Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27794543-20180725005753/@comment-5575784-20180726040507

This episode definitely isn’t the best of the season, but it stands out in one key aspect that other episodes don’t… it’s probably the best use of backstory in any of the other episodes to date. This includes 5x01 and 5x02 due to the fact that this one uses the backstory as a weave, filtering in and out of “present day” in order to explain the rise and fall of Wonkru.

Before the episode started, I feared the Octavia would fall into “Pike Syndrome”. Her character has been not so much an antagonist this season, but she has odds against Clarke and Bellamy who are revered as the heroes of the show. What “Pike Syndrome” is, is showing a character’s radical beliefs like Pike in Season 3 and then showing many episodes later (in Pike’s case I believe it was 13 episodes into the season) why they’re doing what they’re doing. I was wrong.

Octavia actually has a compelling arc this season. That’s a pretty bold thing to say, I know, but the fact of the matter is, that she actually has a reason for everything that she does. I see her being attacked on by a part of the 100 community, and that isn’t what I want to see in a community of a show that is probably my favorite. And I could (probably) change your mind about what is happening.

Switch Clarke with Octavia… would we be having this same problem. Maybe, but it’s unlikely. Why? It’s in Clarke’s character to make difficult decisions… and Octavia had to make a lot of difficult decisions in the bunker, and this “weave” that I described shows it very well.

The rest of the episode was pretty lackluster… you have the Shaw and Raven ship “Sailing” I guess and Kane and Diyoza betraying Wonkru. Those things piss me off a lot, but in Kane’s character it almost makes sense.

Almost.

I don’t want to see Kane leave this season, but I do think that there’s no more that can be done to his character. Same thing goes for Abby… there’s really nothing left for her, also she’s a junkie and her decision-making isn’t exactly straight right now. I think they’ll both survive at the end of the season, but I’d much rather if their characters be left at their apex of development.

Madi has surprised me this season. I’m genuinely surprised at her character. I like her character a lot more than I thought I would, she’s making more sense than some of the characters on this show. This could be because of the flame and that’s fine… but I really want to see more of her character… the last natblida (I think that’s how you spell it).

I want to touch on that scene in the bunker. You know which one I’m talking about… Marie did a fantastic job in her acting. The moment she puts that gun to the man’s chest is heart wrenching. No one else understood as to why she was doing what she was doing, you could see that. In her heart, she knew that this would be their best way out, instead of atrophy and a slow descent into starvation and collapse. Everyone else, nope. They were terrified, she was forcing them to be cannibals, but she wasn’t doing it to be a bad person. In fact, she was doing it out of mercy. Sure doesn’t seem like it, but it was. Fantastic acting… that’s definitely in my top 5 best acted scenes of the Series as a whole.

There’s more of this ranting bullcrap in a forum post that I’m going to do in breaking down the characters. If you want to yell at me and say “You’re wrong because of ___ and ___” or “I agree with you on ___ and ___” I encourage you to do so. I’ll play devil’s advocate for each of the characters as well… pros and cons style. You know why… because I’m an a******e. I want to have my mind changed, no one has changed it in awhile. I challenge you, random person who somehow got through this whole thing and hate me or like me because of it. Good luck

Yours Truly,

Master of Angels