Subscribe to get a recap of the days posts & never miss the latest breaking news or exclusive content.
The 100, “Bitter Harvest” returns the focus back to Clarke’s burdens from her past crimes against the Mountain Men, while A.L.I.E. finds hope in her new followers at Arkadia. “Hope” is a tough pill to swallow after suffering through so much pain. Meanwhile, Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos), Kane (Henry Ian Cusick), and Miller (Jarod Joseph) spy on the Farm Station uprising and attempt to save more grounder lives. A pretty tough episode for fans of the Blake sibling relationship, considering the diverging paths both find themselves walking along. This episode in particular showcases how The 100 writers can seamlessly tie together two ongoing season plotlines with one swift scene.
“This is a gift from King Roan of Azgeda for Wanheda,” explains Titus (Neil Sandilands) as he presents a large box to both an unsuspecting Clarke (Eliza Taylor) and Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey). Finally, the scene I have been waiting to see since the season three trailer. Clarke coming face to face with the last mountain man, Lt. Carl Emerson (Toby Levins). Perfect timing considering Lexa’s declaration that “Blood must not have blood” in “Hakeldama.” Now Clarke must decide if this is applicable to vengeance for her people too; after all he is the assassin from “Ye Who Enter Here.” The man responsible for all those Skaikru lives lost. “This is both proof of Azgeda’s loyalty to the coalition and an answer to yet unanswered questions,” continues Titus; I am still confused about Roan’s intentions behind this gift for Wanheda. He has always been skeptical about Clarke being worthy for her grounder title as “the commander of death” (3×02). Roan (Zach McGowan) just likes to test Clarke. Really, all I hear from the note is – soon enough he’ll return to the fold. She’s going to need help soon enough, as Titus continues to plot behind the Commander’s back, and views Clarke as a threat to his own agenda. Titus tries to align himself with Clarke as she contemplates her final act of retribution against Emerson, “Did you not wipe out his people for what a few of them did to yours?” I really like this scene, be
“I didn’t destroy Mount Weather, you did. 381 people, 181 men, 173 women, 26 children… two of them were mine,” states Emerson after Clarke confronts him in his holding room. On The 100, there aren’t necessarily good guys or bad guys, because life isn’t that simple. Clarke may be our main heroine in the series, but she still murdered his people, his children to save her own. I adore this scene as director, Dean White, continuously spins the camera around the pair throughout the entire exchange. A perfect visual representation for the “cycle of violence” that both Clarke and Lexa are trying to end. Clarke ends up walking away from Emerson, and for a moment it seems that he has won their war with her choosing to take his life. Then fast forward to the execution ceremony scene, “I wouldn’t be killing you for what you’ve done. I’d be killing you what I’ve done,” explains Clarke to Emerson after choosing that he be banned from the coalition’s lands. The last mountain man is the living embodiment of Clarke’s guilt; but the political repercussions from choosing to kill him out weighs any other gratification from Emerson’s death. “I hope you live forever,” states Clarke after Titus declares the full brunt of his banishment as Emerson’s life is a constant reminder that he’s the last of his kind. Both Taylor and Levins deliver the emotional complexity found in this final scene they share together, as they communicate their victory and loss through mere eye contact. Sure, each deliver some great lines but their performances really support the writing to it’s fullest extent.
“With the loss of Mount Weather resources Arkadia will be starving in less than a year,” says Pike (Michael Beach) during a meeting with his inner circle; that now includes both Bellamy (Bob Morley) and Monty (Christopher Larkin). Did anyone else flashback to season one in this moment? This scene just reminded me a lot about Chancellor Jaha announcing that the ark is dying to his inner circle; is life really that much different for Skaikru now that they’re on the ground? Well, the Blake siblings are certainly heading in their separate ways as Octavia says “My brother is on the wrong side,” as Miller tries to convince her to talk to Bellamy. She instead chooses to warn the grounder village that Pike intends to remove from precious soil that they can use to raise crops for a food supply. Octavia probably should have chosen to serve as Bellamy’s voice of reason, considering how the grounders use her to set a trap for her brother and his team. Again, Dean White continues to impress with this sequence at the grounder village and Monroe’s (Katie Stuart) untimely death. This series is set in a post-apocalyptic world, yet after the poisonous gas gets released I felt like a scene played straight from an Iraq war film; utter chaos. The true turn in this plotline comes with a final meeting between Pike and Bellamy, “Two of our people died today, because of her [Octavia] not to mention the gas poisoned the soil, making the ground useless.” Bellamy refuses to allow her sister to receive punishment and instead offers to find proof that
Tweet me your The 100 season 3 theories @sjbelmont