Sheidheda going for Nelson is a move that further wins me over to the idea that the guy might actually know what he’s doing when it comes to strategy. While a Second Dawn throwback is kind of fun, the writers are going to have to be judicious about how much information they reveal again and again to different groups before the audience loses interest. After all, the Second Dawn folks could never have traveled that far that quickly through conventional means. This backs up what Gabriel surmised over on Bardo, that these planets are connected to Earth and that the people on them traveled from Earth via Anomaly Stone, not Eligius ship. Yet another great and moving scene from Eliza Taylor and Lindsey Morgan.Ī much more interesting development is the fact that they found an artefact from the ill-fated Second Dawn cult, also known as the original owners of the bunker, on the planet. While the show letting Raven off the hook feels a bit cheap, Clarke doing so feels right for their friendship, like she was able to be the person for Raven that she wished she had after Mount Weather or any number of other tough calls. In some ways it feels like an easy out for Raven, but after so many seasons of her giving Clarke a hard time for every tough decision, it’s good to see an acknowledgement that there are hard choices and that making them is a burden. Luckily, we got a great moment between Clarke and Raven that felt long overdue (in the greater context of their relationship) reflecting on Raven’s choice to knowingly endanger the lives of others and deceive them about it. While drawing obvious comparisons to Alien/s, the ~surprise twist~ that they’re in some kind of alien spider’s web to be eaten instead of a cave felt entirely obvious from the jump. Though promising, the sci-fi horror playing out over on the Ossuarium planet with Clarke, Raven, Miller, Jasper and Niylah ends up being the weakest storyline of the episode. Is he so fearful? Or is it simply his respect for human life? Either way, give me more so I get where he’s coming from. Is it just me or does he have something of a crush on her? Or is it just her way of life he longs for? Props to the writers for picking Gabriel to betray them, though this is going to need more backup reasoning on the other side, since we don’t know him as well and it doesn’t feel particularly grounded in anything. It was great to see Leavitt again, and no surprise that he helped Octavia. It’s a cool reveal and more convenient that they’re all in the same time and place, but it feels more like cheating than when it seemed like Diyoza was rescuing O and it turned out to be adult Hope. The fact we don’t know quite what the time dilation ratios are makes it feel far more likely that they’re playing fast and loose here. It feels a little too neat that the exact day Diyoza gets out is the day Echo, Hope, and Gabriel arrive to rescue Diyoza, and that the knife she throws goes right into hopes helmet. I can’t wait to see what this new version of Diyoza is like, and to watch her try to resolve who she has been to her daughter and Octavia on Sky Ring with her reputation and the woman she was before. It’s the thought of protecting her daughter that gives her strength. She’s unbreakable, using pain to keep her memories from them as they resort to isolation, light, sound, and other disorienting torture techniques. In a way the old Diyoza is back, casing the joint and forgetting nothing, yet she still carries with her the new person she’s become. It’s a big swing, but the vibe is great and manages to make everything feel a bit more grounded and fun. It’s similar to the technique used to show Hope’s years alone on Sky Ring, but tonally it reminds me of the Violent Femmes season 3 premiere with the gang in the rover and O on her horse way. I love the big, bold opening as a reintroduction to Diyoza and a way to catch up on what she’s been doing during her years on Bardo.
In a season that’s so excellent, it makes anything less stick out. It’s especially tough to get predictable minutes in an episode when we came so close to seeing the outside world of Bardo, only for it to be snatched away. Why stretch things out on new worlds when there’s so much to fill out about existing worlds we’ve already invested in? We still don’t know much of anything about Nelson or how the Disciples are organized as a society and why they’re the enemy, beyond reacting in the moment. While some elements of Nakara were exactly why season 7 is so great – namely, the cold open – there’s no changing the fact that the storyline for which it is named is filler. This THE 100 review contains spoilers The 100 Season 7 Episode 6
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