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Dinoking745765 wrote: I didn't do my review last week because it was basically a bridge episode to get to where we are now. I just watched it (midterms and stuff) so here it goes:

"Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous side of Hell" (Song lyrics, but irrelevent)

This episode, and I guess the one last week, showed us how far gone Octavia truly is, and it shows us the divide between the group on the top in the poster, and the group on the other side of the poster (which was kinda interesting I might add).

I'll start off with Wonkru, and how it's much more different than any other thing we've seen in the 100. We always had the 13 clans, and they were loyal to their leaders, but... all the leaders were under Lexa. We had defector clans, like Luna's, and clans like Azgeda that were hell bent on doing a coup. Wonkru is a symbol, no one dares to defy Octavia (err I guess bloodreina or however you spell it) because EVERYONE will be after them. It's basically like poking the hornet's nest from inside the nest.

Do I think that Wonkru will still be united at the end of the season?

Yes and no.

Ya see, Wonkru is Octavia's dream, and in it she had to be strong and basically a different person. It's like a african leaders class my friend took. He was a military leader and his job was to get into power. He was based on a real person, and he tried everything he could to not do what the actual person did. However, he ended up taking power by doing the EXACT thing that the real person did, using the military. It seems like I'm digressing but, let's look at what we know of the bunker.

We know that Octavia wanted to be something different, she wanted to be a better leader than all of the people that came before her. She thought that peaceful ways would be best and everything would be "sunshine and lollipops" but that's just not the case. She is what she has to be. She did what she had to do, and she's having problems letting it go because she's afraid of what will happen if she shows weakness (I'm doing really well on my pronouns aren't I). The point is, now she is too far gone.

(More lyrics) "Cut up into pieces, looking for a reason; Who’s gonna be there to make me whole? ... Throw me a line and bring me back home"

She need some damn help from Bellamy and Clarke and the rest of the gang, but she's not going to want it, because Wonkru is her family now. It is because of this that I think that Wonkru will be changed drastically to the point in which it won't even seem like Wonkru anymore. So I think that everyone will be united by the end, but I don't think it will be "Wonkru" status. Diyoza said it herself, their fanatics.

Now will Clarke, Bellamy and co. I feel like their just screwed. They don't have any power anymore, they can't even aim the cannon that is Wonkru. So seeing them back into the positions that they were in S1 (all underneath the wings of the adults apart from Bellamy), is kinda refreshing. It's different, obviously, but if they stay like this for the rest of the season, it's going to be a bloodbath, with no means of stopping. So Clarke and Bellamy at least need to help out Octavia if this season is going to be going anywhere different, otherwise this season is just predictable at this point.

I liked the Alien chestburster scene, that's a good homage to the oldies. It's kinda fun going back to the classics, digging from the archives (me and my buddies actually so Alien about 3 weeks ago on our nostalgia night). A nice treat. We'll never see those things again like we never hear about the giant snake in the pilot, but whatever. Fun times.

Shaw. Freaking Shaw. I don't know what to think of his character. I like that he's goodhearted and knows that what he's doing is wrong, but it's just... I can't relate to his character. He holds a lot more power than he thinks, but he chooses not to do anything with his power. He is apparently the only person who can fly the ship (probably not but...). He should be using this to get his way, but instead he doesn't have a pair to show. When I saw the Raven, Murphy and Shaw debate, I liked it. It showed how differently alike these guys are. With this season alluding to S1 so much, it's almost like it's showing the progress of how far our main characters have gotten. I think I mentioned this in my last review, but the we root for the main characters because we know them. They aren't good guys they are just survivors that we have learned to love. Now it's the same with the grounders, and we have no reason to like the Eligius crew.

I'm looking forward to this season (I like the dark stuff), but they gotta throw me a curveball, otherwise I can predict exactly where this season is going and I don't like that in a show.

Until Next Time,

Master of Angels out

Edit: Forgot the TL;DR

TL;DR This episode was good, but if this is what the season is going to be like, then it's going to be kinda boring. I want something more.

I think it will kind of become about a war between Bellamy and Octavia, which could be kind of cool. Bellamy realising he cannot save Octavia from the woman she became and snap her back to reality. Maybe she will wake up in the end, once she loses everything. Until then, Octavia will become a big threat for everyone, since she's kind of going rogue and demanding her own way, unwilling to compromise or communicate with Bellamy or the new people. Octavia's not a good leader. She rules through fear, and people who rule that way eventually fall. People are already running away from her. Even her own people (Indra etc.) are kind of shocked by the way she's continuing to act.

And then you bring the new people in and the three leaders (four if you count Clarke, who will probably join forces with Bellamy anyway, who's less crazy than the other two), fighting for leadership of the land.

I wouldn't be surprised if Clarke/Bellamy team up with Eligius. They are the new "Sky People" - few are crazy and many of them are kind of reasonable. The leader's okay. Shaw's okay. They are wary of other people, but a compromise could be made. It's Octavia and what's left of her people who are completely off the rails.

I think you are giving too much power to Wonkru. I think Bellamy and Clarke will come out on top. I don't think Wonkru will work for very long. They were trapped in a bunker together for years, but I have a feeling it will begin to go wrong for Octavia now that they are free. The clans will probably come back, and then it's kind of like civil war. Octavia may be feared in the bunker with bloodreina, but on land people have space and freedom. And she created a group of even crazier warriors, who kill for sport. That's not good.

There's a lot to find out about how truly dark Wonkru became. They keep talking about a very dark year, which could prove very intriguing and change our perception of the characters involved.

And the way Octavia punishes bad behaviour and ruled people was through the bloodreina. It's no longer possible now they are free. She needs to find a new way to lead people if she wants to continue being leader. Leading warriors to war will be her only choice of keeping them together and in favour with her. But it's a war she won't win. They won't be united in the end, with either each other, Bellamy/Clarke or the new people.

People will be very conflicted about where their loyalty belongs after this long being apart/trapped together. It makes for new dynamics which are yet to develop, now that they are finally reunited. I would say everyone's been living in their own little, limited world for far too long, and tensions are about to break, whether it's good or bad. I don't think it will be boring!