'The 100' Season 7 Countdown: Sachin Sahel says final season is 'batsh*t crazy' and 'like nothing you've seen'
The seventh and final season of 'The 100' is set to premiere on The CW next month and its details have been kept pretty much under wraps. As excitement builds for the final season, fans hope the show's end won't disappoint them, and actor Sachin Sahel who plays Dr Eric Jackson on 'The 100' promises that it won't.
MEA Worldwide (MEAWW) caught up with Sahel to ask him what he thought of the final season. In a few words, he said that Season 7 is "batsh*t crazy." Sahel said, "[The show] does such a good job of reinventing itself. Reinvention doesn't feel like the right word for it, because it just feels so new and fresh. I think just by watching the first episode, you can expect that this is going to be our best season. It's one of my favorite seasons on television."
With Sahel also being a fan of the show, his reactions can be felt to be objective. He says, "What we did this year is like nothing you've seen."
Sahel also loves that there are "so many different ethnicities" on the show. He says he is happy fans feel "represented" on 'The 100'.
Fans are already quite expectant as Sahel has tweeted that the Season 7 premiere is pretty high on his list of favorite episodes. He told us, "It's actually my favorite first episode of any television show ever which is even better. I remember filming it but after watching it, I remember thinking in my mind, 'I did not know that it was going to be like that.'" He continued, "It's 20 times better than I ever could have imagined."
Sahel says that fans can expect the show to pick up "real hot" when it comes back. He says, "This show doesn't rest ever and we know that it ended with such a cliffhanger last season. You're going to be taken on the ride immediately and throughout the season, it doesn't stop."
So what are Sachin Sahel's favorite episodes of a show he has been part of since the first season? He tells us Season 1, Episode 4, 'Murphy's Law' is pretty special to him. He says, "I think that's the day the show became what it truly is and I think that's the reason we are able to keep going. The show took that turn that it really needed to take and it became a lot darker and a lot more real."
He also likes the finale of Season 2 a lot, although he agrees that all season finales of 'The 100' are "pretty fantastic." Sahel also enjoyed the first two episodes of Season 5 after the second Praimfaya. He said, "We got to see what happened after a six-year time jump and the whole new world that they've rebuilt with. It was very exciting to read."
Fans may agree that the one thing that has remained constant is the theme of Clarke Griffin (played by Eliza Taylor) pulling levers in every season finale. Sahel says that he loves how Clarke pulling a lever has "become a thing now." He says, "I've never asked them if that's actually something that they wanted from the beginning to keep happening, but I do love that. It's such a good metaphor. It's not even a metaphor. It's a real choice that she has to make all the time because she's put in these precarious situations."
Sahel also teases that big things are coming for Dr Eric Jackson in Season 7. For one, Jackson is now officially the head doctor with Abby Griffin (Paige Turco) having died — while Sahel has felt that Jackson has always been a "pretty important doctor," because Abby had other work to do.
Sahel says, "As the head doctor, I think you have to interact with everybody. It's your job to take care of and help everybody. So I hope to see a lot of different interactions for him this season and he's going to have to do his best to be the healer on this new moon that they're in."
He also tells us that "Mackson" shippers can expect scenes of Jackson and Nathan Miller (Jarod Joseph). He says, "I do love that relationship so much specifically for the fact that it just came organically, two people that were longing for someone and they found each other. They found each other in a hopeless place."
He continues, "I was really excited to see them grow and flourish. I always look forward to working with [Jarod Joseph] because Mackson is a relationship I truly love, there's no real fanfare behind it. It just exists initially out of necessity, and then became love."
Sahel says that before he started filming for Season 7, he would have hoped that Jackson and Miller would have ended up on a farm and raising a family of their own. However, now he says fans will have to wait and watch to see what comes for Mackson.
Sahel also told us that he loved working on the show, saying, "I love being Jackson, he's one of my favorite people." Talking about his experience working with the cast and crew of 'The 100', he said, "It always tries to represent a world where some of the things that we all care about needlessly aren't cared about anymore. Like we don't care about who you love, how you love, what you look like we were because we don't have time to care about that stuff."
He added, "I really love that story and I look at the people that created that story and all the writers that have come in through the seasons. The people that have effectively changed my life because I met my best friends on this show. A lot of times, you work on shows and you never see people again but I guarantee that I'm going to see most of these people [again]."
He continued, "I'm talking to them every day because they're my best friends now. So what I'm going to miss is going to be able to work with these people. We went on this journey with everybody together and are best friends in real life. There's something really beautiful about doing that with the people you're close with."
Sahel said that he will miss working with the crew whom he calls an "amazing family of seven years." But he says that working on 'The 100' will be something he is going to look back on as "the best time of my life so far."
Follow MEA WorldWide's countdown to the final season of 'The 100' for more. The final season will premiere on May 20th on The CW at 8/7c.