In The 100 season 2, episode 3, our characters treaded down dark and dangerous paths. And everyone came out a loser.
Wow. We knew some big sh– would be going down in The 100 season 2, episode 3, but we weren’t prepared for the fact that every single one of our heroes would ultimately go from bad to worse.
Of course the story isn’t over yet – but in Joseph Campbell terms, everyone’s been treading around in the Innermost Cave for a while, and we doubt they’ve faced the supreme Ordeal yet.
Because this episode was so dark and un-fun, all our headers are going to be silly puns. For levity.
Jurassic Clarke
We pick up in the terrifying harvest chamber, where Clarke (Eliza Taylor) manages to get Anya (Dichen Lachman)’s cage open, and together they escape.
Oh, those poor other Grounders also trapped in the cells? Forget about it, they’re not Clarke’s new BFF.
Although to be fair, President Roslin’s aide does arrive at an inopportune moment. And did you notice how she gets all offended when one of the captives reaches for her pretty hair, and looks back judgingly before she leaves? Just in case ya didn’t know she was evil…
Clarke and Anya are sucked into a trash chute, landing heavily on a pile of dead and dying Grounders.
Poor Anya is not dealing with this all too well. “I won’t leave my people behind,” she tells Clarke, who argues that they can get out and find help, then come back. “There is no we,” Anya flat-out states. And we guess Clarke should have considered herself warned right there.
When the Reapers come, the dream team hides in an empty cart, but then bodies are piled on top of them, and their cart begins to move. Oops.
They finally escape, after one of the dying Grounders is torn apart by the Reapers, and Anya has mercy killed the other one.
“OMG this place is amaze!” Clarke enthuses (…or something like that) as they run through the Reaper tunnels. And let’s face it, it IS pretty cool.
Anya decides it’s time to split up, and Clarke is cornered by Reapers. But then she is “saved” by the Mountain Men – there’s just no win here. They sentence her to harvesting, but luckily Anya appears to have missed her BFF, and together they escape! Yay! Into a giant waterfall, which of course they jump down, Pocahontas style.
And if their storyline had ended here, what a moment of triumph it would have been… But, right, this is The 100. Clarke washes up on the shore, and badass Anya revives her, only to capture her as a trophy to take back to her people.
So now, we guess Clarke HAS been captured. Which is lucky, because…
For Whom the Bellamy Tolls
The Fabulous Five find the Grounder camp. Finn (Thomas McDonell) sees the one-eyed guy wearing Clarke’s watch, and deduces that he must know where she is. Uh-oh! Prepare to suffer the wrath of Captain Spacewalker.
They conclude that the man has probably harmed and killed Clarke, so they capture him and proceed to torture information out of him which of course he doesn’t have.
When Finn threatens to shoot him, the Grounder of course lies, and sends them into an obvious trap.
Dark!Finn is clearly done playing diplomat, and the others are all shocked when he first beats, then shoots the Grounder. Cause no one has ever tied up a Grounder and beaten him, coughBellamycough.
Then Murphy (Richard Harmon) tries to be all like, “Ohh you thought I was crazy, but look at Finn.” Like what they did was anything alike.
In this show, you really have to look at people’s intentions rather than their actions. Like, harming someone for no reason other than to prove a point? BAD. Kane, I’m looking at you.
Citizen Kane
Again, almost all of our characters have made questionable moral choices over the course of the series. But while some of them have acted to save their friends, others have acted to assert their dominance.
Kane (Henry Ian Cusick)’s regression is hard to watch, because from the pilot (where he was ready to have Abby thrown out an airlock just cause he could) to the season 1 finale, he went through such an incredible transformation.
Now, in my eyes, it’s all gone. He had a choice to be different, to be better. But all it took was a “What is it, Major Spit-It-Out?” and some side-eye from said Spit-It-Out, and he did something not only evil, but stupid.
Publicly shaming and incapacitating one of only two doctors in the camp? With a punishment so inhumane and archaic, it brings the Ark survivors right down to Grounder level?
“You can’t be serious,” Abby says to him right before she is publicly beaten, and that’s what we were all thinking. It’s the worst thing Kane has ever done. A good man would have fought for her, or stopped when he realised how terrible it was. But no.
Oh, and they also ruin one of her shirts, because clothing is probably super easy to come by.
Then later, Kane turns around and makes her Chancellor, because he’s suddenly decided she was right all along. “I did hear you, you know. I just decided to whip you in the street like a disobeying animal for fun. We cool?”
And the most frustrating thing? At the end of the episode, they frickin share the “We’re cool” head bob! UGH.
Viva Octavia
Now THIS girl could run the world. She declares to her new Grounder friends that she wants to join their hunting party, and after they decide to kill her instead and she escapes, she trails them anyway.
And finally, Indra (Adina Porter) decides that she can play along… but like the littlest kid in a sibling flock, she gets the lousiest gig.
Octavia of the Sky People is not afraid though, and after she helps the Grounders defeat a group of Reapers, she earns her life, and even a “We’re cool” head bob from Indra.
But Lincoln (Ricky Little) was not among the Grounders she helped rescue. He’s been taken to the Mountain Men, who mysteriously select him for “the Cerberus programme.”
Cerberus is of course the three-headed dog which guards the underworld (see also: Fluffy). Maybe Chief Bitch (poor actress, that was also her exact role on BSG) likes his head so much, she wants to cut it off and stitch it on a radioactive monster? PROBABLY.
