Post — Aaron Ngo

Major spoilers are included in this episode review. Read with caution!

Welcome back to another episode review of this amazing show!

The hiatuses are over for the time being and the weekly episodes can commence! How I missed The 100 and the way it questions the whole "Good vs Evil" mentality. If you have forgotten what happened in the last episode (darn breaks!), my episode review is here.

There are a lot of things going on in this episode as the war prepares to get underway.

The first thing the show addresses in this episode is how everyone is either different or the same since the time jump. Clarke and Bellamy are put in their rightful place by Octavia, who is doing whatever it takes to save her people - the same as they did when they were in charge.

Octavia has a lot on her plate and truly wishes everyone to get out alive (Raven, Echo, Abby, Kane, etc.), but she is also responsible for the well-being of everyone else - her Wonkru. Indra is afraid she will ultimately lose herself and has no regrets in the part she played with Kane's escape.

The mother-daughter relationship Indra and Octavia share is a spectacular piece of work and to see it tested like this worries me. I pray Octavia does not go too far in the darkness. I mean, Octavia's actions make sense after she explains the gameplay.

Let's use this example:

Clarke claims using the worms as a weapon against Diyoza will kill The Valley. Here, I was like, "Yeah. What a horrible plan." Then Octavia and Cooper swoop in with the clean explanation, "After many tests, we know the worms will die out in a few days."

There is a clear power struggle between Octavia and Clarke and the tension is clear when it comes to Madi. After Octavia takes Madi in as her second, Clarke decides to take Octavia out in order to protect her daughter and the rest of their friends.

This will put Bellamy in an impossible position. Who will he side with? His close friend or his sister?

Monty finally earned some screentime when he read Jasper's suicide note (thanks Clarke for not reading it!) and learns how Jasper planned to kill himself earlier with a gunshot in the mouth (season four premiere).

I had completely forgotten that no one knew about this and it helps put things in perspective for him. Jasper believed "they" were the problem and he no longer wished to be a part of the problem - the cycle.

The Diyoza-Kane dynamic is amusing whenever he tries to keep her in check. Her knowledge of the show's background is also paying off when she compares dropping 100 delinquents on the ground is no different than leaving 300 prisoners on an asteroid.

The biggest twist though? The pregnancy! Diyoza is really pregnant and that is going to cause trouble if the characters are incline to pro-life! I wonder if being frozen did something to her baby though? And if a baby daddy will factor into the overall plot? I mean, I feel like the father's identity is irrelevant for this kind of show, but curiosity...

I think Abby and Kane broke up too... She chose her pill addiction over him. And I enjoy how they squabbled over how the pills make her a better doctor and without them, they'll only have a clean junkie who will only think about her next fix.

What an interesting situation...

Raven and Shaw are going to get together at some point. "Love interest!" is screaming all over the place with those two. Echo did him dirty to get Monty's device into the hard drive... Raven is distraught that they betrayed the one good person on Diyoza's team.

Next week's episode should get explosive! Clarke vs Octavia and Wonkru vs Prisoners! All-Out War on every front! How far will Clarke go to save her friends and daughter?

Sound off in the comments and let's discuss how our morals keep getting questioned with every episode of this show!

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