Monday 27 April 2015

The 100 - 'Remember Me' and 'Survival of the Fittest'

"And remember, the port passes to the left."
It's all go in 100-ville. The death of Finn still stings, but the truce with the Grounders is established. 'Remember Me' establishes that the Grounders' own intertribal alliance is rocky, held together by the Commander's will. Lexa has been referred to elsewhere as a visionary, and it is clear that she is assaying a new style of leadership and trying to affect real change in the 'Tree people'. When it seems that Raven has tried to kill her, everything goes to pot therefore, but ultimately her own bodyguard is fingered as the culprit, having put poison in the cup as he tasted it in order to save her from an alliance he believes will kill her. His own execution shows Raven what Finn would have suffered, and she is reconciled to Clarke.

In Mount Weather, Monty manages to splice a signal into the transmitters, but is caught sabotaging the jammer and placed with Harper in a set of forty-seven cages.
The cast await word of whether the show has been renewed or not.

In 'Survival of the Fittest', the alliance continues to be shaky. Clarke is basically putting everything on Bellamy getting into Mount Weather and shutting down the defences; the Grounders are all for having some other plan. The acid fog is a pretty compelling point in Clarke's favour, but her approach is terribly all-or-nothing.

The Grounder warriors are unimpressed with the Sky People, who do not hunt, but Octavia shows her moxy by getting smacked around and not quitting, leading Indra to offer to train her as her second (a big thing in Grounder culture.) In a conversation with Kane about what happens after Mount Weather falls, it becomes clear that Octavia is thniking of herself as more Grounder than Sky Person.

Yet another general tries to murder Clarke, before a run in with a mutant gorilla - no, really - kills off Major Byrne (I totally did not see that coming), the general - Lexa cutting his leg to buy time for the others to run - and another Grounder, and leaves Lexa and Clarke fighting for their lives against Mighty Joe Fuck the Lot of You. Lexa and Clarke have a bit of a heart to heart. Lexa seems to be determined to teach Clarke to be a cold-hearted badass (honestly, as much as the show seems to want us to see her as an emotional character, I think that ship has sailed) and Clarke to prove her strength without going full-Grounder.

Bellamy almost makes it into Mount Weather as planned, but Lincoln has a relapse and that bit goes pear-shaped. Elsewhere, Jaha is pleading a minor exodus to the City of Light. Murphy, once more slapped down for getting into a fight with a Grounder who calls him out for being present at the massacre, goes with him, although he seems aware that the former Chancellor is less of a visionary than a madman. Murphy also gets quote of the week, referring to 'Camp You' when talking to Jaha.

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