The penultimate episode of The 100 has strong performances and heartbreaking scenes, but still has some of the issues that have nagged the show all season.Clarke and Octavia go to Bardo to save Maddie while everyone back on Old Earth deals with the aftermath of the bomb. Show
Of course, John “The Cockroach” Murphy survived a literal cave-in. The same cannot be said for Emori, whom he finds impaled by a metal pole, though still breathing. With the help of Raven and Jackson, he works quickly to try and save her life. They saw her out of the rubble, cauterize her wounds, and hammer away at the cement floor to get to the TravelingStone to bring her back to Sanctum for surgery. This sequence has plenty of action and tension, but it’s the moments of intimacy between Emori and her friends that really stick out. It’s easy to forget that Emori is not one of the original 100, because that’s the way she’s treated. Seeing her this close to death is a punch to the gut. They eventually do manage to extricate Emori from the stone. The last we see of this group, they’re running through the portal while Jackson performs CPR on Emori. No matter how many characters come and go, the focus of the show has always been Clarke. She makes the decisions for everyone and has always put herself on the front lines. Now that Maddie has done that, Clarke realizes how her own mother must have felt all those times when she would go off to save the day. So it’s no surprise when Clarke acts as her mother would and blindly runs into danger to save Maddie. She and Octavia are immediately captured by the Bardoians. When they escape, they find a brain-dead Maddie. Clarke has a truly heart-wrenching reaction. We get close-up shots of her and Maddie, each seen through the eyes of the other. The contrast is stark. Maddie’s eyes are glazed and lifeless while Clarke’s are alive and in pain. These performances carry the scene. Plot-wise, it’s like we’re back in the early days of the show when nobody was truly safe. It’s as though the person Clarke used to be after she lost Finn returns when she learns that Maddie can never be truly healed. The downside to all this is that Maddie’s brain-death renders Bellamy’s death a couple episodes back even more meaningless. That’s been a problem all season: except for Diyoza’s death, none of the major deaths have landed the way they should. And given the incredible growth and change some of these characters have gone through, that’s disappointing. But hey, maybe that’s what the writers are trying to say, that no matter how important you are or how far you’ve come, death awaits us all. Grade: B+Next: WiC Watches: The 100 season 7 To stay up to date on everything fantasy, science fiction, and WiC, follow our all-encompassing Facebook page and sign up for our exclusive newsletter. As the final episode of the lesson, “Dying of Light” delivers an emotional punch to the gut. And like in the last few episodes. While Clark struggles to deal with everything that has happened, Cadogan, with the help of an increasingly reluctant Levitt, intervenes in Maddie’s thoughts about the code. Eventually, Levitt approaches the students and uses the nano tracer pills left by Shadehead to take Clark and Octavia to Bardot, where the women release Shadehead as a distraction. The commander of darkness disappeared after slaughtering several students. Meanwhile, Emory is badly injured when the corridor collapses, forcing Raven, Murphy, and Jackson to desperately search for the Anomaly Stone to bring Emory back to Sanctum and save their lives. The three find a rock buried under the Azgeda symbol on the restroom floor, but Emory’s heart stops and Jackson is forced to perform an RPR as they hurry back to the Sanctuary with Emory. Bardot reveals that Maddie suffered a massive, incurable stroke from M-Cap, leaving him permanently locked in his own body. But before Octavia can get Maddie out of the way, more bad news emerges: Cadogan got his brain code before leaving Clark’s dead daughter. and the three retreats to stop him, leaving Maddie for a while. As they left, tears fell from Maddie’s eyes as she was conscious but unable to move. It’s hard to put the feelings, that The 100 Season 7 Episode 15, “The Dying of the Light,” leaves us with into words. Actually, no! It’s not. This episode is frustrating beyond belief and feels completely nihilistic. The 100 is a series where there are no boundaries and no one is safe, but the fact that we leave this episode with Madi having had a massive stroke after Cadogen relentlessly tortured her in M-Cap is unconscionable. There is so much to unpack in the final scene and none of it is okay.  If your reaction to the last five minutes of the episode is anger; that’s good. You should be angry about this because The 100 hasn’t had a villain that vile to inflict this kind of violence on a child. I’d argue that that makes Cadogen the most worthy adversary for the finale, but that’s giving a character who shows up mid-season too much credit. Madi does not deserve to be locked into her own body. She doesn’t deserve to not have a role in the final episode. Too many people have been making choices for Madi since she joined the cast on The 100 Season 5, and she deserves to have her own voice. Not be a pawn. In Cadogen’s mind, she was a tool to be used and to hell with what the memory capture device did to her. He got his answer, and he can proceed to the test, or war, or whatever this season has been dragging us towards. In the end, it’s not worth it if this is the kind of sacrifice that has to happen. Even Levitt, who was raised thinking this was the ultimate goal, is starting to see that with Sheidheda’s carnage as they approach memory capture. War is senseless. People you know will be lost. Madi’s loss hurts more than most because it isn’t an ending. This isn’t a kind of death that The 100 has given us before. We’ve seen people shot out of airlocks, stabbed, roasted by a death wave, and gunned down, and those deaths have been quick and definitive. Madi’s end is something more. It’s agency taken away, and it’s much worse when you factor in that she is a child. Not only is she a child, but a child that was thrust into the role of Commander in an attempt to unite the clans, who was then at the mercy of Sheidheda! When that role was removed, Madi should have had the chance to live her life like a normal child. In fact, if it wasn’t for the anomaly stone she’d probably still be out there being a kid. Which is what she deserved! Related Alycia Debnam-Carey Announces Exit from 'Fear the Walking Dead' After 7 Seasons Yes, I am aware that Sheidheda would still want Madi dead even if they didn’t have the anomaly stone. However, I would argue that you can contend with him because you’d still be playing with rules and technology that most of the characters are familiar with as long as the group is together. Which just brings me back to one of my main issues with the season. The fact that the cast is split into different cells acting independently of one another. We’re at the same juncture now in the penultimate episode. Clarke and Octavia now on the quest to rescue Madi. John, Emori, Raven, and Jackson all working to unearth the bunker’s stone to get to Sanctum. Indra, Gaia, Hope, and Jordan just…in the rotunda…waiting? Echo and Niylah, who knows where, but presumably okay because the Azgeda symbol on the floor was too big a revelation to just let them float off into oblivion before the finale without any real significance. When you break down how “The Dying of the Light” is structured, it’s a story about two lives being in danger: one who mattered so much because she could carry an entire faith on her shoulders, and one who mattered so little Clarke and company were once willing to use her to test a night blood experiment. Emori’s had a different tone this season. She’s been lighter. She’s embraced the fact that she’s important to someone and can make a difference. Seeing her in pain on this episode isn’t the ending she deserves either. John and Emori were the underdogs who survived by any means necessary, and through most of The 100 Season 7, it was uplifting to see them not have to fight for survival. They are the couple that I most want to see get a happy ending, as slight as that may be. Looking back, none of the couples on this show have survived except for John and Emori and Miller and Jackson, and the later of the two haven’t been together most of the season! Aside from my hopes that maybe John and Emori would have a bright and happy future together being dashed, Luisa D’Oliveira does a spectacular job acting opposite Richard Harmon, Sachin Sahel, and Lindsay Morgan. If this Emori’s swansong D’Oliveira brought her A-game and it works. Related The Orville Season 3 Episode 7 Review: From Unknown Graves The scene between Emori and Raven is particularly spooky given Madi’s end. The fact that Emori is preparing for the end and knows that she can trust Raven to honor her wishes is powerful and heartbreaking. Emori mentions that she felt like she mattered on The Ring, and we saw her attempt to save everyone on The 100 Season 7 Episode 3, “False Gods.” Both John and Emori have gone well beyond their survivor mode and have been thinking about others this season, but the fact that that’s where Emori is at now when we’re so close to the end of the series is truly sad. If Emori doesn’t make it out of the series alive, it is one of The 100‘s greatest weaknesses that they didn’t use the relationships developed on The Ring to the best of their ability. Seeing Emori and Raven over the course of Season 7 hints at a close friendship. Emori learned a lot from Raven and clearly feels comfortable enough with her to confide in her like this, and that scene really just encapsulates how neither of these two had nearly enough screentime over the last several episodes and the kind of storytelling that could have been. The last we see of this group is when they’re rushing through the Bridge as Jackson shouts that they won’t be losing anyone else. Let’s just hope they’re going somewhere where they can actually help her, and humanity, at the same time. Although, given what The 100 has given us so far this season, that may be wishful thinking. Going into the series finale, it’s hard to know what to hope for, but I get the feeling that no amount of meditation is going to be preparatory enough for what lies ahead. There seems to be so much heartbreak, and trauma, and violence that it feels like there is no way to a happy ending. Telling us it will be a happy ending isn’t going to be good enough, and painting it as the best possible scenario is also going to feel like a copout. There has to be a light at the end of the tunnel for a few of these characters, otherwise, what is the point of it all? Related The Orville Season 3 Episode 7 Review: From Unknown Graves Stray Thoughts:
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Lauren BusserLauren Busser is an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in Bitch Media, Popshot Quarterly, Brain Mill Press Voices, and The Hartford Courant. Who survived the 100 season 7 finale?Octavia, Raven, Murphy, Emori, Indra, Gaia, Levitt, Jackson, Miller, Niylah, Echo, Hope, and Jordan have all chosen to live the rest of their lives with Clarke on Earth. And that's the end — a happy ending.
What happens in season 7 episode 14 of The 100?During The 100 Season 7 Episode 14, Clarke appears on Earth right after killing Bellamy. Even though there is a way out, she kills it and creates the Obstacle of the Week. Everyone ends up trapped in the bunker waiting for Raven to fix their way out, and that is when Cadogan sends Sheidheda to find Madi.
Why is Bellamy not in season 7 of The 100?Rothenberg addressed Bellamy's absence in multiple interviews, explaining that while the original plan was for Bob Morley's character to make an appearance, the way that the show set up the rules behind transcendence made it difficult for him to fit into the story.
What does the end of the 100 season 7 mean?And with Octavia (Marie Avgeropoulos) giving an inspirational speech to the warring Grounders and Disciples, stopping the battle before it ended in massive losses, the judge decided the human race was ready, and reversed its decision and all humans transcended, meaning everyone became golden beams of light and found ...
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