The 100 Season 4 Episode 10 Review: Die All, Die Merrily

| May 4, 2017 |

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This The 100 review contains spoilers.

The 100 Season four Episode 10

If yous didn't watch the previews, this very Hunger Games episode started off with 2 quick surprise contenders in the Conclave to up the ante, and it didn't let up from there, giving us perhaps the best fight scenes of the flavor and then far.

The Blake siblings warm up

Octavia and Bellamy had some tense moments, but I take her willingness to say, "May we encounter once again," equally a adept sign. Even better, the expression on her face when she overheard him talking about her to Roan, and the fact that he was the start person she looked for later on the Conclave, mean the Blake siblings are finally headed towards peace, if not forgiveness.

In fact, it was Bellamy who gave Octavia her winning strategy of hiding and existence "the girl underneath the floorboards," similar she was dorsum on the Ark. It's a adept strategy, and a skillful sign that O was willing to listen to it. She not simply trusts her brother over again, information technology sounds like she'south interested in living after all.

A bunch of Grounders seize with teeth the dust

I won't lie, I didn't think The 100 had the guts to kill off Octavia, Roan, Luna, and Ilian. I don't think anyone watching is surprised Octavia had her plot armor on in addition to her literal armor, but killing off the other three was gutsy. I loved seeing Luna in activity again later nosotros got that hint of what she's capable of back in episode viii. Fighting for expiry felt like a bit of a betrayal of who she has always been as a graphic symbol, though, and her change of middle was too rushed to be believable. Yet, I don't recollect Octavia would have grown and learning so much in the arena without seeing such a peace-loving person take a turn.

Ilean's decease came at just the correct time, from a plot perspective. He helped Octavia heal and essentially died past didactics her to trust again, but his fourth dimension is done. Does anyone else take doubts about Roan's death? His felt like it had the to the lowest degree amount of closure and certitude, so I kept expecting to see him get up out of the water. Information technology also seems strange to have him and Clarke accept so much chemical science and tension and never do anything with it.

Octavia turns a corner

I loved every minute of this Octavia-heavy episode, particularly the moments focused on family. Octavia'southward story has always been virtually non belonging, and learning to have dearest from the people who matter, regardless of what anyone else thinks. Family, both constitute and biological, was on full display with Gaia mourning for her female parent when TriKru'southward champion died, and Indra's unabashed show of love and back up for Octavia. I'thousand glad to see Octavia learning that while she volition always honey Lincoln, she withal has her people and her family without him.

Octavia'southward determination to separate upward the bunker evenly felt a scrap hollow since it was the about obvious direction for the prove to take, but at to the lowest degree her personal development feels earned. Perhaps she will now exist seen every bit a leader, even a content against Clarke if the Grounders back her for having better policy and existence more like them. After all, Ogeda, the word for unity that the Grounders were chanting, sounds an atrocious lot like Heda, Commander.

Clarke screws anybody

Jaha was in this episode for like two minutes but he still managed to screw everyone over, per usual. All the good volition and unity that Octavia merely generated is going to go through the tubes since Clarke has SkaiKru locked themselves in the bunker. Not just that, they used gas like the Mountain Men, making this the millionth time this season that Clarke & co. have behaved similar everyone's least favorite clandestine cult. I think I'g most disappointed that Clarke finally articulated to Roan that her desire to save anybody sets her autonomously, only to completely go back on that.

Is Clarke even going to let Kane and Octavia in, or was Kane seen as a worthwhile cede and she assumed Octavia would lose? Volition Echo conveniently forget to mention that she'due south banished? Am I the only one holding out hope for Roan to however exist alive? Only time volition tell, and they're running out.