The 100 - 'Inclement Weather'

The character I initially dubbed 'too stupid to live' turns out a total fucking
badass.

The big news this week is that The 100 has a proper credit sequence. Woo!

For the rest, I'm going to break it down into the same three groups as last time and Jaha, since he hasn't popped his clogs after all.

The 48: Clarke continues to distrust the apparently perfect community at Mount Weather, especially when a patrol comes in, apparently suffering gunshot wounds. Jasper continues to press her to accept their new lives, but Clarke's fears are borne out by a startling discovery in medical.

Olivia: Silly, useless Olivia proved to be the surprise moral core of the original 100 last season, and now emerges as some sort of fucking ninja, taking a hostage to bust Lincoln out from his tribe's retribution. Unfortunately the hostage exchange goes pear-shaped when it is interrupted by Reapers, who in a surprise twist take the men and leave the women.

The Grown-Ups: Kane is set on establishing a base before sending out more search parties. Abby is critical, although given that a team of three armed members of the Guard (whose training Kane has brought up when denying Finn and Bellamy's requests to search themselves) are overcome and crucified by Grounders without firing a shot in return, you can see his point. Nonetheless, with Raven in recovery, Abby helps Finn and the two kids from last episode (Sterling and Monroe) to bust out Bellamy and Murphy to go looking for the rest of the 100.

And Jaha: Having not died last episode, Jaha finds a baby in a locker and determines to get it back to Earth in a missile. The baby vanishes though, proving to be a hallucination pushing him towards survival (later turning into a grown Wells Jaha to talk him through the last steps) and a crash landing somewhere in the wilds of Earth.

One of the things I'm really enjoying about The 100 is that is has few cut and dried situations, although a lot of reviewers seem intent on finding them.

Okay; it's obvious from a narrative perspective that Clarke is right about Mount Weather, but internally it makes sense that the 48 want it to work out, and while Jasper may be blinded by this, he is also right that they shouldn't be making waves. If Clarke were smarter she would realise that the last thing she wants is for the residents of Mount Weather to decide that she is a liability, but subtle is apparently something that happens to other people. A more measured approach would also help her to maintain the trust of her cohort.

With the Grown-Ups, it is again on the surface obvious that Abby, Bellamy and Finn are right about going looking for the others and that Kane is reverting to dictatorial jackass. Look closer, however, and note that a) Finn and Bellamy are actually going looking in the wrong place and b) the loss of the Guard patrol so close to base camp means that Kane has a solid reason for every decision he has made. On the other hand, he also needs to recognise that the 100 have developed skills that he would be smart to trust in, rather than insisting that the Guard are more Earth-ready.

I really hope that the series maintains this ambiguity.