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The 100 S4 |OT| Meltdowns of Epic Proportions - Wednesdays at 9/8C

Joni

Member
She said something to the effect of, "we tried to remove the rubble for a while but eventually gave up." I'm guessing the temple collapsed and buried the hatch. And the "we" probably means Clarke has formed a whole little crew of her own.

We = The Kid and Me.
 

Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
All caught up. Shockingly good and engaging finale for a season that meandered way too much for its own good.

Also, that kid looked shockingly well adjusted considering that she was raised by Single Mom Clarke completely isolated from society in a nuclear bunker.
 
I wonder how Clarke will feel when she has to yet again make a decision that will make people die.

After 6 years without having to pick who dies.
 

Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
Little Wanheda looked all too eager to load all the weapons when momma Clarke told her.

Just saying.

Please also notice that a 5 year old knows how to operate firearms and react with discipline when shit is about to go down.
 

Joni

Member
And you have to remember Clarke had absolutely no reason to teach the kid how to use firearms. The Arc contains her friends, the bunker is supposed to be full with her friends and wildlife is supposed to be dead. Who was she planning to attack?
 

Elandyll

Banned
Little Wanheda looked all too eager to load all the weapons when momma Clarke told her.

Just saying.

Please also notice that a 5 year old knows how to operate firearms and react with discipline when shit is about to go down.
5 year old?
That kid wasn't 5 year old.
 

Elandyll

Banned
I think that should be her age assuming a 9 month pregnancy. Unless I'm missing something crazy.

It's not her kid, seemed pretty obvious to me...

http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/24/the-100-season-4-finale-explained/

Now, as for what we did see — what can you tell us about Madi?

The mother-daughter vibe that you pick up on in that scene is real. (It's not her biological child; I think it's fairly obvious that the kid is too old for that.) But she is a nightblood. Clarke was alone until she found Madi. When we find them together in [episode] 413, they have been together already for a number of years and are relying on each other and surviving together. That's an incredibly powerful bond, and it will be a really important relationship for Clarke in season 5.

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She is at least 12, and perhaps even 14 I think.
 

Joni

Member
Actress is 13, turning 14 in October. Character might be a tad younger considering Eliza Taylor is 27 playing 18 year old Clarke. Even with the time jump she is playing a 24 year old.
 
"Clarke, is it true that you and I are the only nightbloods left?"
"Yes. Your mother was a proud and fierce nightblood commander who I loved very very much. But now, we truly are the last of us."

😁
 
This might just be me, but I hope for next season the dialogue sound is captured better. I found a lot of scenes in this season difficult to understand. As in I could not make out what the characters were saying -- they spoke too fast or low or something. The environmental sounds got in the way a lot.

In the final episode, this was an issue when it came to getting the rocket in the air. I probably understood a little less than 2/3 of that. I could still understand the general gist of things but without subtitles, it can be hard to follow sometimes.

Also, I want aliens in this series. Please do it. Make ALIE a 6th ranger to fight them.
 
Just binged through the whole season, glad I watched it all at once at the end since I think I woulda been driven nuts by all the abandoned plots and stories in the season. The whole "will putting nightblood in everyone work? Fuck it, lets just let em all die instead" thread went absolutely nowhere and that was downright mystifying.

Still, the battle arena, them actually killing 99.9% of the worlds population (damn!), the crazy wtf ending, and all the fun apocalyptic scenarios were great to watch. With season 5 being the final season, I'm in, but again gonna do the same thing and wait until the season is over to binge watch it all. Characters are far less frustrating that way.

I don't get the prison ship thing at all though, can't wait to see what insane convoluted explanations spring up for that next season.
 

sammex

Member
I like how it's got Mount Weather on there.

"I really want to remember all the dead, but this strap is kinda small, so I'll just put Mount Weather here... and Allie's Zombies... and random grounders I killed with the dropship engines.. and that'll do."
 

Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I want to see how Octavia has (not) coped with the realities of becoming the new chieftain of a bunch of broken clans, outright hated by her own people and disliked by half of the earthers.

Also, I think we know fully well that there has to be a bunch of undiscovered bunkers around. This is basically Fallout: The TV Show, down to the crazy cult shelters, the Enclave, the creepy Corporations and Clarke's mercenary leather armour. And I'm loving it.

Edit: Fuck, add the unexpected trip to the stars to that list, ala Mothership Zeta.
 

Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
I couldn't keep up with the show due to scheduling conflicts, but I managed to make some jifs anyway.

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RIP, you phony surfer rebound lay. You never held a candle to Lincoln and nobody will miss your corny ass.

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With that said, this show looks really, really good when it tries. The Gagarin is giving me some serious Neill Blomkamp vibes and the yuxtaposition of the wasteland and Clarke's green patch was very striking.
 
Someone pointed out on reddit something I missed from the finale and the episode before - Jackson (the doctors aide) mentions that Becca developed nightblood for the Eligius Corporation to protect against solar radiation as they transport criminals in hypersleep. On of Raven's monitors also has an article about Eligius Corporation having mining and penal colonies out on the asteroids.

So I guess the "returning humans" are going to be (ex?) mining prisoners who have lived out in space for 100+ years as well.

I'd also recommend the book Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Baroque Cycle) for anyone into the genre, pretty solid read.
 

Joni

Member
Problem is that it can't be the prisoners unless they were in cryogenic sleep, otherwise it would be their children's children. I hope it's the former, that makes them more dangerous.
 
I couldn't keep up with the show due to scheduling conflicts, but I managed to make some jifs anyway.

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lO1rGCQ.gif


RIP, you phony surfer rebound lay. You never held a candle to Lincoln and nobody will miss your corny ass.

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With that said, this show looks really, really good when it tries. The Gagarin is giving me some serious Neill Blomkamp vibes and the yuxtaposition of the wasteland and Clarke's green patch was very striking.

There is a distinct lack of my old iconic avatar in these gifs if you catch my drift ;)
 
RIP, you phony surfer rebound lay. You never held a candle to Lincoln and nobody will miss your corny ass.

Truth. However I just connected the dots on something everyone else probably did two seasons ago. Lincoln must've been named that because the Lincoln Memorial (which we saw briefly in the jungle in S1 or S2) was nearby. I like how aspects of former society have remained in the grounder culture. The worldbuilding on this show has always been great, much more thoughtful and realistic than Horizon Zero Dawn for instance.

Someone pointed out on reddit something I missed from the finale and the episode before - Jackson (the doctors aide) mentions that Becca developed nightblood for the Eligius Corporation to protect against solar radiation as they transport criminals in hypersleep. On of Raven's monitors also has an article about Eligius Corporation having mining and penal colonies out on the asteroids.

So I guess the "returning humans" are going to be (ex?) mining prisoners who have lived out in space for 100+ years as well.

Huh, nice sleuthing. I really hope half of next season isn't just shots of Clarke and Lexa Jr. running and hiding in the jungle from the baddies. Although some Red Dawn stuff could be cool with Clarke shouting "Skaikruuuuu!" as she blows up some convicts.
 
Also, I think we know fully well that there has to be a bunch of undiscovered bunkers around. This is basically Fallout: The TV Show, down to the crazy cult shelters, the Enclave, the creepy Corporations and Clarke's mercenary leather armour. And I'm loving it.

Now that you said it.. it does have some fallout vibes...
 

Funky Papa

FUNK-Y-PPA-4
The 100 has some shockingly good lore for what it is, down to the earther language.

I just wish we could get some more mutant/wildlife action.

RIP, biodiversity.
 

Dynasty

Member
The 100 has some shockingly good lore for what it is, down to the earther language.

I just wish we could get some more mutant/wildlife action.

RIP, biodiversity.

The gorilla seen in season 2 with Lexa and Clarke was awesome. Was hoping for more of that, I'm guessing most of the wildlife in the area should be dead now due to the radiation but fingers crossed they mutated into something.
Isnt going to happen.
 
I finally caught up.

Looking forward to the next season. Hopefully those shitbird grounders are done for, at least in their original incarnation. I definitely dig the fallout vibes.

Little Wanheda looked all too eager to load all the weapons when momma Clarke told her.

Just saying.

Please also notice that a 5 year old knows how to operate firearms and react with discipline when shit is about to go down.

I really don't know how anyone could possibly think that teenager was a 5 year old.
 

mm04

Member
The 100 has some shockingly good lore for what it is, down to the earther language.

Hahah I love rewinding it just to hear how they get standard english words in there. My favorite was the subtitled word of "fight" and Octavia I think said "throwdown".
 

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Hahah I love rewinding it just to hear how they get standard english words in there. My favorite was the subtitled word of "fight" and Octavia I think said "throwdown".

Yes! It's my favorite part of the lore for this show. You can actually hear how it derived from English. Reminds me of some of the patois you hear down South.
 
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