Talk:Remember Me/@comment-85.229.252.74-20150107152143

SPOILER... MANY

 About the next episode… 

We know Raven is going to be accused of poisoning a grounder following Finn's execution and the start of the peace treaty... But there is more.

http://www.spoilertv.com/2014/12/the-100-episode-209-remember-me-promo.html

The thing is... In one of the teasers you can see him opening his eyes when he is removed from the post. Does it mean he is alive or is Clarke hallucinating?

 About Finn as a war criminal 

If he is not dead, I am not sure I would like that. I mean considering the narrative. It was already weird to see the only pacifist character of the group becoming a war criminal. We are talking about the guy who took the blame for the spacewalk to save Raven, who wanted to save Murphy when he was going o be executed by the mob, who wanted to make peace with the grounders from the beginning even after he was almost killed by one of them (Lincoln), the guy who was able to stay cool in the middle of a battle to use a group of Reapers as an unexpected allied force against the Grounders... and so on.

The first season already put the character under pressure and the guy was able to keep his mind quite clear... And then... well, you know, he saw Clarke’s watch on a Grounder and he became Terminator (music please: tadum tadum tadum dum, tadum tadum tadum dum, tututuuuu, tututuuu...). To quote another famous character from a sci-fi TV show, in Finn's case, that is a most illogical attitude. Of course PTS disorder is not about logic, but still... I do not buy it. Instead of becoming the killer of unarmed enemies and already captured prisoners (warriors and civilians including children), according to his previous behavior, chances are Finn would have felt into a super massive depression possibly with suicidal tendencies. This could be boring for a TV show... but, if he is still alive, I am afraid it is actually what they are going to do with this character since, as Finn said, the thing is has done will stay with him...

 About 50 shades of grey 

My first impression when I saw Finn becoming a war criminal was they were pushing the character out of the show... In this light, his execution was quite predictable. If he is still alive, ok, it means I was wrong. Why not, I can be wrong… sometimes, I mean rarely (JOKE!).

But what was the purpose then? Was this all about making Finn just as grey as the other characters? Somehow this show is about leading ALL the characters into the grey zone (music please: welcome to the danger zone... you know, the story of a F-14 pilot struggling with his homosexuality) and to see how they deal with the consequences of tough decisions and sometimes wrong choices but... Finn? Was it because he was too... pure, a kind of white knight, like Wells somehow. Remember him? Clarke’s nice black best friend who wanted more than friendship with the passably cute white blonde girl? Wells died quite quickly in season 1, the case of the white knight who was black being sorted in episode 3.

If we accept the hypothesis making the 100 all about 50 shades of grey, after a while, the other white knight, aka Finn, had to become dirty, not bad, only dirty... grey. Surprising? Yes and no... It is a narrative trick to make us expect the unexpected. It works to some extent, but it has a cost: coherence. Ok, it is a fictional story and if we really care about coherence we should look for another sci-fi TV show because, let’s be clear, this one sucks regarding this criteria. But I still like it, it is a lot of fun.

 About death and survival 

For the moment the only main character who died is...Think about it…No? No idea? Come on…It is easy. Yes, you see now.

No one.

No wait, I am a liar! Yes, of course, there were the precious Wells, Atom, Charlotte, Myles, Connor, Sterling, Kane’s mother, Anya, a couple a other anonymous characters and the bad bad bad leftist terrorist group who was used to created more tension on the space station… and, you know, the usual cannon fodder. Seriously, who really cares about the characters on this list? Some of them could have been interesting, but they died far before being able to reach this point.

The fate of the main characters is actually quite funny. Have you noticed there is almost always someone lying somewhere waiting to be saved? Characters are injured or poisoned, sometimes injured and poisoned at the same time, but at the end they survive. In space, oxygen was also an issue, but it is not the case anymore (except for the acid fog, maybe).

_ A poisoned arrow found his way to Octavia’s leg, she survived.

_ Jasper used a spear to open his chest, but he survived. Later he exchanged galons of cancerous blood with his crush in Mount Weather, he puked for three days, but he survived, we were pretty   sure it was going to the case anyway.

_ Jaha was left behind on the space station, he found his way to earth on a nuclear missile and reached the ground in a desert not far from Washington DC. Well done chief !

_ Lincoln used a poisoned blade on Finn and let it close to his heart, but guess what? Yeah, Finn survived.

_ Bellamy is poisonned by some while one of the 100 (call, him one percent) is sent after him to kill him, there was nothing there, Bellamy is pretty badass, do I have to specify he survived.

_ Lincoln was changed into a reaper but he became the first ever to come back to normal. Well, we will see about that (normal), but he survived.

_ Raven is hit by a bullet in her backbone, but she survived. Ok, her left leg is paralyzed but thanks to the nice engineer she can use a prosthesis. It is pretty efficient since in the episode Fog of War she is able to join Abby, Clarke, Finn, Bellamy and Octavia and the cannon fodder for a walk in the woods. Her leg is not even an issue.

_ Abby took many risks on the station and she should have been executed, but, you know, who would like to kill the doctor ? For a moment she was supposed to be trapped with the bad bab bab leftist terrorists who crashed and died on earth (at least they are presumed dead), but finally she was not with them, she was only trapped on the station with very limited reserves of oxygen. You know what ? She survived. She committed a coup d’Etat on earth but apparently it is not a big deal for anyone. Coups d’Etat are only serious issues when committed by bad bab bab leftist terrorists. But maybe we will see more about that soon.

_ Finn is sentenced to death by bunga bunga by the Grounders and is apparently killed by his love Clarke to spare him bunga bunga, but at the end, you know what? No ? No idea ? Really ? Me neither. We will have to wait to see if Finn has been poisoned or injured, or poisoned and injured at the same case. If it the case, chances are he will survive.

I do not know if Finn survived, but if it is the case the narrative will suffer from a major problem. How are we supposed to worry for the main characters in the future?

It is pretty funny to write it, but in The 100, to date, the only possibility for a character to not survive is to be dead for sure, you know, like Wells, six feet under.

IMHO, This means at least one of the main characters has to die now or very soon. It is matter of credibility. Almost all the possible narrative tricks have been used to keep them alive until now. Finn is a good candidate but the teaser suggests we should doubt about that.

We will see…

Have fun with The 100 in 2015 (and later?)