'The 100' Season 7 Episode 3: Fans want happiness for Raven and are glad she can understand Clarke better now
Spoilers for 'The 100' Season 7 Episode 3 'False Gods'
Raven Reyes (Lindsey Morgan) and Clarke Griffin (Eliza Taylor) have one of the most interesting friendships on 'The 100' on The CW. When they first met, they were in love with the same boy, Finn Collins (Thomas McDonell), however, they grew to respect one another.
That friendship was muddled in Season 5 when Clarke's priorities were saving her adopted daughter, Madi (Lola Flannery) which led to tensions between her and those who had spent the last six years in the sky waiting for the radiation to subside, including Raven, Bellamy Blake (Bob Morley) and John Murphy (Richard Harmon).
Let's be honest, they all gave Clarke a pretty hard time, even as we moved into the sixth season and they moved to a whole other planet. We've understood many of Clarke's decisions and why she does what she does - to protect those she loves. Often, she has had to make some difficult decisions and while it was easy for Raven to judge, we argue that she has not been put in the same difficult situations as Clarke had been.
That changed in this week's episode of 'The 100' as Raven was forced to rope in four prisoners to do some welding works on the coolant pipes -- she conveniently leaves out that they could get sick and when it becomes clear that the job might fail, she even locks in Murphy with them, because Murphy would do anything to survive and he would get the pipes sealed shut quickly.
Raven's harsh decisions led to the death of the four prisoners and one of the prisoners' girlfriends was not happy about this as she nearly beat Raven to a pulp. At this point, Raven started to feel the guilt, so she took it without fighting back.
Fans think it's high time that Raven started experiencing some happiness as she has been put through many tragic situations (losing Finn, getting shot, losing other boyfriends). One fan wrote, "Raven deserves happiness! She was shot in season 1 and has yet to find any happiness." Another tweeted, "Stop making raven sad challenge #The100."
A fan opined, "How do they manage to make raven suffer sm every season like name one season where they didn’t emotionally torment her I just don’t get it #The100." Another tweeted, "Raven’s getting beaten up while Clarke and Gaia mope around about Wonkru. What is this stupid show. Idgaf about Gaia ffs."
A viewer wrote, "Why y'all feeling bad for Raven? She made Clarke feel bad for ages for "hard decisions". Now y'all like "oh no, don't cry"...She just lied to those people and locked her FRIEND in there not knowing if he'd die or not."
Another tweeted, "I love raven but now she finally understands what it feels to take difficult decisions and won’t shade Clarke for it." One expressed, "Damn Raven I trusted you, I liked criminal guy."
'The 100' airs on The CW on Wednesday nights at 8/7c.