'The 100' Final Season Countdown: Five Questions we need answers to in Season 7
With the final season of 'The 100' on The CW still being more than a month away, we are eagerly rewatching the first six seasons readying ourselves for the Jason Rothenberg series to come to an epic conclusion.
While Rothenberg admitted that he wanted to end the show a couple of seasons ago, The CW kept renewing it since it had a big, loyal fan following. However, this time around, Rothenberg gets to plan meticulously how he would like the final 16 episodes to air. Fittingly, the final episode will also be the show's 100th episode.
A lot went down in Season 6 of 'The 100'. Perhaps more so than previous seasons. Our heroes went on a 100+ year journey while Monty Green and Harper navigated the ship to find a habitable planet. They lived their lives out while everyone else remained in stasis and even had a kid, Jordan — who they named after Monty's late best friend, Jasper Jordan.
When Clarke, Bellamy, and the others find themselves on the new planet, they encounter the humans who descended from the ones who left to explore before the first Praimfaya — the first nuclear apocalypse 97 years prior to the beginning of the show.
They also realized that the original explorers were using mind drives to continue living forever, using bodies of the others on the city they made called Sanctum — the explorers deemed themselves gods and their subjects willingly sacrificed themselves.
We also saw that the planet had something we had never before seen on the show: the temporal anomaly — a green barrier-like entity which messed around with the planet.
With the final episode is just days away, here are the biggest questions we want answers to from the final season of 'The 100'.
What happened to Octavia?
In Season 6, Octavia and her former enemy, a heavily pregnant Diyoza, go into the temporal anomaly seeking answers. Octavia comes out a few seconds later, but she looks different and her hair is longer and there are new symbols on her back. Diyoza does not appear again.
In the final episode, a woman shows up from the anomaly after Gabriel messes with the symbols on Octavia's back. Octavia calls her Hope — she's Diyoza's daughter. Hope stabs Octavia and collapses, while Octavia vanishes and the anomaly returns to normal.
Of course, the most important question is, what happened to Octavia. It also looked like she remembered Hope, so what went down in the anomaly the first time she went in? While we're at that, what's the deal with the temporal anomaly?
Since Octavia is still part of the regular cast for Season 7, we can expect to see her again. However, will that be in flashbacks or because she's actually coming back?
Will Russell cooperate?
Russell was the leader of the Primes on Sanctum. While he seemed more morally conscious, over time, his need to protect his family soon made him an antagonist. He quietly put his daughter Josephine's mind drive in Clarke's body — giving viewers some excellent insight into Eliza Taylor's acting skills.
However, by the end of the season, both his wife and daughter's mind drives are destroyed. Bellamy, Clarke, and their group were able to reveal the Primes' real agenda to the others on Sanctum and we get a new, merged group again.
Russell may have accepted defeat but is he going to become a part of this new group of humanity or is he going to be out on a path for revenge?
Where did Sheidheda go?
In Season 5, Madi, Clarke's adopted daughter opted to take the Flame — the mind drive that housed the insight and perhaps minds of all the previous Commanders for the Grounders. In Season 6, she began to see Sheidheda, who wiped every other Commander from the drive and started to take control of Madi.
As Sheidheda kept getting more prominent, Clarke and Raven devised a plan to get rid of him from Madi's mind. Raven was able to remove Sheidheda from the Flame — in doing so, she rendered the Flame useless and removed it from Madi.
However, Sheidheda's code uploaded somewhere else through Eligius's computer — which means that the dark, power-hungry Commander could resurface at an unfortunate time in the final season.
Will 'Bellarke' ever happen?
Getting into a discussion about the relationships involving Clarke and/or Bellamy is one of the riskiest things a fan could do. 'Clexa' shippers still campaign for Lexa to be brought back, while 'Bellarke' shippers are tired of the platonic relationship that never seems to cross the line.
However, Season 6 gave us the closest indication that Clarke and Bellamy are more than just friends — they would do anything to save each other, no matter how badly they might be crossed.
Will Jason Rothenberg continue to insist that the two are platonic or will he finally give in to fans' demands?
Will our heroes ever be the 'good guys'?
The main theme of 'The 100' has been survival — it has been so since Season 1 when the tone used to be completely different from what we see now. For Clarke and Bellamy — who used to be enemies — it was the survival of their people they fought for.
Their people meant just the 100 delinquents at first, then included everyone from the Ark, then included the Grounders, and after Season 5, their people included the prisoners from the Eligius ship. After the Season 6 finale, it also includes the survivors from Sanctum.
The question of morality has always hung above their heads as Clarke and Bellamy ended up making tough decisions. They were meant to consciously do only the right thing from Season 6, but the quest for survival blurred lines for everyone.
In Season 2, Clarke's mother Abby tells Clarke, “Don’t forget that we’re the good guys.” Then in the season finale, Clarke tells her mother, “I tried. I tried to be the good guy.” Her mother’s response to her now is that, “Maybe there are no good guys.”
This is something Clarke and Bellamy have struggled with. In the Season 6 finale, Jordan tells Bellamy that Sanctum lived peacefully before they arrived, never mind the deluded lives they were leading.
But will the final season make the distinction clear? It's unclear. In survival, there are no good guys. But perhaps, our heroes can start living and not just surviving, and we may finally get the answer.
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