of which, who’s in the Council now? Not any of the old members, since they died in Diana’s terrorist attack last season. We never see any of the new council members and I don’t we ever even hear about the council again. It’s always apparently just the Chancellor – whoever it is at the time (Abby, Kane, Pike) – making decisions on their own.

Now, if they had released Finn on the grounds of him suffering from PTSD, having diminished capacity - that would be a different matter. But they didn't. No one ever says explicitly that Finn is suffering from PTSD or has any kind of mental issue, and if they do think he has, why haven't they tried to help him? Do they even know anything about mental health? Do they have psychologists and psychiatrists? Going by everything we see in this and the following seasons, they have no clue. But in this case, the writers didn't seem to have much of a clue, either. (The show did much better with Jasper's storyline later on, though characters in-universe treated it just as poorly.) They even let Finn carry a gun and go on a recon mission with everyone else, and this time I’m totally with Octavia when she says she can’t believe they did it. (But does this mean that Octavia is the only one bothered because she is the only one who knew one of the victims?)

There are just mentions of how Finn has changed, etc. And then Raven even tells Finn "We all have battle scars, Finn. Suck it up and build a brace for yours." Um, no, no, Raven, you cannot do this with mental scars. That's not how it works. But, ironically, she'll find that out herself with what she will go through in seasons 3-4.

When I binged the show for the first time, I thought Finn’s character was a big failure because he was supposed to likable and a good guy, but never really came off that way. On rewatch, I realized he works much better as a character if I assume he was never meant to be all that likable in the first place. But “did they actually expect me to find him likable here, or not?” is something I’m still not sure at many points, and that’s the case in this episode. If they did, they really failed. It would be different if Finn was showing real guilt over what he had done, instead of going around trying to talk to Clarke and complaining because she’s not comfortable around him. “You don’t look at me the way you used to.” Duh! What did you expect?

The episode starts with an interesting scene where Clarke and Bellamy are making plans how to save their friends from Mount Weather. Bellamy actually says at one point that, if the Council doesn’t authorize the mission to save them, he’ll go there on his own. Which he seriously meant as that’s what he does in 2x09. Bellamy then asks about Finn (the second and last time the two of them ever talk about any of each other’s love interests) and Clarke replies she hasn’t talked to Finn, while Bellamy is trying to make lighter of Finn’s actions, saying “We’ve all done bad things” - .obviously to try to make her feel better, and because he feels guilty for allowing Finn to continue the mission with just Murphy to look after him, since we know from before that he’s well aware of the gravity of Finn’s actions. Then Finn arrives, his body language saying: “Go away, I need to talk to Clarke, since my relationship with her is the most important thing in the world”. Bellamy is understanding and walks away, while Clarke is following him with her eyes until he leaves, her body language saying “I much preferred you company, why did you have to leave me with him?” She’s obviously creeped out and doesn’t know how to act around this new, murderous Finn, who appears to be so much different from what she thought the guy she fell in love was. The time they spend together – hiding from the acid fog – in the house, where Finn killed Delano, the Grounder prisoner, doesn’t help – Finn takes a chance to give her Jake’s watch, but the moment is obviously spoiled for her by Delano’s dead body she sees lying there. What do you mean, murder isn’t a great way to say “I love you”? But it seems like I’m supposed to feel sorry for him, when he and Clarke have an exchange about how war has changed them all:

“I don’t even know who you are anymore.”

“Neither do I.”

“What have we become?”

With how I feel about this storyline, it may seem odd that I’m still rating this episode rather high, but 1) it is still a rather small part of this episode (and I’m going to pour all my hate for this storyline into episode 2x08), 2) Clarke’s extreme discomfort with Finn is character and makes sense –they may have released him, but that doesn’t mean people really feel like nothing has changed, and 3) the other storylines in this episode are really good.

I really like the scenes where Bellamy and Octavia go on their own to find an entrance into Mount Weather to save Lincoln -together with some Arker guards who decided to help them rather than listen to their orders - and are shocked to find him as a Reaper, who doesn’t recognize them but seems to have some sort of a reaction to Octavia’s voice. Those scenes are really intense, and the literal darkness of the Mount Weather hallways combined with the cheesy Christmas song that starts playing all of a sudden from a wind-up toy, just before a Reaper attack, makes for one of the creepier and more effective season 2 scenes.

(Season 2 was by far the most harmonious one for the Blake sibling relationship. Or rather, the only one. Their relationship is usually extremely dysfunctional.)

Major developments happen in Mount Weather itself. This is when Jasper, Monty and the other Delinquents finally learn the truth about their hosts – thanks to Maya, who has found out that her “accidental” radioactivity contamination was planned, and realized that the 47 may soon meet the same fate as the Grounders caught in MW. I’ve always liked Maya – I trusted her since first seeing 2x01. She’s one of the most underrated characters on The 100, IMO.

The scene where Maya shows Jasper and Monty the cages with people in them and people getting drained, is a really strong one. I love this dialogue where she tries to explain the mentality of the ordinary Mountain Men and their silent complicity in what their regime is doing:

Maya: “Everyone knows, we don’t talk about it (…) Look, without the treatments, we die. What were we supposed to do?” Monty: “Die.”

It’s one of the times when the show really successfully did moral ambiguity. Monty’s answer is kind of harsh, but completely understandable since he’s just seen the horrors happening, and he’s kind of right, but he’s also kind of wrong… Because it’s not exactly easy for people to ignore such a basic instinct as survival, for the sake of morality and humanness. But as we later learn, Maya’s mother did make that choice, refuse the treatments, and die. And Maya herself will help the Arkers, and die, as a result – kind of killed by Monty himself, saying “None of us is innocent” as her final words.

We also get more insight into the Wallace father-son relationship, with signs of their upcoming conflict, and some more info about MW. Though Dante’s title is President, we learn that every president of MW has been a Wallace. They’re basically a dynasty like the Kims in North Korea. We learn that the initial plan for the 48 was to “assimilate them into our gene pool”, which explains the chocolate cake and all other attempts to charm them. Dante must have been happy to see Maya and Jasper get close, in that case all he needed to do was let nature take its course, but how did they intend to do that with the rest of the kids? Arrange marriages/relationships? Ask them for sperm/egg cells? Dante is against draining the kids and says he “won’t put them in cages like animals”. You mean, like other people you already have in cages? Mount Weather will, in Dante’s opinion, eventually will be breached by radiation, which is an explanation for the panic of the Mountain Men, but Dante insists that it’s not just important to be able to go the surface, but that he won’t deserve to survive if he allows it. Um… you already don’t deserve it. Why does he draw the line with the kids? Is it because he thinks of the Grounders as “savages” and finds it easier to dehumanize them?

(BTW, what on Earth made Dante give his son the name Cage, of all the things he could have possibly named him?!)

At the end of the episode, the kids in MW have decided to pretend and work within MW to get out, with Jasper and Monty have decided to volunteer for blood donations to fool their hosts. Raven has meanwhile discovered the secret MW channel, realized that it was MW that crashed the Exodus ship and that they are jamming all radio communications. She and Abby discussed whether to destroy the Mountain Men tower that does the jamming, which would allow them to get in radio contact with other possible survivors from other Ark stations, or to not do it and listen in to the Mountain Men conversations instead, which would allow them to rescue the kids from MW – and Abby finally made the decision to do the latter, which means she’s finally supporting Clarke in her determination to save her friends. The consequence of this is also that the Farm station survivors (including Pike, Hannah Green and Bryan) will only join the other Arkers in season 3.

The big character introduction in the episode is, of course, Lexa. Her right hand man/bodyguard Gustus is also introduced, and he utters the line “Blood must have blood”, talking about retaliation for Finn’s massacre, which is the first time we hear that line. I’ll never know if the twist at the end of the episode that Lexa is the Commander would have been a surprise for me. I was already spoiled, long before I started watching the show, that there was a character called “Commander Lexa”, that she has a relationship with Clarke at some point, and gets killed by a stray bullet after the first time they had sex – because that was a huge controversy in 2016, which you couldn’t avoid if you were visiting any online fandom sites, even if you knew nothing about The 100. So, when she introduced herself as Lexa, I knew “oh, so she’s the Commander”. The show did a good job playing against expectations by introducing her as a frail-looking young servant girl, playing on her youth and looks, so I might have been fooled otherwise, or I might have gotten suspicious after she was just standing there listening and observing Jaha and Kane all the time? Or maybe I would have thought she was someone spying for the Commander. In this episode, we just learn she’s smart and can be sneaky and likes to get a measure of her opponents/enemies – but we don’t really get more sense of what she’s like as a person and leader until around 2x09.

The thing with Kane and Jaha being made to fight to the death to supposedly decide who will live and be set free, reminds me of the Blodreina gladiator fights in season 5, except those were actual fights to the death, while this was just a ploy, and Octavia got the idea from the Roman history. But I guess that type of death match wouldn’t have been a foreign concept to the Grounders from the Wonkru.

The show tried to play with expectations for a second with Kane taking the knife to do something, as if he was going to kill Jaha, but at that point, we already knew what Kane was really like, so his attempt at self-sacrifice, in order to end the war, was not a surprise. He is still haunted by guilt for the culling (Jaha: “You didn’t order the massacre” – Kane: “Not this one”). One of the reasons I started liking him is that he is one of the few characters, alongside Clarke and Bellamy, who show genuine remorse for their actions. Another good piece of dialogue is when Jaha says that the things they did on the Ark were for survival of the human race, with Kane pointing out that the human race was, in fact, surviving without them anyway – to which Jaha replied that they are, then, doing everything for their people. Which is the justification/guiding motive Jaha has from this moment on: “for my people”.

I’m still not sure what exactly Lexa’s take from all of this was, since she declared to Kane“Your intention are honorable, and your desire for peace is true”, so apparently, she appreciated his conviction – but then she let Jaha go to be a messenger and deliver the dramatic message to the Arkers to “Leave or die!”, while detaining Kane to further talk to him, or observe him (?), or keep him as a hostage? What exactly was she planning to do with him?

Anyway, this is the only time that Lexa and Jaha ever interacted. It would have been interesting to see them talk about leadership some time, since they strike me as similar type of leaders: both are ruthless, believe that the end justifies the means and justify their actions by saying it’s all for their people, but their concept of “their people” is an abstract one, because they are less concerned with the welfare of individuals that make up the collective called “my people”, and are ready to sacrifice quite a few of them if their goals require it.

Timeline: 2 days after Human Trials. This is one of the few times we actually get some pointers about the time that has passed – and one of the few times we get a.. mini time jump. It’s weird to call 2 days a time jump, but most of the episodes start right after the previous one. It was only late in season 3 (after the “Six months earlier” tag in 3x13) that I realized how condensed the show’s timeline was.

Body count: 1 Arker guard killed by the fog, other two killed by Reapers, a couple of Reapers killed by Bellamy.

#the 100 #the 100 rewatch #the 100 season 2 #the 100 2x06 #fog of war #clarke griffin #bellamy blake #octavia blake #finn collins #marcus kane #thelonius jaha #monty green #jasper jordan #dante wallace #maya vie #I'm not tagging you-know-who in this or any further post #because that would just be asking for trouble #even when I'm not saying anything particularly negative about her

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