The 100 Staffel 2, Folge 15

The 100 has been gripping, exciting, heart pounding, and all-around fantastic for pretty much the entirety of the show’s run. Little has changed in the penultimate installment of Season 2, as the Grounders and Sky People raced to save their own from Mt. Weather’s clutches.

This week on The 100: Bellamy, Jasper, and Maya continue their work on the inside. Raven and Wick set out to cut off power to Mt. Weather. Clarke, Lexa, Lincoln, and their armies approach the gate, and Octavia and Indra have a team go through the tunnels. In their desperation, Mt. Weather turns to their former leader for a solution that must work for them to survive.

First thing’s first: there were lots of twists and turns in this episode. Lots of twists and turns that left Twitter in a tizzy and ‘shippers screaming at their televisions. Generally, I try to refrain from “shipping,” so that I don’t get so invested that I miss the creative outcomes of a show. I’m sorry “Clexa” fans, but if I were Clarke, there would be zero room for me to trust anyone again, let ALONE Lexa. But hey, I’m a different kind of writer, and I could never rule anything out. Not with this show.

That being said, it helped me appreciate this plot twist so much more. I LOVE that they’ve taken Clarke on such a crazy journey. She killed the person she loved the most to get peace with the grounders. The grounders are with her until…they aren’t. Then, Clarke’s bi-sexuality is revealed just in time for her to be betrayed. Eliza Taylor is a brilliant actress (as is Alycia Debnam-Carey), and she’s given brilliant performance after brilliant performance. I can’t wait to see how her journey continues into the last episode. The writers and production staff have done a brilliant job, and they’ve chosen a brilliant lead character.

When Bellamy allowed Jasper to tag along on mission impossible, it was an affirmation of something that has long been assumed: Jasper is a warrior now. To a certain extent, I think that’s what this show is about: how much does it take for someone to become a warrior? First Clarke, then Bellamy, Finn, Octavia, and now Jasper. I’m loving every single minute of this character’s journey. Devon Bostick has done an incredible job this season, and I proved I’m serious by finally spelling his name correctly. Jasper has been arguably one of the most interesting characters to watch in Season 2.

One of the more fascinating elements of this show has always been Lincoln and Octavia’s relationship. Every couple has their ups and downs, but BOY does this one have a lot of them. Regardless, one of my favorite moments of the episode was Lincoln and Octavia both taking the moral high ground. They both refused to give up, despite their “orders” and whether or not they are Grounders or Sky People. Both characters would rather do the right thing than be accepted into a group, and it’s just a wonderful testament to the strongly written characters on the show.

Once again, I’m left with nothing bad to say. I’m very invested in this show, so every twist throws me for a loop. I always try to predict what’s going to happen in a show. You’d be surprised how often I’m right, but with The 100, I’m always horribly off-target. I love that about this show. Not knowing what is going to happen makes me so excited to tune into each episode. Week in and week out, they produce a well-written episode of television that is gripping, epic, and explores some deeply human issues. I’m not sure what more you could ask for in a show…not that I think they need anything else. (Okay, if I was going to ask for one thing, it would be to make Wick a regular character. Steve Talley has been fantastic, and I’d love to see him every week. *steps off soapbox*) Each week, I am blown away. Well done.

I’m gripped, I’m invested, and I can barely sit in my chair long enough to contain my excitement for the season finale. Of course, that means that Season 2 is over, but hey, I’ve got Season 3 to look forward to, right?

What did you think of this week’s episode of The 100? Were you as gripped, compelled, or surprised as I was? Let us know in the comments!

The 100's penultimate episode paves the way for a doomed battle for Clarke and co. in the season finale...

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This review contains spoilers.

2.15 Blood Must Have Blood

And that was just part one. All year, The 100 has been dodging expectations and quietly becoming its network’s biggest critical hit, so its second season finale was never going to be guilty of pulling punches. This episode was just as violent, just as emotionally complex and just as surprising as the rest of the season and it makes you wonder what the writers have in store for next week.

We begin where we started off, inside Mount Weather. Only, this time, rather than seeing the strange, sterile alternative to the wild, feral ground from Clarke’s perspective, we’re seeing Clarke and her newly-built army through the eyes of Cage, trying to keep things together despite the seemingly insurmountable forces he’s managed to tick off over the course of his week-long reign.

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With the Arkers and Grounders outside, ready to storm the gates at any moment, Mount Weather is just as much a prison for its inhabitants as it is a safe haven away from the deadly radiation outside.

Lexa and Clarke’s plan to infiltrate Mount Weather is fittingly intricate, with each element of the scheme reliant on the rest succeeding at exactly the right moment. Bellamy is inside with Jasper, Octavia is with Indra and some more backup Grounders, Raven and Wick are shutting down the power supply and Clarke, Lexa and their warriors are poised to storm the castle as soon as the minute-long window in which to blow open the front door arrives.

All of this raises the tension pretty naturally and, while this is a show that regularly feels epic due to the impressive stakes it stacks up against its protagonists on a weekly basis, the episode really did take things to another level. People are going to die, people already have died, and it’s up to Clarke to take responsibility for a plan that involves hundreds of mostly innocent lives.

It’s a rescue mission, she reiterates at various times during the episode, and they’re not there to shed unnecessary blood. That sentiment, she later discovers, is something that Lexa takes to heart and, just when all of the chess pieces are in place, she reveals that her people were ultimately more important than the lives of Clarke and hers. Very few people were killed on the way to Lexa rescuing the imprisoned Grounders, but it came at the expense of a valuable alliance.

It’s a wonderful twist, not merely because of the romance the last string of episodes has worked hard to establish between the two. It’s not a betrayal in the sense that Lexa has been playing Clarke all along, which would have been a bad move on the show’s part, but more of a continuation of both women’s struggle with balancing their heads and their hearts.

When Finn died, Lexa told Clarke the story of how someone she had loved was also killed, encouraging her to turn off her emotions in order to be a better leader. But then they seemingly fell for each other, which complicated things for both of them. Lexa’s decision in this episode was in keeping with what she had originally told Clarke, but now the price to pay is just higher.

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We leave Clarke quite literally alone, facing now impossible odds with Dante and Cage back in control of Mount Weather, Wick and Raven captured and Bellamy trapped inside with Jasper, Monty, Miller, Maya and the rest. Octavia is also now as alone and vulnerable as the rest of them, having put the safety of her brother ahead of her allegiance to the Grounders.

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It’s an exciting place to be leading into the final episode, as battles where there’s apparently no chance of the heroes winning are always more fun than the opposite. This show has come a long way and, while Lexa’s betrayal stings, this is and always was Clarke’s battle to fight.

In welcher Folge küssen sich Clark und Bellamy?

Werden Clark und Bellamy ein Paar?

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